b5241 Coaching and motivational techniques

Faculty of Sports Studies
autumn 2025

The course is not taught in autumn 2025

Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Iva Burešová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Radek Šíp (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Iva Burešová, Ph.D.
Department of Physical Education and Social Sciences – Faculty of Sports Studies
Supplier department: Department of Physical Education and Social Sciences – Faculty of Sports Studies
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BOZP_OK(bozp_po_stud) && BOZP_OK(bozp_po_stud_fsps)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to familiarize students with the basic concepts, approaches, methods and techniques of coaching, the possibilities and limits of its use within the framework of the prevention of risky health behavior of individuals and groups, with an emphasis on relevant applications within the framework of supporting a healthy lifestyle in the area of ​​movement and nutrition. Students will gain an overview of specific coaching methods and procedures, which can be used in individual and group work with clients, especially in the area of ​​motivation, self-development and increasing the perceived quality of life. They will also be introduced to the course of the coaching process and the procedures for building a relationship and the principles of communication with different groups of clients, while attention will also be paid to possible approaches to assessing the personality assumptions of clients in the context of coaching and evaluating the strong and potentially risky aspects of their personality. Emphasis will be placed on the specifics of working with different age groups of clients (including elite and recreational athletes, disabled or otherwise disadvantaged persons) and on the development of students' skills to select and apply appropriate coaching approaches leading to desirable changes in clients' attitudes towards health and permanent integration of appropriate habits in the area of ​​movement and healthy diet into their daily routines.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- orient yourself in the possibilities and limits of using coaching in practice;
- understand the basic theoretical starting points and principles of coaching and will master the tools leading to the independent application of knowledge about coaching methods and procedures in practice;
- acquire a number of practical skills, applicable in real contact with clients during individual and group work in the area of ​​healthy lifestyle prevention and controlled physical activities, while they will be able to use selected tools and coaching techniques in a targeted manner;
- acquire key skills for working with clients in the context of an interdisciplinary view of a healthy lifestyle with a focus on movement and nutrition, both on an individual and group level;
- create and implement exercise and nutrition programs with the aim of promoting health or optimizing the clients' sports performance and integrating elements into their lifestyle that are proven to improve health, reduce stress and help prevent diseases;
- control the means of managing the process of building a relationship with the client and the principles of client care as well as the basic procedures for assessing the client's personality requirements for changing the current lifestyle, with an emphasis on different age groups of clients, taking into account their specifics (recreational and elite athletes, non-sporting population, people with health or other limitations, etc.).
Syllabus
  • 1. Coaching and coaching (definition, historical origins, position of coaching in the system of helping professions and in the context of other development methods). Prerequisites for the work of a coach, the system of education and certification in coaching, the professional competence of the coach and his personality prerequisites for the performance of the given profession, the role of the coach, principles and rules of the coaching process. Ethics of coaching.
  • 2. Transactional and transformational coaching, personal coaching/life coaching, sports coaching. Individual and group coaching. Selected coaching methods, procedures and techniques (work with coaching goals: SMART, G.R.O.W. model, active listening, coaching questions, principles of conducting a coaching interview). Possibilities and limits of using these methods within programs focused on exercise and nutrition.
  • 3. Specialized coaching techniques (Walt Disney model, method of three chairs, Method of three counselors, Wheel of balance, Tree of life stability, Energy cauldron, etc.), use of specific motivational techniques when working with motivation of the client to change his lifestyle or to change his movement to healthy nutrition or exercise. Mental training, principles and procedures for working with visualization.
  • 4. Coaching in the context of self-development and performance improvement. Use of coaching to support motor learning (work with generalization, differentiation, automation and plasticity). Specific means of developing joy and pleasure from movement and eating healthy food. Use of feedback in coaching.
  • 5. The process of building a relationship with the client, principles of client care. Specifics of working with elite and recreational athletes. Goals, procedures and methods of working with clients who do not play sports, but want to develop healthy exercise habits and healthy habits in the field of nutrition. Specifics of coaching when working with clients who repeatedly fail in their efforts to establish a healthy lifestyle. Specifics of coaching when working with clients with stress (somatic and psychological) or with a handicap.
  • 6. The importance of assessing the client's personal assumptions in the context of coaching (psychological characteristics, skills, strong and potentially risky aspects of personality, mapping the level of stress management and the relevance of coping strategies, mapping the level of aspiration, motivation and self-regulation, identification of specific areas related to the result of the coaching process: perfectionism, workaholism, self-evaluation, etc.).
  • 7. The main principles of working with the client's emotions in the coaching process (positive x destructive power of emotions, mastered x unmastered emotions, conscious work with emotions - principles of building the habit of perceiving emotions, creating an emotional map, basic techniques of managing emotions). Experiencing crises and successes together.
  • 8. Individual work with the client (means of providing psychological support and encouragement, methods and procedures for working with psychosomatic difficulties, work with the value orientation, motivation and personal goals of the client in the context of supporting a healthy lifestyle, coping with stress and challenging life situations) . Specifics of individual work with athletes (methods and procedures for working with cognitive processes – concentration of attention, conscious voluntary processes, ideomotor training, relaxation, meditation and imagination; managing concerns, anxiety and fear).
  • 9. Group work with clients (basic principles, methods and procedures of group coaching). Specifics of coaching sports teams (team building and team cooperation, effective management of the group by the coach, rivalry and cooperation, resolution of conflict and crisis situations).
  • 10. Specifics of coaching in sports (coaching in a competition/match/race), coaching during training (short-term, long-term). Coping with the demands of the training cycle and competition load, programming the sports performance curve. Handling of acute racing situations (before the start, during the race/match, handling of crisis moments), means of maximizing mental and physical performance. Coping with post-competition euphoria or depression. Coach-athlete, coach-trainer relationship. Role conflict and its management.
Literature
    required literature
  • MOHAUPTOVÁ, Eva. Týmový koučink. Praha: Portál, 2013. ISBN 978-80-262-0350-6.
  • CRKALOVÁ, Anna a Norbert RIETHOF. Průvodce světem koučování a osobnostní typologie : inspirace pro praxi. Vyd. 1. Praha: Management Press, 2012. 336 s. ISBN 9788072612529.
  • NEENAN, M., PALMER, P. Kognitivně-behaviorální koučink v praxi. Brno: Motiv Press, 2015.
    recommended literature
  • PARMA, Petr. Umění koučovat: systemické koučování ve firmě, rodině a škole pro kouče i koučované, studenty, odborníky i veřejnost. 1. vyd. Praha: Alfa Publishing, 2006. 222 s. ISBN 8086851346.
  • ŠIMKOVÁ, Jantte. Žijte své lepší já. Praha: Portál, 2017. ISBN 978-80-262-1247-8.
  • Dana Štěrbová, Hana Pernicová, Michal Šafář, Petr Krol (2021). Sportovní psychologie. Průvodce teorií a praxí pro mladé sportovce, jejich rodiče a trenéry. Praha: Grada, 240 s. ISBN: 978-80-271-3136-5.
  • WILDFLOWER, L. Skrytá historie koučování. Praha: Portál, 2015
Teaching methods
- seminars, discussions, group work, work with case studies;
- excursion;
- forms of project-oriented teaching; in-activities within flipped learning and blended learning methods;
- self-study.
Assessment methods
- written essay – reflection including a comprehensive approach to the application of one of the selected coaching methods in the area of ​​a healthy lifestyle (diet, sleep, or movement) on the selected subject. Content of the reflection: justification of the choice of the subject, description of the current situation/state, procedure for identifying the goal of a suitable solution, choice of a suitable method (including justification), procedure for applying the method, evaluation of the result by its implementer and the subject;
- credit written test;
The condition for passing the course is the submission of a self-reflection (see above) in the range of min. 3NS and success in the written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
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