Pivot Coaching Services

Check out this inspiring video on the power of mindset and its impact on the success of young athletes. The video discusses the importance of fostering a positive environment, focusing on effort over outcome, and encouraging a growth mindset. Studies show that these approaches can lead to improved performance, resilience, and overall well-being for young athletes.

Let's empower our youth to develop a positive and growth-oriented mindset, both on and off the field!

Developing a Growth Mindset in Sport

Determination and mindset are the keys to unlocking your full potential 🔑💪 Don’t let obstacles discourage you, use them as stepping stones to reach your goals. Believe in yourself and stay focused on your vision.

A great read highlighting strategies that coaches can use to promote a growth mindset in their athletes. These include praising effort over results, encouraging athletes to take risks and embrace challenges, and helping them see the value in mistakes and failures.

How Coaches Can Help Young Athletes Develop a Growth Mindset?  - Balance is Better As a coach, if you care about the growth and development of your young athletes, then coaching your athletes to develop a growth mindset should become a key part of your coaching toolbox.

“Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.” (source unknown)

To all the strong, inspirational women around us, we hope you had a wonderful International Women’s Day!

According to sport psychologist, Dr. Stan Beecham, “People who are really successful will tell you their definition of success is their response to failure, and they would argue that you have to have failure. In other words, there’s no such thing of success without failure.”

“the blessing in the gift of sport is that kids learn that life is not all about fun and feeling good and being happy. Being upset is part of life. And kids learn to cope with being upset and disappointed after they lose or miss the game-winning shot. We're not going to run to the rescue and take that pain away. The heartbreak is real.”

Parents Who Raise Competitive Kids Do These 3 Things Psychologist Doug Jowdy offers three rules for raising a competitive kid and good athlete who isn't a sort winner.

Sometimes life hits you hard. Maybe you missed the game winning goal or didn’t make the A level team. During those situations, it’s common to feel like we’ve lost everything.

However, it's the moments when we get back up and carry on that truly measure our success- in all areas of life.

Yesterday my daughter's team had their first playoff game where the stakes were high - the winners of the playoffs will get to go to the BC Provincials. I asked Helen if she would be open to some mindset coaching before the game and she agreed (with no eye rolling...success!). Our coaching centred on 3 things: setting specific game goals, developing a mantra, and a visualization exercise for how to recover if things went sideways during the game.

Helen is the team's goalie, and using her new strategies, she had a great game, letting in only one goal all night and her team won the game. (insert wild cheering, ringing cowbells and blow horns!) The same outcome may have happened without mindset coaching, but one thing is certain - she went into that game with a specific focus, strong motivation, high confidence and an excellent plan to recover and reset if things didn't go as planned on the ice. It took us 20 minutes to have this coaching session. It doesn't have to be a lengthy process - it has to be high impact and meaningful to resonate.

I share this personal story to demonstrate how powerful coaching can be. I know we all want to give the people we love in our life the best chance of reaching their personal goals and successes, and coaching is a wonderful way to help them on that journey.

Young athletes in high-caring climates are more likely than those in climates focused mainly on winning to say they’re committed to their sport. Drop out rates drop significantly from 30% to 5%.

How do you create a high- caring climate? Contact us and let’s talk.

We are thrilled to have Mia Destrube join the Pivot Coaching Services team as our new Business Development Manager.

As a lifelong sports enthusiast and former competitive gymnast, Mia is passionate about bringing together diverse people, cultures and communities through sport. She knows firsthand the power that sports and physical activity have in developing healthy individuals, and the increasing role that mental health plays in an athlete’s success. Welcome to the team, Mia!