Sport Psychology and Performance Counseling Educational Opportunities
Are you ready to change your athletic performance? Do you want your brain, body and emotions to work with you, not against you, in moments of practice and competition? Take the first step here!
Connected Growth & Wellness is teaming up with Leesa Massman Coaching to offer a variety of solutions to meet the needs of young athletes and adult athletes, across the United States.
Please find our 2025-2026 offerings in the section below. First up: August 2025. We’d love to have you join us!
Are you ready for regionals and nationals?
Back by request after a great experience last year, Connected Growth & Wellness is offering workshops to help riders grow in the performance knowledge and mental strategies they can apply to help themselves thrive in the show ring. This is a great opportunity for IHSA, IEA, Arabian, Saddlebred, Sport Horse and other circuit riders in particular, as it is timed well (before their largest shows) to add to the ingredients they have available to use in their recipes for success. Our approach is one that helps support existing coaching, training and instructing they are receiving, by helping riders grow in self-awareness as well as learn to work with their bodies, thoughts and emotions instead of against them. Riders learn helpful questions to ask their coaches, strategies to be a good student, and ways to exercise the resilience (and therefore increase it) in their brains for when they need it.
Join us in our Upcoming 2025-2026 Workshop and Therapy Opportunities
The first two are open to riders from anywhere in the United States
and can be taken virtually to save you travel expenses!
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January 2026: Kick off the 2026 Show Season with an important opportunity to learn research-based concepts to improve competitive performance, make practice more effective, and learn to ask your coach better questions.
May 2026: Prepare for Regionals and Youth Nationals with the chance to learn research-based concepts to improve competitive performance, make practice more effective, and learn to ask your coach better questions.
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September 1: Prepare for U.S. Arabian Horse Nationals with an important opportunity to learn research-based concepts to improve competitive performance, make practice more effective, and learn to ask your coach better questions.
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Meet with one of our licensed providers one on one, at the farm or via telehealth, for counseling sessions to focus on improving performance and applying key concepts.
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August 1 - Register by emailing hello@michigan-emdr.com
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September 1 Online Class for Dressage, Hunter and Jumper Riders of age 12+ competing at Sport Horse Nationals. Register by emailing hello@michigan-emdr.com