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How Mental Coaches Can Involve Sports Parents

January 18, 2016 By Patrick Cohn Leave a Comment

Sports Parent Counseling

We work with more and more young athletes today than every before. More sports parents are involved in their kids’ sports performance.

And they are realizing the value of mental training too. They see their kids performing like stars in practice only to under perform in competition.

So a recent MGCP graduate asked my how to involve parents of athletes into mental coaching.

As a mental coach, you have to involve parents into the process. Why? Often they may be part of the problem…

Some sports parents of athletes might:

  • Place high expectations on their kids
  • Hurt kids’ confidence by focusing on mistakes
  • Focus kids on the wrong stuff before and after games
  • Brainwash young athletes into one primary goal: Scholarship
  • Embarrass athletes when they act out on the sidelines

And the list goes on. As you can tell, these behaviors do not serve athletes when it comes to a strong mental game. Yes, parents can sabotage young athletes’ mental game without even knowing it.

This is why it’s important for you to involve parents in the loop. How can you do this?

Sports parents can be involved by:

  1. Sitting in on the sessions with young athletes
  2. Having separate meetings with the mental coach
  3. Reviewing mental edge workbooks or session summaries
  4. Reading material we provide specifically for sports parent
  5. Signing a code of conduct for sports parenting

And we find that most parents are very willing to be involved in the mental training process. Some parents insist on it because they know they are part of the problem!

Your success with mental training depends on a team approach. Involving the parents, coaches or instructors (if possible), and siblings will lead to better outcomes with your mental coaching.

We discuss all these issues and more in the MGCP certification course for coaches, life coaches, and mental coaches in training.

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Here’s what Marc Anderson had to say about the MGCP course:

“I continue to experience marked success utilizing your various mental training publications and E-books, as well all your Athlete’s Mental Edge Workbooks to help my athletes reach their peak performance. One of my basketball players earned a Division I scholarship to play at the Citadel in the fall. He contributed much of his success to my mental training program.”

~Marc Anderson

Listen to his success story here:

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Filed Under: Mental Coach Articles, Sports Psychology Certification Tagged With: Mental Game Articles, Working with Sports Parents

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  6. A series of sports psychology e-books on goal setting, confidence, focus, pregame and preshot routines.
  7. Use of Dr. Cohn’s Athlete’s Mental Aptitude Profile (AMAP) and several sport-specific versions to help you identify an athlete’s or team’s mental game strengths and weaknesses.
  8. Use of the Team Cohesion Aptitude Profile (TCAP) to assess team cohesion; and a sports parent’s profile to use with sports parents.
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  11. Over 160 mental game coaching “handouts” or one-page summaries and worksheets you can use to help you stay organized during sessions and as summaries for your student or team.
  12. 18 real-life case studies focusing on a different challenge in sports psychology and Dr. Cohn’s solution to each. You understand the real-life issues with athletes and how to address their mental game barriers.

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