This program includes 8, approximately 90 min recorded conversations.
Cost – $195.00
This mental training intensive will provide coaches of all levels with insights and information to optimize the culture and performance of their athletes and team.
Each session will include approximately 60 minutes of content, followed by approximately 30 minutes of conversation where coaches can collaborate with myself and one another about their own athletes and methods.
CURRICULUM AND SESSION SAMPLES
Session One: Relationship with the Race
In Session One, attendees will be introduced to my new mental training framework which prioritizes the relationship with the race. We will discuss both the coach and athlete relationship with the race, and why relationship with the race matters to athlete performance. I will provide guidance as to how coaches can clarify their own preferred relationship with the race and help their athletes to do the same.
Session Two: Forms and Origins of Weather
In Session Two, attendees will explore the subject of mental and emotional
“weather” – my term for psychological factors that get in the way of a person’s ideal relationship with the race. We will highlight most common forms of weather that affect coaches and athletes (such as perceived expectations, pressure and comparison), and develop greater understanding of ourselves.
Session Three: Working with Weather, Drills and Activation
In Session Three, attendees will learn simple methods to work with their own and their athletes’ weather, as well as ways to strengthen their preferred relationship with the race.
Session Four: The Loose Plan
The loose plan is a simple mental performance tool that helps athletes focus and act the way that they want to within workouts and races. In Session Three, the loose plan will be thoroughly explained.
Session Five: Weather Inside the Race
Session Five will cover mental and emotional weather that arises for both coaches and athletes inside a race. For athletes this includes, panic/ anxiety, negative self-talk, giving up, mysterious fatigue, disassociating, and more. We will have a discussion about how weather inside the race looks for coaches (and other supporters like mental performance consultants!).
Session Six: Post-Race Conversations and Feedback
In Session Six, we will discuss conversations and interactions with athletes post-race. We will cover best practices for protecting and growing an athlete’s ideal relationship with the race as well as their relationship with themselves and their coach.
Session Seven: Mental Performance Tools
Session Seven will focus on foundational sport psychology topics such as helping athletes to manage nerves, use visualization and better understand confidence.
Session Eight: Mental Performance Tools
Session Eight will focus on the perspectives that we normally encourage toward racing in general, but especially championship season such, as a sense of belonging, irreplaceability, curiosity, playing the game of running, and racing with nothing to lose. Exercises to help both athletes and coaches embody these
approaches will be discussed.
MENTAL PERFORMANCE 