The Coaches Mental Toughness and Peak Performance Training Package for Field Hockey

Field hockey demands composure, confidence, and rapid decision-making under pressure—yet even the most skilled players can tighten up mentally, shut down after mistakes, or underperform in big moments. For coaches, the challenge is clear: how do you train the mental game with the same precision and consistency as the physical and tactical?

For more than 40 years, Dr. Alan Goldberg has been a leading voice in helping athletes and coaches build mental toughness, overcome fear, and perform their best when it counts. Building on this foundation, Sara Vatore brings advanced expertise in nervous system regulation and somatic performance—giving coaches a deeper understanding of how athletes physiologically respond to pressure, frustration, and stress, and how your own body awareness and regulation can directly shape team culture and performance.

The Field Hockey Coaches Package gives you a complete framework for developing mentally strong, emotionally steady, and competition-ready players. You’ll learn how to coach athletes through mistakes, inconsistency, nerves, perfectionism, and adversity—and how to create a training environment that fosters trust, resilience, and high-level performance.

Whether your athletes crumble under pressure, play better in practice than in games, get stuck in slumps, or struggle with confidence after errors, this package gives you the tools to coach the mental side effectively and consistently—across the entire season.

What You’ll Learn

With the Field Hockey Coaches Package, you’ll learn how to:

Coach the Mental and Physiological Sides of Field Hockey

• Train players to manage nerves, pressure, and last-minute negative thinking
• Build mental toughness into daily practice, not just game day
• Understand the root causes of choking, inconsistency, and fear-based performance dips
• Help athletes stay focused and tactically present instead of spiraling after mistakes

Develop Confident, Resilient Competitors

• Strengthen players’ focus, emotional regulation, and competitive composure
• Coach athletes through frustration, perfectionism, fear, and confidence crashes
• Teach athletes to rebound quickly from missed shots, turnovers, or limited minutes
• Build the internal skills that create durable, long-term resilience

Communicate Like a High-Performance Coach

• Use language and timing that reinforce clarity, confidence, and forward focus
• Navigate athlete overwhelm, frustration, or shutdown with grounded leadership
• Manage your own nervous system so you model the calm you want in your players
• Work effectively with parents so they support, not sabotage, your mental training

Build a High-Trust, High-Consistency Team Culture

• Create a practice environment where athletes feel safe taking risks and learning
• Reduce team comparison, emotional reactivity, and pressure-based behavior
• Establish consistent mental routines that directly translate to competition
• Align athletes, coaches, and parents around what truly drives competitive excellence

The Bottom Line

The Field Hockey Coaches Package gives you a complete system for developing mentally tough, confident, and resilient athletes while strengthening your leadership and communication.

You’ll learn how to coach your players through pressure, frustration, mistakes, and big-game nerves with clarity and confidence. And you’ll gain the tools to build a team culture where athletes trust themselves, recover quickly, and perform freely when it matters most.

This is how you develop field hockey players who compete with courage, consistency, and composure—who love the game more because of it.

Though the products are not sport-specific, coaches in the field hockey community consistently report how transformative this system is—for performance, confidence, connection, and long-term athlete well-being.

What’s Included: Digital Version

Performing Like a Champion (Digital Audio Program & Printable PDF Workbook)

Dr. G’s core mental training program that explains how athletes think, feel, and behave under pressure—and teaches coaches how to help athletes remain calm, confident, and composed in high-stakes moments.

Sports Slump Busting (Printable PDF Book)

A pioneering book that helps athletes and coaches understand the principles of peak performance and how you can get them working for you. Readers will learn how to recognize and avoid mental traps and mistakes that lead to performance slumps and losing streaks, and develop the ability to stay calm under big competition pressure.

This Is Your Brain on Sports (Printable PDF Book)

A revolutionary book to understanding how repetitive performance blocks (slumps, choking, freezing, the yips) are rooted in unresolved sports upsets and offers breakthrough methods and tools to resolve them for good– giving coaches insight into what’s really going on for their athlete.

14 Steps to Mental Toughness (Digital Audio Program & Printable PDF Workbook)

A comprehensive mental toughness audio program loaded with mental toughness skills, exercises, and motivational stories to help coaches understand the cause of performance problems and how to help their athletes bust through slumps and learn what their athlete needs to do mentally in order to be a consistently tough competitor.

Parents & Coaches Guide to Winning at the Youth Sports Game (Digital Audio Program)

A coach-favorite. This program breaks down the most effective coaching communication strategies, the parent-coach dynamic, and how to create an environment where athletes can mentally thrive.

Getting Parents to Work With You, Not Against You (Printable PDF Book)

A practical guide for coaches to build healthy parent relationships, reduce conflict, increase buy-in, and reinforce peak performance behaviors at home.

What’s Included: Physical Version

Performing Like a Champion (Digital Audio Program & Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

Dr. G’s core mental training program that explains how athletes think, feel, and behave under pressure—and teaches coaches how to help athletes remain calm, confident, and composed in high-stakes moments.

Sports Slump Busting (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

A pioneering book that helps athletes and coaches understand the principles of peak performance and how you can get them working for you. Readers will learn how to recognize and avoid mental traps and mistakes that lead to performance slumps and losing streaks, and develop the ability to stay calm under big competition pressure.

This Is Your Brain on Sports (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

A revolutionary book to understanding how repetitive performance blocks (slumps, choking, freezing, the yips) are rooted in unresolved sports upsets and offers breakthrough methods and tools to resolve them for good– giving coaches insight into what’s really going on for their athlete.

14 Steps to Mental Toughness (Digital Audio Program & Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

A comprehensive mental toughness audio program loaded with mental toughness skills, exercises, and motivational stories to help coaches understand the cause of performance problems and how to help their athletes bust through slumps and learn what their athlete needs to do mentally in order to be a consistently tough competitor.

Parents & Coaches Guide to Winning at the Youth Sports Game (Digital Audio Program)

A coach-favorite. This program breaks down the most effective coaching communication strategies, the parent-coach dynamic, and how to create an environment where athletes can mentally thrive.

Getting Parents to Work With You, Not Against You (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

A practical guide for coaches to build healthy parent relationships, reduce conflict, increase buy-in, and reinforce peak performance behaviors at home.