AIRED: January 16, 2017– 11 am PST on LaTalkRadio.com
TITLE: “LET THEM PLAY: The Power and Joy of Mindful Sports Parenting”
SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Jerry Lynch
http://www.wayofchampions.com/
American youth sports are in crisis: Parents are fighting with referees, coaches, their kids, and one another. Micro-managed kids are losing their passion to play. In Let Them Play, sports psychologist and team consultant Dr. Jerry Lynch provides an antidote to parental over involvement.
Let Them Play offers parents a welcome alternative with strategies and tools taken from Lynch’s work with national champions to help kids to perform at higher levels, become better team players, and most important, have more fun.
Combining psychological insight with spiritual principles from Taoism and Buddhism, Lynch lays out core principles to help parents achieve equanimity and help them empower their athletic child to be mentally strong for sports while also providing a healthy direction for their kids.
Filled with easy-to-implement advice, Let Them Play focuses on parents of children in competitive sports, his advice extends beyond soccer, baseball, basketball, and track to successful performance in the game of life.
ABOUT DR. JERRY LYNCH
Dr. Jerry Lynch has been a sports psychology consultant for the past 33 years TO OVER 25 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS at the professional and NCAA collegiate levels. In one survey, he has been recognized as one of the top five in his profession nationwide.He is the former Sports Psychologist for men’s and women’s Basketball, Lacrosse and Soccer teams at the universities of North Carolina,Duke, Maryland, California and Stanford and continues to work with several teams nationally. He has been involved with athletes at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado and several of his clients have participated in various summer and winter Olympic games. Aside from sports, Dr. Lynch has worked with performing artists and corporate executives.
He is the author of TEN books in as many as 10 languages on coaching, leadership, spirituality of sport, warrior spirit, peak performance, sports psychology. He has SEVEN DVD’s (video) on the Way of the Champion as well as a TWO 6-CD AUDIO BOXES on PERFORMANCE IN ATHLETICS.
Dr. Lynch is the founder and director of WAY OF CHAMPIONS, a performance consulting group geared toward helping others master the inner game for peak performance in ATHLETICS and develop the essential spiritual qualities so necessary for the game of life. He maintains a private practice and an extensive sports psychology consultation service for athletes, coaches and parents around the world.
