Same Team Tour

The Athlete Unbothered Same Team Tour is dedicated to bringing the importance of mental performance training directly to athletes, coaches and parents across schools and sports teams.

We understand that true athletic success doesn’t just rely on physical strength and skill, but on mastering the mental game. Our team tours introduce practical tools and techniques that help athletes sharpen their focus, manage pressure, and build resilience.

Our goal is simple: to reach as many teams as possible and help them understand the importance of mental training and the impact it has on their performance in competition and in life.

“Awareness is a key ingredient in success, if you lack it,
seek it, if you have it, teach it.

— Michael Kitson

Parents are Important

Parents play a powerful role in an athlete’s mental performance, whether it’s through a big outburst or a small gesture.
At AU, we help athletes focus on what they can control and respond effectively in high-pressure situations. But parents are often an athlete’s first coach, teacher, and biggest supporter, and their influence can either build an athlete up or hold them back.
When parents take the time to understand what their athlete is experiencing mentally and learn how to offer the right kind of support, it can make a lasting impact on their growth and performance.

A playbook session with an athlete after they recognize that they were distracted by looking in the crowd for their parents’ approval.

What Does it Look Like?

First, we meet with your athletes to explore how parent behavior impacts their confidence, focus, and mindset, and teach techniques that assist with this. Then we meet with your parents (within the same or following week) to share some concerns the athletes have and provide parents with tools to support their athletes without pressure and help their athletes evolve mentally and emotionally.

Athlete Session

Topics Discussed:

  • Understanding how emotions impact performance is key for athletes. Emotional awareness means recognizing what you’re feeling, why you’re feeling it, and how it affects your focus, decision-making, and confidence. By learning to identify emotional triggers, both positive and negative, athletes can respond intentionally instead of reacting impulsively, and parents can better understand their child’s mental state during competition.

  • Athletes perform best when they can express their needs and boundaries clearly. Self-advocacy is the ability to speak up respectfully about what helps or hinders performance. Effective communication bridges the gap between athletes and parents, helping reduce misunderstandings, prevent unnecessary pressure, and create a support system that truly benefits the athlete’s mental game.

  • Confidence often comes from external factors, like praise, recent wins, or feedback from others. Self-confidence is deeper, it’s an internal belief in your abilities, built through preparation, self-awareness, and resilience. Athletes who rely only on external confidence can feel unstable after setbacks, while self-confidence helps them stay grounded no matter the outcome. Parents play a big role in helping athletes develop this inner stability.

  • Emotional regulation is the ability to manage and adjust your emotional responses during high-pressure situations. For athletes, this can mean calming nerves before a game, regaining focus after a mistake, or staying composed when emotions run high. Techniques include breathing exercises, positive self-talk, visualization, and pre-performance routines. Parents can model and reinforce these techniques by creating a supportive environment before and after games.

Parent/Coach Session

Topics Discussed:

  • The words you choose, and how you say them can have a lasting impact on your athlete’s mindset. Supportive language focuses on encouragement, constructive feedback, and empathy, while tone awareness ensures your message is received in the spirit you intend. Even well-meaning comments can feel like criticism if delivered at the wrong time or with the wrong tone. Learning to choose words and timing wisely can boost confidence instead of adding pressure.

  • Athletes often communicate their feelings through body language, facial expressions, and behavior more than words. Reading emotional cues means noticing these non-verbal signals and adjusting your response accordingly. Recognizing when your athlete needs space, comfort, or conversation helps prevent misunderstandings and builds trust.

  • Focusing on outcomes, like scores, wins, and stats, can create unnecessary pressure and limit an athlete’s ability to take risks and grow. Effort focused shifts attention to controllable factors such as work ethic, perseverance, and attitude. By praising effort over results, you help your athlete develop resilience, motivation, and a love for the game, regardless of the scoreboard.

  • Parents often feel responsible for their athlete’s success, but the most powerful role is that of a supporter, not a coach or critic. Reframing your role means seeing yourself as a steady, encouraging presence who provides emotional safety before and after competition. When athletes know home is a pressure-free zone, they are more likely to perform freely and enjoy the sport.

Mental Training Helps Athletes With . . .

  • Improved Focus

    Mental training helps athletes sharpen their focus, enabling them to stay present during competition and block out distractions. This heightened concentration can lead to better decision-making and more consistent performance under pressure.

  • Enhanced Stress Management

    Athletes frequently face high-pressure situations that can lead to anxiety or stress. Mental performance training helps athletes manage stress effectively and maintain composure during critical moments.

  • Resilience and Bounce-Back Ability

    Mental resilience is crucial for athletes to recover quickly from setbacks such as mistakes or losses. Mental training provides tools to reframe challenges, learn from them, and bounce back stronger, leading to more consistent and enduring success.

  • Increased Confidence

    Visualization and mental rehearsal exercises enable athletes to mentally prepare for success, boosting their confidence. With increased self-belief, athletes are more likely to take risks, push through tough moments, and reach their full potential.

  • Team Cohesion and Communication

    For teams, mental performance training fosters better communication and trust. Athletes learn how to support each other, manage conflicts constructively, and build a strong team culture, leading to improved performance in competition.

  • Mental and Emotional Well-Being

    Incorporating mental training into athletic routines promotes mental health by encouraging self-awareness, emotional regulation, and healthy coping strategies. Athletes develop skills they can use not only in sports but also in life.

More Questions?

  • Mental training is the practice of developing cognitive and emotional skills to enhance an athlete's performance and overall well-being. Just as athletes condition their bodies to improve physical strength and endurance, mental training focuses on strengthening the mind to handle pressure, stay focused, and maintain resilience in the face of challenges.

    Overall, mental training equips athletes with the tools they need to excel not just physically but mentally, giving them a competitive edge and helping them achieve sustainable success both in their sport and in life.

  • The session is approximately 1 hour. During the tour, athletes will begin to build self-awareness and learn a few techniques that they can implement right away.

    Parents will learn how to support their athletes mentally and emotionally.

  • These sessions are priced at an introductory rate of $100 total. Buy one, get one free!

  • The goal of the tour is to introduce mental training as another pillar training that will enhance performance. In one hour, no it will not have immediately impact on performance. However, if athletes implement what is taught during the tour, changes can begin immediately.

  • All skills taught within mental performance training are adaptable to any sport. There are numerous ways to do things, so if one technique doesn't work, I encourage athletes to find a technique that caters to them.

  • Mental performance training does help with motivation and confidence in athletes, but that requires ongoing training and dedication to evolving mentally.

  • Athlete Unbothered offers ongoing training for individual athletes and teams. As well as workshops for coaches and parents to learn how to support athletes mentally.

  • Understand the mental side of your players. They are human, they are still learning, and with so many things on their plate, and the pressure to "be good" some athletes struggle in silence.

  • At the very beginning of working with athletes mentally, I've noticed that most parents don't know how to support athletes on the things that we are working through in training sessions. So, yes, it is beneficial for parents to be able to support athletes as they work to build their self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

By introducing mental performance training to teams and athletes, you not only improve their chances of success in the short term but also lay the foundation for long-lasting mental and emotional strength.