Team Sport Workshops

If you have a whole team that needs help, I can help. I'm Paul S. Palmer, director, Sports Motivation Clinic. Working with all the athletes that compete on the same team helps everyone. Usually, I'm working with that "special" athlete. She gets better but the rest of the team is still erratic. If nothing else, it's no fun. Helping each athlete play at the top of their game is what's called a real "dream team". A team workshop in the Chicago Area starts a $500.oo plus $15.00 per athlete and each athlete gets their own CD. That's a "dream" price!

Most of my team seminars are geared for high school and college athletes. I teach them mental conditioning techniques, how and why they work and the best way to implement them. I don't teach the sport and I don't teach hypnosis. The relaxation exercises are derived from my 30 plus years of using clinical hypnosis in my practice. Relaxation has always been at the heart of mentally preparing the athlete for competition and I know the secrets of how to maximize that process.

Grammar school age athletes are better worked with one on one. Or even better, I work with the coaches and teach them the mental conditioning techniques that they can pass on in small increments as part of their regular coaching sessions. It's never too early to start to learn how to keep your head in the game, but a hour and a half seminar on the subject usually isn't the way to start.

I also work with adult teams.

If you want your softball team to really kick butt, here is how to achieve it. Yes, even old guys can learn how to improve their mental game. I've proved that with golfers for years, but they tend to be more hard headed than the kids. If you are an old dog that wants to learn a new trick, call me. I'll make you more consistent and better team players because you'll learn to play at the top of your game and take advantage of your experience.

My seminars are limited to 30 athletes. It's a workable number and this seems to accommodate most teams. For larger teams (football), we need to break the team up into smaller groups.

Team sport presents a different type of mental challenge.

Playing as a team, team chemistry, jelling together are but a few of the terms to describe what happens when a group of individual players come together as one. It's the goal of any team. I'm sure you work on that team unity thing every time you get together. Should your mental exercises include this sort of thing ? Of course, yes.

Helping each athlete prepare to play their personal best is the usual first step in mental preparation. But there are unique team intangibles that can be worked on too. Here's one example.

Are your players psychic?

Position awareness: That six sense of knowing where your teammates are on the field or the court.

Many top athletes seem to have an awareness of the game that goes beyond what their eyes and ears take in. They seem to be able to anticipate a situation before it happens. Are they psychic? If they are I'd take advantage of it and play the horses. More likely, it's the subconscious recognizing patterns and making connections far quicker than the conscious mind can keep up. It's another example of how the automatic part of the mind plays your game better and faster than your conscious mind. Again, the question is, which part of the mind do you want working for you at crunch time? Mr. Palmer knows the secret of how to get the subconscious onboard, when it counts.

The cost for a 1 1/2 hour team seminar, in the Chicago Area starts at $500.00 plus $15.00 per athlete up to 30 athletes and includes a practice CD for each athlete. I also need a interview with the coach a week before the workshop to help customize the workshop to fit your team.

October Special: Book a team workshop before October 31, 2008 and take $100.00 off. Call today.

I also offer a coaches workshop. See coaches for more info.

Sports Motivation Clinic

9784 S. Roberts Road

Palos Hills IL. 60445

708-233-1111 Hours by appointment