what is mindfulness?
Jon Giesbrecht was our full-time mindfulness coach in our inaugural 2021-22 season. While Jon is now living back in his native Canada, where he founded his own company @playfreeball, his ideas have had a huge impact on our program. We have taken Jon’s mindfulness concepts and incorporated them into our weekly programming here at College Prep. This includes working on exercises focussed around Eastern philosophy, breath work exercises, coping with anger etc. We use Jon’s meditations at times during the season before / after practices and games.
experience mindfulness
Take 5 minutes out of your busy day to join us in a quick meditation. This is an example of how the College Prep team may prepare for a practice.
The podcast below features Jon Giesbrecht and Head Coach Alex Sarama talking about the importance of mindfulness, and why this is emphasised as part of the College Prep program.
why do we practice mindfulness?
Mindfulness allows us to TRUST our skills…
Mindfulness allows us to ENJOY our experience…
Mindfulness allows us to FOCUS on what’s important now…
What does mindfulness mean to us?
Mindfulness is a method of mental training but more so a way of life.
We will always experience thoughts, feelings, and emotions — mindfulness training gives us the tools to know what to do.
Like any skill we want to develop and train — mindfulness training is an on-going, uncomfortable and challenging process.
With daily practice we allow our bodies to do the work, we trust our skills, we expend less energy.