Gold Medal Mental Toughness for Athletes

How to conduct a powerful first session with your sports hypnosis client.

This presentation introduces the use of a tool called the Mental Toughness Assessment for Athletes in order to show participants a way to develop rapid rapport and trust with a new client, develop themes that help the client articulate the problem more easily, and assist with a variety of successful changes during the first hypnosis session.

A case study will be presented from start to finish allowing time for discussion and questions after segments throughout. Participants will receive a code that will provide them with access to the Mental Toughness Assessment to be used with their sports hypnosis clients. The video demonstration includes conversational hypnosis as well as a formal hypnosis session.

Joni Johnston Neidigh is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida and has been in private practice for over 30 years. Joni is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotist and ICBCH Trainer who specializes in athletic performance. She has mentored and hypnotized individual athletes, coaches, and teams from age-group to Olympians and professionals. She is best known for her extensive experience traveling to deliver her signature “team talks” about the power of the mind. Joni works with sports teams, corporate events, conferences and coaches’ clinics. She has hosted international coaches and teams including Spain, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Scotland, Canada, and more. Joni is an award-winning hypnotherapist and psychotherapist and an international best-selling author and has written several books including her AIM Gold Medal Mental Toughness Success Guides, Anger and Violence Intervention Program Guide, Empowered Women in Business, and Gold Medal Sports Hypnosis Certification Practitioner’s Guide. She shares her passion with other hypnotists and clinicians through her Gold Medal Mental Toughness Sports Hypnosis Certification training program which is offered on-line and live at selected conferences. Joni teaches an inner coaching model that involves working with athletes over sessions, seasons, and sometimes careers. In addition to sports Joni is certified by the National Association of Forensic Counselors as a Domestic Violence Counselor. She pioneered the Anger and Violence Intervention Program which has been a successful group program for over 30 years. Recently, she has structured this program so that hypnotists and hypnotherapists can successfully use the program and guide. Joni believes in creating a meaningful, personalized approach for all clients, athletes, teams and corporations to help them reach their specific goals.