Online Workshop

The Mindset of Progress

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Workshop: The Mindset of Progress

Whether you're chasing your next grade, rebuilding confidence, or just wanting to make climbing fun again, this online workshop will help you find your way upward.

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You’ll get practical tools to build a mindset that helps you pursue your goals and grow as both a climber and a person. We’ll also share relatable examples from our work with climbers.

As a Movement Peak Performance Team member, your registration also unlocks a free 1-month membership to Unblocd's online courses.
By registering, you confirm you are a current Movement Peak Performance Team member. We'll send your Unblocd membership details by email after the workshop.

The Mindset of Progress

Feeling stuck in your climbing can be frustrating. You train, you try hard, but somehow progress slows or even disappears. Sometimes it’s fear. Sometimes comparison. Sometimes it’s just hard to stay motivated when the effort you put in doesn’t seem to pay off.

But progress isn’t only about grades or strength. It’s about learning to stay engaged even when it’s uncomfortable and finding the joy in that process.

In this free 60-minute workshop, you’ll explore what real progress looks like for climbers, beyond the grades. Through relatable stories and guided exercises, we’ll look at:
  • Why motivation fades (and how to reignite it).
  • How to handle fear, frustration, and comparison in healthier ways.
  • Practical tools from sport psychology you can use every session to climb more confidently and with more purpose.

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You’ll walk away with a clearer sense of what drives you, what holds you back, and how to keep progressing while actually enjoying the ride.

Whether you’re chasing your next grade, rebuilding confidence, or just wanting to make climbing fun again, this workshop will help you find your way forward – mentally and on the wall.
Benefits

What You’ll Get from the Workshop

Climb smarter

Discover how to turn frustration into focus and progress that feels satisfying again.

Practical tools

Take away simple mental tools you can use on your very next climb.

Practical insights

Hear examples of how small mindset shifts can make a big difference, even if you’ve been climbing for years.

Free 1-month Unblocd membership

As a thank-you for being part of the Movement Peak Performance Team, you'll get full access to Unblocd's online mental skills courses for one month.
"Mental skills are often overlooked, but they play a really important part in climbing. For example, learning to manage fear, maintaining a good headspace while projecting, dealing with injuries in a constructive way, or learning to find what motivates you. Mental skills are often necessary to progress, climb safely, and honestly they just make climbing a whole lot more fun and rewarding."
– Matt Cochrane
“I now view setbacks as opportunities to learn from, instead of seeing them as threats to who I am.”
– Unblocd Climber
"Climbing mindset is really, really important to me. Why is this? Because it's not just your climbing that improves when you actually work on your mindset, but I think your life improves too."
–  Penny Scully

Meet your webinar hosts

Unblocd resources and courses are created by qualified sport psychologists who are passionate climbers.

Madeleine Crane

Madeleine is a sport psychologist from Austria with a background in competitive climbing. She is a pioneer in climbing psychology and, along with recreational climbers, has worked with competitive climbers and federations internationally, among others the Pro Climbing League, World Climbing Europe and Google. She can’t think of a single sport whose inherent nature is mentally more challenging and fascinating.

Kaisa Soininen

Kaisa is a sport psychologist from Finland, specializing in mindfulness, stress management, habit building, and fostering commitment to act according to our values. She mainly works with recreational climbers worldwide. Beyond working with individual climbers, Kaisa collaborates with climbing gyms, climbing organizations, and climbing medicine professionals to promote a healthy, sustainable, and psychologically informed climbing culture. A passionate climber herself, Kaisa fell in love with the sport when her son introduced her to bouldering and she's been hooked ever since!
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