Consultation
Most frequent questions and answers
You will be asked to fill out an assessment form online that details exactly what is taking place in your sports experience. Once delivered you will choose on the calendar a day and time to consult with Chris Thomas either via video or phone. Each consultation is one-hour long. You will need a copy of your assessment in front of you. The consultation will involve three stages: Reveal – listen to the parent or athlete reveal what is going on. Identify – after the revelation stage, together we will review your sheet. Chris will help the athlete or parent identify where he believes those feeling are coming from. Redefine – once we identify where those feelings are coming from, we are going to add a completely different definition to your experience so you can become this blank canvas on a path to take power back and control over your game moving forward. This will be followed up with a summary sheet of the consultation. Please allow for at least 24 hours between filling out the assessment and choosing a consultattion time. If you are an athlete under the age of 16, your parents must acknowledge authorization for you to consult with Chris Thomas without them present.
It can be for either, or for both.
What athletes contend with differs for everyone. Some are in a state of emotional distress and can’t get beyond it without help. Even those who are successful currently could also be exhausted and inhibited by fear of failure, pressure, judgment, and expectations. Others are just succeeding in sports based on natural talent and have no idea how to incorporate the 66% of the game that could take their performance to another dimension and they want to know how. Perhaps you are not as naturally gifted and therefore struggling to find any level of success and now you are ready to unlock your greatness by incorporating the mind into what you do fundamentally and physically. Regardless of your circumstance, you don’t’ have to be in the same circumstance any longer. You can now learn to play this game where you are liberated from any inhibiting factors, which will not only change your sports experience, but can change your future opportunities and in many cases, your life.
As parents we want nothing better than to support our child-athlete having the best sports and life experience. Sports was meant to be a mechanism for personal discovery. However, the large majority of athletes are having an inferior experience due to lack of success or emotional turmoil. Often, you may not even understand the depth of pressure, judgment, anxiety or fear of failure that exist within your child-athlete. Your words of encouragement fall on deaf ears. Perhaps you feel there is this untapped potential in your son or daughter, but they just can’t find success and you don’t know why. Maybe your son or daughter is not that naturally gifted, and you just assume it better not to push them since sports is just to keep them occupied, and you don’t understand the detriment of viewing their experience in that way. Regardless of the circumstance, you now have the chance to consult with someone who can bring immense light to surface regarding your child-athlete’s sports experience. If as a parent you would love to learn how to support the greatness that exist in your child-athlete, regardless of who and where they are today, now is your opportunity. The value of speaking with someone who has lived every aspect of your son or daughter’s experience at the highest level of sports, good and bad, is immeasurable. Chris Thomas is your resource.
You will be asked to fill out an assessment form online that details exactly what is taking place in your sports experience. Once delivered you will choose on the calendar a day and time to consult with Chris Thomas either via video or phone. Each consultation is one-hour long. You will need a copy of your assessment in front of you. The consultation will involve three stages: Reveal – listen to the parent or athlete reveal what is going on. Identify – after the revelation stage, together we will review your sheet. Chris will help the athlete or parent identify where he believes those feeling are coming from. Redefine – once we identify where those feelings are coming from, we are going to add a completely different definition to your experience so you can become this blank canvas on a path to take power back and control over your game moving forward. This will be followed up with a summary sheet of the consultation. Please allow for at least 24 hours between filling out the assessment and choosing a consultattion time. If you are an athlete under the age of 16, your parents must acknowledge authorization for you to consult with Chris Thomas without them present.
As far as consultations are concerned, Chris Thomas works with every athlete in any sport. From equitation, to football, soccer, basketball, ice hockey, motocross and baseball he has broken the barriers in his ability to identify and connect the dots between the mind and performance for any athlete. His video series “Understanding the Mind as it Relates to your Performance” is invaluable to any athlete in any sport as well. This video series alone can change everything about the sports experience. Chris will also be coming up with three separate video series offering technical instruction with the integration of the intellect and psychology elements. Those video series will be specific individually to football, soccer and baseball. These three videos are soon to come. Understanding the Mind as it Relates to your Performance is available now.
Absolutely. He will have three specific video series made up of multiple videos. In each of the wide receiver instruction, soccer and then baseball video series he will break the game down into pieces. If you have always wanted to know the how, why, when and where behind your sports so you can own your game like never before, then these video series are for you. His first video series will be “Mastering the Art of Route Running from the Mind Down.” This is specifically for wide receivers, tight ends, and running backs. He will break down every aspect of the wide receiver position and slow the game down so you can understand concepts you’ve never thought about and that never leave you. The second video series will be specific to SOCCER players. Having played soccer for fifteen years and being associated for over a decade with high-level club soccer, Chris has determined that there is a gaping absence of the mind integrated into the soccer game. He has worked with high-level soccer players, some of whom are nationally acclaimed who’ve touch hundreds of thousands if not a million balls, yet do not understand the what, how, why and where associated with the technical aspect of the game. This video series will bring connection and feel to the art of touching a soccer ball like most players have never experienced. Lastly, there will be a video series specifically for BASEBALL players. Why is it that someone can have a hitting coach or a pitching coach and still struggle immensely to find consistent success? It is because they are not connected to the game they are really playing as hitters, fielders, or pitchers. They focus on mechanics, which are important, but not the reason you will find extraordinary success. Chris Thomas is going to again break those fundamentals down into parts and introduce you to a completely different game that will allow you more success than you’ve ever had before if you will let yourself integrate it. In all three video series he will teach you to play this “Game Within the Game”, connect to your instrument, and “feel” your game like never before so you can own your game like you’ve always desired. You will be able to “fix” what isn’t working for the first time while you watch all the obstacles you previously faced dissipate as you enter this next dimension of performance.
Yes, this is the most important video series that will be available. As you already know, the mind makes up to 85% of why you would ever unlock your greatness. You can lose yourself by not understanding how to manage the sports experience. Your approach to sports, your ability to understand the intellectual and psychological elements to performance, learning how to play this Game Within the Game, as well as understanding all the emotions that exist within a sports experience can ascend you to another dimension of performance. The Mind is the most powerful asset you have as it pertains to transforming your entire sports experience. Therefore, Chris Thomas has dedicated an entire video series to understanding all you need to know about the mind so once and for all it works for you, not against you. Chris Thomas has added definition to virtually everything an athlete experiences so you can identify the source of your feelings and how to empower yourself to create a completely different experience. This video series is your chance to sit back and absorb all there is to know about the mind and getting it to be your greatest asset so you can discover your greatness.
Yes. Chris will create a video series both for parents, and for coaches. Parents and coaches are often times the #1 influencer on an athlete’s sports experience. Their roles are critical in helping to abate all the things that cripple an athlete’s experience. As good as the intentions are, often parents are unaware of what their child-athlete goes through. This series is going to invite you down to ground level to understand once and for all everything they experience so you can be on the same side as your child-athlete. It will change the way you view sports as a forum, and also change forever the way you support your son or daughter as they look to explore who they can be through the forum of sports. If you want to be able to create an entirely new experience for your child-athlete so they will let themselves use the sports environment to discover their greatness, then this video series is for you.
For coaches, we can fall victim to our own emotions, intensity, expectations and ego thus forgetting that the sports forum was meant to be a place of comfort for athletes to discover what they can actually become. At times coaches use fear tactics or punishment to inspire athletes to push themselves hard. However, one of the greatest coaches to ever coach in the NFL Dick Vermeil made me realize that the way to get every ounce out of a player is to understand them emotionally, empathize with their challenges, and make them feel invaluable so that they don’t want to let you down. Given Chris’ understanding of the psychological element of performance, the success he has had in his past coaching endeavors, and his track record of transforming the most unsure and insecure athletes in his private training environment, he is well aware of how to inspire greatness out of every athlete. If the objective for you as a coach is to have more success than ever before and provide an oasis where those under your watch play their best game possible, then this is the perfect video series for you. If you are a high school coach or below, then this video series is tailored for your success as a coach.
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You will be asked to fill out an assessment form online that details exactly what is taking place in your sports experience. Once delivered you will choose on the calendar a day and time to consult with Chris Thomas either via video or phone. Each consultation is one-hour long. You will need a copy of your assessment in front of you. The consultation will involve three stages: Reveal – listen to the parent or athlete reveal what is going on. Identify – after the revelation stage, together we will review your sheet. Chris will help the athlete or parent identify where he believes those feeling are coming from. Redefine – once we identify where those feelings are coming from, we are going to add a completely different definition to your experience so you can become this blank canvas on a path to take power back and control over your game moving forward. This will be followed up with a summary sheet of the consultation. Please allow for at least 24 hours between filling out the assessment and choosing a consultattion time. If you are an athlete under the age of 16, your parents must acknowledge authorization for you to consult with Chris Thomas without them present.
The video series is for anyone. Although it was created to speak directly to athletes, it is just as powerful for parents to view. Parents are a huge potential support source for their child-athlete. So,understanding everything about the mental game,and what athletes contend with emotionally, will change the way a parent supports their child-athlete. For a coach, it could allow you to coach the emotional, psychological and intellectual game.