Mental performance · Paris
Reach High, feel good.
A competition, an exam, a high-stakes presentation. An intense stretch where you have to decide or managing your stress and still sound like yourself. All of it can be prepared — and learnt.
How do you manage stress and call on your resources at the right moment — and protect them when it lasts?
These are not gifts. They are tools & techniques: they can be learnt, practised, and made available on the day you need them.
The approach
Unlock your own resources.
Attention, confidence, motivation, stress regulation: mental preparation and techniques allow to unlock your resources adapting to the situation. No one expects to run a marathon without a training plan.
What it is
- Specific techniques: operational, adaptable and adjusted to the individual
- Training and routines, in the same sense as physical preparation
- Work aimed at action
What it isn’t
- Positive thinking
- Therapy: neither care nor working on factors creating psychological stress
- Reserved for Olympic athletes
Who it’s for
Three bearings, one method.
The context changes; the mechanics do not. Identify your context: goals and threat, select techniques unlocking your potential then train yourself to reach it under pressure.
Exams & competitive entry
Preparatory classes, written papers, orals. Managing stress and workload, going the distance, delivering on the day.
Athletes
The competition, the return from injury, keeping motivation alive across a whole season.
Executives & leaders
Speaking with something at stake, deciding under pressure, mental load, career transitions.
How it works
A clear frame from the first call.
We get acquainted
30 minutes, free of charge. We set out your context, your objective, your deadline, and what you want to work on.
We adjust the approach and practice
Simple tools, chosen with you and practised between sessions. In Paris, on your own ground, or online.
You carry on alone
You leave with your own routine — the one you will actually use on the day it counts.
About me
I know both grounds where pressure to perform exists.
The body and the decision. Twenty-five years in business on one simple question — how to help people stay well and perform in demanding environments — and twenty years on start lines. I have known races that went well, and others where the head gave in before the legs.
My work is demanding on method and attentive to the person. I listen first, without judgement; then we build the frame and adjust the techniques, in your words and around your deadlines. What is said in a session stays in the session.
Carole Smets — certified mental performance coach. University Diploma in Mental Preparation and Potential Optimisation Techniques, Université Paris-Saclay · Paris
Get in touch
Let’s start with a conversation.
30 minutes to set out your objective, your deadline and your motivation. No commitment, no jargon.
Write to me
I reply within two working days.
A short message is enough: what you are preparing for, and by when.