IMG Academy+ Essentials Collection
BUILDING A
GROWTH MINDSET
IN YOUR ATHLETE
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20 min Interactive Workshop
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5 min Q&A
Help Your Athlete turn Setbacks into Lessons
Understand why a growth mindset matters for your athlete and how it can change how they face challenges and turn these moments into opportunities to learn and push themselves.
Foster a supportive environment
Emphasize Effort
Manage Emotions
Learn how to create a supportive environment to help your athlete develop a growth mindset.
Discover how to put effort at the center of your conversations by celebrating persistence and progress, not just results.
Develop a framework to handle your athlete's negative emotions and self-talk.
Foster a supportive environment
Learn how to create a supportive environment to help your athlete develop a growth mindset.
Emphasize Effort
Discover how to put effort at the center of your conversations by celebrating persistence and progress, not just results.
Manage Emotions
Develop a framework to handle your athlete's negative emotions and self-talk.
Take a Peek Inside the Workshop
Workshop Chapters
Reflect on your athletes ability to handle setbacks and create goals to develop a growth mindset.
Learn how an environment can develop or undermine a growth mindset within your athlete.
Understand how to shift the focus from outcomes and instead to effort.
Develop a framework to handle negative emotions and self-talk and how to turn it into "performance fuel".
Recap key takeaways from the workshop.
Dr. Derek Marr answers real questions from student-athletes. Don't see your question answered? Ask Dr. Marr directly in the community!
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.
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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.