What will our work together look like?
A Glance into Developing Your Mental Skills
By working with Caitlyn Brannon we will progress through these four steps as a a guideline for developing your mental skills.
Mental Skills We Can Develop
- Goal Setting
- Confidence
- Commitment
- Attentional Control
- Positive Thinking
- Motivation
- Resilience
- Creativity
- Emotional Regulation
- Mindfulness
- Activation
- Stress management
- Breathing I Relaxation
- Imagery
- Planning
- Time management
- Self-awareness
- Self-talk
- Communication
- Leadership
- Problem Solving
- Conflict resolution
- Teamwork I Cohesion
Potential Outcomes
- Create pre-performance routines and use visualization to go into games confidently.
- Build their ability to allocate their focus on the right thing at the right time while also creating a re-focus plan for when their focus drifts.
- Breaking out of a performance slump and learning/using it to their advantage going forward
- Enhance athlete's thinking through fostering helpful positive self-talk
- Create outcome goals for them to work towards along with the steps to how they plan on achieving the goal
- Have strategies to manage their stress regarding school, sport, and life.
- Create time management plans for their busy schedules.
- Feeling prepared and ready when it comes to high stress/pressure moments such as a shootout, playoffs or a big game, and even tryout season or scouting
- Foster self-awareness to better understand themselves as high-performance athletes to help them reflect and stay motivated in their training
- Develop effective communication with teammates and coaches to enhance the team dynamics and be able to advocate for themself.