Learn how to stop putting bandaids on bullet holes.
Author - Cassidy Preston
Dr. Cassidy Preston is a Mental Performance Coach that works with elite athletes, teams, & high-performing executives. Cassidy is also the founder of CEP Mindset and is dedicated to shifting the culture of sport away from limiting beliefs and back towards the love of the game.
Cassidy specializes in creating relatable and practical strategies by combining his personal experiences as a former OHL & PRO hockey player, with the current research in Sport & Performance Psychology. He continues to expand the CEP team of Mental Performance Coaches to help as many athletes as possible optimize their performance and well-being.
The culture for sport is one of the biggest indicators for an athlete’s mental health.
"Shouldn't hockey be a place where everyone can go and feel good for 2-3 hours a night?...It's not."
Coaches need to be aware that one size does not fit all in player development
As a coach you might not be able to fully control winning, but you can control the experience your team has.
"Sport is not inherently good...It is neutral and only in the hands of adults who are intentional about making it good will it be that."
"Sport has phenomenal capacity to grow leaders but it's not getting done. It's probably producing more toxic people in some ways..."
"We want to ensure that people are understanding the ‘command and control’ coaching of the past is not acceptable..."
"Someone is not born a leader, they're not predispositioned based on their personality to be a great leader. They have skills that they've developed over time."
“The bottom line is this: if you don’t talk it out, you will act it out.” - Joseph Grenny
'We challenge coaches to be selective in what they take from these series and not just imitate what is seen on the limited insider footage."
"The problem instead lies in the limiting beliefs in the Old School ways of thinking..."