I really enjoyed the program. I learned new things about the mindset and a lot about myself. I recognised many things, and now I can improve it. I’m working on what I can do when I get nervous. For example paying attention to my breathing and muscle tension, that helps me a lot. And using Friendly Eyes for myself is something I’m practicing every day.

Marvellous course which at 84 years old changed mindsets I no longer needed. It has opened up all aspects of my life- personal relations to myself & others, as a founding nember of a young intergenerational ecovillage & farm & even in learning my first musical instument, the cello! Heartfelt gratitude for Discover & your kindness in making it affordable for me as a pensioner.

I’m a senior software developer and a parent of 4 wonderful kids. I wish I had experienced the Discover course 30 years ago but it’s never too late. I will continue with the other courses and will have my kids experience this course as well.

I did the Discover Course three times over the past two years, and it completely changed the way I approached music-making and relationships. It is well-structured, simple to understand and powerful in its effect. I’m now on a path to find a kinder, more efficient and more passionate me (the right kind of passion!).
I highly recommend the course!

Friendly eyes made me realise that being kind to yourself is a good thing, and this is something which I had never done before. It is helping me a lot with dealing with stage fright and performance anxiety when I have to sing in front of people. But most of all it’s helping me to bring back the joy and the fun in what I do, which had gone away because of the Story thinking going on in my head. The book on mindset for sports is very well explained and simple to read. The online course gave me even further understanding on how to apply Friendly Eyes on a practical level. Thank you Jackie for sharing your knowledge and thank you Barbara Hannigan for suggesting me to read Mindset.

Thank you so much for providing this wonderful course. It is exactly what I needed to get some clarity of mind and simply have more fun. Also it helps me to enjoy my (amateur) violin playing more by not focusing on a perfect result any more. I will definetely start the experience course now and recommend this course to everyone!

The Mindset & FriendlyEyes philosophy is a great inspiration for me and my work. I started with the books that were eye opening and which I introduced to many of the players I coach, their coaches and parents. The Discover course is a great way of deepening the insights. I will certainly use some of the exercises that were given. Since 3 weeks I’ve started with Experience. The course is motivating to do regular meditation and deepen my practice. I will continue to spread the word about Friendly Eyes.

Great course!

After having read Jackie’s books about mindset in tennis and mindset in daily life, I decided to sign up for the Discover course.
The discover course really helped me to understand how I can practice my concentration on a daily basis. Thank you Jackie for reminding me every single day to focus on friendly eyes and the different instruments.
In my opinion, this friendly eyes stuff is very simple, but at the same time very powerful. I would recommend this course to everyone who wants to work on their concentration. In addition, the Discover course gave me a new perspective on competition (e.g. a tennis match) but also on life in general. I am very grateful for that!

This course was recommended to me by my singing teacher and I can honestly say that it was the best advice she could have ever given me. I am not a very patient person and can be very hard on myself, but Jackie’s pleasant and kind energy helped me so much to stay kind to myself during the course. A big thank you toward the Friendly Eyes team! I am very grateful for the knowledge, inspiration and exercises that were shared during this course. They really helped me to experience what it is to train in a constructive way, instead of tearing myself down each time something doesn’t work out as I hoped it would. Thank you so much!

The Discover course is very nice! So many helpful examples and tips. I really liked the routine and structure of the course. I really made some progress in having Friendly Eyes and being more focussed. Many thanks to Jackie and the team!

I am so glad that I was told by my vocal coach about this course. During this global pandemic, working in the cultural sector and on top of that having to recover from major back surgery, this was THE medicine I needed without even knowing it. I have found how acceptance is my healer and have realised how unkind I was to my self during practice time but also just throughout the day, and I had no idea. This course has given me the building blocks of a strong foundation for myself. I am kinder both to myself as to others, happier, calmer, more flexible, … and more myself. All this while being focused and aware. I have already started with the experience course to continue this journey. Thank you Jackie and team for making this so broadly accessible!!! Please keep doing what you are doing!

I’d like to thank Jackie and her team for the great online course on focus. I truly enjoyed it! Jackie explained the theory crystal clear, to the point and in a fun way. I enjoyed watching the carefully selected videos. The course provides you with loads of tools to practice in daily life. Highly recommended.

I won the 5.5 nationals USTA in 2006 my game started to stagnate with age and injuries Jackie has been a game changer I got the book Mindset from a student and have not looked back. She is magic and I am playing great.

What a privilege to have met Jackie Reardon in a street café in Amsterdam prior to her Mindset books being published. Her passion, authenticity, humour and creative ideas are truly inspiring and I realised right there that greatness would follow. Over the past 12 years, I have found Jackie’s courses and workshops, Mindset books, Internet Courses and the times we could meet again extremely helpful personally in becoming a better person and more successful Junior National tennis coach. I have also grown to become better equipped to assist young competitive juniors develop their mental skills and to improve their performances. Her follow up courses of FRIENDLY EYES and DISCOVER are remarkable progressions that I highly recommend to everyone. I have certainly seen great improvement in concentration skills, staying in the moment, dealing better with the pressures of competition and coping better with emotions and mistake management for all who complete the courses. I can watch the video clippings over and over as they help with reinforcing the practical application and training on a daily basis.

Great course learning to be in the now. I really like the term “story thinking”. Brought a lot of awareness. and also important; Friendly eyes! Don’t be too hard on yourself. First time I missed the 6th week so I had to do discover twice.

I am immensely thankful for Mindset and Friendly Eyes. I am a professional violinist and have always been plagued with paralysing self criticism. When I first read Mindset, I was amazed to find that top athletes had similar story thinking issues to my own. This helped me realize that the negative criticism isn’t really a true picture of reality. I now understand that it is just story thinking and it is much easier to replace it with Friendly Eyes. The Discover course has been an invaluable tool in helping me to create a new habit of friendly eyes, curiosity and acceptance. It is now much easier to perform and enjoy the process. Thank you so much; this has been a lifesaver for me!

I think that this course was very helpful to me and would recommend it to anybody it is very easy to follow and doesn’t take too much space in your day.

This course was so amazing and helpful in so many different ways! As a high performance athlete mental strength is so important, but even though we all know it is something to work on not many programs help teach how to achieve it. This course was easy to follow, easy to understand, and offered a simplistic view on different mental adversities. Overall it has helped my mental game on court tremendously, and I am so thankful that this course is accessible to everyone. 10/10 would recommend to any other athletes and basically anyone!

I am in a period of transition, not least because of the current state of the world, mid-pandemic, but also because of a big gear shift in my career, involving moving country. The last experience I had as a performer (a singer), literally up until lockdown came into affect and stopped everything in it’s tracks, was one in which I realised something in my mindset was very wrong and needed to be changed. If it wasn’t addressed, I knew for a fact that this next stage and my future career as a whole was going to be really, really difficult and cause huge problems for me. The discover course has begun to shift my mindset and bring enjoyment back into what I am doing, along with forgiveness and kindness to myself which I needed. Most importantly, overall Friendly Eyes has brought me much more happiness, lightness and joy to all areas of my life. I only hope that when I’m eventually back in pressurised situations I continue to benefit from this wonderful course. THANK YOU.

I’m a musician (singer and pianist), and I have done some performance coaching earlier, so before this course I was already aware of “story thinking” in my musician’s daily life. What was remarkable was that before this course I hadn’t even noticed, how compulsive I was in other parts of my life. For example I’ve had very little self confidence when it came to practicing sports, especially doing individual sports like running or yoga – because I couldn’t escape my own judgemental thoughts. This course has given simple tools to work on my concentration in my daily life. I’m definitely going to do Experience. I have also recommended this course to my friends and it has been especially good for some people I know that suffer from depression and other mental conditions.

I’m a very anxious tennis player who has been struggling with a poor mindset for years. I’ve read countless books and listen to many podcasts and it surely helped but nothing like Jackies’ book which gave me a real kick. It’s all very practical and easy to work on. I’m not there yet, far from it but now I have hope, even faith.????

What a wonderful experience this 6 week course, I learned so much! I followed a yogateacher training in the past during the weekends. Jackie’s training is for me a way to apply yoga to tennis and other sports. Another way to practice! It also helps me in daily life. I feel grateful, that I came across your Mindset-approach and the easy access offered to the training. Thank you so much, Jackie!

I am a singer who applied for the Equilibrium Young Artists program by Barbara Hannigan and spending some quality time on that website I discovered Friendly Eyes. I just want to share that the Discover course has been incredibly helpful in the moment in which I am. I had lost my “goals” or my “joy” singing because of my constant story thinking and I was frustrated just because I knew that I sing well but I couldn’t give my best because I was not in the moment. All these exercises and instruments have helped me (I also began to meditate). I have always been very disperse with my attention and concentration. I used to say “I am disperse” but I don’t say it anymore because I can train my concentration and I am starting to understand how it works. In this “Corona crisis” these courses are also helping me a lot. I’m going to start Experience. Thank you so much and you will hear from me in three months!! ????

As a music college student you have a lot a pressure from yourself, your teachers, your classmates and orchestra to be a good musician. Not only good, the best. I have for many years suffered from stage fright. I believed that it was stress and just pure nervousness that made me that way, but after doing Dicsover and working on myself I realize that it was not stress, nor nervousness, it was the fear of failing. After realizing that and accepting myself, my playing and the fear of failing I wasn’t afraid anymore! Now I have no problem with stage fright! Of course I get a bit nervous, but in a good way. But I’m not afraid anymore! Thank you Jackie and the friendly eyes team! You helped me open my eyes with Friendly Eyes.

Mindset: A mental guide for sport provides a deep insight to the mental side of sport and a guideline on how to handle pressure, overcome ego and control emotion. My daughter is 12 years old, she started playing tennis at age 6. Almost every time playing a tournament, she is very nervous, her mind is often full of doubt and frustration. After reading the book, I realized she was playing against three opponents – the opponent of her tennis match, herself and her dad – I always thought tennis is about winning the match and you can only be either a loser or a winner. After reading the book, I realized as a tennis dad, in order to help my daughter becoming a good tennis player, she and myself have to first become ‘action thinkers’, meaning focusing on the moment and process. You may always win and may win the match once and sometimes twice with the mindset method and friendly eyes. Ren Recreational Tennis Player & Tennis Dad for my daughter Victoria

Friendly Eyes has meant a lot to me. It is very practical and I apply it daily. Friendly eyes, good mistakes and no judgment have made me different in my daily life. I also give ‘friendly eyes’ training to young football players and students to learn how to focus and look at themselves without judgment. Friendly eyes can be an enrichment for your daily life.