Reflection
Journey mapping serves as a reflection tool, assessing and visualizing the
natural ebb and flow of a season. In the context of sports, journey mapping
is extremely helpful at a particularly low or high point in the course of a
season. When a team hits a low point, for example a loss, journey mapping
can help the team members understand what may have been going on right
before the game, perhaps a few bad practices, bouts of bad team culture, or a
really heavy academic week. The journey map will help team members hone
in on these low and high points and provide an empowering opportunity for
the team to have an active role in what the rest of the journey (or season)
will look like. Journey mapping is also great at the end of a season as a
macro-level reflection of great moments, hard moments, and all of those in
between. The map will help facilitate discussion around positive aspects and
areas of improvement for future seasons.
The whole team should be involved in this activity to promote collaboration
(reminding each other of moments in a season) and realizations of how
each team member may have had low points, while others were having high
points, and vice-versa.
The session can take place anywhere. Since the act of journey mapping is
more reflective and solitary, you may choose to have music playing, along
with a journey map printout, and pens.