Mindfulness for your Student Athletes: 6-week online program for Sports Coaches, Parents, Educators, Athletes, and Professionals
New Session Begins
Fall 2024, 7:30-9:00 PM ET
Based upon the contents from the best-selling Mindfulness For Student Athletes workbook, this online program, now in its 7th year, is tailored for sports coaches, educators, parents, and professionals who support student-athletes. We've helped professionals in more than 16 countries learn, apply, and integrate these mindfulness and mental skills coaching principles and practices to help student athletes:
Create Calm: Reduce Stress & Anxiety
Strengthen Mental Toughness and Flexibility
Improve Focus and Concentration
Increase Sport Satisfaction and Overall Well-Being
Heighten Ability to Get in the Zone
"I find Todd's content very helpful when working with athletes at all levels enabling them to reach new heights in life and sports." -Graham Betchart, Head mental skills coach for the NBA Sacramento Kings & consultant to USA basketball
“I strongly recommend this program for all athletes, competitors, family members, coaches, educators, and professional personnel.” –the late Bill Reith, Former US Olympic Fencing Head Coach
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What you'll get:
- Six, 90-105 minute live group coaching sessions with Todd.
- All live sessions are recorded for later listening.
- Over 25 hours of pre-recorded content designed to help learn, apply, and integrate these concepts & practices for yourself, and as you help support/guide these practices with your athletes.
- Interaction with other parents, sports coaches, educators, athletes, and professionals from around the world all with a vested interest in supporting student athletes.
- Weekly PowerPoint presentation slides.
- Interviews with leading sports psychologists, coaches, and experts in sports performance and mental health.
- Access to a private Facebook group for program participants.
- Key Activities/Templates from The Mindfulness For Student Athletes book.
- Numerous additional written summaries, charts, graphics, and templates to support and share with your athletes.
- Dozens of research articles about mindfulness and performance in sports.
- Certificate of Completion for the 18+ hours of live and online instruction.
BONUS for first ten participants registered: One Personal 1-1, 60-minute mindful coaching session with Todd ($225 value)
"This course offers a very well rounded, psychologically sound and supportive platform for all athletes, trainers, coaches and support staff who want to enhance their skills working with athletes. The strategies developed in this course assist individual's & athlete's in achieving better outcomes by addressing performance barriers that can often get in the way. Todd's expertise and insight, along with his humble delivery and teaching style made this learning program one I highly recommend. This course really does cover all the bases!"
Carrie Charles, RP, OACCPP
Registered Psychotherapist (She, Her)
Varsity Athletics Point Person for Mental Health
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON, Canada
INVESTMENT: $595 USD
(Group and Team Discounts Available - Reach out to [email protected] for more info)
Creating Calm: Reducing Stress and Anxiety
Improving your athlete's command and capacity to handle and move past the pressures and frustrations that will arise from competing both on and off the court/field.
Boost Confidence, Optimism, and Mental Strength
Tapping into your athlete's power and presence to improve their attention, intention, mindset, resilience, mental toughness and flexibility
Enhancing Performance
Sharpening all levels of focus and concentration. Creating an increased ability to get into and stay in the Zone.
Meet your Instructor and Mindful Sports Coach
Todd H. Corbin, CPC, is a former multisport student athlete and youth baseball coach, longtime avid runner and sports enthusiast, mindfulness teacher, professional speaker, certified parenting coach, and parent to two former student-athletes.
Todd is co-author of Mindfulness For Student Athletes: A Workbook to Help Teens Reduce Stress and Enhance Performance. He is the creator of the online program based upon the book.
He spent 21 years in higher education publishing and was an instructor at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH for 12 years, teaching courses in stress management, peak performance, communication skills, mindfulness, and meditation.
He's working with the Yale U men's and women's squash teams as well as student-athletes at many other college programs including Miami U.
Todd's been practicing and teaching mindfulness and meditation since 1994 and has taken and studied with many of the leading practitioners and programs in the field including Deepak Chopra, Daniel Siegel, Rick Hanson, MBSR(UMass), MBSR-T, mPEAK and mFLOW(UC San Diego), and Positive Psychology Science of Happiness(UC Berkeley). He's also a Level 3 instructor in Thought Field Therapy, the precursor to EFT Tapping.
"Todd is a brilliant coach, facilitator and speaker. I was able to seamlessly introduce concepts learned in his course with my AAU and Junior college basketball teams. Thank you Todd, for breaking down such abstract concepts like the breath into easy to understand weekly topics. I deeply appreciate your willingness and the space you provided me to share my experiences." -Jason Gant, AAU and Junior College Basketball coach, Mindfulness Facilitator at Kaiser Permanente
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"Todd’s creative and personable approach to teaching mindfulness to student athletes has helped me teach my 12 year old son, my high school athletes, and myself. Todd’s program is full of insight, research, practical application, and analogies that make sense, are easy to understand and apply to myself as an athlete, my student athletes, and my own young kids as they navigate their way through sports." -Jenny Franz, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, National Board Certified
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Anyone looking to help student-athletes handle the pressures of competition in a mindful and conscious way, this is the program. Todd deepened my knowledge and understanding of working with student-athletes. Todd is passionate, inspiring, and flexible. I am so excited to start teaching the strategies I have learned!” –Carmen Middleton, Athletic Director and Coach
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"I highly recommend Todd Corbin’s Mindfulness program, it may change your life!” –Marlena N. Hudson, SPHR, Organization & Employee Development, NASA Glenn Research Center
Weekly LIVE Group Class Dates and Times: (All Live sessions are recorded for later listening)
1.5 Hours Per Week (9 Hours Total Live session Instruction + weekly pre-recorded content and interviews).
- Live Class 1: 730-9 PM ET
- Live Class 2: 730-9 PM ET
- Live Class 3: 730-9PM ET
- Live Class 4: 730-9 PM ET
- Live Class 5: 730-9 PM ET
- Live Class 6: 7:30-9 PM ET
Weekly Pre-Recorded Course Content and Education:
1.0 Hour Per Week (6 Total Hours+ of additional Instruction)
All THURSDAY course times are listed in Eastern Time
SOME OF THE TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED IN THE SESSIONS:
Week 1: Foundational Skills for a Mindful Athlete, Coach, and Parent or Professional:
What is a Mindful Athlete?, Introduction to Mindfulness, The Psychology of Flow—how to get and stay in the Zone, Exploring the Effects of Stress on Athletes, The 2B.S.E.T. Model of Awareness and Mindful Sports Anchoring, The ABC (Always Be Competing) Mindset, Intention/Attention/Choice.
Week 2: Opening Your Sport Senses—Enhancing Sensory Awareness with your Athletes:
Sport sensory awareness, Visual Anchor Points, CPR for Choke Prevention, Mindfully Drinking Sports Drinks/Water, Research into mindfulness and its use with athletics/teams, beginning a personal mindfulness practice.
Week 3: Boosting Your Body and Breath—Enhancing Physical Awareness, Stamina, and Agility:
Sports Body Scan, Mindful Stretching and Routines, Mindfully Walking the Lines in Sports, Breathing Through Difficult Moments, 8 Ways to Use Breath to Reduce Stress, Body/Breath Grounding Athletic Anchors,TABAFI.
Week 4: Minding Your Mind—Mental Awareness Training:
Increasing Mental Toughness, Heightening Mental Preparation, Commitment, Visualizing Sport Performance, Mental Relaxation Skills, Investigating Inner Dialogue/Stories/Drama, 8 Ways to Stop Harmful Thoughts, Creating Automatic Positive Thoughts.
Week 5: Emotional Mastery and Developing a Confident Athlete:
Utilizing Positive Coping Strategies & Behaviors to Better Manage the Emotional Life of the Athlete, Athlete & Coach Self-Care, Tracking Sports Performance, Positive and Negative Mantras, The 5 G’s Appreciative Mindset, Curiosity and Openness, Becoming an Optimistic Athlete.
Week 6: Instilling Mindfulness and Positivity with your Athletes/Teams:
The Positive and Nurturing Coach, Helping athletes Manage/Break through Pain, Making Your Last Shot Philosophy, Creating Positive Momentum, Coaching mindfully with the 5 P's, Athlete Best Possible-Self, Embracing the Uncomfortable. Mindful Self-Compassion.
"This course is a must for anyone working with athletes. I wish I took it years ago! Todd is a gifted instructor, has a wealth of knowledge, and each week you will learn things that you can immediately incorporate with your athletes. I highly recommend taking this valuable course!" -Julie Merrick, Merrick Mental Game Coaching and former D1 Track and Field Student-Athlete, Camarillo, CA
"This course is of great value. My colleague and I had a very positive experience and feel that we benefited greatly both as coaches and personally. We all must work on improving our tactics, movement, technique and individual shots etc. in our sport, but it's the ability to implement those skills during competition that really matters and I can't say enough good things about Todd to help you better understand how to do just that." -Joe Russell, Director of Squash - Cleveland Racquet Club
INVESTMENT: $595 USD
BONUS INCLUDED for first 10 participants registered: One Personal 1-1 Mindful Coaching session with Todd ($225 value)
E-mail [email protected] with any questions
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