Why do high-level athletes use mental coaching?
The crowd whistles, grumbles, and contests your performance.
You no longer feel in tune with the expression of your talent.
Then comes your coach, who won’t hesitate to tear you down with words, tone, and gestures…
And it’s not over yet. The journalists are waiting for you—they’ll make mincemeat out of you! You could have, you should have, but you didn’t…!
You no longer feel in tune with the expression of your talent.
Then comes your coach, who won’t hesitate to tear you down with words, tone, and gestures…
And it’s not over yet. The journalists are waiting for you—they’ll make mincemeat out of you! You could have, you should have, but you didn’t…!
It all started with a bad pass, followed by more bad passes. Your performance was painful because:
- You weren’t focused
- Your body wasn’t following your mind’s commands
- Your muscles were tense
- Your preparation wasn’t adequate
- Your motivation was disrupted
You’re no longer sure you can recapture the conditions of your best performances.
You feel destabilized and sense a need for help.
A different kind of help to repair both the visible and invisible damage.
A help that would allow you to be at your peak on the field and beyond.
Did you know that the greatest champions use mental coaching and benefit from the support of a personal mental coach? Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods…
Great champions can’t afford to miss their performance.
Why mental coaching?
The stakes are worth millions of euros, and the consequences of failure affect both them and those around them.
Working with a personal mental coach will enable you to be:
- Empowered
- Challenged and questioned
- Listened to
- Recognized for the results you achieve
- Accepted
- Motivated
Responsibility
All the greatest athletes agree on the importance of setting very high standards for themselves and taking responsibility for implementing those standards.
In this case, a coach helps the athlete analyze and reflect on their performance. Together, they review films and statistics with the goal of providing feedback to the athlete that will enable them to reach the next level of performance.
In this case, a coach helps the athlete analyze and reflect on their performance. Together, they review films and statistics with the goal of providing feedback to the athlete that will enable them to reach the next level of performance.
Being Questioned and Challenged
The more successful an athlete becomes, the more likely it is that their entourage will always say “yes” to them, hiding certain important aspects crucial to their progress.
A coach from outside the athlete’s inner circle can be “objective” in their judgment and “push” the athlete to ask themselves important questions to move forward.
A coach from outside the athlete’s inner circle can be “objective” in their judgment and “push” the athlete to ask themselves important questions to move forward.
Listening
Many athletes don’t have anyone to talk to about their profession or problems, and they lack opportunities to express their innermost thoughts.
Having a mental coach who is always available and ready to listen is extremely important.
Having a mental coach who is always available and ready to listen is extremely important.
Being Recognised for Results
Everyone needs to be recognised and celebrated.
In an athlete’s journey, there can be both small accomplishments and big ones, and it’s very important, after hard work, to be recognised for the small achievements as well as the big ones.
Having an expert mental coach who can track the athlete’s progress and celebrate their successes is very important.
In an athlete’s journey, there can be both small accomplishments and big ones, and it’s very important, after hard work, to be recognised for the small achievements as well as the big ones.
Having an expert mental coach who can track the athlete’s progress and celebrate their successes is very important.
Being Accepted
Being a great champion means acting beyond the norm, and for this reason, champions push past the boundaries of normality.
Great champions think and speak differently from almost everyone around them. This way of being crosses the lines of normality and can make a great champion misunderstood and solitary.
The presence of a mental coach who can accept this way of being different from the crowd is very important for the athlete’s well-being.
Great champions think and speak differently from almost everyone around them. This way of being crosses the lines of normality and can make a great champion misunderstood and solitary.
The presence of a mental coach who can accept this way of being different from the crowd is very important for the athlete’s well-being.
Being Motivated
An athlete paid millions doesn’t normally need motivation, but nowadays, being paid millions requires great motivation to do the hard work that goes on behind the scenes.
In every locker room after a big event, there’s disappointment, tears, hugs, and shouts—all of which reflect the immense tension from the work done and the performance delivered.
Ultimately, all motivation is self-motivation, but an external mental coach can bring ideas, techniques, and insights to help boost that motivation.
In every locker room after a big event, there’s disappointment, tears, hugs, and shouts—all of which reflect the immense tension from the work done and the performance delivered.
Ultimately, all motivation is self-motivation, but an external mental coach can bring ideas, techniques, and insights to help boost that motivation.
What does mental coaching for athletes involve?
Coaching an athlete means creating a work programme with them, their company, their trainer, and their manager to achieve their goals.
The nature of the intervention can be:
The nature of the intervention can be:
- Specific, targeting a problem or blockage the athlete is facing.
- Support during a competition programme.
- Long-term support with a strategic career approach.
In all three cases, a meeting with the athlete will be necessary to assess their personal situation, goals, and challenges.
If, after this meeting and an analysis of the overall situation, the mental coach agrees to work with the athlete, they will:
- Establish a work schedule.
- Agree on working conditions with the athlete and their entourage.
- Set out the terms of mutual accessibility between coach and athlete for communications.
Who is Mario Mason?
Mario Mason is a certified coach from the Meta-Coaching school of Michael Hall and Michelle Duval.
He coaches his clients at his office in Paris and at the sites of his corporate clients across Europe.
After serving as CEO of several companies in Europe for 14 years, he began his professional journey in the consulting world in 2002 with the Kaizen Institute.
In 2006, he founded his own consulting and coaching company, “Phoenix Strategies Business Coaching,” with a mission to implement the Kaizen methodology and Lean Manufacturing approach in businesses, leveraging the most advanced psychological technologies.
Mario Mason is a Master Trainer in NLP (appointed by Richard Bandler).
He became a certified “Meta States Practitioner” and “Meta-Coach” through training in the USA and Australia with L. Michael Hall and Michelle Duval.
He is also a certified Neuro-Semantics Trainer.
Mario speaks French, English, and Italian.
Since 2001, Mario has been deeply engaged in studying and practising communication models and mental coaching, applying them also within his consulting work.
Some of his certifications include:
- Certified NLP Trainer by Richard Bandler.
- Certified Neuro-Semantics Trainer by Dr L. Michael Hall.
- Certified Coach by the International Coaching School of Meta-Coaching.
- Trained in Leadership by Tony Robbins in the United States.
- Certified Consultant in the use of the Identity Compass profiling tool.
Book a 40 minutes informational session with Mario
French mobile : +33760601385
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info@talents-coach.com
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