Elite Mental Performance Consulting
Rooted Mental Performance
Beneath the jersey, evidence-based, rooted in excellence. We help athletes, coaches, and teams build the mental skills required to self-actualize. Scroll down for a nuanced description of trainable mental skills.
Trainable Skills
Core Trainable Mental Skills
Evidence-based mental skills we individualize to the needs of every athlete/coach/performer
Confidence
Learn the foundations of what unshakeable confidence looks and feels like, identify strengths and areas of improvement, and build a foundation that triumphs in the face of setbacks.
Focus/Concentration
Train attention control so athletes can stay present, block task irrelevant distractions, and reset quickly under pressure.
Energy Management
Learn how to regulate physical and cognitive energy (or "arousal"), manage nerves, and find the optimal performance state before and during competition.
Imagery/Visualization
Use mental rehearsal to prepare responses, improve confidence, and strengthen execution before the moment arrives.
Emotion Regulation
Develop tools to understand, manage, and respond to emotions without letting them control you or your performance.
Emotional Intelligence
Improve self-awareness, communication, empathy skills, and decision-making in competitive environments.
Mindfulness
Practice NON-JUDGMENTAL presence, acceptance, and awareness so you can perform without being oppressed by overthinking.
Motivation
The fuel in your tank. Clarify purpose, values, and goals to create sustainable drive beyond short-term results, and/or external validation (approval, awards, stats).
Adaptive Competence
Where elite execution meets common humanity
The Performance Tree: a metaphor for how RootedPerformance.me views elite execution. As athletes/coaches/performers, do we chase the fruit or master the roots?
Performance Philosophy
Expressing Skill while carrying the moment
Adaptive Competence™ helps athletes perform effectively while navigating the peaks, and more importantly the low valleys of elite environments. The goal is not to delete pressure, frustration, mistakes, or emotion. The goal is to carry them while still acting in alignment with core values, paving the way for confident and consistent performance despite not feeling your best.
Core model
Performance = Skill × Willingness
If willingness drops to zero, skill cannot be fully expressed. When athletes are willing to carry the heavy backpack of competition and still commit to value-based action, skill can be expressed.
Performance Tree
Master the Roots, Achieve the Fruits
Obsessing over the "fruit" (winning the game, getting recruited, scoring more goals, or going pro) actually pulls you further away from it. Research shows that true passion and elite execution live entirely in the process. The irony? When you stop chasing the outcome and master the mechanics of the chase, the very doors you were trying to force open begin to unlock themselves.
Need a custom plan?
Rooted Performance can build a package around your team, season, goals, schedule, and preferred level of support.