Training / coaching / Speaking

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

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:

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

Michelle

Stavros

Assistant Director

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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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