Daily Program

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 today and look forward to catching up live in our online workshop at 7pm AEST Thursday 30 May.