What is Inner Game?

Here is a quote from a recent article in the Healthy Lifestyles Living blog. As a life coach, I help people to take control of their ‘inner game’, and therefore take control of their life. “It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the...

    “There are more players that have the talent to be the best in the world than there are winners,” says Timothy Gallwey, the author of several books about the mental side of tennis, golf, and other pursuits. “One way of looking at it is that winners get...

Tim Gallwey is recognized by many as the pioneer of executive coaching.  He once gane public and corporate open seminars with Sir John Whitmore, the author of Performance Coaching. These workshops began with a demonstration of Inner Game coaching on the tennis court...

Second, this weekend WGBH is broadcasting a half hour introduction to the Inner Game of Tennis during their pledge drive promotion on Saturday, November 13 from 4:00-4:30 and Saturday, November 20th from 12-12:30 set your DVR or watch it live. Tim Gallwey '60 was a...

After several years of planning, production recently launched for Tim’s upcoming “Inner Game” television special targeted for initial broadcast on Flagship PBS Station WGBH later this year.
As part of this new “Inner Game” media initiative a “Conversation with Tim Gallwey” was also filmed.
From “Inner Game of Tennis” to his recently released book “Inner Game of Stress” Tim provides us with an all encompassing and enlightening commentary about his work, his journey and his “Inner Game”.
“A Conversation with Tim Gallwey” DVD will be available on this site and is priced at 49.95. Please sign up for release date information on the right.

When Timothy Gallwey published The Inner Game of Tennis in 1974, the premise that peak performance in athletics had as much to do with mental control as physical prowess was downright outlandish. Today, the connection between mind and body is taken as more or less a...

What part of your game is your biggest strength/weakness? I think my biggest strengths are determination and topspin. Although, my unintentional mis-hit lob winners are pretty lethal and annoy a lot of people.   My biggest weakness is probably being too analytical and...

For the past twenty years Gallwey has taken his Inner Game expertise to many of America’s top companies, including AT&T, Coca-Cola, Apple, and IBM, to teach their managers and employees how to gain better access to their own internal resources.What inner obstacles...

"The next time you're on the practice tee, take a few swings and try humming to yourself while swinging. Listen to the humming. "I hadn't considered my swing particularly tight, but my humming told me differently. I could actually hear the tightness of my swing in the...

Tim Gallwey, the former tennis coach who’s now an executive coach, is the author of a series of books on the inner game. In his book, The Inner Game of Work, Tim introduces a process called transposing. It’s a process I’d recommend to my friend the deputy and to anyone else who is trying to influence a challenging boss.