Team Consultation & Camp Workshops
Bring Mental Toughness training to your athletes
By integrating mental skills sessions into your sports clinic or team training, you're not just preparing your athletes to be physically ready but also mentally equipped for success, both in their sport and beyond.
How would Mental Toughness Training help my team / campers?
Adding mental skills sessions to your sports clinic or team training can have a huge impact on your athletes' performance, mindset, and overall growth. Here’s how these sessions can elevate your program:
- Boost Performance Under Pressure : Athletes often struggle when faced with high-pressure situations, whether it's a critical game, a tough opponent, or a tight moment. Mental skills training equips them with tools like visualization, self-talk, and breathing techniques to stay focused and composed under pressure.
- Enhance Confidence and Self-Belief: Confidence is a game-changer in sports. Mental skills sessions help athletes identify limiting beliefs, reframe negative thoughts, and build an inner confidence that carries over into their performance.
- Improve Focus and Concentration: Distractions are everywhere—whether it’s external (crowds, opponents) or internal (doubt, anxiety). Mental skills training teaches athletes how to maintain laser focus on what they can control and block out distractions.
- Develop Mental Toughness and Resilience: Sports are full of setbacks—losses, injuries, mistakes. Mental toughness helps athletes bounce back stronger, stay motivated, and persevere when things get hard.
- Cultivate a Growth Mindset: Athletes often fall into the trap of thinking their abilities are fixed. Mental skills training encourages a growth mindset, where athletes embrace challenges, learn from failures, and keep pushing their limits.
- Improve Team Dynamics and Communication: Sports are about more than just individual skills. Mental skills training fosters better communication, collaboration, and leadership among teammates. This enhances cohesion and reduces conflict, creating a stronger, more unified group.
Services
Coach's PLaybook
Are you ready to give your athletes the mental edge they need to excel, but feel unsure about where to start? Do you want to help them build mental toughness, resilience, and focus, but don’t consider yourself an expert in sports psychology? I’ve got great news for you—there’s a simple, step-by-step way to guide your athletes toward mental mastery, and it’s all laid out for you in "How to Teach Mental Skills to Athletes."
Bulk Order Books
Order Confident, Calm & Clutch for your whole team
Get a discount on bulk orders.
Personalized Workshops
Team sessions are designed and structured to address mental barriers that the team has in their day-to-day functioning or performance. This could include team building, or mental skills instruction.
Workshops 1-3 hour sessions, individually tailored to meet the needs of the team.
Workshops can be a "one and done" model in which I come to your team for a one-time session to address a specific need or we can engage in shorter recurring sessions that teach metal skills over time. I can help your team/athletes build better motivation, confidence, focus, and emotional control to excel on the playing field. We can also address topics related to overall resilience, health and well-being.
Ultimately, if there is a topic (see below) that you think would enhance that quality of your team's play or well-being than I am happy to create an awesome interactive training event to help your team/athletes learn and grow.
Do you Run Sports Camps?
If you run sports camps or clinics and would like to bring added value to your athletes I can help by including mental skills instruction at your camp/clinic.
I can come and deliver a workshop or run a mental skills station at your camp. Pricing is based on whether instruction is in person or via Zoom.
If you would like to bulk order my book Confident, Calm & Clutch: How to Build Confidence and Mental Toughness for Young Athlete using Sport Psychology or companion Journal for your campers use the link below.
Performance Skills
These skills are focused on helping athletes train more effectively and efficiently, and to excel in performance moments.
Perform at Your Best
Learn how to put mental skills into a personal performance plan that will set conditions for success. This helps athletes take control of the mental and emotional side of performance and gain a mental edge on the competition.
Life Skills
These skills are focused on helping your athlete build their self-awareness, effective thinking, optimism, communication skills and character to enable success in sport, academics, and life.
Build Your Resilience
Failure is a very common experience in sport and in life. If your athlete doesn’t have these skills it will be very difficult to excel in life. Resilience skills help athletes put sport in perspective, normalize failure and give them specific tools to build strong relationships.
Become a confident and resilient champion with this essential guidebook on mental toughness – nourish the body by strengthening the mind!
A lack of mental toughness is the biggest enemy of athletes. It can hinder your performance, fuel self-doubt, and lead you to give up at the slightest difficulty.
Fortunately, mental toughness isn’t something you have to be born with. You can develop it through practice and dedication… so you can become more resilient and flexible and be able to challenge setbacks and turn them into breakthroughs.
This journal is designed to help you build your self-awareness and develop the mental processes that help your performance, and discover what's getting in your way, so you can change it.
The pages give you an opportunity to rate the quality of your confidence, motivation, focus, and energy each day. This allows you to see trends over time. The notes pages allow you to reflect and free think about your experiences that day, and how your specific thoughts, emotions, and physiological states affect you and your performance.
It is a great companion to any of my training programs or to help you implement the tools in my book.
This is a companion manual for coaches who want to use Confident, Calm & Clutch with their teams or just want to learn proven strategies for building mental toughness with their teams / athletes.
No more guess work or just hoping your team develops mental toughness. Discover proven techniques and strategies for implementing deliberate mental skills training with your team.
Discover how to implement the lessons from the book into your practice plan, run a book study with your team, build an effective culture and so much more.
Get guidance and assistance from me as you go!
Meet the Author
Valerie Alston
Mental Performance Coach & Resilience Expert
Valerie is a former D1 Softball player turned mental skills coach, educator and author. Since 2008 she’s trained thousands of Soldiers to be at their best when it matters the most with sport psychology and resilience skills. Valerie uses her deep understanding of the psychology of success to help athletes get amazing results while also working with parents and coaches to reinforce the skills and create stronger relationships with their kids/athletes.
She passionately wants to help young people build the mental health and wellness (mental toughness) they need to thrive in sport and life.
She has a Master's Degree in Mental Health/Sport Psychology from Boston University is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology.
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