Looking for a super fun way to help your dancers work on their goals, build team spirit and confidence? The 30 day dance challenge kit ticks all the boxes.  it is an absolute HIT with dancers.  With a combination of guided goal setting, accountability, and group motivation, the 30 day challenge is hugely successful for young dancers.  The kit consists contains everything you need to run a 30 day challenge in your studio.  Over 14 pages students are guided through the process of setting an achievable goal.  This goal is then broken down into mini-goals as dancers are introduced to the concept of step ladder goals.  The Kit provides dancers with 30 days worth of challenge charts including motivation and reflection exercises.

The 30 day dance challenge kit includes

• Goal setting guide
• SMART goal transformation
• Defining stepladder goals
• Excercise mapping
• 30 days of challenge charts
• Reflection
• Wallcharts

The challenge kit comes to you as a digital download so you can print or share it online with your dancers.  Purchase once and use for years to come.

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1. What is a correction? – a thought provoking worksheet designed to uncover deep seated attitudes and ideas about corrections.
2. Corrections – the secret code – a collection of 4 worksheets designed to help students understand corrections and interpret and implement them in a positive way
3. Types of corrections – encourages students to look beyond the most basic types of corrections and to learn how to benefit from whole class corrections and corrections aimed at other students
4. Corrections and Mindset – this set of worksheet introduces and recaps growth mindset theory and encourages students to think about how their mindset might influence their reaction to correction
5. Mindset and Mood – we all have bad days but can’t always step back to consider how our mood or the experience of our day might impact our reaction to and perception of corrections. This set of worksheets explores strategies for overcoming issues relating to mood in the studio – highly recommended for teens!
6. Mindset manipulation – this set of worksheets looks at how a simple shift in mindset can make a huge difference in dance. These lessons will lead to almost instant improvement
7. Mindset reset – this set of worksheets confronts students with a number of familiar scenarios and encourages them to consider how they have reacted to these situations in the past and how they might better react to them in the future.
8. Correction reaction – the interaction between class and teacher is incredibly powerful.  This worksheet helps students to understand how their reaction, manner and approach to class can influence their overall experience and their ability to progress.
9. Corrections – the next step – the final worksheet provides students with a road map for effectively receiving, processing and ultimately applying corrections for ultimate impact.

This pack comes to you as a digital download so you can get started right away. Purchase once and use as many times as you like.

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The Success Mindset Journal contains 50 pages of dancer specific worksheets designed to create a Success Mindset for Dancers. Modules included are

1. Growth Mindset – the first section of the journal introduces dancers to Growth Mindset as it applies specifically to dance. Dancers are encouraged to connect effort with success and to explore the concept of success beyond shiny trophies and sashes.
2. Once dancers have harnessed to power of Growth Mindset they are ready to tackle to notion of failure. Dancers slowly unpack this sometimes frightening concept and peel away the fear they may feel until Failure becomes just another stepping stone to their success. Banishing a fear of failure is incredibly powerful and a key step to paving the way to reach new levels of success.
3. Next come personal roadblocks. Dancers are encouraged to explore their own roadblocks, the fears that hold them back. Using a dancer specific process, dancers are encouraged to face their roadblocks head on and develop strategies to overcome them.
4. The next tool to learn is Laser Focus and a Unicorn Mindset. Distraction and negative thoughts have an enormous impact on dancer performance. Wobbling on skills, falling out of turns, failing to give a personal best performance, all these can be solved by learning to ignore distractions and banishing self doubt.
5. The next section can be confronting for dancers as it focusses on aligning intentions with actions. This is where dancers must decide whether the actions they take are actually in line with what they want to achieve. Did the hours they spent on social media help them to achieve their goals – are they focusing in class and fixing their corrections?
6. Once dancers have mastered growth mindset, uncovered their motivations, overcome their personal roadblocks and aligned their actions with intentions, it is time to start guided goal setting. Most goals are never achieved. Dancers work on them for a few days or a week and then forget about them entirely. This section of the journal provides dancers with the tools and knowledge they need to actually achieve their goals. These skills are life changing and can be taken forward into life beyond dancing.
7. The final section of the journal deals with Lockdown and helps dancers process the experience and scaffolds the process of learning from the Lockdown experience.

The Dancer Success Mindset journal comes to you as a downloadable PDF document so you can print it out and use as many times are you like. There is also a link to the individual worksheets so extra copies can be printed. It is envisioned that the Journal will be purchased by students or by teachers for distribution to their students. Teacher input is not required for students to use the journal though the exercises are great springboards for discussion. For Teacher specific resources with information for teachers to guide students through these skills, please see see the Growth Mindset, Success Mindset and Goal setting packs.

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“If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today” – African Proverb

The idea of working step by step towards something can be difficult for young dancers to grasp. The Goal Setting Resource kit helps scaffold that process by challenging students to really grasp the hard work that is necessary for success and by helping them uncover their personal roadblocks and dead ends that may be holding them back from achieving their personal best.  

Once dancers are empowered to set goals and given the tools to help achieve them, their improvement is phenomenal.  Goal setting is an amazing tool to fast track dancer success.

Meanwhile, developing a Success Mindset in dancers is a total game changer and one of the most valuable skills you can impart to your dancers. The Success Mindset for competitive dancers resource kit helps you provide your students with the tools they need to succeed at dance competitions.  The Success Mindset for competitive dance kit draws on the latest research on mindset and performance and contains over 40 pages of dance specific instructions, worksheets and activities to give dancers the winning edge. Topics covered include defining success, redefining failure, reframing negative thoughts, facing fear, dealing with nerves, facing anxiety, goal setting, reflection, utilising laser focus, matching actions with intentions, motivation, pre-performance routine, effort and success, how to fix corrections, confidence, being a good team mate, motivation and being an inspired dancer.  The Success Mindset for competitive dancers comes as a digital download so you can print it and share it with your students as often as you like.  

Units in the “How to succeed at Dance Competitions” mindset bundle include

Defining Success – differentiating between success symbols and success itself.

Dealing with Failure – dancers are challenged to examine failure and redefine it as a stepping stone to success

Dealing with fears and anxiety – dancers examine their fears and learn strategies to deal with them

Reframing negative thoughts – how to be a unicorn dancer

Dealing with nerves – dancers are challenged to look at what makes them nervous, how they react and then explore strategies to overcome nerves and harness their power for good

Developing Laser Focus

Dance competition reflection – dancers are challenged to examine every aspect of their performance, what went well and what didn’t, before, during and after.  This then forms a learning tool to shape future performances

Setting SMART goals – an introduction to goal setting and a springboard for the Goal setting for dancers resource kit

Matching intentions with actions – a challenging unit that asks, do you deserve your results?

Dance class reflection – a weekly activity sheet to help dancers take responsibility for their training

Corrections – helps dancers to link their corrections in class to the goal they have set themselves to achieve

Motivation – understanding and exploring motivation as it relates to goal setting and classwork

How to be a great team member – a particularly powerful worksheet if you are dealing with lack of commitment to your dance program

How to be an inspired dancer – time for a mindset reset.  This worksheet challenges students to step outside of their comfort zone and start to operate with a growth mindset. It explores the notion of being inspired rather than threatened by the success of others.

The Wheel of Success – the Wheel of Success brings all the units together and presents dancers with the secret of “How to succeed at dance competitions”

Access the latest research into Growth Mindset, Grit and Goal setting with this bundle pack designed especially for dancers.

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The Success Mindset for competitive dancers resource kit is designed especially with competitive dancers in mind.  Drawing on growth mindset theory, it is aimed to equip dancers with a winning mindset.  The world of competitive dance is a tough one.  You are up, you are down, dancers are judged constantly, self esteem can be challenged, self doubt creeps in.  With the technical prowess of the young dancers we are now training progressing in leaps and bounds, mindset can be the one factor that sets your dancers apart.

With the poem in mind, the Success Mindset for competitive dancers resource kit helps you provide your students with the tools they need to succeed at dance competitions.  The Success Mindset for competitive dance kit draws on the latest research on mindset and performance and contains over 40 pages of dance specific instructions, worksheets and activities to give dancers the winning edge. Topics covered include defining success, redefining failure, reframing negative thoughts, facing fear, dealing with nerves, facing anxiety, goal setting, reflection, utilising laser focus, matching actions with intentions, motivation, pre-performance routine, effort and success, how to fix corrections, confidence, being a good team mate, motivation and being an inspired dancer.  The Success Mindset for competitive dancers comes as a digital download so you can print it and share it with your students as often as you like.  

Units in the “How to succeed at Dance Competitions” mindset bundle include

1. Defining Success – differentiating between success symbols and success itself.
2. Dealing with Failure – dancers are challenged to examine failure and redefine it as a stepping stone to success
3. Dealing with fears and anxiety – dancers examine their fears and learn strategies to deal with them
4. Reframing negative thoughts – how to be a unicorn dancer
5. Dealing with nerves – dancers are challenged to look at what makes them nervous, how they react and then explore strategies to overcome nerves and harness their power for good
6. Developing Laser Focus
7. Dance competition reflection – dancers are challenged to examine every aspect of their performance, what went well and what didn’t, before, during and after.  This then forms a learning tool to shape future performances
8. Setting SMART goals – an introduction to goal setting and a springboard for the Goal setting for dancers resource kit
9. Matching intentions with actions – a challenging unit that asks, do you deserve your results?
10. Dance class reflection – a weekly activity sheet to help dancers take responsibility for their training
11. Corrections – helps dancers to link their corrections in class to the goal they have set themselves to achieve
12. Motivation – understanding and exploring motivation as it relates to goal setting and classwork
13. How to be a great team member – a particularly powerful worksheet if you are dealing with lack of commitment to your dance program
14. How to be an inspired dancer – time for a mindset reset.  This worksheet challenges students to step outside of their comfort zone and start to operate with a growth mindset. It explores the notion of being inspired rather than threatened by the success of others.
15. The Wheel of Success – the Wheel of Success brings all the units together and presents dancers with the secret of “How to succeed at dance competitions”

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