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The Return: Training Your Present-Moment Awareness
The
Mindful
Athlete
Course
The Return: Training Your Present-Moment Awareness
The Return: Training Your Present-Moment Awareness
The Mindful Athlete Course Fall 2026 Study Group
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”
- Sharon Salzberg
For more than three decades, people from all around the world have asked me to help improve their performance and shift their mindset. That work has earned me the nickname “Performance Whisperer”; I’ve done that for everyone from Hall of Fame athletes across many sports, Olympians, and CEOs to the hundreds of coaches, teachers, parents, and entrepreneurs who have taken The Mindful Athlete Course since we launched it in 2020.
What am I actually whispering? At its core, it’s simple: I’m acting as a guide, helping you to tap into a wisdom and potential that’s always available. When you do that, you’re Unlocking the masterpiece within — stripping away your conditioning and old habits and patterns to arrive at the core of who you are… the divine spark, the reason you’re here.
In The Mindful Athlete Course, you’ll learn that everything is an “inside game” and that pure performance starts with the mind. You’ll learn the crucial importance of “getting comfortable being uncomfortable!” And you’ll come to see that who you are in the world at large is what you bring to your sport or any area of life you want to be better at.
For this Six-Week Study Group, I’ll teach you to train your present moment awareness, the inner muscle you have to build in order to succeed on the path to pure performance. You’ll learn concrete strategies and practices to do that using The Five Superpowers from the book.
Our goal is to create a way of being where The Return, as I’m calling it here, becomes automatic. Because we all get distracted. Our minds wander. We go down mental rabbit holes of fear, doubt, anger, and insecurity.
But can we create the habit of coming back to our awareness of the now, of this moment, without the story... over and over again? It’s a foundational concept and the one practice that sets up all the rest!.
These are more than just things I’ve read and talk about. I’ve lived these principles for 40+ years, starting with the day I decided to get clean and sober. I wrote about them in The Mindful Athlete ten years ago. And this Fall, we’re going to explore them in-depth in our next Six Week Study Group.
Pure performance is ultimately a leap of faith. Are you ready to jump with me?
The effects on your work, your relationships, your health and wellness, or your sport will be profound.
It all begins by developing a greater level of self-awareness and then self-regulating by accessing that quiet place within — that Eye of the Hurricane — amidst the swirl of life. You can learn to go to that place of calm any time you need.
From there, you’ll be able to see the whole picture and slow down and respond consciously with choices that serve you better instead of simply reacting to situations/others/feelings on auto-pilot. That’s another foundational concept that we learn and practice, again and again.
As I like to say, it’s an inside game and one that only you can play. I’ll teach you how.
To help support you as you’re doing this work, you’ll become part of a growing and active community that I’ve been building over the past few years. We’ll gather again on Zoom for six consecutive weeks starting Wednesday, October 14th as part of the next 6-Week Intensive (Study Group), which I lead twice a year.
You and your fellow students will learn how to create that space between stimulus and response. To access that Eye of the Hurricane. To get comfortable being uncomfortable. To be at rest or ease in spite of any challenges that arise. And to ask the right questions that will help you define and achieve the things you really want in life.
When you learn and practice these concepts, you begin to take more responsibility for your life, your choices, your reactions, and your energy. I believe that’s true freedom.
Finally, by doing this inner work, you’ll not only help yourself, you’ll be helping the world-at-large. Philosopher Martin Buber wrote about embracing the ‘still small voice’ within, which many of us drown out. “If a man makes peace in himself, he can make peace in the world.”
Won’t you join me as we explore the keys to inner wisdom, more flow & greater success?
The Mindful Athlete Course Includes:
- The 7 Core Modules of the Mindful Athlete Course
- Access to “The Return”, the upcoming 6-Week Study Group that runs from October 14 to November 18, 2026
- Recordings from the thirteen previous Six-Week Study Groups (78 Zoom calls)
- An Independent Study Guide PDF
- Ongoing Q&A Coaching Calls with George
- Guided Meditation and Exercises
- Bonus Videos & Content
- Private Facebook Group
Get access for only:
$897
$299
Benefits of The Mindful Athlete Course
I’m George Mumford, and I’m here to teach you how to unlock your own masterpiece with The Mindful Athlete Course.
The culmination of years of working with some of the most dedicated, challenging people in the world, this course teaches you practices, a mindset, and ultimately a “way of being” that you need to push through the stuff that’s distracting you: the life stuff, your knee-jerk reaction to external stress, and even the unconscious attachment you have to your suffering.
Sign up now for lifetime access and I can help you gain:
- More courage
- Control of your own responses
- Greater resilience
- A deeper sense of connection with yourself and others
- Responsibility for your choices, reactions, and energy
- A community of like-minded learners
- Tools to Unlock your masterpiece within
- Strategies to eliminate moments of self-sabotage
- A sustainable level of performance (what I call “Pure Performance”)
- More peace, more joy, and more creativity
- A “Way of Being” that supports all of these!
For athletes, and those wanting to perform at their highest level in any capacity.
My Story: From the Locker Room to the Board Room
I’ve been lucky enough to coach some of the most revered athletes in the world, from NBA champions to Olympians, working with them to level-up their performance on and off the court, the field, or the track. I’ve helped them create new habits and new mindsets and develop new practices that let them act from that space between stimulus and response.
The practices that have helped them stay in “the zone” despite the scrutiny of the fans, their coaches and, at times, the world.
But it’s not only high-level athletes who have benefited from these practices; I’ve worked with everyone from Yale to jail, from stressed-out boardroom executives to artists who’ve hit a block in their creativity.
I’ve shown each and every one of them that everything is connected.
That who you are in the world at large is who you are on the court, on the field, on the yoga mat, in the boardroom.
And whatever challenges you’re facing, or whatever you want to achieve, if your mind is constantly distracted with thoughts and emotions, if you’re focusing on how you’re doing instead of what you’re doing, you’re no longer in that flow state that’ll carry you to your optimal performance.
These are the concepts and practices that will help you unlock your own masterpiece.
“Full of wisdom and heart, both a moving story and powerful practices from a very fine teacher. George Mumford shows how to find freedom in a game fully played and a life well lived.”
- Jack Kornfield, acclaimed author of more than 20 best-selling book on mindfulness
What You’ll Get If You Join:
Module 1:
Why You Absolutely HAVE TO Have Your Ass on Fire
Why is is to important to have your ass on fire?
Module 1 will reveal all — it’ll help you determine whether your ass is on fire and what you can do if it isn’t.
It’ll also show you how to get the most bang for your buck as you move through the course, how to join in with our community of mindful athletes, and why it’s so important that you have the support of others as you start chipping away at that inner masterpiece.
Modules 2-6:
The 5 Superpowers
In modules 2 - 6, I’ll teach you the 5 superpowers that will keep you at the top of your game, no matter what: concentration, right effort, insight, trust, and mindfulness.
Forget the jargon though, I’m going to break down, in simple terms, what each of these actually means.
We’ll look at how you’ve struggled with these areas in the past and how other athletes are making the most of each superpower in their own practice. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to take each concept and put it into practice yourself.
Module 7: Practice!
By the time you hit module 7, you’ll know what it’s going to take to unlock that divine spark inside you.
But knowing and doing isn’t always the same thing! So I’m still in this with you…
In this module I’m going to show you:
- How to take these ideas and use them to develop a daily practice
- How to create new habits that’ll help you live more creatively
- How to respond rather than react
- How to make a daily commitment to excellence
We’ll look further into the support you can get from those around you, whether that’s our Facebook community or a community near you. We’ll show you how to connect with an accountability partner and how to continue your study (there’s always more to learn!).
And I’ll help you find new ways to connect you to your masterpiece, through nature, through music, through community — whatever works for you — and how to incorporate them into your life every day.
Plus
Access to “The Return”, the upcoming 6-Week Study Group that runs from October 14 to November 18, 2026
Recordings from the thirteen previous Six-Week Study Groups (78 Zoom calls)
Quarterly Q&A Coaching Calls with George
Guided Meditation and Exercises
Bonus Videos & Content
Private Facebook Group
Special Opportunities and Meetups
Get access for only:
$897
$299
Are You on the Fence?
You already know right now whether this course is right for you. If it is, I’m asking you to trust me and to take the plunge.
But why now? Tomorrow is never guaranteed, and yesterday is gone. That leaves today. This moment.
You’ve spent too long chipping away at your masterpiece, now is the time to uncover those final layers. It’s time to prove to yourself what you can achieve.
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You need this now, but more importantly, the world needs this NOW. This new “Way of Being” that will emerge as you unlock. Like a chrysalis becoming a butterfly.
The world is crying out for more people who know themselves, and who can express themselves, who can be themselves. The world needs people who have found joy and peace and who’ve found a way to connect with others, through connecting first with themselves.
Are you ready to unlock all of that??