Sport and Performance Psychology. Helping athletes and teams uncover their Strengths, Find Solutions and Focus on What Works
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Thrivers & Divers
Created by Gunning Mental Performance , Thrivers and Divers are a series of interactive and engaging characters designed to help sport psychology become more accessible for younger athletes. A range of resources utilising the characters can be found on the Gunning Mental Performance Etsy, be sure to check them out!
Thrivers & Divers
48 unique characters designed to be a creative, engaging and interactive way to help young (or old!) athletes understand the thoughts, emotions, behaviours and characteristics that can facilitate or hinder their wellbeing and sporting performance! Simply download, laminate and cut and they're ready for use!
Thrivers are designed to represent the positive emotions (e.g. Excited Cyclops), thoughts (e.g. Control Cactus) and behaviours (e.g. Adaptable Adventure) that an athlete may be able to use to increase their wellbeing or performance. These are the things that we want to do more of and leave us feeling satisfied and fulfilled at the end of a training session or competition.
Meanwhile the Divers are designed to reflect the negative emotions (e.g. Frustrated Phantom), thoughts (e.g. Overthinking Oracle) and behaviours (e.g. Isolated Imp) that cause a decrease to well being or performance. These are the factors that we may feel are holding us back and that we want to dispute, accept or replace.
Ideal for raising self-awareness and understanding of thoughts, emotions and behaviours, as well as encouraging creativity through storytelling to explore the potential impacts of these areas on performance. Practitioners are encouraged to be creative and utilise them in a way that best suits their approach to practice and the contexts that they work in.
"Thrivers in Training" - eBook
​"Thrivers in Training" is an eBook series based on the Thriver & Diver characters created by Gunning Mental Performance. Designed to be used by youth athletes (as well as parents or sport psychologists) each eBook contains a number of short tasks designed to help develop key psychological concepts and techniques. Each book is based off one or more of the Thriver characters and contain unique tasks bespoke to that character.
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Current eBooks available:
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Strengths Sorcerer
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Solution Swashbuckler
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Motivation Mage and Process Paladin
Mindset Island: The Game
Mindset Island: The Game is designed to be used by athletes, parents, coaches and sport psychologists to add an element of fun, challenge and ‘gamification’ to their sessions whilst also helping athletes to develop greater self-awareness, reflective skills and strength identification.
Useable in both 1-2-1 or group settings athletes/players will embark on a journey around Mindset Island, starting and ending at Champion City. Players begin the game with six negative characters (Divers) and must travel across the island, completing mental skill challenges to replace them with positive characters (Thrivers). The goal is to be the first player back to Champion City having replaced all of your Divers with Thriver characters.
The locations throughout Mindset Island are designed to reflect some of the key thoughts, feelings or behaviours that athletes may be experiencing and reflect both positive and negative experiences.
Solution-Focused Cue Cards
20 Cue cards designed to be used to support Solution-Focused Interventions with athletes and young people! Each card contains a Solution-Focused Concept, a short description of the concept and a short task that can be completed. Use them to prompt conversation, as an interactive task to start a session or as 'homework' for an athlete. The aim is to provide a range of tasks and questions that can be used to help athletes identify resources, strengths, exceptions and solutions!
Values Cards
​65 Value cards (+ 3 additional 'blank' cards) designed for use in Sport Psychology interventions. Help athletes to identify the values that are most important to them and understand how they can live these values in their sport, work and daily life!
