


PROFESSIONAL BALLET TRAINING
WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SKILLS
HEIGHTEN SELF-AWARENESS. IMPROVE RESILIENCE. DEVELOP SELF-RELIANCE.
FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE
FULFILLING STUDENT POTENTIAL
Psychological Skills in ballet classes facilitate the discovery of individual best practices, movement patterns, and artistry. They teach problem-solving and critical thinking that can enhance self-reliance and resilience.


HOLISTIC TRAINING
When practising ballet in a physically and emotionally safe environment, dancers can develop psychological skills during their regular training, improve healthy coping mechanisms, and increase resilience.
"Ballet training can either enhance and develop confidence and self-esteem, or undermine and damage it, depending on the experiences and behaviours teachers provide in the classroom"
- Buckroyd, J. 2000. The student dancer: Emotional aspects of the teaching and learning of dance. London: Dance Books Ltd.

PROPS WORKBOOK
Learn the strategies and tools that ballet teachers can implement to optimise the attainment of psychological skills for the emotional well-being and fulfilment of student potential. The PROPS workbook is a practical resource with over 120 pages of information, theories, and step by step actions for implementing psychological skills in ballet classes.

"We have still to learn from the example of the Greeks who saw clearly the relation between a sound body and a sound mind”
- Dewey, 1938
