Master Your Mental Game for Peak Performance
Supporting athletes and performers to manage performance pressure effectively, consistently, and on demand to reach their maximum potential.
Master Your Mental Game for Peak Performance
Supporting athletes and performers to manage performance pressure effectively, consistently, and on demand to reach their maximum potential.
Why Sports and Performance Psychology?
Mental performance coaching empowers athletes to strengthen the mental side of their game, giving them practical strategies, skills, and habits to perform at their best and truly enjoy their sport.
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Mental training is one of the four essential pillars of athletic development, alongside physical, technical, and tactical preparation.
As a Mental Performance expert, Jonathan helps athletes and performers build self-awareness and self-regulation skills to implement effective routines for pre-performance, performance, and error recovery. To achieve this, we utilize Mental Skills Training (MST), which encompasses strategies for thought and emotion regulation, goal setting, enhancing focus and attentional control, mindfulness, relaxation, and imagery, all designed to cultivate grit, resilience, and mental toughness. Jonathan also supports athletes and performers to manage perfectionism, transition from an athletic identity to other life endeavours, and use MST for other life performance demands, such as school tests. Additionally, Jonathan helps clients explore and leverage their character strengths to tackle challenges both on and off the performance stage.
Building Self-Awareness
By understanding how your mind “ticks” towards creating and sustaining your own mental blueprint for success
Strengthen Self-Regulation
By developing skills to consistently access your optimal zone for performance
Developing Mental Toughness
Through grit, resilience, and a growth mindset for all of life’s performance demands
Teaching Athletes to W-I-N
All elite sport performance happens in the moment. It’s in these moments that impact occurs, and good athletes become great. Focusing on What's Important Now equips athletes and performers with the metal skills to respond decisively and deliver their best when it matters most.
Why Sports and Performance Psychology?
Mental performance coaching empowers athletes to strengthen the mental side of their game, giving them practical strategies, skills, and habits to perform at their best and truly enjoy their sport.
Read more...
Mental training is one of the four essential pillars of athletic development, alongside physical, technical, and tactical preparation.
As a Mental Performance expert, Jonathan helps athletes and performers build self-awareness and self-regulation skills to implement effective routines for pre-performance, performance, and error recovery. To achieve this, we utilize Mental Skills Training (MST), which encompasses strategies for thought and emotion regulation, goal setting, enhancing focus and attentional control, mindfulness, relaxation, and imagery, all designed to cultivate grit, resilience, and mental toughness. Jonathan also supports athletes and performers to manage perfectionism, transition from an athletic identity to other life endeavours, and use MST for other life performance demands, such as school tests. Additionally, Jonathan helps clients explore and leverage their character strengths to tackle challenges both on and off the performance stage.
Building self-awareness
by understanding how your mind “ticks” towards creating and sustaining your own mental blueprint for success
Strengthen self-regulation
by developing skills to consistently access your optimal zone for performance
Developing mental toughness
through grit, resilience, and a growth mindset for all of life’s performance demands
Teaching Athletes to W-I-N
All elite sport performance happens in the moment. It’s in these moments that impact occurs, and good athletes become great. Focusing on What's Important Now equips athletes and performers with the metal skills to respond decisively and deliver their best when it matters most.
prevention, evaluation, and treatment
at forge we have developed 4 stages of rehabilitation that ensures you are successfully rehabilitated
getting an accurate diagnosis from OUR certified sports-injury specialists
Once pain and swelling are reduced, progressive reconditioning treatment will begin.
Exercises will be prescribed to target specific goals such as mobility, flexibility training, coordination of balance and joint positioning.
As progress is made, the athlete and trainer can work together towards re-establishing strength.
The Journey
Elevating your Mental Performance Game
To be elite means having the capacity to handle performance pressure, along with the anxiety and stress that come with it. Through Mental Skills Training (MST), we’ll build the tools needed to manage this pressure effectively, developing and sustaining your ability to perform at your best with a strong foundation of confidence, motivation, and focus. This will help you zoom in when it counts, execute successfully, and maintain a winning mindset
Injury Rehab Support
Injury is an inevitable part of sport, and while this can bring adversity for athletes, it also creates opportunities to grow stronger mentally and return better prepared than before. Through MST, we focus on areas that support recovery in ways that empower you to feel in control of your process, helping you rebuild confidence and return to doing what you love with renewed determination and clarity every step of the way.
Supporting Team Dynamics
Team sports provide countless opportunities but also bring challenges that can hold performance back. Together, we’ll strengthen team identity, build culture, and create strategies that help your team adapt and excel in any situation. By establishing a shared mental model and uniting under one vision, your team will be ready to perform under pressure, respond with confidence, and deliver consistent results when it matters most on and off the field.
Bringing together the wider system
Athletes rely on support systems around them that are vital for success, including parents, coaches, and allied professionals such as kinesiologists, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and physicians. My approach involves these groups directly so that mental performance strategies are reinforced consistently. With every member of the system aligned and engaged, athletes benefit from greater clarity, support, and commitment throughout the journey.
The
Work!
Jonathan offers customized sessions for athletes and performers, as well as parents, coaches, and allied professionals, specifically designed to apply Mental Skills Training (MST) in a context that best fits their needs. These sessions can be delivered one-on-one or in groups. Each starts with an introduction to the foundations of MST, including a brief theory component to explain the ‘why’ behind each skill. From there, we focus on the ‘how,’ using experiential learning, ‘learning by doing’, to apply the skills directly to the performance environment. We also provide evidence-based interventions, session summaries shared via Google Docs, worksheets, assessments, and engaging videos featuring MST skills demonstrated by some of the world’s top performers and educators.
A high-tier athlete in his youth, Jonathan has always had a deep passion for sports, performance environments, and their power to impact lives and communities in meaningful ways. He holds a graduate certification in Sport and Performance Psychology and is currently working toward becoming a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). Jonathan has worked in the field of Sport and Performance Psychology for the past eight years and has 28 years of experience in Mental Health. His strengths lie in his extensive knowledge and expertise in mental skills training, combined with a unique storytelling approach that makes concepts practical and relatable to people’s everyday life experiences. Education & Credentials: • Pursuing qualification as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC). Sport and Performance Psychology Graduate Certification, Western States University. • Psychotherapist/Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) - Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) • Counselling Therapist - Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta (ACTA) • Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT) - Canadian Association of Couple and Family Therapy (CAMFT) • Positive Psychology Practitioner – Australian Institute
what our clients say
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
what IS FORGE PERFOMRANCE?
Sports performance and rehabilitation center based in Calgary and Cochrane specializing in athlete development, sports physiotherapy, and ACL rehabilitation.
What services does forge Performance offer?
We offer a range of services including youth athlete development, sports physiotherapy, return to sport rehab, and professional strength & conditioning.
What is the forge Performance Program (FPP)?
The FORGE Performance Program (FPP) is a comprehensive coaching program designed for youth, collegiate, semi-pro, and professional athletes to enhance their performance and reduce the risk of injury.
What equipment and technology does FORGE Physiotherapy utilize?
Physiotherapy utilizes advanced technology including VALD Force Decks, VALD Performance Force Frame, VALD Nordboard, Compex 8.0 NEMS, and Blood Flow Restriction technology to support the rehabilitation process.
What is the Rehab Membership Program at FORGE Performance?
The Rehab Membership Program offers unlimited access to the facility for rehabilitation at an affordable price, allowing athletes to work on their injury five days a week under professional guidance.
Forge Rehab and Performance
was created out of the passion for
bringing out the athlete in everyone.
CONTACT US:
587-306-4325
587-962-5599
800 Griffin rd E, a T4C 2B8
HOURS OF OPERATION:
10:00am - 3:00pm Monday
2:00pm - 8:00pm Tuesday
8:30am - 12:00 pm / 1:30pm - 4:00pm Wednesday
2:00pm - 8:00pm Thursday
8:30am - 12:00 pm / 1:30pm - 4:00pm Friday
10:00am - 1:30pm - Saturday
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