Empowering Excellence

While supporting the Men’s Open squad at the World Cup last week, I also had the pleasure of co-leading the performance psychology program alongside ! It has been an amazing journey leading the programme with Hanna over the last year and seeing our efforts come to fruition last week!

It was a fantastic experience to lead a team of incredible psychologists throughout the campaign and into World Cup week. Everyone did an outstanding job, and I’m immensely proud of the service we provided to all the England squads. I truly believe our efforts made a difference in some incredibly close games!

Here’s to the next four years👀

The 3 week countdown is on to the Touch World Cup🔥

Final preparations happening over the next few weeks then we’re all set to gooo🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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✨New Clinic Date✨

Following the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our first clinic we have decided to run another date!

This time it will all be focused on preparing for competition. The day will include both ridden sessions and psychology sessions designed to help you and your horse be ready to go and smash your next competition and be super confident!

Date: 3rd May
Location: Prior Norton (Nr Gloucester)

DM now to find out more details! Be quick as spots will fill up quickly⭐️

Can’t wait for another amazing year supporting The Cotswold Cup⭐️

2 spots left!!

Who’s interested?? 👀

Myself and Becca from Empowering Excellence are teaming up to bring you a training day which encompasses the physical and mental aspects of riding- leisure or competition.

The day will include two group ridden sessions with me and two sessions with Becca. The first session with Becca will be in small groups, and the second session in private.

📍 Priors Norton (my base)

Numbers will be limited to ensure everyone gets the most out of it!

Please message me or comment below if you’d like to get your name down for more info and details.

This is exciting! Get in touch ASAP if you’re interested!

Who’s interested?? 👀

Myself and Becca from Empowering Excellence are teaming up to bring you a training day which encompasses the physical and mental aspects of riding- leisure or competition.

The day will include two group ridden sessions with me and two sessions with Becca. The first session with Becca will be in small groups, and the second session in private.

📍 Priors Norton (my base)

Numbers will be limited to ensure everyone gets the most out of it!

Please message me or comment below if you’d like to get your name down for more info and details.

New year, new goals??

We only have limited spots available for new clients in January - head to the link in our bio if you’d like to access our 30-minute free consultation call and hear how we could help you excel this year🙌

And just like that, the State Cup is complete and my two weeks with these boys is up.

Being able to travel the world with a special team like this and call it work is something I will never take for granted. A huge amount of learning for both myself and for us a group and I cannot wait to see what we can achieve in the next 8 months leading to a home World Cup.

For now a final 3 day stay in Sydney to relax and refresh and then ready to hit the ground running again with all clients when I land back in the UK!

Super excited for this with Ellie Townend Eventing ⭐️

Exciting day in the diary! Please WhatsApp 07472694324 to book .eventing_

A wonderful evening!🤩

Get ready for a day of empowerment and growth at our Confidence Day Camp! 🌟 Join us for on-horse sessions, mindset activities, and rider mobility exercises. Let’s boost your confidence and conquer your winter training goals! 🏇💪 Secure your spot for £85, don’t wait too long as spaces are very limited!🌟

Join us at the RA Therapy & Empowering Excellence Day Camp for a blend of mind, body, and horse sessions! 🌟 This won’t be one to be missed! Stay tuned for more details!

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve become joint lead of the performance psychology programme alongside the wonderful

I know how lucky I am to be offered this role so early on in my career and I am so excited to be able to work with a group of talented and passionate psychologists. With a World Cup next year it’s such an exciting time to be a part of this organisation and I can’t wait to grow the programme alongside continued support for .

I don’t doubt there will be challenges along the way but I am so passionate about this organisation and I can’t wait to make this role our own and I’m sure learning a lot along the way! Here’s to the next 10 months 💪🏼

[Shared with permission from the client]

I absolutely love working with youth clients and seeing their confidence flourish and Raff has been no exception. It’s been especially brilliant to be able to go along and see them compete on occasion as well!

Hearing all about how they’ve got on at competitions and how much his confidence has grown has truly been amazing! I can’t wait to see how they get on for the rest of the season and next season🙏

Recently, I collaborated with the wonderful .equinecopywriting to bring you some exciting blog content!

This first blog is all about how to handle your nerves out competing complete with a bunch of tips and strategies you can take to your next competition! Make sure to head over to my website to give it a read.

If you want to grow your blog content and share more information to more people, definitely drop Phoebe a message! She has been a dream to work with! Another blog coming soon👀

I’m really interested in partnering up with gyms, either for providing psychoeducation on exercise or looking at add a unique service if you have a performance focus.
Please DM me if interested or know of anyone who is!

Not one to be missed!

The very wonderful Becca of Empowering Excellence (one of our fabulous Series Sponsors) is running an exclusive workshop on Thursday 21st September at 8pm to help you prepare for our Championships 🏆

The online session will cover everything from pre-competition nerves & the tools to use when things aren’t quite going how you’d like them to, to how to focus your mind during each individual phase to make sure you maximise your performance in them all!

It’s completely free to sign up - all you have to do is follow this link 👉🏻 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2kpDznjzNPr_JkGt2aRaybQldiwIE-MzPgXPks7i9QSnzkw/viewform?usp=sf_link

As a sports psychologist AND equestrian competitor herself, Becca is very well placed to help us eventers make the very best of every minute we spend in the saddle! We can’t wait for this workshop and hope lots of you will join us there!

(While it’s specifically designed for those competing with us at Cirencester, it really is applicable to everyone who events!)

I am super excited to be joining and Element Six at their Women in Sport and Business Conference. To be asked to speak alongside some hugely inspiring Women is a true honour and I equally can’t wait to learn a lot from their talks.

I’ll be talking all about developing a high performance mindset and what that can look like for each individual.

If you want to spend a day listening to some truly wonderful women from Sport and Business then this conference is for you. Drop me a DM if you’d like to find out more about how to purchase tickets!

Due to making a (very exciting) move into working in Sport and Exercise Psychology full time next week, I now have capacity to take on more clients!

I am beyond excited to see what we can achieve at EE with a full focus on the business. I can’t wait to continue to bring new clients on board and support them in their sporting journeys.

If you think you, or others would benefit from hearing about how I could support you, please do not hesitate to get in touch. I also have many client testimonials to share if required.

European Champions 2023🥇

An absolutely brilliant week with a really special group. This team has grown so much the last 12 months, it’s incredible to be able to support them. I cannot wait to see what we can do this year💪🏼

Let’s chat about goals…

At the start of 2023 I had some big aspirations for both my business and my personal life. Whilst growing and working on a new business is so important, I’m a big believer in also having time and energy to put into the activities you love.

I’m incredibly proud of the business Empowering Excellence is becoming. We have new clients joining every week and so many exciting consultancy collaborations in the works for the rest of the year. It’s so important to celebrate these successes and look where you’ve come from as well as then planning for the future.

My personal goals outside of work haven’t gone quite to plan however. Due to various factors, including a knee injury which may yet need surgery🤦‍♀️, I’ve played a grand total of about 2 days of touch and not been able to get Molly, our baby pony, out anywhere near as much as I would have liked! Even small things like not being able to train in the gym how I would like has been difficult. I haven’t been eventing since April 2022 and it’s highly likely I won’t go out until summer 2024 now. Not being able to do the things you truly love can be so difficult. But it’s times like these where we have to accept that lots of things outside our control can affect our goals and it’s okay to stop, reflect and go again with new ones. Whilst nothing will top playing touch with my pals and going out eventing again, I have to now think about what can I do that I will enjoy and give me motivation.

Long story short, it’s okay to realise goals aren’t going to be achieved sometimes, stuff happens that we can’t control! What’s important is not to dwell on those but figure out, what can you do? How can you use the next few months to grow and develop in different ways? What can you do which you’ll enjoy?

If you’re struggling to achieve your goals, and don’t know where to go next, drop me a message!

Exciting times ahead with Dan O’Sullivan Training & Livery and The Cotswold Cup!

Yesterday morning was an exciting one having my first video call session with the wonderful Empowering Excellence ☺️

After being approached at Waverton House last weekend from the team at The Cotswold Cup who put me & Becca, from empoweing excellence who is also one of their sponsers for this years series in contact with each other 🙏🏽

Myself and Becca are going to be working hard along side each other in performance psychology which will hopefully help me over come challenges in my mindset, getting in the zone and working towards more success in a positive way! 🧠👊🏽

I’m sure most of us riders are so guilty for focusing so much on our horses, the way they are performing underneath us meaning we often forget about our ourselves and our own mindset. Do we know how to deal with situations if something got a bit sticky or out of our control? Or that next step when you aren’t 100% sure it’s going to go to plan? Even how to over come a mental block in your head due to a confidence knock or not feeling you are good enough? Yes.. we’ve all been there!

Working on all this will be super beneficial and hopefully be able to bring this into my coaching to help any clients that want that extra little push or their hand holding 🤝🏽

I’m really looking forward to working with Becca and a huge thankyou to The Cotswold Cup team for this opportunity 🙏🏽 let’s go chase them goals 💪🏽

📸 Top Shots Photography

🤩INTRODUCING brand new CC sponsor Empowering Excellence 🤩

As eventers, we put a lot of time and money into our horses and their well-being, usually to ensure that they enjoy optimum health and performance.
However, there is still a stigma around putting the same amount of time and effort into our own well-being (be that mental or physical).

Imagine how much more you would enjoy your sport (and horses) if you felt like you had the tools to manage your nerves & anxieties and that you could trust the the work you’ve done meaning you feel confident and prepared for whatever might be thrown at you!

That’s where Rebecca of Empowering Excellence comes in!

As an equestrian herself, Becca has been competing and eventing for many years, and she fully believe this gives her a unique understanding of the many challenges equestrians can face both physically and mentally.

“Ever since the Cotswold Cup began I have loved their approach to providing a welcoming and fun experience to the grassroots and professional event rider with their incredibly well run events. The Cotswold Cup are leading the way in creating a supportive environment for all riders at both the physical and mental level. I am so passionate about making mental support more accessible AND more accepted at the grassroots level and by working with the CC hopefully we will be able to do just that!”

If you’d like support with beating those pesky preevebt nerves or you would like to feel more secure in your preparations - give Becca a message, we have no doubts she’ll have just the thing you need ☺️

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I am super excited to announce that I have worked in collaboration with Pure Performance Physiotherapy to develop two exciting support packages for anyone marathon training currently!

Firstly, we have developed two high quality eBooks with all the physical and psychological information you might need to support you in your training. This includes, goal setting, motivation, exercises to build strength in the gym, managing injuries etc.

Secondly, if you're looking for more individualised and hands on support, then we have created a support package that will provide you with this! In this package you can have 4 sessions with me on any areas you may be struggling with, plus 3 sports massage sessions with Dan to be used whenever you feel necessary. This package is great value and definitely not to be missed out on! The first 5 people to purchase this package will receive the deal for £200!!

Head over to: https://www.pureperformancephysio.co.uk/category/all-products to purchase!

DM me if you have any questions!

A really great evening, and hopefully just the start of working with a great club!

Are you looking to gain an extra edge this winter with your training? Do you want to be both physically and mentally prepared when you get out competing next year?

Empowering Excellence has the answer for you! At EE we are passionate about helping the athlete develop their mindset to help to help maximise both their potential and that of their horse. Those in the equestrian field are great at making sure their horse gets plenty of training, but we are notoriously poor at working on ourselves.

Now is your chance to put yourself first and receive support from someone with a wealth of experience in both the nuances and unique aspects of the equestrian field as well as in developing performance mindsets in athletes. We will cover areas such as effective goal setting, reducing anxiety, improving confidence and many more across a series of webinars!

Email me today to confirm your spot for the first session!

Get in touch while I have space!