Building Resilient Athletes Across All Sports
The Resilient Athlete is a multi-sport education program designed to help athletes, parents, and coaches build healthier perspectives, stronger relationships, and better sport environments.
Whether the athlete plays hockey, soccer, football, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, golf, ringette, swimming, track, or another sport, the same core skills are required: discipline, focus, mindset, attitude, communication, expectations, empathy, and resilience.
Through live presentations, online learning, parent education, coach education, private community spaces, and Habit Builder tools, the program helps sport communities develop the human skills that shape both wellness and performance.
Athletes Need More Than Skill Development
Across every sport, athletes are asked to perform, compete, manage pressure, respond to mistakes, accept feedback, communicate with coaches, handle expectations, and stay confident through adversity.
But these skills are often expected before they are taught. The Resilient Athlete gives athletes, parents, and coaches a shared language for building resilience, discipline, focus, communication, empathy, and accountability.
The goal is not only to create better athletes. The goal is to create healthier sport experiences where athletes can grow, compete, learn, and thrive.
Supporting the Whole Athlete Environment
A healthy sport experience is shaped by everyone around the athlete. The Resilient Athlete supports the three groups that have the greatest impact on development: athletes, parents, and coaches.
Athletes
Athletes learn how to build resilience, improve focus, develop discipline, manage attitude, communicate effectively, and take accountability for their growth.
Parents
Parents learn how expectations, stress, communication, and support directly influence the athlete experience, regardless of the sport their child plays.
Coaches
Coaches learn how to model discipline, communicate clearly, build trust, create healthy expectations, and support stronger team and individual sport cultures.
The 7 Core Principles
The Resilient Athlete teaches the personal and relational skills that shape wellness, culture and performance across all sports.
1. Discipline
Building habits, preparation, responsibility, and follow-through.
2. Focus
Learning how to direct attention to what matters most.
3. Mindset
Developing a healthier response to pressure, mistakes, feedback, and adversity.
4. Attitude
Understanding that attitude affects effort, body language, and team energy.
5. Communication
Building trust through clarity, honesty, listening, respect, and emotional awareness.
6. Expectations
Creating shared understanding around roles, standards, support, and success.
7. Empathy
Understanding the experience, pressure, and emotions of others.
How the Program Works
A simple, proven framework that combines live learning, guided conversation, online education, private community spaces, and accountability tools.
Live Seminars
Interactive sessions for athletes, parents and coaches.
Guided Conversations
Open discussion that builds awareness, alignment and shared understanding.
Team Builders
Activities that strengthen trust, connection and accountability.
Online Learning
Self-directed lessons that reinforce the core message.
Private Team Areas
A dedicated space for content, communication, meeting links, resources and follow-up.
Habit Builder
Practical accountability tools that support behaviour change and personal development.
Meet the Team Behind The Resilient Athlete
The Resilient Athlete is delivered by a team that understands sport from multiple angles: professional athletics, coaching, mental health, social work, player development, parent education, leadership, and lived experience.
Bob Wilkie
Bob brings lived experience, coaching insight, and a passion for educating athletes, parents, and coaches about wellness, culture, and performance across sport.
Cory Clouston
Cory helps athletes and coaches understand discipline, standards, accountability, leadership, communication, and the daily behaviours that shape culture and performance.
Dino Kambeitz
Dino connects with athletes about pressure, resilience, preparation, identity, accountability, and what it takes to keep growing through challenge.
Sarah Weninger
Sarah helps athletes and parents explore confidence, expectations, communication, identity, and the emotional experience that can come with competitive sport.
Shawn O'Grady
Shawn helps athletes, parents, and coaches better understand stress, emotional wellness, communication, and safer, healthier sport environments.
Choose the Right Package for Your Team
The Resilient Athlete packages are designed to meet sport organizations where they are. Whether your club, team, school, academy, or association is introducing mindset education to younger athletes or building a deeper performance culture with older athletes, each package provides structured education for the people who shape the athlete experience.
Start the conversation early.
For younger athletes, new sport families, and parents who are just beginning to understand their role in the sport environment.
- 4 live presentations
- October to January delivery
- Players and parents learn together
- Access to the IGM Community Space (parents, coaches and athletes)
- 2 parent courses for younger parents who are new to sport parenting
- 2 parent support meetings to reinforce course learning
- 4 total program hours
Build the foundation.
An entry-level development package for U13 teams that introduces athletes and coaches to the core principles of discipline, focus, mindset, communication, expectations, and accountability.
- 2 live presentations
- October to February delivery
- 3 online player presentations
- 1 player online course
- Access to the IGM Community Space (parents, coaches and athletes)
- 1 Habit Builder
- 1 coach education course
- 8 total program hours
- Parent education available as an optional add-on
Develop the habits.
A deeper development package for U13 to U15 teams focused on education, community access, accountability, and consistent behaviour change.
- 2 live presentations
- October to February delivery
- 4 online player presentations
- 1 player online course
- Access to the IGM Community Space (parents, coaches and athletes)
- 2 Habit Builders
- 1 coach education course
- 10 total program hours
- Parent education available as an optional add-on
Strengthen leadership and performance.
A comprehensive development package for U15 and older athletes focused on resilience, leadership, communication, accountability, and performance culture.
- 2 live presentations
- October to February delivery
- 5 online player presentations
- 2 player online courses
- Access to the IGM Community Space (parents, coaches and athletes)
- 2 Habit Builders
- 1 coach education course and support
- 14 total program hours
- Parent education available as an optional add-on
Parent Education Add-On
Parent education can be added to Bronze, Silver, or Gold packages, or delivered as a standalone option for sport organizations that want to better support families.
2-Course Parent Package
Includes 2 parent education courses, 2 parent meetings, and access to a private parent space.
1-Course Parent Package
Includes 1 parent education course, 1 parent meeting, and access to a private parent space.
Parent Learning Focus
Helps parents understand expectations, communication, emotional regulation, stress, sideline behaviour, and how to support the athlete without adding unnecessary pressure.
What Your Organization Will Gain
More Resilient Athletes
Athletes become more self-aware, disciplined, focused, and accountable.
Healthier Expectations
Parents, coaches, and athletes build a clearer understanding of support, standards, and success.
Better Sport Culture
Teams, clubs, schools, and sport organizations develop stronger communication, empathy, connection, and shared language.
Stronger Long-Term Impact
Athletes build life skills that translate to school, life, and future opportunities.
Schedule a Discovery Call
Choose a time that works for you to discuss how The Resilient Athlete can support your team, club, school, academy, association, or sport organization.
