Sports Consultation
Programs

 


          Sensory Performance Cues Program 

     NLP Advantage Group Sports Consulting specializes in sensory performance cues- the unique ways athletes use their senses, such as mental pictures and self-talk, to determine sports performance.

     Our program quickly identifies and corrects sensory errors that produce tension and negative feelings while strengthening your confidence and mental conditioning.

Learn how to:

  • Minimize slumps

  • Neutralize negative self-talk
  • Improve focus and concentration
  • Create compelling images for success

  • Heighten motivation

  • Recapture the fun of the game

     Our program approach is not “sports psychology,” but rather practical performance enhancement. In a few short weeks, you take charge of your thoughts and feelings by learning to identify your unique visual and auditory cues.  These cues often determine excellent performance and drive poor performance.

     When you are winning, images and self-talk are automatically confident and function synergistically with the body, resulting in positive performance. When poor performance or injury occurs, you often lose this synergy. Attempts to resolve the problem with visualizations and pep talk may help, but often you need specific strategies to make effective change.

     The Sensory Performance Cues Program offers practical solutions
with the following 7 areas of training:

  1. Increase success by developing winning beliefs and emotions
  2. Enhance motivation by identifying goals in specific and vivid detail
  3. Expand sensory awareness by training athletes to direct and shoot their own mental videos
  4. Reduce negative sensory cues that cause poor play, such as shifting critical self-talk from loud, fast and demanding to soft, slow and encouraging
  5. Amplify positive sensory cues that create the right mental and physical state to reach the goal
  6. Connect positive sensory cues to a specific physical movement; e.g., imagine success while simultaneously gripping a bat or golf club
  7. Tap into unconscious abilities, moving from thinking to trusting

     This program offers you practical ways to control your “sense-abilities”, so you control your performance.

     Our Sensory Performance Cues Program is a broad-spectrum approach with specific applications across a wide variety of sports. Sensory Performance Cues training gives professional athletes that “extra edge” but can be applied at any skill level.

Golf: Emulating The Tiger    

     Golf particularly requires focus and relaxed attitude and is one of the most fragile sports psychologically. Even a small negative thought can have a profound effect on accuracy and distance.

  • Overcome putting slumps
  • Stay calm in the rough
  • Handle tournament pressures
  • Improve tee shots
  • Increase enjoyment
  • Beat the "yips"
  • Consistently knock strokes off your game

Tennis: The Sport for Life    

     The mental game of tennis makes all the difference. Maintaining strategy and confidence under pressure is what raises the caliber of play and results in wins.

  • Self-confidence and stamina strategies
  • Overcome serving slumps
  • Handle tournament pressures
  • Deal with lousy calls
  • Control unforced errors

Baseball and Softball: 
"A full mind is an empty bat…" Yogi Berra    
     Managing failure and keeping focused and relaxed under pressure and are the keys to consistent baseball. Knowing how to shift from thinking to "automatic" in the routine leads to top performance.

  • Overcome batting slumps
  • Handle big game pressures
  • Block out razzing crowds and the scouts in the stands
  • Shake off errors and bad at-bats

Soccer: G-o-o-o-o-a-a-a-l-l-l!    

     Soccer players, who control their emotions and keep focused on the game, have a distinct advantage. Having powerful strategies to maintain intensity and manage frustration is essential.

  • Shake off lousy calls
  • Bounce back from errors
  • Stay self-confident
  • Handle tournament pressures

Basketball: Capturing the Magic      

     Great basketball requires staying calm, loose and focused under pressure. Getting mad and not letting go of mistakes takes players out of their game. And most professionals agree that foul shooting is 90% mental.

  • Bounce back from missed shots and blown assignments
  • Improve free throw percentage
  • Overcome scoring slumps
  • Handle big game pressures
  • Control fouls

Services

Individual Performance Training
     Review of current mental skills and implementation of a specific plan to return you to optimal performance.

Sessions:

  • 4 sessions $375.00
  • 6 sessions $480.00
  • 8 sessions $600.00

FREE Introductory Session:

     If you would like to “test drive” our program, please call for a complimentary session. It’s absolutely FREE.

Phone Consultation

     Personal coaching in 4 to 6 sessions, to identify ineffective mental strategies and gain skills to embody the thoughts, feelings and physical sensations vital to improving and elevating your game.

Training Approach:

     You will gain specific skills to facilitate breakthrough performance by addressing:

  1. Your specific sport performance goals
  2.  Situations hindering goal attainment (negative self-talk, fear and anxiety, lack of concentration, etc.)
  3. Mental skills and strategies to tap into your unconscious abilities
  4. A minimum of ten practical tools and techniques to strengthen your confidence and mental conditioning

     Athletes practice each skill in the training session and are provided written support materials.

     Our training never suggests mechanical techniques or changes. That is the coaches’ purview.

• Consultation and Training – coaches receive a framework for intervention with an individual athlete or an entire team maximizing morale, communications, and teamwork.

• Individual Counseling – specialty in eliminating fear of flying and recovery from traumatic injuries as well as general treatment of athletes who may be experiencing emotional, behavioral or relationship difficulties.

Professional Development Retreats

• Golf and Leadership (One to three days)

     This training harnesses mental abilities on the golf course to strengthen leadership skills.

• Peak Performance and Leadership (One to three days)

     This training applies peak performance concepts and techniques to develop leadership skills.

     Topics with skill-building exercises may cover a variety of areas to meet a group’s specific goals:

  • Unlimited Thinking and Mental Toughness
  • Passionate Vision and Irresistible Momentum
  • Acquiring Resources of Champions
  • Unifying Mind and Body
  • Modeling Excellence
  • Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Decisions
  • Effective Communicating
  • Team Building
  • Vibrant Health and Well-Being

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Webmaster - Michael Starr
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NLP Advantage Group
2919 E. Broadway Suite 210
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 323-5033
(520) 320-9784 (fax)