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Dr. Christopher Stankovich, PCC, Founder of Advanced Human Performance Systems (www.drstankovich.com), offers sport-performance services based on research and applications borrowing from several inter-related fields of scientific study, including sport psychology, sport sociology, physical education, kinesiology, health and nutrition, and various additional related sport sciences.
Sport Performance Science encompasses holistic training and is not limited to mental and emotional “problems” athletes often experience. Instead, this contemporary, psychosocial approach to sport performance involves macro-training designed at improving team/school/organization culture, as well as smaller individual training needs, like helping an athlete with athletic performance or an off-field personal concern. A strong emphasis on life skills is present throughout all training programs and counseling relationships, with a special focus on the value and direct integration of athletic transferable skills.
Sport performance can be dramatically improved through science and education, and using sport performance training does not imply a person is mentally ill, in need of emergency help, or a “loser.” In today’s competitive sports world, the only way to stay ahead of the curve is to incorporate cutting-edge findings and applications from the field of Sport Performance Science!
The Optimal Performance System in Sports (TOPSS) All Advanced Human Performance Systems programming, including training seminars, professional consultation, and individual counseling, have been developed through TOPSS, a comprehensive model of athletic development previously featured in USA Today and The Journal of Academic Athletic Advisors. TOPSS, developed by Dr. Stankovich, consists of 4 inter-related, holistic dimensions of training:
- Peak athletic development training
- Life skills development
- Psychosocial assistance
- Career development
TOPSS helps athletes, coaches, and athletic programs:
- Learn scientifically proven mental training skills that will immediately increase athletic performance (i.e. goal setting, arousal control, relaxation skills, imagery, concentration and focus)
- Improve self-confidence, self-esteem, attitude, and motivation
- Increase and improve team cohesion, team culture, and communication skills
- Prevent and recover from injuries
- Address staleness, burnout, and over-training
- Protect against performance supplement use and abuse
- Teach coping skills to help with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, anger issues, and other prevalent mental health challenges and disorders that athletes commonly experience
- Teach stress inoculation skills to help with self-management and overall well being
- Identify and use athletic transferable skills and apply them to school, career, and life
SEMINARS & SERVICES OFFERED BY DR. STANKOVICH
- Community Parent Athletic Seminars. A sample of topics is provided below. Each seminar is delivered on-site in the community and approximately 1 hour in length.
- Understanding the realities of playing college and professional sports
- Signs of youth sports burnout and overtraining (and what to do)
- Clinical issues student athletes experience (eating disorders, performance anxiety, depression, etc.)
- The dangers of performance enhancing supplements
- Improving communication between you and the coach
- Developing a portfolio for your child to send to college coaches
- Sport specialization versus sport sampling (pros and cons)
- Helping student athletes identify and use athletic transferable skills
- Athletic Performance Enhancement (goal setting, focus, and concentration skills)
- Peak Performance for Coaches Seminar. This 90 minute on-site seminar teaches coaches about the critical contemporary issues in interscholastic sports, as well as how to continually develop a personal coaching philosophy. Coaches will learn how to help their student athletes play their best (and safely), while also learning how to apply athletic transferable skills to life. Coaches will also learn how to stage a pre-season meeting with parents, conduct themselves appropriately by using responsible boundaries when working with children, and develop communication and conflict resolution skills needed to work better with parents. The end result of this training seminar is a coaching staff better prepared to identify potential problems before they occur, while better managing their own stress levels so that they may enjoy coaching (currently we are experiencing coaching shortages nationwide).
- Leadership Seminars for Student Athlete Captains. This 2-hour seminar teaches student athletes the importance of their visibility to the school and community, as well as how they can use this status to effectively lead others.
- Peak Performance Seminar for Student Athletes. This hour long seminar teaches student athletes the basics of mental preparation as it applies to focus, goal setting, relaxing under pressure, confidence development, handling anger and adversity, and a number of other performance-related skills. This seminar also includes Excellence in Athletics Performance Cards.
- Athletic Department Crisis Intervention. I am available to assist school districts with issues related to athletics that may include, but are not limited to coach-student athlete boundary issues, coach rehabilitation services, and any other issue that might affect the health and safety of student athletes, coaches, and parents involved in interscholastic sports. See edcouncil.org for more information.
- Drug & Alcohol Assessment for Student Athletes who Violate School Code. Assistance provided to student athletes and their families, includes clinical assessment and report.
- Sport Performance Assessment (SPA) testing. Teams and/or entire athletic student athlete groups can be tested using this 50 question assessment tool designed by Dr. Stankovich that reveals student athletes strengths and weaknesses in focus, confidence, mental preparation, and other important aspects related to athletic performance.
LIFE ENHANCEMENT SEMINARS
- Changing Habits for Life Success. If you have ever had trouble stopping old, bad habits or beginning new, good habits then this seminar is for you. Changing Habits for Life Success incorporates both theory and applied tips and techniques designed to help you understand how habits develop, why they become automatic, and what you can do to immediately change your life for a better tomorrow! This seminar will help you:
- Understand the reasons why people develop habits (both good and bad)
- Learn how emotions impact habits like “emotional eating”
- Identify triggers that immediately impact subconscious thinking and behaviors
- Examine how human perception impacts habit development
- Develop realistic and lifelong personal game plans to help you start new, healthy habits while simultaneously eliminating old, unhealthy habits! )
- Optimal Balance. Do you feel as though you work too much, and as a result have very little time for yourself? Do you feel as though the rigors of life prohibit you from doing the things you love, like spending time with your family and friends? Do you feel as though all you do is go-go-go, and that you rarely get to invest time and energy toward the things in life that you like to do? Optimal Balance for Life Success will help you take control of your life, develop a lifestyle that you want, and as a result allow you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in life! This seminar will help you:
- Understand the physical, emotional, and cognitive effects of stress
- Learn how our unhealthy and destructive personal habits account for many of our personal problems, as well as how these problems play out through medical issues and concerns
- Learn about “Optimal Balance” and how this leads to a healthier and more productive lifestyle
- Identify and respond to both acute and chronic stress
- Develop healthy & effective coping mechanisms for stress
- Adapt to stress by understanding how perception, personal control, and change mediate the response process
- Ultimately use stress for success and turn life threats into healthy challenges, leading to improved health and greater personal productivity!
- Other Professional Consulting. I offer professional assistance in a number of additional ways, including training in the areas of wellness and productivity, athletic culture and philosophy, and leadership.
- Customized Seminars for Peak Performance. If you don't see a seminar above that fits your needs, together we can customize a presentation pertaining to athletics, business, life, leadership, health or wellness. Please contact us to discuss further.
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