The Inner Game

Take Control Of Your Inner Game

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Here is a quote from a recent article in the Healthy Lifestyles Living blog.

As a life coach, I help people to take control of their ‘inner game’, and therefore take control of their life.

“It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave”. Tupac Shakur

The term “the inner game” was introduced by Timothy Gallwey in his book The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

The New Science of Triumph – Newsweek

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“There are more players that have the talent to be the best in the world than there are winners,” says Timothy Gallwey, the author of several books about the mental side of tennis, golf, and other pursuits. “One way of looking at it is that winners get in their own way less. They interfere with the raw expression of talent less. And to do that, first they win the war against fear, against doubt, against insecurity—which are no minor victories.”

via The New Science of Triumph – Newsweek.

Health and Fitness

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Personal Inner Game Coaching

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NEW! Inner Game Electronic Coach – Beta Release Launched.

This web based personal coaching tool that helps you define your objectives, motivations, and strategies for moving towards your desired outcomes. The process is designed to clarify your thinking about any issue, problem, or goal. It is now available for testing and feedback. Be part of the conversation. CLICK HERE to learn how to try it for free…

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Inner Game Corporate Coaching

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Tim Gallwey is recognized by many as the pioneer of executive coaching. He gives public and corporate open seminars with Sir John Whitmore, the author of Performance Coaching, through his company, Performance Consulting International, see . Next scheduled in London on May 19th-20, 2011. This workshop begins with a demonstration of Inner Game coaching on the tennis court and then presents principles, methods, and tools which are applied to the challenges of managers who also care about the development of their direct reports.

For over three years, Gallwey trained the managers of the Coca Cola Company in the skills of coaching. He has done the same for Annhauser Busch, IBM, KPMG, AT&T and other smaller companies. Each of these trainings were customized to meet the needs of the particular client at the particular time.

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PBS Inner Game Broadcast Airs

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PBS and the Inner Game team up to offer new DVD Series.

WGBH aired a half hour introduction to the Inner Game of Tennis during their pledge drive promotion on Saturday, November 13 and Saturday, November 20th. Tim Gallwey’s groundbreaking 1972 book, The Inner Game of Tennis, forever changed the realm of performance psychology. The book sold over a million copies and was the impetus for the whole mind game genre that is so popular now. It contains a revolutionary way to learn and think about the game.

A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, “Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game.” The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety.

Currently in pre-production and set to air in 2012, the series continues with DVD releases of both the Inner Game of Tennis and The Inner Game of Golf. We encourage you to make sure your local PBS affiliate will air the show.

Harvard Tennis News: the return of “The Inner Game”

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Second, this weekend WGBH is broadcasting a half hour introduction to the Inner Game of Tennis during their pledge drive promotion on Saturday, November 13 from 4:00-4:30 and Saturday, November 20th from 12-12:30 set your DVR or watch it live. Tim Gallwey ’60 was a standout for the Crimson under Jack Barnaby and part of the famous match in ’58 when Harvard defeated a powerhouse Yale team that included Donald Dell and Gene Scott. The team will be reading his book over the winter break and we are hoping Tim will meet them on our spring break trip. The book has sold over a million copies and was the impetus for the whole mind game genre that is so popular now. It contains a revolutionary way to learn and think about the game. We encourage you to watch the show, and if you’ve ever been tempted to make a pledge, do it now so they’ll broadcast it nationwide!

via Harvard Tennis News: Friends of Harvard Tennis: H-Y brunch, the return of “The Inner Game”, and back-to-back doubles champs with highlights!.

Testimonials and Praise for The Inner Game

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* Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.

“Tim Gallwey is one of the great teachers of our time.

Many years ago, I watched Tim “teaching” a woman to play tennis for the first time. Though she had difficulty touching the ball with her racket initially, within twenty minutes, she was carrying on sustained rallies with Gallwey, like someone who had played tennis for years. It was the most stunning example of tapping intrinsic capacity to learn I had ever seen.

Tim’s gift lies in his deep appreciation of the power of true, i.e. non-judgmental observation and how to invoke it. His aspiration is the realization of genuine potential not miracles, but the gap between that potential and our current performance is often so great that the results are nothing short of miraculous.

Twenty years of testing have shown that his methods can produce results in work, as they have done widely in sports. The real question is, ‘Are managers ready to surrender trying to control people and trust their desire and capacities to learn, starting with themselves?’

In this day when many talk of accelerating learning in organizations but few have actually done it, the words of a master are timely indeed.”

* Peter Block, best-selling author of The Empowered Manager… Flawless Consulting… and Stewardship…

“The Inner Game of Work helps us define the landscape of what has become known as a “learning organization.” In this book, any manager or employee who has the courage and commitment to really learn about learning will find concepts and practices that can turn the intention of a learning organization into a day-to-day, lived experience.”

Inner Game Sports Coaching

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The Inner Game was born out of Sports Performance Coaching. In 1974, Tim Gallwey’s landmark book, The Inner Game of Tennis, forever changed the paradigm of human performance potential. With the enormous pressure and stress associated with modern athletics, the concepts of The Inner Game are increasingly relevant today. Browse the articles below the learn how The Inner Game continues to inspire sports professionals to reach new heights of performance and satisfaction.

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Inner Game Open Programme

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Experience this programme with the Inner Game founder Tim Gallwey. And only for 21-22 October also with Sir John Whitmore, the godfather of coaching. An extraordinary one time opportunity to work with these two pioneers of coaching!

In the new economy, where individual and collective knowledge is our most valuable asset, the ability to access and develop our ability to learn is paramount. However, all people bring with them habits of self-interference that get in the way of the use of their potential to perform and to learn.

For people who want to enter a totally new paradigm of performance, the Inner Game addresses the interferences that limit our potential, and so enables us to maximize our performance. This is demonstrated by the Inner Game equation:

Potential – Interference = Performance

Becoming aware of patterns that lead to acting out of habit, rather than conscious intention enables us to recognize the interferences and thus enter a new paradigm of performance.

Visit the site, Performance Consultants International.