Handouts

What builds confidence?—Understanding the four broad categories that build confidence can help guide conversations to help athletes return to sport with more confidence and the tools to respond to low-confidence situations.

Important for early in rehab.

How to talk to yourself to build confidence: Knowing what to say to yourself in moments of low confidence can be incredibly powerful.

For when confidence is starting to falter.

Worksheets

Best Performance—Reflecting on your best performance can validate abilities and confidence. By using your own performance, you can model after yourself to also build confidence and create a positive imagery script.

Best to be developed as the athlete builds more experience in rehab, and so they can reflect on the experience in hard time. Should also be re-visited to highlight new “best performance”

Pre-Performance Routines—Creating a pre-performance routine can build confidence before a performance by using a positive or motivational phrase. Routines can be practiced in rehab, so when return to play begins, it is natural and habitual.

When beginning sport specific movements, using routine to talk positively and confidently can be used to translate to return to sport more smoothly.

Building Confidence—Recognizing abilities and what people find great about you is very important to build confidence.

Confidence can falter at any point and in any of the phases of rehab. This worksheet can be used as many times as this happens, in order to recognize strengths and rebuild confidence.