Listening to the body? How phenomenological insights can be used to explore a golfer’s experience of the physicality of her body

Ravn, Susanne; Christensen, Mette Krogh

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2013.809378

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“…Other similar, systematic accounts can be found in the work of Petitmengin on the 'explicitation interview' and Varela and colleagues on 'neurophenomenology', and good examples can be found in the work of Ravn and colleagues (Legrand & Ravn, 2009;Ravn & Christensen, 2014;Ravn & Hansen, 2013), Martiny (2015), and Høffding and Martiny (2015). These accounts show that interviewing with the aim of understanding experience is a second-person method different from third-person methods usually used in psychology labs and that, as an interviewer, one is co-generating the knowledge obtained.…”

Section: Validity In Qualitative Interview Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 88%

Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance

Schiavio

Høffding

2015

Musicae Scientiae

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In this article we explore the role of pre-reflective, embodied, and interactive intentionality in joint musical performance. Putting together insights from phenomenology and current theories in cognitive science, we present a case study based on qualitative interviews with the Danish String Quartet (DSQ). A total of 12 hours of interviews was recorded, drawing on ethnography-related methodologies during tours with the DSQ in Denmark and England in 2012 and 2013, focusing mainly on their experience of perception, intentionality, absorption, selfhood and intersubjectivity. The analysis emerging from our data suggests that expert musicians' experience of collective music-making is rooted in the dynamical patterns of perception and action that co-constitute the sonic environment(s) in which they are embedded, and that the role of attention and other reflective processes should therefore be reconsidered. In putting forward our view on ensemble cohesion, we challenge Keller's and Seddon and Biasutti's influential positions, maintaining that the cognitive processes at play in such intersubjective context are grounded in the concrete (inter)actions of the players, and are not reducible to processes and structures 'in the head'. We argue that this is a significant step forward from more traditional accounts of joint musical performances, which often involve mental representations as principal explanatory tools -downplaying the embodied and participatory dimension of music-making -and we conclude that ensemble performance can take place without attention to either shared goals, or to the other ensemble musicians. We finally suggest that if other researchers want to understand what it is like to play with other musicians then they must shift their focus from Joint Musical Attention (JMA) to Joint Musical Experience (JME), facilitating the development of more ecologically valid models of collective musical performance.

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Section: Validity In Qualitative Interview Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 88%

Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance

Schiavio

Høffding

2015

Musicae Scientiae

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“…Typically, interpretative phenomenological studies garner rich descriptive experiences of being, e.g. 'being' a Golfer (Ravn & Christensen, 2014). These experiences are described through systematic and conscious consideration in order to identify the primordial constituents of the phenomenon itself, rather than a single, episodic, or causal account of it (Moran, 2000).…”

Section: Why An Interpretive Phenomenological Approach To Youth Perfomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More specifically, Van Manen (2014, p229) argues that phenomenology provides insight into what is "distinct or unique in a phenomenon" (essence) and does so by examining our "intuitive perceptions" which are of course situated within our 'given' context (lifeworld). Indeed, phenomenology has been lauded for providing insightful, evocative, and contextually vivid accounts of diverse sport experiences such as participation in golf (Ravn & Christensen, 2014), running and scuba diving (Allen-Collinson, 2011) and physical education (e.g. Thorburn & Stolz, 2015).…”

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‘Being’ in the coaching world: new insights on youth performance coaching from an interpretative phenomenological approach

Cronin

Armour

2015

Sport, Education and Society

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Since Heidegger's influential text; Being and Time (1927/2005), the phenomenological question of what it means to 'be' has generated a vast body of work. This paper reports data from a phenomenological study that investigated what it means to 'be' a youth performance coach. An overview of the interpretive phenomenological methods used (Van Manen, 1990) is followed by presentation of coaches and data. Data analysis resulted in the identification of three constituent 'essences' of youth performance coaching: (i) care; (ii) a commitment to educate athletes authentically for corporeal challenges to come; and (iii) working with others to achieve a specialised corporeal excellence. The three identified essences manifest themselves in a broad lifeworld that includes settings on and off the field of play. Given the very different insights into the practice of coaching that emerge from this study, we argue it would be useful for future studies of coaching practice and coach education to extend their focus to take into account coaches' wider lives both on and off the field of play. We also argue for further exploration of coaching by drawing on phenomenological concepts such as care and relationality.

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“…In recent years, there has an interest for application of phenomenology in sport psychology [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25], because it seems only way to overcoming Cartesian mind-body dualism [16]. Phenomenology offers a new perspective; It considers the individual as unified people who form intentions and act in the world because our bodies work in certain ways [21,26,27].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Authors describing the different ways in which the golfer experiences the physicality of her body during training. [19] suggest that the golfer's experience of the physicality of her body can be considered in relation to three possible dimensions of self-consciousness: a prereflective subject-related dimension, a reflective objectdirected dimension and a pre-reflective performative dimension. The pre-reflective performative dimension is to be understood as a non-objectifying dimension of subjects' experience and, in the present case, appears central to how the golfer adjusts and reshapes her technical skills.…”

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‘Being Anxious’ and Kinematics Putting Performance: A Phenomenological Case Report

Bernardi¹

2017

IJSSPE

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Abstract:Introduction. Golf putting requires accurate and repeatable stroke especially under pressure (e.g., audience presence, ego-relevance of the task). The performance-anxiety relationship has been frequently studied, but the underlying mechanisms still remain inconclusive. Phenomenology insists that psychology should focus on meaning and investigate the essence of human experience. This paper examines the experience of 'being anxious' and the putting performance issues reported by an elite golfer under pressure. Methods. An Italian professional golfer refers alteration in putting performance (e.g., lack consistency stroke) and low ability to manage unexpected events. Case design consists in: evaluation session conduct by psychologist; experimental phase into we recoding kinematics putting performance by SAM PuttLab System. Conclusions. For player, putting analysis shown an unexpected improvement of performance in stressful situations than other sessions. A possible interpretation of these results takes into account to the personal experience of 'being anxious', to overcoming the subject-object dichotomy. Indeed, anxiety is not in the head, but it can be understood only within the life of sport performers. I believe that the phenomenological framework and quantitative analysis could be offer a new way of study, learning and teaching in sport psychology.

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Listening to the body? How phenomenological insights can be used to explore a golfer’s experience of the physicality of her body

Cited by 40 publications

References 32 publications

Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance

Playing together without communicating? A pre-reflective and enactive account of joint musical performance

‘Being’ in the coaching world: new insights on youth performance coaching from an interpretative phenomenological approach

‘Being Anxious’ and Kinematics Putting Performance: A Phenomenological Case Report

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