DANCE MINDSET TRAINING

For Dancers, Parents & Teachers

In collaboration with Mindful Dancers, Lauren Krause, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), offers group mindset training sessions designed to support the emotional wellbeing, confidence, and mental health of dancers and the people who support them.

Dance environments can foster discipline, passion, creativity, and growth, but they can also come with intense pressure, perfectionism, comparison, anxiety, burnout, and self-criticism. These sessions are designed to create space for meaningful conversations while providing practical tools that support both performance and wellbeing.

Whether you are a dancer, parent, teacher, or studio owner, our goal is to help build healthier, more supportive environments where individuals can thrive both inside and outside of dance.

Our Approach

These sessions combine psychoeducation, nervous system awareness, mindfulness-based practices, emotional regulation tools, and open discussion in a way that feels approachable, supportive, and applicable to real-life dance experiences.

Topics are presented through a compassionate and developmentally appropriate lens, with a focus on building self-awareness, emotional resilience, confidence, communication, and sustainable performance habits.

Sessions may include:

  • Psychoeducation and mindset training

  • Nervous system and stress response education

  • Emotional regulation strategies

  • Mindfulness and grounding techniques

  • Guided reflection and discussion

  • Practical tools that can be applied both in and outside of dance environments

Our Vision

Our vision is to help create dance environments where mental wellbeing is valued alongside performance, and where dancers feel supported not only in what they achieve, but in who they are as individuals.

We believe that confidence, resilience, emotional awareness, and self-compassion are just as important as technical skill, and that sustainable growth happens when wellbeing and performance are supported together.

a woman in a white dress doing a handstand in a field
a woman in a white dress doing a handstand in a field

Our Sessions

For Dancers

Dance can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also bring pressure to constantly perform, improve, and meet high expectations. Many dancers quietly struggle with perfectionism, anxiety, comparison, body image concerns, fear of failure, and burnout.

These sessions aim to support dancers in developing healthier relationships with themselves, their emotions, and their performance.

Topics may include:

  • Performance anxiety

  • Confidence and self-esteem

  • Perfectionism and self-criticism

  • Emotional regulation

  • Body image and comparison

  • Fear of failure and mistakes

  • Coping with pressure and expectations

  • Burnout and balance

  • Identity outside of dance

  • Building resilience and self-compassion

For Parents

Supporting a dancer can feel rewarding, emotional, and at times overwhelming. Parents often carry their own worries surrounding performance, confidence, competition, injuries, and emotional wellbeing.

These sessions provide parents with tools and insight to help support dancers in ways that strengthen both performance and emotional health.

Topics may include:

  • Supporting confidence without increasing pressure

  • Understanding anxiety and perfectionism

  • Communication tools for emotionally charged moments

  • Navigating competition stress

  • Helping dancers regulate emotions after performances

  • Encouraging resilience and healthy motivation

  • Balancing achievement with wellbeing

  • Supporting body image and self-esteem

For Teachers

Teachers and studio environments play a powerful role in shaping dancers’ confidence, emotional experiences, and relationship with performance.

These sessions support teachers and studio staff in creating environments that encourage growth, accountability, emotional safety, and resilience while maintaining high standards and structure.

Topics may include:

  • Creating emotionally supportive studio environments

  • Supporting anxious or perfectionistic dancers

  • Communication and feedback strategies

  • Nervous system awareness in high-performance settings

  • Burnout prevention

  • Building confidence and resilience in dancers

  • Promoting healthy motivation and mindset

  • Understanding emotional responses to correction, competition, and pressure

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