At Performance Game Plan, we specialize in the mindset of athletes who participate in "Nature as a Partner" sports. Whether working with teams or individual athletes, Jen helps individuals who partner with aspects of nature for their sport to achieve their ideal zone of performance by enhancing focus through the primal fear of survival while utilizing advanced techniques in confidence, and resilience training to maintain the sharp concentration necessary for effective performance across these unique sports. 

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With "Nature as a Partner" sports, athletes have a secondary level of fear that extends beyond the fear of failure. In general, Jen aims to focus on the positive and cancel out negative thoughts. In sports where athletes partner with nature such as equestrian, surfers, mountaineers, skiers, snowboarders, rock climbers etc., Jen is intentional on NOT removing the totality of fear but rather embracing the fear that coincides with survival while at the same time, cancelling out the fear of failure.

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Compared to sports where athletes do not need to concern themselves with the possibility of loss of life and limb, there are aspects of "Nature as a Partner" sports that athletes cannot ignore but rather need to embrace in order to excel.

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• Nature is an active variable and is not a passive setting

• Non-deterministic conditions

• Bidirectional relationships 

• Presence of a non-negotiable risk

• Primal fear activation

• Lack of full physiological extinction

• Dynamic unpredictability 

• Cognitive limitations when we are under threat

• Directional Resilience as a conduit of functioning within the presence of primal fear rather than a means to remove it

• Emotional regulation is under real threat is the ability to down-regulate panic while maintaining caution

• Fear as fuel

• Fear signals not only importance but consequences

• Physiological shifting while maintaining performance 

• Shift from: Fear is the problem, Shift to: Fear is information

• Radical acceptance

• Somatic awareness

• Trust calibration

• Coexistence with fear

• Risk of over-suppression of fear

• Risk of over-amplification of fear

• Engagement with existential boundaries and confronting limits

• Risk tolerance and heightened self-awareness

• Necessary awareness of physical danger

• Respect-based confidence (we are not fighting nature but rather working with it as our partner)

• Reframing fear as functional activation and not as an obstacle

• Navigate a constant tension between control and surrender 

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The defining psychological truth about athletes who compete in "Nature as a Partner" sports is that they do not get over this fear. They learn to move with it to facilitate performance through confidence. 

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As a professional committed to ethical practices, Jen adheres to federal and California state laws requiring the reporting of visible animal abuse. Please note this does not include widely accepted and humane practices, such as the proper use of a crop. Equestrians will receive an informed consent addendum acknowledging this responsibility as part of their commitment to ethical horsemanship.

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