WHY SPORT PSYCHOLOGY?
HEALTHIER ATHLETES
What improves performance, improves well-being.
Your student athletes are likely concerned with their performances on the field, court, rink, or mat. We’ll help with that. Rest assured, however, that every step in this process will be building skills that foster overall wellness, build healthy relationships, and help manage the sport/life balance every student-athlete must contend with at some point in his/her career. Mental skills training begins with identifying what’s working in an athlete’s life, and what needs to be improved for the athlete to realize his/her full potential. Sport psychology reinforces this kind of awareness, and provides athletes with the skills to nourish what’s best in their lives, and address what’s holding them back.
ENHANCE RESILIENCE
Create consistency in your athletes, in good times and bad. Resilience, or grit, creates mental adaptability, allowing athletes to be more resistant to adversity and to rebound faster when setbacks inevitably hit.
Resilience has been shown to be a more reliable predictor of success than intelligence or talent, so building skills to make your athletes’ resilience more robust is vital to any program.
MORE COACHABLE ATHLETES
Sport psychology gives athletes a process for growth, outlining ways in which to acquire new skills, handle change, accept feedback, manage adversity, and increase their focus, confidence, and motivation.
The development of these skills, what we call a performance mindset, helps accelerate your athletes’ growth and skill development, and increase their ability to both communicate with their coaches, and receive instruction and corrective feedback.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Sport psychology teaches athletes skills to enhance their relationships with teammates and coaches, and techniques to expand their leadership potential, on and off the court.
They will learn to hold themselves and their peers accountable, create positive connections with those close to them, and utilize constructive communication strategies to build understanding and unity on their team.
