Team Culture Mental Health

“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.”Yogi Berra is right. Outside of the obvious math error, his quote is accurate; you can’t achieve elite-level athletic success...

Team Culture Mental Health

Thank you to J.P. Nerbun for this guest blog contribution to our library. J.P. Nerbun is the Founder and Director of TOC Culture Consulting. TOC, like HONE, believes that strong, healthy...

Team Culture Mental Health

HONE Athletics is grateful to Isaiah Day for this guest blog contribution to our library. Isaiah Day (Licensed Professional Counselor) created Player Development to explore how great...

Team Culture Mental Health

When HONE launched in 2020, we had no idea of the massive shifts lying just ahead of us. At that time, we were spending most of our time educating sport around the problems we were...

Team Culture Mental Health

Mental health advocacy has made incredible strides in recent years. We see massive annual campaigns encouraging us to normalize and de-stigmatize the issue. High profile athletes have...

Team Culture Mental Health

Last week, a little face lit up with awe and excitement. The story begins with a U9 hockey team who was wrapping up their practice. As they exited the ice, they passed by a much older and...

Team Culture Mental Health

When we are involved in the lives of young people, we develop the ability to pick up on the behaviours and nuances that suggest that things may not be okay. While some of us silently...

Team Culture Mental Health

In light of recent developments in the global sporting community, particularly in gymnastics and tennis, we feel compelled to challenge the narrative that has been created in regard to the...

Team Culture Mental Health Coaches

The influence a coach has on the young people who come into their life is comparable to few. They have such tremendous power and opportunity to help shape individuals into who they are to...

Team Culture Mental Health

We are living in a time of isolation. A way of life not very conducive to sport. Yet we have teams that have formed and have taken advantage of every opportunity that has allowed them to...