Mental Skills Training for Youth Athletes

Does your player mentally get in his/her own way? For the last decade, I've studied mindsets that optimize performance. Here are some common ways kids hold themselves back on the court or field... and in the classroom as well:

• they become nervous and uptight and hold back on taking risks; or
• their anger distracts them from the task at hand; or
• they get lost in thoughts and unaware of the big picture and circumstances, or
• they struggle to bounce back from mistakes, get down on themselves and lack confidence at times...

If you've noticed any, or all, of these tendencies in your child(ren), please note that these are natural ways to react to stress, and these tendencies have been exacerbated by the pandemic. Most importantly, please be aware that we can train his or her "Mental Skills" to break thru these mental blocks to perform at their potential! 

After a long professional basketball career, I became trained to teach a course developed at the UCSD Center for Mindfulness called mPEAK (mindfulness-based Performance Enhancement, Awareness and Knowledge), which was developed for the US Olympic BMX team, and changed their brain chemistry to enhance performance and helped them win the Gold!

For the past 6 years, I've been teaching this scientifically backed wisdom to basketball players at the youth, High School, Collegiate and Professional levels, and testimonials confirm that this program has improved athletes' resilience, focus, confidence, performance and happiness! See below for more testimonials.

There are 3 components to the program that are listed below: