What you will learn when you work with Red River Journey
Red River Journey works with its participants via a range of mediums, from one on one sessions (including distance communication) to small group work, to workshops/seminars and even large group presentations.
Individuals are encouraged to undertake our extended programs to allow them to access and ingest the skills and knowledge to help them move forward in the direction they are seeking. Of course, specific issues can also be addressed on an individual and short term basis to accommodate specific needs.
No matter what approach you decide to adopt, everyone working with Red River Journey receives a continually updated manual to assist them in re-visiting strategies in their own time and space to ensure their growth can continue past the normal sessions with Red River Journey. More so, Red River Journey offers ongoing support for those “unusual” questions / concerns that have a habit of popping up at odd times – on becoming a client of Red River Journey you become part of our community, and you receive ongoing access to our members’ newsletters, tips and interesting articles.
What you will access and learn …
Within all our programs is a close attention to developing your ability to communicate, allowing you to better capture what is being delivered to you, and explain to others what you are experiencing. You will learn how to utilise effective communications skills, such as:
- Greater sensitivity to language and non-verbal behaviour Precision questioning skills
- Precision questioning skills
- How to building rapport in both formal coaching and informal social situations towards establishing and maintaining healthy relationships
- How to identify visual, auditory and kinaesthetic thinking styles in others and to be able to recognise and respond to eye movement cues, breathing, posture, language patterns, gestures and other non-verbal communications
- Develop the ability to appreciate that a situation can be seen from a range of viewpoints and utilise this effectively
For peak performance to be attained in whatever field of endeavour, effective mental training holds the key to success. At Red River Journey our programs, whether generic or specifically tailored to your individual needs, address the following “mental essentials”:
Motivation and goal achievement
Achieving outstanding goals involves deciding what you want, establishing a sustainable action plan, and taking consistent action. Engaging your own self-motivation is an essential element in this process.
- Enhance personal self motivation by establishing a clear life mission statement
- Identify and write down specific and achievable short, medium and long term sports and personal goals - and understand how to guide others through this process
- Establish practical action plans and routines to achieve desired goals
- Identify their own and others' time lines and make use of 'positive ambitions and desires ' to assist in achieving personal and professional goals
- Be more flexible in their management of personal time
Developing strong mental focus
Relaxation, concentration, visualisation and mental rehearsal are all essential for performing successfully every time you “take the field”. Techniques that can enhance many aspects of your performance, including specific exercises to improve skill levels and competition performances, are part of every successful competitor’s “toolkit”.
- Techniques to enhance concentration and focus under pressure
- Effectively engage relaxation / visualisation processes
- Understand how and why visualisation works to improve athletic performances
- Learn basic and advanced visualisation techniques to assist sports and utilising this skill effectively in training and performance
- Build personal triggers for getting into, and staying in the 'zone'
Emotional Focus
Successful performance involves not just on logical analysis or intellectual understanding, but also to access and use a deeper level of emotional focus and awareness. It involves learning how to handle fear of failure, pre-competition / performance nerves, how to focus in practice towards achieving your goals and how to master your competitors when “in battle”.
- Learn how to trigger and amplify positive emotions and feelings through changing negative, non-constructive feelings, un-productive emotional reactions, and limiting behaviours to more empowering ones
- Develop a range of cognitive and behavioural tools for dealing with fear and anxiety
- Learn how to engage a range of positive, empowering emotions and dismantle negative and destructive emotional roadblocks
Positive Mental Attitude
Thinking negatively can have a serious impact on performance. Elite performers know how to stay focused, utilise and accept a clear and unshakable self image and remain mentally tough whether they are practicing or in competition.
- Learn how to master thoughts and perceptions that emphasise the positive and downplay the negative to develop a strong and positive mental attitude
- Improve your decision-making capabilities and skills
- Develop a stronger, positive self image others through the use of 'monitoring' and 'filtering' techniques
- Learn and be able to use your internal dialogue to initiate positive improvement in self image and performance.
Self Confidence
Top performers have an absolute confidence and a high self esteem that enables them to respond positively to challenges at the highest level of competition and excel under pressure to achieve outstanding performances, time after time. Having a strong belief in yourself is “mandatory” for success in and away from competition.
- Understand how self esteem is tied to successful performance
- Learn how to enhance your personal confidence and self esteem
- “Re-educate negative behaviours, habits and emotions
- Respond resourcefully to criticism
The Power of your Belief System
Your body cannot do what the mind won't believe, and as your mind is a powerful determinant of success. Utilising more positive and empowering beliefs in your life will enhance your performance and encourage you to feel and be more successful at and away from the demands of competition.
- Learn how to gain and utilise your mental acuity – awareness and focus and what they will mean to you when applied across settings
- Become aware of the power of your beliefs
- Discover how to take control of beliefs hat limit your forward progress, and engage habits and behaviours that will work for you
Behaviour and Performance – their Link
How you perform is tied inevitably with your behaviours in and away from competition. To improve your performance you need to consider the impact of your behaviours – “old habits die hard”. Change is difficult to accept; without change in habits and behaviours there is no forward movement, and without forward movement it is difficult to implement change in performance.
- Identify models of human behaviour and their relevance to your beliefs, behaviours and ability to grow
- Learn ways of changing your behaviour positively
- Understand the power of changing to overcome previous roadblocks and the sense of achievement that comes with implanting beliefs and behaviours that will move you past disappointing performance towards success, and the satisfaction that comes with that success