Speaking / Workshops

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School Workshop — SACE-Accredited Course

  • The Essential Mental Performance Course for Coaches of Young Athletes.

Young athletes are performing in increasingly demanding environments. Pressure, confidence, identity, injury, parent expectations, and emotional regulation all directly influence both performance and wellbeing.

This SACE-accredited course equips coaches, educators, and school sport staff with practical, evidence-based psychological tools to better support young athletes aged 12–18, while strengthening coaching effectiveness and ethical duty of care.

What you will gain:

• A deeper understanding of adolescent athlete development
• Practical tools to strengthen resilience, confidence, focus, and motivation
• Improved communication and feedback skills with athletes
• The ability to recognise early signs of mental distress
• Knowledge of referral pathways and ethical responsibilities
• Strategies to build healthier, high-performing team cultures

Course details:

• 4-hour interactive workshop
• Earns 5 SACE CPTD points
• Delivered at your school, sports venue, or online
• Optional follow-up support available

Available across South Africa — in person and online.

02

Speaking Engagements

  • From breakfast talks to prize givings — bringing performance psychology to your event.

Johan is available for keynote addresses, prize giving speeches, interschools events, and panel discussions. Each talk is tailored to the audience and occasion, covering topics such as confidence, mindset, pressure performance, resilience, and the mental side of sport and life.

03

The Thriving Young Athlete (Coming August 2026)

  • From breakfast talks to prize givings — bringing performance psychology to your event.

Youth sport today is more competitive and visible than ever before. Most young athletes train hard, care deeply, and want to improve, but very few are ever taught how to handle the mental side of competition.

Written by clinical psychologist Johan le Roux, The Thriving Young Athlete draws on years of close work with young, professional, and retired athletes to guide readers through the mental foundations of healthy, high-level sport. Grounded in scientific research and real experiences from training grounds, matches, and honest conversations with athletes, this practical guide helps young athletes:

• Understand the thoughts and emotions that show up during competition
• Handle pressure and recover more quickly after mistakes
• Build real confidence that doesn’t depend on results or selection
• Guide their attention and stay present when it matters most
• Respond to setbacks and criticism in healthier ways
• Compete with freedom while continuing to grow as a person

Because sport should never be a place where young athletes prove their worth. It should be a place where they discover who they are capable of becoming.

Available August 2026.
Register your interest below to be notified when it launches:

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The Thriving Young Athlete — Online Course (Coming September 2026)

  • The mental performance journey — now available online.

Based on the book of the same name, this online course brings the Mind Mastery approach to young athletes anywhere in the world. Working through the same evidence-based framework at their own pace, athletes will develop the mental tools and self-understanding needed to perform with confidence, handle pressure, and thrive in sport and life.

Available September 2026.
Register your interest below to be notified when the course launches: