Storytelling and the search for meaning in sport psychology: Two case studies

The purpose of this article is to explore the use of storytelling in the course of consultation and how to make relation between the stories told in consultation sessions and other aspects of the athlete’s mental function and also his or her social interactions. This study, which includes two case studies is written on the evaluation of the method of storytelling influential operation during remedial sessions with two martial artists, each faced respectively with uncertainty in decision-making, and state cognitive competitive anxiety based on their specific explanation. In this study, the psychotherapy process includes a combination of Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP), cognitive therapy, and storytelling. The first two approaches revolve around the use of storytelling in the sessions held with clients as remedial intervention. The stories and metaphors used in the sessions held with the clients have been applied and studied from the two perspectives of the psychologist and the clients.