IMG Academy+ Essentials Collection

CREATING A
RESILIENT ATHLETE

  • 20 min Interactive Workshop
  • 5 min Q&A

FOSTER A RESILIENT ENVIRONMENT

Discover how resilience isn't a fixed trait and how to foster it within your student athlete. Learn how to build a challenge mindset and create a facilitative environment balancing both challenge and support.

Attributes in resilience

Facilitative Environment

Challenge Mindset

Learn how personal qualities, a facilitative environment, and a challenge mindset all play a role in resilience.

Discover how to balance both challenge and support to build lasting resilience in your student athlete.

Teach your student athlete to see pressure and adversity as opportunities for growth, not threats to avoid.

Attributes in resilience

Learn how personal qualities, a facilitative environment, and a challenge mindset all play a role in resilience.

Facilitative Environment

Discover how to balance both challenge and support to build lasting resilience in your student athlete.

Challenge Mindset

Teach your student athlete to see pressure and adversity as opportunities for growth, not threats to avoid.

Take a Peek Inside the Workshop

Workshop Chapters

Start with a shared understanding of what resilience really is.

Discover the Resilience Training Framework and the three factors that impact an athlete’s ability to develop resilience.

Learn to create a thoughtful balance of challenge and support for your student athlete.

Understand the importance of a challenge mindset and how to introduce strategies to activate it.

Recap key takeaways from the workshop.

Dr. Marr answers real questions from student-athletes. Don't see your question answered? Ask Dr. Marr directly in the community!

Start Workshop

Meet your coach

Dr. Derek Marr

Mental Performance Coach

Dr. Derek Marr is a Certified Mental Performance Coach with over 16 years of experience in sport psychology and coaching. He holds a Doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri and currently leads the Applied Sport Psychology graduate program at Northern Michigan University.

Dr. Marr has coached at all levels, from high school champions in Michigan to college teams at Baylor and Missouri. His athletes have earned over 50 NCAA All-American honors and multiple national titles.

He’s passionate about helping athletes build a winning mindset on and off the field. Dr. Marr lives in Marquette, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.

are you ready to get started?

Start Workshop

Frequently Asked Questions

If you don’t want to continue, you can cancel your membership renewal through your account page. Follow the prompts to cancel on the Billing page, and your membership will not renew. If you have more questions, contact us. We’re happy to help!

We’re confident you’re going to love your experience! However, if upon the conclusion of any course, you’ve found your experience was less than desirable, we’d be happy to provide you with a full refund.

In the course community, you can interact with other student- athletes and the coach facilitator in real time. However, the course lessons and workshops are not live. We know student-athletes are always stretched for time, so we want to ensure that everyone can learn at their own pace and on their own schedule. Stay tuned for some live programming coming soon for those interested!

Through IMG Academy+ Essentials, you will have access to IMG Academy+ Coaches through the course community and learning experiences. Customers who purchase 1:1 coaching will have access to their own private coach.

Still have questions?

Contact Us