Self-Talk in Sport

Young athletes aged 8–18 who experience negative internal dialogue during competition, who want to build more consistent mental focus, or who are ready to deliberately develop their self-talk as a performance skill.

Covers the science of self-talk, instructional and motivational functions, identifying and reframing negative patterns, building cue word systems, pre-performance scripts, and in-competition self-talk management.

You will have a personalised self-talk system for competition, know how to interrupt negative internal dialogue, and understand how to use specific cue words to direct attention and manage pressure in the moment.

Based on Hatzigeorgiadis's self-talk research. Designed to work alongside the Managing Pressure and In-Competition Focus guides, as self-talk is the language through which all other mental skills are applied.