The Mastery Under Pressure Group Training

Mastery Under Pressure is a training designed to assist you in elevating your performance, so you can perform under pressure with a sense of confidence, elegance, and mastery.

Most people think optimal performance is a hit or miss situation. Yet there are specific skills you can learn to improve your chance of having consistent peak experiences when you want them. If you take the time to learn and practice these skills you will experience a sense of mastery you never thought was possible.

This 12-part online training will teach you the mental skills that every Olympian and great performer has at their fingertips. You will practice maintaining a calm body and quiet mind in high-stakes, high-stress environments, as well as elevate your overall performance in every area of your life. Whatever your current level of ability to manage your emotions, this will further enable you to lead with greater confidence and self-knowledge.

During this time we cover:

  • Focus: Including Meditation Training
  • Relaxation: Initiating the Relaxation Response
  • Changing Negative Self-Talk and Mindfulness Training
  • Coping with Fear
  • Creating Powerful Visualizations

Weekly homework and exercises will help you practice expanding your capacity to perform under pressure while maintaining a sense of inner calm and a quiet mind.

The ultimate goal? By the end of this program, you will have a practically enhanced capacity to approach high-pressure situations with a sense of calm and clear purpose.

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What You Will Get in the Training

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2 Private Coaching Sessions

45-Minute Private sessions with Tina at the beginning and conclusion of the course.

12 Pre-Recorded Online Lessons

Explore each week’s topic with Tina with these short videos, ranging from 6-18 minutes that can be watched anywhere.

Course Workbook

Each week involves a bit of reading and an opportunity take on new progressive exercises with each lesson.

Weekly Live Group Coaching Calls with Tina

Your group will work together in the development of skills and personal action plans during weekly group coaching calls with Tina.

Private Team Facebook Group

Continue your training throughout the week in the private team Facebook group, where you can ask questions and observations for the whole group and Tina to respond to.

Course Breakdown:
What you’ll be learning over the course of 12 weeks

Module 1: Introduction and Increasing Your Ability to Focus

  • How we change
  • Mind/Body connection
  • Combination of East Meets West
    • Yoga Psychology
    • Bhuddist thought
    • Sports Psychology
    • Western Learning Theory
    • Neuropsychology and Neuroplasticity

You will be able to:

  • Recognize when you’re in and out of focus
  • Increase your ability to focus through breath exercise
  • Cope with distractions

Module 2: Meditation

  • What meditation is, and what it is not
  • Why people give up on meditation
  • 3 Different meditations to practice

You will be able to:

  • Choose a meditation practice that resonates with you
  • Explain the benefits of meditation
  • Increase your ability sit in meditation over time

Module 3: Relaxation

  • What happens in the mind and body when stressed
  • The fight/flight or freeze response
  • The Yogic Breath – Also known as the 3-Part Breath

You will be able to:

  • Describe the stress response
  • Know how your body responds to stress
  • Manage your stress response
  • Create a sense of calm with the Yogic breath

Module 4: Mindfulness Training

How mindfulness training is the key to managing your emotions and fundamental for you to be able to change your experience at will

You will be able to:

  • Differentiate Mindfulness Meditation from the practice of Mindfulness
  • Define mindfulness
  • Notice your thoughts with non-judgmental awareness

Module 5: Uncovering Your Belief Systems

  • Description of Belief Systems and how they develop
  • The difference between science and faith
  • How to uncover your belief systems

You will be able to:

  • Uncover your subconscious belief systems
  • Recognize where your belief systems originated
  • Choose whether you want to keep them or change them

Module 6: Changing Your Thoughts: Overcoming Negative Thinking Part 1

Overview of “Cognitive Distortions:” The different ways we create our own reality by how we interpret our own thoughts

You will be able to:

  • See the relationship between your thoughts and your stress response
  • Identify your particular dysfunctional thinking patterns
  • Be kinder to yourself

Module 7: Changing Your Thoughts: Overcoming Negative Thinking Part 2

  • Coming home to the authentic self
  • How to change negative self-talk into productive thinking

You will be able to:

  • Quickly recognize your negative thinking patterns
  • Be able to respond rather than react
  • Choose the thoughts that will take you to a more positive outcome

Module 8: Transforming Your Fear Part 1

The many faces of fear – some obvious, others not so easily identified

You will be able to:

  • Name your fears
  • Identify the origins of your fears
  • Find the sensation of the fear in the body
  • Find the thoughts associated with the fear

Module 9: Transforming Your Fear Part 2

  • How to work with the thoughts and feelings associated with fear and transform it
  • How to use fear as your greatest teacher

You will be able to:

  • Name your fears
  • Find the sensation of the fear in the mind and the body
  • Sit with your feelings so they can transform
  • Choose new behaviors and thoughts to move beyond the fear

Module 10: Creating Powerful Visualizations Part 1

  • How to train both sides of the brain for peak performance
  • Important factors in creating a successful visualization
  • Creating a pre-performance visualization

You will be able to:

  • Train your mind and body for a peak performance experience
  • Incorporate your senses in creating visualizations
  • Create a pre-performance visualization

Module 11: Creating Powerful Visualizations Part 2

Additional ways to use visualizations including the Gallway Method of the Inner Game and how to recover from loss of focus during a presentation.

You will be able to:

  • Utilize the Gallway Method to learn and practice a new skill
  • Recover from a temporary loss of focus during a presentation’
  • Utilize your newly acquired mind/body techniques to create powerful visualizations before, during and after a performance

Module 12: Graduation!

Review of the entire transformational journey

About the Trainer:
Tina Greenbaum

Tina Greenbaum, LCSW is an Optimal Performance Specialist, Holistic Psychotherapist, Author, Speaker and Workshop Leader. With over 35 years of experience she helps entrepreneurs, business leaders and aspiring leaders to be effective as they can be by guiding them to find their own blind spots, both personally and professionally, and then teaches them how to get the best out of the teams they lead, ultimately leading to a happier, healthier, more productive life.

Using cutting edge technologies, she combines the latest in neuroscience with the ancient traditions of the East. The Mastery Under Pressure program is a compilation of her life’s work, starting with treating women with eating disorders when there was no known treatment available to working with Olympic level athletes, Broadway and New York City Ballet performers.

What Previous Students Say About the Training:

If you are looking for a unique approach to stop beating yourself up and opening your eyes to new possibilities in your personal life, please do yourself a favor and work with with Tina.

Steve Felix Felix Consulting Group, Behavioral Presentation Coach

Tina has been a tremendous asset in navigating the complexity of my personal and professional lives, and all the ways they intersect. Building my emotional skills has helped me genuinely engage my colleagues and team members with sensitivity and understanding.

Kate Lancaster Manager, Macy’s

Workflow, budgets and deadlines work against focusing on the present. Tina has a gift for working with Type A executives to improve their productivity.

Mathew Galligan, President Cities Real Estate Finance

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Is this training for everyone?

A. Because life is challenging, these are valuable life skills that are appropriate for everyone. But if you are looking to greatly elevate your situation, this training is a must.

Q. How is this training different than other self-help trainings that I have taken?

A. Self-help covers a very broad area. This training focuses specifically on performance. Many people spend a lot of time and money on learning their craft, but frequently do not invest in learning the mental skills they need for the competitive arena.

Q. I’m really interested in this training but have a conflict with the date.

A. Please send me an email, as there may be other options for you to train with me.

Q. Who is this not for?

A. This training is not for you if you are not serious about making changes in your life, either personally, professionally or both. I would love to say I have a magic wand, but your progress will be equal to the effort you put in to train.

Q. How do I know this training will work for me?

A. Training your mind to create new neural pathways in your brain takes practice and repetition. This 12-week training will teach you to the skills you need to gain mastery under pressure. In order to sustain your progress, you must consciously practice these skills until they become automatic. This training works if you work it. Ultimately, the choice is yours.

Q. When will I find out the logistics of the workshop.

A. Upon receipt of your registration, you will receive the exact times we will meet as well as the link to our zoom meetings.

Are you ready to improve your performance under pressure?

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