Free Training and Support
Helping youth athletes navigate the game and life needs to be a team approach to better mental health and wellness for youth. Below are educational programs your sports organization can request for coaches, administrators, parents, and athletes.
Mental Health, Wellness and Performance Coaching in Athletes
An interactive and experiential session on specific topics that can improve an athlete’s mental health, wellness and performance. The athlete and/ or coach will walk away with practical tools that can be implemented immediately.
Target Audience: Can be tailored to any audience type
Length: Varies to meet the needs of audience
Venue: Virtual or in person
Trainer/Educator: Dr. Joel Brenner, Medical Director of Sports Medicine, CHKD
Caring Conversations: Talking to Youth Athletes About Mental Health
Learn to confidently listen and talk to young athletes about mental health and wellness, including depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Gain skills and confidence to recognize warning signs and ask the right questions of young athletes who may need support. Leave with materials to help you start conversations, show you care, and take action to follow up with help for mental health concerns.
Target Audience: Coaches, parents, teachers, youth leader, etc.
Length: Can vary depending on need (60-90 minutes)
Venue: Virtual or in person
Trainer: Sarah Michele Peterson Foundation
School Table Tennis/Ping-Pong Sports and Education Program
Providing public, private and special needs schools with the Table Tennis Sports and Education Program – at NO cost, all designed to improve mental wellness, physical fitness and positive social engagement.
Through an educational kick-off event, participating schools will engage students, parents, faculty and staff to a program that includes the possibility of free table tennis table, balls, paddles, a School Ping Pong Club and health education!
Target Audience: Public and Private (Middle – High) Schools / Principals, Athletic Directors, PE teachers
Length: One Hour
Venue: In person at your school
Trainer/Educator: Scott Sautter, Ph.D., ABN Neuropsychologist and Board Chairman. Ken Lees, Founder & Volunteer President, PingPong.GIVES Charity Foundation
The Power to Choose
This talk will empower student-athletes to harness the power to choose their mindset, focusing on process over outcome, making effective decisions and to reset their mindset better and faster. All of these concepts drive self-awareness and self-regulation which result in increased resilience and higher performance.
Target Audience: Student-athletes/teams. Secondary is coaches/staff. Subject matter is tailored to audience.
Length: One Hour
Venue: In-person at client site is preferred. Virtual is an option.
Trainer: Duncan MacLeod. A 29-year veteran of the US Navy, reaching the top 1% of the enlisted force as a Command Master Chief, Duncan is a Reservist currently on active-duty as a Professor of Naval Ethics and Leadership. He holds a Master’s Degree in Executive Leadership from Liberty University.
Certifications include, Resilience-Building Leadership Professional – Trainer (RBLP), Mental Performance Mastery (MPM) Coach, Four Lenses Coach and Facilitator, Leadership Engagement Facilitator, US Navy Enlisted Leader Development Facilitator
From Failure to Success: Learning to Fail Forward
This workshop is designed to teach athletes that failure is a stepping stone to success. By reframing failure as a learning opportunity, athletes will learn how to develop a growth mindset, embrace challenges, and continuously improve their performance without fear of setbacks.
Target Audience: Student-athletes/teams. Secondary is coaches/staff. The subject matter is tailored to the audience.
Length: One Hour
Venue: In-person at client site is preferred. Virtual is an option.
Trainer: Michael Kennedy, a seasoned leader with military and professional sports experience, specializes in guiding young athletes through the Maxwell YouthMAX curriculum. With a focus on resilience and growth, Michael empowers athletes to view failure as an essential part of their journey to success.
Learn more about Michael and his training programs at button below. You can email Michael here: mkennedyops@gmail.com
EmpowerMIND Mental Performance Coaching
Empower your mind. Optimize your performance.
We often invest considerable time and energy developing our physical capabilities and technical skills, but if our mind isn’t in the right place, we cannot perform to our full potential. As much as our body needs physical and technical training, our mind needs focused training to reach peak performance. Think of mental performance training as the bridge between your capabilities and your actual performance. It’s a fundamental catalyst for achieving and sustaining high performance.
Mental performance coaching combines sports psychology, cognitive science, and performance optimization techniques to help individuals and teams achieve their peak potential. We work with our clients to develop the mental skills necessary to equip them to handle adversity, stay focused under pressure, and find purpose in every challenge, helping them unlock their full potential.
Target Audience: We provide individual consulting, team programs, and workshops for athletes, executives, performers, and professionals.
Length: Varies depending on program (55-120 minutes)
Venue: We provide in person and virtual options.
Trainer/Educator: Tage Waite, Alexys Miller, and Bianca Martin.
All of our coaches are all in the process of obtaining their CMPC certification through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. CMPC professionals adhere to the highest standards of professional practice, upholding ethical principles and committing to continuous professional development. The CMPC credential was established to acknowledge the specialized knowledge and skills essential for supporting athletes and performers at all levels. Working with a CMPC means partnering with a professional who understands the complexities of performance enhancement and has the tools to help you achieve your goals.
Create Your Own Program
Looking for something more personalized? We’re flexible! Work with our experts to create a program that best fits your needs and audience. Some examples of potential topics include stress management, the coach/athlete relationship, managing performance anxiety, self-care, therapeutic techniques for working with athletes, and more! Contact us today to get started on planning your customizable program.
Target Audience: Can be tailored to any audience type (coaches, students, parents, mental health professionals, etc.)
Length: Varies to meet the needs of audience
Venue: Virtual or in person
Trainer/Educator: We will help identify the best match for your topic.
Reach out to outreach@chkd.org with questions regarding a custom program.