Sustainable performance starts on the inside.
Pressure can narrow access to skills an athlete already has. STRONG Inside™ helps athletes, teams and coaches build the regulation, identity and relationships that let performance hold up under pressure, and last.
What athletes bring to the work
- Readiness and pressure
- Performing when it matters, without being run by the pressure.
- Regulation and recovery
- Noticing activation, settling, and restoring capacity between efforts.
- Identity
- Being a whole person, not only an athlete, especially through injury, selection and setbacks.
- Relationships
- With coaches, teammates, family and the wider performance environment.
- Transition
- Preparing for and moving through life beyond sport.
Under pressure
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Notice
Your state, cues and pressure.
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Regulate
Adjust activation, breathing and focus.
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Execute
Commit to the next controllable action.
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Review
Learn, recover and refine.
The goal is not to feel nothing. It is to stay connected to your process.
Ways to work together
Emily has worked with athletes across a range of sports, including athlete identity and retirement work with Crusaders Player Development Managers and NZ Rugby staff. Her own sporting background includes representative netball, giving her firsthand insight into the demands of competition, teamwork and performance under pressure.
Individual athlete consultation
Wellbeing and performance support tailored to the athlete, their sport and their stage.
Athlete identity and transition support
For injury, deselection, retirement and the move to life beyond sport.
Team sessions
Shared language for regulation, communication and pressure across a squad.
Coach and support staff sessions
Understanding what athletes' behaviour is communicating, and responding in ways that build capacity.
Formats: in person in Christchurch, online, or on site with teams.
Common questions
No referral is needed for most athlete work. If Emily thinks another service would suit you better, she'll say so.
No. Support is available for athletes at every level, including young athletes, with their parents involved as appropriate.
Wellbeing comes first. Emily will talk with you about what support fits, including referral to other services where needed.
