A Professional Development Workshop Series for Coaches by Tennis Europe in collaboration with Vodar

Today's players need more than technical instruction. They need coaches who can develop confidence, resilience, focus, emotional regulation, and self-awareness alongside their tennis skills.

The Coaching Beyond Technique: The Mental Game workshop series invites coaches to expand their professional role and leadership capacity, enabling them to deliver mental training with the same confidence and structure as technical coaching.

This program provides a unique opportunity to upgrade your coaching toolkit, strengthen your impact on player development, and position yourself as a coach who can support both performance and wellbeing.

At the same time, participants receive a practical, plug-and-play methodology for training junior athletes aged 9–17, along with a comprehensive library of age-specific drills, exercises, and coaching tools that can be implemented immediately on court and provide enough content for an entire year of mental skills training.

Workshop Outcomes

By the end of the series, coaches will:

• Transition from reactive coaching ("fixing mistakes") to proactive coaching ("building mental capacity")

• Gain confidence in delivering mental training on court

• Learn a practical methodology that can be implemented immediately

• Acquire a unique professional advantage by becoming dual-domain coaches

• Learn how to build players who are not only technically capable, but also confident, adaptable, self-aware, and emotionally resilient competitors

• Learn how to address fear of failure and perfectionistic tendencies that limit player development

• Get tools that help to increase player ownership, accountability, and intrinsic motivation

• Know how to manage common parent-player-coach challenges through better communication and alignment

• Leave with a complete set of practical tools and drills ready for use with players aged 9–17

• Access a Full-Year Mental Training Curriculum

FULL WORKSHOP PASS INCLUDES

• Full Access to All Three Workshops (see detailed program below)

• Workshop Recordings

• Three Practical Workbooks (100+ pages of ready-to-use content)

• Certificate of Completion

• Exclusive Vodar App Access

• Bonus Resources

WORKSHOPS PROGRAM

🎾 Workshop 1 

“Mental Coaching as a Core Coaching Skill”

📅 Date: 18 June

🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CET

💻 Format: Online via the Confiva Platform

Highlights:

• From Technique Coach to Performance Leader: Expand your role to influence not just how players hit, but how they think and respond. Mental coaching is no longer optional and we’ll explore how it fits naturally into everyday tennis coaching.

• Core Mental Skills in Junior Development: Learn how to train focus, resilience, emotional control, confidence - how these skills evolve across ages 9–17, and how to align your coaching with stages of brain development for maximum effectiveness.

• Breaking the “Mental Coaching Is Complex” Myth: Realize that effective mental coaching can be simple, structured, and practical and understand how to embed mental training into existing sessions without adding extra time or complexity.

• Clear Language for Mental Coaching: Learn how to communicate mental concepts in a way players actually understand.

🎾 Workshop 2 

“Planning and Applying Mental Coaching Throughout the Year”

📅 Date: 25 June

🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CET

💻 Format: Online via the Confiva Platform

Highlights:

• Annual to Monthly Mental Planning: Learn how to structure and adapt mental coaching across annual, quarterly, and monthly cycles to support consistent athlete development.

• Mental Skills Periodization: Understand how junior athletes progress from basic awareness to independent mental skill use, and how to guide that progression systematically.

• Aligning with the Training Calendar: Discover how to integrate mental skill development into pre-season, competition, and transition phases for maximum impact and relevance.

• Simple Monitoring & Progress Tracking: Apply practical tools to assess mental readiness, observe behavioral changes, and track development over time without complexity and in alignment with players’ parents.

🎾 Workshop 3 

“Practical Drills and Tools for Each Age Group and Mental Challenge”

📅 Date: 01 July

🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CET

💻 Format: Online via the Confiva Platform

Highlights:

• Age-Specific Mental Drill Library (9–17): Learn a structured set of plug-and-play drills tailored to different developmental stages, from foundational awareness to competitive mental autonomy.

• Targeting Key Mental Challenges in Tennis: Discover practical exercises to train focus, resilience, emotional control, and confidence in real training situations, not theory.

• Seamless On-Court Integration: Understand how to embed mental drills directly into existing tennis sessions without disrupting technical or physical training flow.

• From Simple Tools to Full Training System: Gain a complete, ready-to-use methodology that allows coaches to deliver a full year of mental training through structured, repeatable exercises.

Ticket name: 

SINGLE WORKSHOP PASS (WORKSHOP 1 / 18th of June)

🎾 Workshop 1 “Mental Coaching as a Core Coaching Skill”

📅 Date: 18 June

🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CET

💻 Format: Online via the Confiva Platform

Highlights:

• From Technique Coach to Performance Leader: Expand your role to influence not just how players hit, but how they think and respond. Mental coaching is no longer optional and we’ll explore how it fits naturally into everyday tennis coaching.

• Core Mental Skills in Junior Development: Learn how to train focus, resilience, emotional control, confidence - how these skills evolve across ages 9–17, and how to align your coaching with stages of brain development for maximum effectiveness.

• Breaking the “Mental Coaching Is Complex” Myth: Realize that effective mental coaching can be simple, structured, and practical and understand how to embed mental training into existing sessions without adding extra time or complexity.

• Clear Language for Mental Coaching: Learn how to communicate mental concepts in a way players actually understand.

SINGLE WORKSHOP PASS INCLUDES

• Access to Workshop 1

• Workshop Recording

• Practical Workbook (30+ pages of ready-to-use content)

• Exclusive Vodar App Access

Ticket name: 

SINGLE WORKSHOP PASS (WORKSHOP 2 / 25th of June)

🎾 Workshop 2 “Planning and Applying Mental Coaching Throughout the Year”

📅 Date: 25 June

🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CET

💻 Format: Online via the Confiva Platform

Highlights:

• Annual to Monthly Mental Planning: Learn how to structure and adapt mental coaching across annual, quarterly, and monthly cycles to support consistent athlete development.

• Mental Skills Periodization: Understand how junior athletes progress from basic awareness to independent mental skill use, and how to guide that progression systematically.

• Aligning with the Training Calendar: Discover how to integrate mental skill development into pre-season, competition, and transition phases for maximum impact and relevance.

• Simple Monitoring & Progress Tracking: Apply practical tools to assess mental readiness, observe behavioral changes, and track development over time without complexity and in alignment with players’ parents.

SINGLE WORKSHOP PASS INCLUDES

• Access to Workshop 2

• Workshop Recording

• Practical Workbook (30+ pages of ready-to-use content)

• Exclusive Vodar App Access

Ticket name: 

SINGLE WORKSHOP PASS (WORKSHOP 3 / 1st of July)

🎾 Workshop 3 “Practical Drills and Tools for Each Age Group and Mental Challenge”

📅 Date: 01 July

🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CET

💻 Format: Online via the Confiva Platform

Highlights:

• Age-Specific Mental Drill Library (9–17): Learn a structured set of plug-and-play drills tailored to different developmental stages, from foundational awareness to competitive mental autonomy.

• Targeting Key Mental Challenges in Tennis: Discover practical exercises to train focus, resilience, emotional control, and confidence in real training situations, not theory.

• Seamless On-Court Integration: Understand how to embed mental drills directly into existing tennis sessions without disrupting technical or physical training flow.

• From Simple Tools to Full Training System: Gain a complete, ready-to-use methodology that allows coaches to deliver a full year of mental training through structured, repeatable exercises.

SINGLE WORKSHOP PASS INCLUDES

• Access to Workshop 3

• Workshop Recording

• Practical Workbook (30+ pages of ready-to-use content)

• Exclusive Vodar App Access