Things to Know About Mindful Cricket
Our Founder
Mindful Cricket is the creation of Graham Winter, a former First Class Cricketer, three-times Chief Psychologist for the Australian Olympic Team, and Consultant to the ICC Academy Global Level 3 Coaches Program. Graham is also the best selling author of Think One Team and founder of management consultancy Think One Team Consulting (www.thinkoneteam.com).
The Core
The Mindful Cricket Book and Workbook are our core products.
They introduce and fully explain the Game Mindset formula (Clear Mind; Play Brave; Play Clever; Play Better) which underpins all our resources, coaching and services.
Game Mindset was created by studying the 'mindset enemies' of cricketers that take away fun and success, and instead create frustration and disappointment. Those enemies include distraction, fear of failure and overthinking.
Cricket Brains
A group of experienced cricket coaches provided feedback and advice as we built the Mindful Cricket method. It's not possible to recognise them all here but they included Ashley Ross, Head Coach ICC Academy for many years, Greg Shipperd, championship winning Coach Sydney Sixers BBL franchise, Tom Jones, founder of the UK-based Coaching 365 platform, Shaun Siegert, High Performance Program Lead for Root Academy, Associate Professor Ian Renshaw from QUT, and Tharaka Samaratunga, High Performance Coach Educator, Sri Lanka Cricket.
Transforming Cricket Coaching
We developed and tested our method with the Root Academy High Performance Program, which gave us feedback from players and coaches from all around the cricketing world.
Based on that experience and the input from leading thinkers, we believe that cricket and cricket coaching is on the cusp of a major, and overdue transformation.
Leading coaches and players want more than conventional net practice methods, so we've been testing coaching tools and approaches which bring leading edge thinking in agile learning, adaptive leadership and performance psychology.
Those methods continue to be refined and applied within Clubs, Schools and Academies across the cricketing world.
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