Faculty: Dr. Klemen Kobal (Profile)
ABOUT THE COURSE
The course introduces the narrative approach as a central tool for understanding the athlete and his existential experience. The student learns how identity, motivation, suffering and success
are shaped through the stories that the athlete tells himself and the world. Special emphasis is placed on recognizing disintegrating narratives (injury, defeat, loss of meaning) and on the
therapist’s ability to help co-create a new, more authentic and meaningful life flow. The course combines Frankl’s existential logotherapy, narrative therapy (White & Epston) and
contemporary approaches to the analysis of life stories (McAdams). The student is trained to use narrative analysis of interviews, media narratives, body narratives and the athlete’s own
records. The goal of the course is to form a therapist who knows how to listen to a person as a story – and help him to become its author, not a hostage.