Sport & Thought - Football as Therapy
This project's parent organization is QPR in the Community Trust
It operates in United Kingdom
It uses Football (Soccer) and Netball
Entered the Sport for Education Award
More about Sport & Thought - Football as Therapy
Sport and Thought is a way of working with adolescents that fuses the sport of football, psychodynamic thinking and theory to create a space to encourage thought and act as a catalyst to promote emotional and behavioural change.
Sport and Thought believes an individual’s reactions within a sporting context are no different to a societal one, and thus the sport of football can be used to enable participants to consider their own emotional and behavioural traits, and the underlying reasoning behind them.
Sport and Thought works with its membership to slow down their internal processes and anxieties to allow the individual to begin to think and to not consistently act on impulse, thus we begin to create a more robust internal state of being. The ethos of Sport and Thought is that an individual’s reactions on a sporting field will be no different to their reaction in a societal situation. If one reacts aggressively to a perceived wrong in the field of play or has difficulty with another player being within their proximity, it is quite likely such a reaction will be mirrored within the classroom and life in general.