Mental Toughness Workshop • WorkshopBank
Mental Toughness Workshop • WorkshopBank is a structured group exercise for closure and transfer: it helps participants close the session and carry learning into the next action.
How to run it
- Goal: Surface the ways participants limit themselves and establish honest self-reflection as the foundation for the session.
- Welcome the group and explain that this workshop is about discovering you have more in the tank than you think. It's not about becoming an elite athlete; it's about learning to push past the mental barriers that keep you operating at 40% of your potential.
- Ask everyone to stand. Explain that you're going to ask a series of questions, and if the answer is yes, they should raise their hand and keep it raised until you say to lower it.
- Ask: "Raise your hand if you've ever quit something before you absolutely had to." (Almost everyone will raise their hand. Let them see they're not alone.)
- Ask: "Keep your hand up if you've done this in the last month." (Hands stay up or go down.)
- Ask: "Keep your hand up if you did this in the last week." (More hands may drop.)
- Have everyone lower their hands and sit down. Ask participants to take 2 minutes to write down one specific example of when they quit something before they had to. What was the voice in their head telling them at the time?
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Welcome the group and explain that this workshop is about discovering you have more in the tank than you think. It's not about becoming an elite athlete; it's about learning to push past the mental barriers that keep you operating at 40% of your potential.
Ask everyone to stand. Explain that you're going to ask a series of questions, and if the answer is yes, they should raise their hand and keep it raised until you say to lower it.
Ask: "Raise your hand if you've ever quit something before you absolutely had to." (Almost everyone will raise their hand. Let them see they're not alone.)
Ask: "Keep your hand up if you've done this in the last month." (Hands stay up or go down.)
Ask: "Keep your hand up if you did this in the last week." (More hands may drop.)
Have everyone lower their hands and sit down. Ask participants to take 2 minutes to write down one specific example of when they quit something before they had to. What was the voice in their head telling them at the time?
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Mental Toughness Workshop • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Welcome the group and explain that this workshop is about discovering you have more in the tank than you think. It's not about becoming an elite athlete; it's about learning to push past the mental barriers that keep you operating at 40% of your potential.; Ask everyone to stand. Explain that you're going to ask a series of questions, and if the answer is yes, they should raise their hand and keep it raised until you say to lower it.; Ask: "Raise your hand if you've ever quit something before you absolutely had to." (Almost everyone will raise their hand. Let them see they're not alone.); Ask: "Keep your hand up if you've done this in the last month." (Hands stay up or go down.). Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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