UPCOMING CLIMBING WORKSHOPS:

Climbing Psychology

  • Fear of Falling: Overcoming Mental Barriers

    Saturday 26th April 12:00-15:15

    Does fear of falling hold you back? This session explores how fear impacts the brain and distracts you from your performance. You’ll learn proven strategies—such as gradual exposure, controlled breathing, and other mental techniques—to help you manage fear and feel more confident pushing your limits.

    In the practical session, you’ll engage in a series of structured exercises and challenges designed to gradually build your confidence, refine your falling technique, and develop strategies for managing fear. With a focus on controlled progression, you'll have the opportunity to push your limits at your own pace in a supportive and encouraging environment.

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  • Mental Toughness: Pushing Harder on the Wall

    Saturday 17th May 12:00-15:15

    Finding it difficult to push your grade or worried about other climbers' judgments? This session delves into how the fear of failure affects your climbing mindset and performance. You’ll learn how to shift your focus from avoiding failure to embracing it as a powerful learning tool. Key strategies include building resilience, coping with unhelpful thoughts, and setting stretch goals for progress.


    In the practical session, you’ll put these concepts into action through dynamic, challenge-based climbing exercises. These will help you navigate mental and physical barriers, refine your technique, and stay focused under pressure, building both confidence and resilience on the wall.

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  • Visualisation and Focus: Seeing Success Before You Climb

    Saturday 7th June 12:00-15:15

    Struggling with route reading or staying focused? Learn how to mentally rehearse climbs using step-by-step visualisation techniques, make better decisions under pressure, and enter a ‘flow state’ for improved performance. The theoretical component will cover visualisation techniques, focus training, and building confidence, helping you mentally rehearse moves, cruxes, and flow.

    In the second half of the session, you'll take on route-reading challenges and engage in practical visualisation drills with a coach. These exercises will help you refine your ability to assess climbs, anticipate movements, and integrate mental strategies into your climbing, enhancing both confidence and efficiency on the wall.

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Each 3-hour session is split into two parts:

  • 1.5 hours with Natacha – Learn about the psychological skills that improve climbing performance.

  • 1.5 hours with a coach – Put those strategies into action through practical climbing exercises.

You can book individual workshops or take part in the full series to get a complete set of tools for mental training in climbing.

Natacha will also be available for 1-on-1 mental skills coaching.

Meet Natacha

These workshops are led by Natacha, a Sport and Exercise Psychologist in Training with BASES, who specialises in adventure and endurance sports. With experience in bouldering, climbing, mountaineering, and multi-sport endurance events, she understands the psychological challenges climbers face—whether that’s fear of falling, struggling to push harder, or finding focus before a climb.