I’m reading the Introduction where I ask you to ‘Control your controllables’ because it can be stressful for young athletes to feel responsible for winning when there are so many things you can’t control. I’m also asking you to think about all the benefits you get from your sport - confidence, resilience and managing feedback and emotions.

This is how I explain to children how their mind works! I explain that something happens, which we call the activating event. We then send this through all our neuro - our mind thinks about when this last happened, what they believe about this thing and then what it means for them, their internal representation. Then this is expressed through words and body language - linguistic and this results in a behaviour which is the programme. If we want a different outcome we need to change the processing in our mind. We can control this.

I’ve been using creative approaches to understand children and teens and help them express how they feel for many many years. In this podcast I tell you how this started and how it has developed, what it is and what it isn’t.

Probably the most useful lesson from my NLP training as a mum - how to better manage my teen's angry outbursts!

This is the introduction to NLP for Sport, the 10th book in the Engaging NLP series of workbooks. This book focuses on the sports' mindset and is for children and teens and also for adults. I hope you'll find it helpful for any sport and also for fitness and gym work.