The culture for sport is one of the biggest indicators for an athlete’s mental health.
Author - Cassidy Preston
Dr. Cassidy Preston is the founder of Consistent Elite Performance and a full-time high-performance coach helping elite athletes, teams, and businesses increase their performance and well-being. A former OHL & pro hockey player, Cassidy combines his personal experiences with the current research in sport and performance psychology to create relatable and practical strategies for his clients to apply.
"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..."
The struggle to let go of control is at the root of overthinking.