“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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Never be stuck for a theory activity again!  I have assembled my most popular and beloved theory worksheets and bundled them all up into one big value pack.  This ballet  theory activity pack contains over 20 pages of worksheets, coloring pages, word searches, flash cards, theory match activities, posters, and classification exercises.  For beginning students there is a beautiful positions of the feet colouring sheet which is also perfect to print out as a poster for your studio, a gorgeous worksheet featuring Nina Ballerina for your youngest students to colour and match the terms to the picture (terms include, plié, tendu, passé/retiré, sauté, first position and second position), plus a fill in the gap activity sheet.  For your inter to advanced students there are a range of activities available. The 45 printable ballet flash cards are perfect for group activities to introduce and revise body positions and directions. (see pictures for terms included). This can be followed up by the directions worksheet.  After that there will be no more excuses for not knowing basic body positions, directions and positions.  The warm up activity sheet is a great conversation starter and helps students identify ‘good’ warm up activities and helps them to devise their own warm-up routine.  Theory match can be used a sheet at a time or given out as a pack and is great for revising commonly used theory terms.  Ballet step classification introduces different ways of classifying ballet steps, provides a classification activity and is a perfect springboard into a choreography workshop.

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Its finally here! The Growth Mindset for dancers resource kit! Since I started implementing growth mindset into my teaching the impact has been astounding. It is a total game changer! Once your students let go of their fear of failure, of their belief that their abilities are fixed the transformation is mind-blowing. Unleashing the power of a growth mindset unlocks the door to outstanding results and a whole new level of success. Say hello to engaged and focussed dancers who truly believe in themselves, who are not afraid to try, fail and try again. Say hello to truly coachable students.

The growth mindset for dancers resource kits includes an ebook outlining the basic principles of praise and growth mindset to give you, as a teacher, an overview of this powerful research. Also included are TEN printables which you can use in a workshop setting or as part of your regular classes to help introduce your students to growth mindset, to help them understand the power of yet, to equate effort and work with success and to introduce them to different types of goal setting. Suggested uses for each printable are included along with the message each sheet is designed to convey. These printables are designed for both completing as worksheets and displaying in your studio etc.

This is such a great investment in your students and is a complete game changer for your teaching and for dancer development. Understanding growth mindset is the key to helping your students enjoy a whole different level of success provides them with tools and skills that will benefit them in all areas of their life.

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