Mental Edge Classes & Workshops

Customizable Workshops Available Price will vary depending on the workshop

Mental Edge for Sport Performance Workshops available.

"Zone of Performance" Workshops featuring the skills of

Mindful Based Attention Training (MBAT, Jha, University of Miami)

In this Free Workshop Participants will learn how to enhance their "Zone of Performance" to become aware and sustain high levels of stress

in a calm and focused way.

This 60 minute Lecture/workshop, will provide tools for becoming more aware of the present moment, learn why and how attention can help to develop more focus, accuracy and in the moment decision making.

These skills mental emotional skills compliment physical training and are the missing link to high levels of performances.

Reservations can be made by calling,

In-Visioned Coaching @ 970-661-2256 (CALM). Space is limited .

Stress Management Sessions Available

A Moment in the Present

As I sit here in an upright but not up-tight position, I start to bring awareness to me, in this present moment. This moment is the only, most important, moment which I can choose to squander or celebrate.

I choose to celebrate; the air that is entering me, fortified with life affirming oxygen, vital to every cell in my body. Sensing it enter my nose, move down the back of my throat, past my chest and gently filling my lungs like a paper lantern. Front, back and sides are filled to capacity, so that I can exchange the new air for the old. Sending the old out past my lips with a soft whisper in front of me.

Here I sit, noticing the environment, the sounds, smells and senses, in and around me. Breathing in and out as just another part of the space around me.

I settle in for this moment and I am not in the past, and I am not the future but in the supportive gravity of this very time. For each moment that is celebrated gives the potential for an even better next moment to be present. And for that moment all the world fades away and it’s just me with me.

In this calm and present moment we start to learn how to regulate our mental /emotional systems, check inside for our needs and wants and a appropriately resource those things, allowing us to tap into the perfect moment of higher performance success. I can visualize my performances and the skills needed to achieve my peak performances.

If you would like to learn more about the power of the present moment, the benefits that present moment awareness can offer, and how it can help regulate the Central Nervous System, how it can increase the ability to respond instead of react, and how to start to harness the gifts that are waiting inside, then In-Visioned Coaching is here for you.

Participants will get the opportunity to experience firsthand the power of the inside “quiet” even if things have always been too loud to hear. In-Visioned Coaching provides safe, trauma informed, calming environment to explore, retreat, nurture and practice these amazing skills.

Individual Coaching Sessions Available

A Moment in Self-Compassion

What do you think of when you hear the word, compassion? Maybe things like care, support, kindness? I am betting if you are like me, it feels good to help and show up for others, a special friend or family member, who need a helping hand or a simple smile.

While many of us can take time to help a loved one in need or care for a young person or an aging parent, not everyone shows up for themselves when they need support. How many times have you given yourself a kind moment of appreciation, kindness, or even simple acknowledgements of the many things that you are?

You are not alone! According to an article titled, Self-Kindness Versus Self-Judgment, and contrary to what might be expected, research suggests that most people are more compassionate toward others than themselves (Neff, 2003). People feel much more comfortable offering others support rather than themselves. Sometimes the words of Self-Compassion are met with judgements, such as pity, sympathy, or self-indulgence. I believe that showing yourself a moment of compassion is one of the single most powerful things we can do for ourselves.

Self-compassion is not self-care. Self-care can be a part of self-compassion but in the true sense of the word, “Compassion, is the ability we all have, to show empathy, love, and concern to those who may be experiencing difficulties.” “Self-compassion is all about extending that same compassion back toward yourself, which is not always easy to do…..it is not self-indulgent or selfish.” (Positivephycology.com) and can take place in any moment.

According to Kristen Neff, (a leading self-compassion researcher), some of the benefits that self-compassion can provide for us, is to increase wellbeing, happiness, strength and resilience, while decreases depression, perfectionism, and self-criticism simultaneously! It decreases our inner critic and gives us an inner ally, and the ability to build capacity to be open to others needs. (Neff)

If you would like to gain more skills around developing a healthy sense of self-compassion by learning more about being in the present moment, turning the inner critic into an inner ally and coming out of isolation to learn that we are not alone in our struggles; in a safe, trauma informed, calming environment to explore, retreat, nurture and practice these amazing tools, then sign up for this 3-part series in Self-Compassion.

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