Build Resilient Athletes. Support Better Sport Experiences.
The Resilient Athlete is an education program designed to build healthier perspectives, stronger relationships, and better sport environments.
Through live presentations, online learning, parent education, coach education, private community spaces, and Habit Builder tools, the program helps teams develop the skills that shape both wellness and performance.
Athletes Need More Than Skill Development
Young athletes are often expected to manage pressure, mistakes, feedback, competition, emotions, relationships, and expectations before they have been taught how.
The Resilient Athlete creates a shared language for everyone involved in the athlete experience. Athletes learn how to take ownership of their mindset, attitude, focus, and discipline. Parents learn how to support without adding pressure. Coaches learn how to create environments built on trust, communication, accountability, and empathy.
Supporting the Whole Athlete Environment
A healthy sport experience is shaped by everyone around the athlete. The program educates athletes, parents and coaches so the message is aligned, practical and consistent.
Athletes
Build resilience, improve focus, develop discipline, manage attitude, communicate effectively, and take accountability for growth.
Parents
Understand how expectations, stress, communication, and support directly influence the athlete experience.
Coaches
Model discipline, communicate clearly, build trust, create healthy expectations, and support a stronger team culture.
The 7 Core Principles
The Resilient Athlete teaches the personal and relational skills that shape wellness, culture and performance.
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. Stronger athletes. Stronger teams. Stronger futures.
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 online 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 the athlete experience from multiple angles: professional sport, coaching, mental health, social work, player development, and lived experience.
Bob Wilkie
Bob is the founder of I Got Mind and a former professional hockey player whose own journey through pressure, trauma, expectations, and healing shaped the mission of the organization. He brings lived experience, coaching insight, and a passion for educating athletes, parents, and coaches about wellness, culture, and performance.
Cory Clouston
Cory brings decades of coaching experience from junior, professional, and international hockey. His background includes coaching in the NHL, AHL, WHL, and Hockey Canada’s national team program. He helps athletes and coaches understand discipline, standards, accountability, leadership, and team culture.
Dino Kambeitz
Dino brings the current-player perspective to the program. His experience through elite development, junior hockey, and professional hockey allows him to connect with athletes about pressure, resilience, preparation, identity, accountability, and what it takes to keep growing through challenge.
Sarah Weninger
Sarah brings a strong athlete-development and social-work lens to the program. As a former women’s hockey athlete and I Got Mind facilitator, she helps athletes and parents explore confidence, expectations, communication, identity, and the emotional experience that can come with competitive sport.
Shawn O’Grady
Shawn brings clinical knowledge and facilitation experience to the program. His work helps athletes, parents, and coaches better understand stress, emotional wellness, communication, and the skills required to create safer, healthier, and more supportive sport environments.
Choose the Right Package for Your Team
The Resilient Athlete packages are designed to meet teams where they are. Whether your organization is introducing mindset education to younger athletes or building a deeper performance culture with older teams, 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
- Private community space for players and parents
- 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
- Private community space for players and coaches
- 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 player online meetings
- 1 player online course
- Private community space for players and coaches
- 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 player online meetings
- 2 player online courses
- Private community space for players and coaches
- 2 Habit Builders
- 1 coach education course and support
- 14 total program hours
- Parent education available as an optional add-on
Package Comparison
| Package | Best For | Live Presentations | Online Meetings | Online Presentations | Player Courses | Coach Education | Community Space | Habit Builder | Total Hours | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U11 Learn to Program | U11 | 4 | 4 live meetings | 0 | 0 | Not listed | Players + parents together | Not listed | 4 hours | $200 per player/family |
| Bronze | U13 | 2 | 5 player online meetings | 3 | 1 | 1 course | Players + coaches only | 1 | 8 hours | $196.05 per player |
| Silver | U13–U15 | 2 | 5 player online meetings | 4 | 1 | 1 course | Players + coaches only | 2 | 10 hours | $259.21 per player |
| Gold | U15+ | 2 | 5 player online meetings | 5 | 2 | 1 course + support | Players + coaches only | 2 | 14 hours | $322.37 per player |
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 Team Culture
Teams develop stronger communication, empathy, connection, and shared language.
Bring The Resilient Athlete to Your Organization
If your organization wants to support athlete wellness, educate parents, develop coaches, improve communication, and create a healthier sport culture, The Resilient Athlete provides a practical and meaningful place to start.
Schedule a Discovery Call
Choose a time that works for you to discuss how The Resilient Athlete can support your team, club, school, or sport organization.
