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Perform Better Under Pressure

With Insight Timer

Pressure doesn't have to derail performance. In this course, you'll learn how to harness stress as a catalyst for clarity and action through a guided mindset shift and meditation that redefines your relationship with challenge.

AnxietyStressWorkplacePsychologySecular MindfulnessMindfulness MeditationStress & AnxietyPerformanceScienceSecularMindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Insight Timer
Sydney NSW, Australia

Modupe Akinola is one of the most highly rated professors at Columbia Business School and a leading expert on stress, leadership, and diversity in the workplace. With a background in advising global organizations on strategic direction and effectiveness, her award-winning research explores how stress impacts employee performance and how companies can foster more inclusive, resilient work environments. Christian Straka is a mental performance coach with over 30 years of experience in professional sports, having trained world champions across multiple disciplines. He integrates evidence-based mindfulness techniques to enhance focus and performance and currently serves as the Global Mindset Coach for adidas Runners. Christian is also the co-founder of Mindsize Sports, Maverick Community, and Maverick Forward, and is certified through UCLA’s Mindfulness Facilitation program and Unified Mindfulness.

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2 Days

5.3k students

4.7 stars

9 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Theory: Making Mistakes Under Pressure

This session explores how changing our relationship with stress can transform the way we lead, work, and perform. Rather than trying to eliminate stress entirely, you'll learn how to recognize its potential as a source of focus, energy, and growth. By welcoming stress and reframing it as an opportunity, we don’t just aim to stress less—we learn to stress better, using it as a tool for resilience and success.

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Lesson 2

Practice: How To Perform Better Under Pressure

This practice helps you shift your experience of stress from something overwhelming to something empowering. Through focused awareness and grounding techniques, you’ll learn to recognize the physical and mental signs of stress, neutralize their impact, and begin using that energy to enhance clarity, focus, and performance, both in high-pressure moments and everyday challenges.

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4.7 (210)

Recent Reviews

Lynne

August 5, 2024

Very good. Will listen again to soak it in. Thanks

Stephanie

April 5, 2024

Very helpful

Trust

November 29, 2022

This will definitely take practice. The approach was learning.

Paulina

October 12, 2022

Great approach. I enjoyed the practice and I can see how so can I corporate this throughout my day.

Jyoti

October 11, 2022

Excellent abd unique and helpful

Sallie

October 11, 2022

Practical. Excellent.

Layla

October 11, 2022

Very helpful! I wjll the this at home too. Thank you!

Richard

October 11, 2022

Leaning to engage stress constructively as well as learning to process the less pleasant side of stress made this course very worthwhile.

Barbara

October 11, 2022

Excellent! So glad this came today; I definitely need to change my mindset about stress. I will practice this. Thank you so much Insight Timer.🙏🙏❤️

Laurie

October 11, 2022

Super helpful, thank you!

Adriana

October 11, 2022

Music and more softeness on the voice would make the meditation easier The idea is great

Bob

October 11, 2022

Great start diving into workplace mindfulness

Kayla

October 7, 2022

I feel amazing after that!! Thankyou so much!

Ortal

September 28, 2022

Very interesting!

Stas

August 17, 2022

This was so helpful! Thank you

Judith

August 17, 2022

Really, really good! As a stress counselor with 20 years of experience I learned something today. Thank you! 💙🙏🏾💙

Fungi

August 17, 2022

Interesting with the two parts and the reminder to look at the stress instead of avoiding it.

Wandi

August 17, 2022

Thank you 🙏

AJ

August 16, 2022

Thank you for this. It is really helpful

Greg

August 16, 2022

Nice approach!

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