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We’re changing the game.
Leveraging neuroscience to increase wins on and off the field
In teams Across Oklahoma, Coaches are navigating:
Challenging athlete behavior & attitudes
Athlete Eligibility And dropout issues
Lack of motivation among athletes
Diminished unity within the team
SOCIAL PRESSURE ON ATHLETES
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The challenges athletes face off the field–from anxiety and burnout to home and family instability–are having game-changing ramifications on the field.
Coaches can make a powerful difference in the lives of these athletes, but they need the right tools to do it.
Hope-Driven Coaching is here to help.
Our team has spent 30+ years in education and coaching, and now we’re teaching athletic directors and coaches to:
- Understand how the brain works, develops, changes and is impacted by developmental adversity—including trauma.
- Leverage neuroscience to build resilience and strengthen performance in coaches, players and teams.
- Assess and grow hope levels among athletes and staff.
- Help athletes become mentally regulated so they can play smarter
We can teach you, too.
Bring Hope-Driven Coaching to your team!
Training
Professional development, coaches clinics, online training & other educational events designed for coaches.
CONSULTING
Expert analysis, recommendations, implementation plan & support from our team.
SPEAKING
Presentations focused on leveraging neuroscience & implementing hope-driven practices in athletics.
The Science
Hope-Driven Coaching is anchored in the evidence-based, game-changing science of Dr. Chan Hellman, Founding Director of OU’s Hope Research Center, and the trauma repair research of Dr. Bruce Perry, developer of the Neurosequential Model.
Understanding the NEUROSCIENCE behind a young athlete’s development, behavior and performance—including the impacts of stress and trauma—leads to more effective coaching, training and performance.
Beyond grit or resilience, HOPE is the most consistent indicator of success in all the areas that touch our lives. When our most vulnerable youth have hope, they can overcome cycles of trauma. They can experience success in athletics, in relationships, in school and beyond.
Athletes with high hope:
Show higher levels of dedication, effort, reactivity and concentration
Experience fewer
negative emotions
Are less likely to experience burnout and performance slumps
Show higher levels of improved performance vs. athletes
motivated by anger
Have a higher capacity to handle stressful situations
Are more likely to succeed in school, graduate from high school and pursue higher education
Show higher levels of dedication, effort, reactivity and concentration
Show higher levels of improved performance vs. athletes motivated by anger
Are less likely to experience burnout and performance slumps
Are more likely to succeed in school, graduate from high school and pursue higher education
Experience fewer
negative emotions
Have a higher capacity to handle stressful situations
When coaches implement hope-driven, trauma-responsive strategies, everyone wins.
Meet The Team
Joe
Blankenship
Director
- 25 years of coaching experience with multiple championships
- 30+ years of working with at-risk students and families
- 35+ years as a teacher and speaker
- Relationships with/access to coaches across the state of Oklahoma and beyond
- Masters certification in the Neurosequential Model Sports Certified
- Training certification in the Science of Hope
Michelle
Stavros
Assistant Director
- 6 years of classroom experience at Union Public Schools
- Trained in trauma-responsive practices
- Trained in the Science of Hope
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Our Mission
To empower teams, athletes and coaches by leveraging hope-driven, trauma-responsive science.
HOPE-DRIVEN COACHING IS AN INITIATIVE OF HOPE RISING OKLAHOMA, FOUNDED BY OKLAHOMA FIRST LADY SARAH STITT AND OU HOPE RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDING DIRECTOR DR. CHAN HELLMAN.
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