Reflective practice for sport performance practitioners: More than a look in the mirror

Reflective practice is a cornerstone of professional development across sport science, providing a platform for practitioners to evolve their work and push the boundaries of high performance support. At its core, it promotes a systematic and critical examination of one’s thoughts, actions, and experiences. But this self-exploratory process should transcend a simple, tick-the-box self-assessment. It should open the door to examining assumptions of what we think we know, what we actually know, and how we know it; and how we contextualize this knowledge relative to ourselves, the environment, and...