Performance Psychology for Riders

Resilient Riders with Jonah Oliver

The psychological science of unlocking your riding potential.

Are your nerves, tension, anxiety or that pesky inner-voice impacting your performance when it counts?

World renowned Performance Psychologist Jonah Oliver and World Equestrian Games top-10 dressage rider Brett Parbery present this two-week intensive program to help you understand exactly what's going on in your brain to cause you to perform below your best, and how to unlock your ability to ride your best on competition day. You'll be guided through self-reflection activities to learn about your own stories and behaviours, and you'll finish with actions you can take now and in the future to further develop yourself as a competent and resilient competitive rider.

Are you willing to dig deep and make some changes to show to the world (and yourself) what you're capable of?

Let's do this together!

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Perfect for competitive riders, and all riders will benefit. I'll absolutely be taking this into my riding and my life in general.

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Highly recommended! A great help to understand the science behind the feelings that affect performance and my equine partnerships.

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If you have any conflicted feelings about competition - this is for you!

Resilient Riders

Self Paced Program

This is your opportunity to dive into an equestrian-specific program designed by renowned Performance Psychologist Jonah Oliver, and delivered alongside World Games Top 10 dressage rider Brett Parbery.

If you feel that your competition results don't reflect the work you're putting in at home, this is the program for you.

Prepare yourself, things are going to change from here on in.

2024 Self Paced Program Recommended Schedule

All the lessons are available for you immediately, but here's a schedule we suggest to ensure you work carefully through each concept.

- Each day you'll receive an email prompt to complete a daily short video lesson

- Each lesson will include important activities to work through in the companion workbook (pro tip - give yourself a few days before you start to have the workbook printed!)

- On the final day in the 13 day program you'll sit-in on a previously recorded live workshop with Jonah in which he answers frequently asked questions from students

- You'll be invited to our new Resilient Riders private Facebook group in which you can discuss the lessons and also ask your own questions for Jonah to answer in his regular drop-in Q&A sessions.

Program Schedule

Lesson Overview

Day One: Your Relationship with Anxiety

Anxiety is normal and predictable. In this lesson, you'll start to understand your relationship to anxiety so you can work on developing the skills to shift your focus to more important things.

Day Two: Understanding the Brain

Somewhat like your horse, your brain has evolved to constantly search for threats in the environment, even if they're the judges or your fellow riders! The brain is very controlling, and today you'll learn about the price of control.

Day Three: The Cognitive Model

What strategies are you using to fight uncomfortable feelings, and how willing are you to change?

Day Four: Learning Acceptance

You're going to explore just how willing you are to make the necessary changes, and some tools to help you deal with the internal 'noise'.

Day Five: Building Capacity

Rather than reducing stress, let's work on building your capacity to handle difficult situations.

Day Six: Focus

Let's look at what makes it difficult to focus when it counts, and how we can build your focus.

Day Seven: Safety Behaviours AKA Excuses!

In this lesson you'll start to develop a heightened sense of self-awareness around what you work about or get caught up in. What excuses are you getting sucked into?

Day Eight: Unpacking Underperformance

What happens to you on competition day? Do you underride? Override? Freeze?

Day Nine: Exploring your Values

Values guide us in all domains of our life, including our riding. Let's start to identify some of the values that are important to you with your riding, and how well aligned you currently are with those values.

Day Ten: Raising the Standards in Training

You know by now that the work is almost all done prior to competition day. Let's get into the nitty gritty of how well you really do train at home.

Day Eleven: Deepening Your Skills (and preventing regression on show day)

Let's explore your skill levels and unpick some elements of your riding that might be letting you down just when you need them.

Day Twelve: Collaborative Coaching for Competence

Your relationship with your coach is key to your performance success! In this lesson you'll work through the idea of building competence in collaboration with your coach, and moving beyond an authoritarian relationship to form a successful partnership.

Day Thirteen: What Matters Right Now

We'll summarise our learnings in a previously recorded live workshop with Jonah Oliver and Brett Parbery, hosted by Nat Foxon.

Meet Your Coach

PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGIST

Jonah Oliver

Jonah is one of the world's masters of elite sport and performance psychology. He combines his training in sports psychology and neuroscience to bring a simple and effective approach to supporting people to perform at their best.

In the past decade Jonah has coached professional golfers including on the US and Japan professional golf tours, world champion V8 Supercar drivers, Olympic gold medallists, elite tennis players, football clubs, and in the professional space he coaches high achieving individuals including entrepreneurs and surgeons.

"My mission is to help people fulfil their potential on the biggest stage"

"This is not about motivation, it's about connecting to something that matters to you"

- Jonah Oliver

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This course is terrific! The logical building block format and the thought provoking insights from the science of psychology, together with the guided exercises for self awareness and practical tools for application made for a near perfect delivery. You have provided me with a whole new ‘modus operandi’ in and out of the saddle!

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Jonah is in a class of his own for unfolding and explaining how and why we are programmed and that it’s natural and expected we suffer from our own minds. In this program he unpacks and delivers and amazing set of tools to mentally shift your focus and attention to allow you to move forward to become who you strive to be. Great tools and great value.

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The program is well paced, the delivery accommodates all learning styles, breaks down how we can get in our own way as riders and in life, which prevents us meeting our and our horses potential. Brilliant program thank you.

LET'S GET STARTED

Resilient Riders
Self-Paced Program

13 x daily video lessons
Companion workbook with pull-out poster quotes
Private online community for students and graduates to share ideas, insights, and progress
Lifetime access to your program materials and live workshop recording

Resilient Riders Enrolment

$597 AUD

Afterpay and Klarna available on checkout

13 x daily video lessons designed specifically to support work beyond your self-imposed limitations
Companion workbook
Private online community for students and graduates to share ideas, insights, and progress
Lifetime access to your program materials

OPENING LATE JULY 2024

Performance Psychology for Riders