Mental Strength, Stress Competence & Mental Fitness for Executives
Mental strength is the deciding factor in business: Pressure to perform, complexity, and change processes challenge teams and executives more than ever. Our mental training combines methods from elite sports, psychology, and experiential learning to sustainably strengthen stress competence, focus, and resilience.
Service Overview:
Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck — former DSV Olympic mental trainer — transfers proven techniques from elite sports to everyday leadership.
Whether it is breathing techniques, inner imagery, or focusing methods: what ski jumpers use before jumping helps executives act confidently and tap into energy purposefully in high-pressure situations.
Suitable for:
This mental training is aimed at:
- Leaders and decision-makers
- Teams undergoing change
- Project managers in dynamic environments
- High-performance teams
Improving Stress Competence - Possible Content
Stress-amplifying patterns of digitality and growing restlessness – how we can encounter them competently. Which “stress-amplifying patterns” are triggered by the “dark side” of digitalization and global communalization? How can we react competently to this in our thinking and actions?
For a compact introduction
Stress Competence Module at the Skywalk → (half-day/full-day, from €129 p.p.)
Recognizing Stress Symptoms
(Insomnia, tension, constant brooding, physical effects) and preventing burnout
Managing stress effectively and sustainably
for work-life balance using mental techniques, relaxation techniques, and the "Anti-Stress First Aid Kit"
Time Management
Prioritizing correctly and identifying and closing "energy drains" (open loops)
Mental Training for Athletes
using self-regulation via breathing techniques, inner imagery, and focusing methods (energy & performance on point) as well as a personal potential plan
From a stressed team to a self-managed team
Mastering challenges together - training in an outdoor setting using business-oriented projects
Being able to confidently master and utilize challenging times within the team
We mirror your initial situation outdoors. Moderated transfer ensures the found solutions are applied to your business framework
Stress-Amplifying Patterns
How to know the thoughts and motives of my environment and incorporate them into action
Mission Statement Development
for strong team cohesion and acting as a solid unit
Team Stress Profile
Full transparency forms the basis of successful collaboration
Individual Stress Profile
with self-test and derived personal action options - keeping your own "energy tank" under control
Stress & Me
Early detection, danger signs | Purpose: Prevention, sensing solutions
Stress & Us
Hit list of digital stress amplifiers — what happens collectively when attention is fragmented. Recognizing urgencies, closing "energy drains" (open loops).
Stress & Leadership:
Helpful principles, attitudes, and methods to develop leadership
Personal Goals and Vision Work
Recognizing and correctly utilizing Determined Moments
Topics and Goals:
How much stress is good — and when does it become a risk? Our mental training makes the difference between pressure and performance visible. From individual stress profiles to self-managed teams, we combine methods from elite sports and psychology with concrete business transfer.
Avoiding Digital Stress Amplifiers
We make these mechanisms visible and develop concrete counter-strategies for everyday work.
Personal Goals & Vision Work
With the Four Life Poles model and an individual potential plan, you create clarity regarding your energy distribution and priorities.
Outdoor Training with Business Transfer
Real challenges in nature ensure that found solutions do not stay on the mountain but reach the consciousness.
Included in every seminar:
Resilience is trainable — those who know their mental patterns remain clear, focused, and capable of acting even under pressure. Our mental training combines techniques from elite sports with scientifically sound stress management and experiential learning.
Expectation Survey:
We ensure that we work on the specific needs of the participants. Flexibility in execution is our standard.
Seminar Materials:
Every participant receives our method manuals & work tools in physical and digital form, as well as e-learning videos where applicable.
Method Mix:
We use modern, field-tested, agile, and stable methods that integrate optimally and are compatible with all industries.
Online Seminars:
A meaningful combination of in-person seminars, webinars, and e-learning means optimal resource use with maximum effect. Fast, lean, effective.
Feedback:
Your feedback is our quality assurance. We look forward to reflecting with you for our continuous improvement process.
Free Bonus Material:
ICO Stress Management: Formats
A compact overview of all ICO formats for stress competence and mental resilience — from daily impulses to process support.
Mental Training German National Whitewater Team
Mental training directly from elite sports — from Peter’s work as co-trainer and mental coach of the German National Whitewater Team.
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Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck
Mental Training in Business: Learning from Elite Sports
The ARD has reported on ICO and mental training at the ski jump — how methods from elite sports help executives act confidently under pressure.
This page shows the methodological program architecture for executives. For the concrete Skywalk practical experience with EBT exercises (Energy Tree, High Trapeze), please visit the full-day Big Event format.
At the ICO Skywalk
Personality Training with ICO Coach Claudia Heil
Principle
Event - Experience - Insight - Result
Being strong when it counts
Chronic stress levels are increasing in the agile working world. During decisive challenges, it is often impossible to act with a “full energy tank.” We provide you and your teams with new options for confident work when it counts.
More Confident in the Hamster Wheel
Is stress harmful?
Usually, the opposite is true. We need a certain stress level to reach operating temperature. We often finish things when there is time pressure.
But how much stress is good?
How can we find a good way to handle pressure?
How do we become more confident in the hamster wheel?
Energy for Decisive Moments
Experiencing stress is normal. Too much of this “stress normality” can be harmful. Absences due to illness must be compensated for by colleagues, leading to further absenteeism. This vicious cycle results in reduced performance. Employee dissatisfaction leads to further loss of performance. We show you how to utilize your reserves effectively.
Planning Life Phases
You recognize the meaning of your current life phase and how to control your life energy to be happy and successful. Use the tool used by many elite athletes to achieve top performance.
Dissolving Stress Patterns
You recognize your stress-amplifying patterns and develop measures to become stress-resistant and successful. You identify open topics and energy drains (“open loops”) and how to process them to keep your energy tank full.
„Right Person, Right Place"
Prior to larger training sessions, we create personality and stress profiles of your participants (self-image and external image — head/heart/gut typology). This creates transparency for collaboration and makes team strengths visible — the basis for high-potential teams and strategic retreats.
Our Method Pool
Our Toolbox:
Our mental training sessions draw on a proven pool of methods — individually combined according to needs:
Comfort Zone Model · Stress Autopilots · Stress-Amplifying Patterns · Feedback Rules · Stress Model · Mental Techniques · Separator Technique · Personality Typologies (MBTI, DISC) · FocusMap & FocusCircle · Empower-Map · Presence Profile · Management Models 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0
Excerpt of our Method Downloads:
Our stress self-diagnosis is based on the scientific work of Prof. Dr. Kai Engbert (Sports Psychologist, Olympic Training Center Munich). The model makes stress-amplifying patterns measurable and provides concrete action options — the bridge between science and practice.
Stress Management
Scientific foundation by Prof. Dr. Kai Engbert for stress self-diagnosis. Recognize stress-amplifying patterns and get your personal energy tank back under control.
Personal Potential Plan
Structured worksheet for peak performance work — systematically recognize your own strengths, develop them specifically, and anchor them in everyday professional life. Enter and track!
Head-Heart-Gut Typology
Self-diagnosis according to the head-heart-gut typology — make your own energy distribution visible, uncover weak points, and manage them situationally.
Stay at the ICO Airbnb in Blaichach
Perfectly suited for multi-day expeditions and team events in the Allgäu. The ICO Airbnb is located in the same building as the ICO Seminar Center and directly on the Iller river. Feel free to inquire about your stay.
- Accommodates up to 6 people
- With kitchen, shower, coffee machine, etc.
- Optimal for intensive seminars and teambuilding
Mental strength is trainable. We show you how.
Let us clarify in a non-binding conversation how stress competence and resilience can be sustainably built up in your company.
Frequently Asked Questions
Stress competence is the confident handling of acute pressure — resilience is the trainable ability to quickly become capable of acting again after pressure. We train both: short-term techniques for the moment and long-term mental strength.
Yes. What ski jumpers use before jumping or what the whitewater national team uses in rushing water are the same mental mechanisms that executives need under pressure: accessing focus, controlling energy, and deciding clearly under uncertainty. Peter Tümmers has been transferring these methods into everyday leadership for over two decades.
Individual techniques (breathing techniques, focusing, "Anti-Stress First Aid Kit") work immediately and can be applied after one session. Sustainable resilience and changed stress patterns require continuous training over several weeks.
Usually not — we need a certain stress level to reach operating temperature. Only chronic "stress normality" becomes harmful. Our mental training makes the difference between pressure and overload visible and shows you how to keep your "energy tank" full.
Both. Individual training for the personal stress profile and individual techniques. Team training — often in an outdoor setting at the ICO Skywalk — when an entire team needs to build stress competence and cohesion, with moderated transfer into everyday business.
With three measurable indicators: (1) Stress profile before/after via Engbert self-diagnosis · (2) Employee health KPIs over 6-12 months (sick days, self-assessment) · (3) Participant feedback immediately after + follow-up after 3 months. For in-house programs, we agree on concrete success metrics in advance.
Yes — our program is modularly structured. We can integrate individual components (stress profile diagnostics, daily impulse, multi-day Skywalk format) into your existing leadership architecture. In-house variant with an ICO trainer at your location available on request.
In-house: We come to you — flexible timeframe, integration into your everyday leadership, ideal for regular appointments. Skywalk format: You come to us in Oberstdorf — 50/50 indoor/outdoor with EBT exercises on the high ropes and energy tree, ideal as an intensive off-site experience. Both variants can be combined for multi-stage programs.
Charisma Leadership
What arises internally during mental training has an external effect — voice and presence profile, language as a means of impact.
Crisis Leader
Mental strength under pressure — when resilience becomes a leadership competence in unstable situations.
More about Peter Tümmers
DSV Olympic mental trainer, sociologist, high-performance coach — the vita behind the method.
Stress Competence Module at the Skywalk
Quick win with 3 mental tools directly at the ICO Skywalk. Half-day format from €129 per person.