Psychological Support and Education
for Climbing Coaches
Being a coach isn't always easy: How do you deal with pressure in competitions or with expectations of your employer, of the federation, the athletes and their parents? How do you deal with always being assessed based on your athletes' results or constantly being on the road? How do you detach from work and manage to balance different domains of your life?
And how can you mentally support your athletes and help them grow in the best possible way? How do you communicate with your athletes, foster their confidence and emotionally support them when they need it?
We believe that there is nothing more powerful in climbing than a coach who truly understands their athletes.
We aim to help coaches to better support their athletes mentally – and hence become holistically better coaches.
Join our Free Class for Climbing Coaches:
The Psychology Behind Motivation
How We Support Climbing Coaches
1:1 for Climbing Coaches
Our 1:1 coaching for climbing coaches offers the opportunity to dive deep into their own leadership style and coaching philosophy, while equipping them with the tools to better support their athletes’ mental game. Free 30 min introduction call.
Coach Education Classes
Our Coach Education Classes are interactive group workshops designed to explore specific topics in depth. Coaches engage with practical exercises and discussions, building skills they can immediately apply with their athletes. New dates are announced at the start of each year.
Collaborations with Climbing Gyms
Our mental training workshops for climbing staff provide coaches with practical tools to build a strong foundation for supporting their athletes. We’ve successfully worked with several climbing gyms, helping teams foster both performance and wellbeing through evidence-based mental skills training.
Collaborations with Climbing Federations
Most psychological support focuses on athletes, which is of course important. What’s often overlooked is supporting climbing coaches. Our 1:1 coaching and workshops help coaches develop their leadership, communication, and mental skills to better support their athletes.
Coach Education Classes – Dates
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Coaching Youth Climbers
New classes coming in 2026! If you'd like to organize an internal class for your gym or federation, please get in touch with us!
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Mastering Emotions
New classes coming in 2026! If you'd like to organize an internal class for your gym or federation, please get in touch with us!
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Communication
New classes coming in 2026! If you'd like to organize an internal class for your gym or federation, please get in touch with us!
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Fostering Confidence
New classes coming in 2026! If you'd like to organize an internal class for your gym or federation, please get in touch with us!
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Eating Disorder Prevention
New classes coming in 2026! If you'd like to organize an internal class for your gym or federation, please get in touch with us!
Join our Free Class for Climbing Coaches:
The Psychology Behind Motivation
How We Support Climbing Coaches
1:1 for Climbing Coaches
Our 1:1 coaching for climbing coaches offers the opportunity to dive deep into their own leadership style and coaching philosophy, while equipping them with the tools to better support their athletes’ mental game. Free 30 min introduction call.
Coach Education Classes
Our Coach Education Classes are interactive group workshops designed to explore specific topics in depth. Coaches engage with practical exercises and discussions, building skills they can immediately apply with their athletes. New dates are announced at the start of each year.
Collaborations with Climbing Gyms
Our mental training workshops for climbing staff provide coaches with practical tools to build a strong foundation for supporting their athletes. We’ve successfully worked with several climbing gyms, helping teams foster both performance and wellbeing through evidence-based mental skills training.
Collaborations with Climbing Federations
Most psychological support focuses on athletes, which is of course important. What’s often overlooked is supporting climbing coaches. Our 1:1 coaching and workshops help coaches develop their leadership, communication, and mental skills to better support their athletes.
We are always looking forward to hearing from you and adapting our offers to your needs and wishes!
We are excited to share that we will be releasing dates for our online Coach Education Classes, open to all, in early 2026. To ensure you won’t miss it, consider joining our waitlist.
Gyms, Educational Programs, and Teams We Have Worked With:
What You Don’t Get
No fluff — just the good stuff. We only share the proven frameworks and tools that have a track record of results.
No quick fixes. (The mind is a complex infrastructure and doesn't rewire overnight). There are so many different mental aspects to learn about as a coach and becoming mentally stronger is an on-going journey – for both you as a coach and your athletes. This is the start to becoming more aware of what you can do, what impact you have and how to foster both your athletes’ performance, enjoyment and well-being in climbing.
Our classes are designed to help you better understand your team. But learning and hearing about something is something completely different to applying it. The application of what you learn is up to you. We recommend you to reflect yourself on what you have learnt afterwards, so you can better implement your lessons learnt into your every day training.
The Team
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"A coach who integrates psychological strategies into their approach can better support athletes in handling performance pressure, sustaining motivation, and achieving long-term growth."
Madeleine Crane
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"The mental side of climbing is as challenging as the physical. By educating coaches in climbing psychology, we empower them to create environments that foster confidence, adaptability, and emotional regulation for their athletes."
Carina Jungblut
What Climbing Coaches Are Saying About Our Education Classes
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We enjoy working with Madeleine a lot! She's been educating different levels of trainers during the national federation's trainersweekend. Not only is she very professional and knows from a competitors, as well as from a sportpsychologists background what she's talking about, but she's also very enthousiastic, motivating the trainers and climbers and creating valuable and inspiring interactions.
A. Van Weert, Netherlands
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Whether you are a competition climber or weekend warrior Madeleine can help you address the mental barriers that hold us back in sport. We attended a workshop for coaches, here in Ireland for Mountaineering Ireland, which really highlighted how communication, body language and visualisation can help the mindset of the athletes you work with to facilitate their best performances. She also provided a workshop on the Psychology of Sending and after applying the principles of the workshop it enabled me to unlock the sequence of my project and I sent it 2 weeks later. I would highly recommend Madeleine to anyone who is willing to explore and develop their thought processes to enhance their performance in life. It really works!
R. Hunter, Ireland
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Definitey great and very professional expercts! They know what they are doing and have a deep and close relationship and insight in climbing, climbing comunity, training amd competition area... They knows how to serve you those knowldege on understandabe and interesting way! Definitely reccomend ;)
M. Markovič, Slovenia
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Climbing Psychology has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and shares it in so many different ways to appeal to all members of the climbing community - from individual climbers struggling with the mental game of climbing, to coaches and parents supporting athletes. I have taken four Coach Education Classes with Madeleine, and I have benefited from and enjoyed each one. I have never gone into one of these sessions with no knowledge on the topic - normally I would have some experience in the matter, or would have carried out some research myself. But without question, no matter how much I know beforehand, I learn something new in these sessions. We will never know everything, and the interactive nature of the sessions allows coaches to share their experiences from all over the world. We all get to learn and share together in a safe, open environment. Can't wait for some more sessions!
N. Kavanagh, Ireland