About this Event
Writing Your Own Playbook with Seth Davis
For almost every college athlete, their playing career ends there. A final buzzer, a graduation date, an injury, a roster cut — and suddenly the identity you've built your whole life around isn't the thing that defines your days anymore. Almost no one prepares you for that moment.
In this workshop, Seth draws on decades of access and research, plus his own writing on mental health, pressure, and meditation, to guide student-athletes as they start building a life beyond their time as a player.
Through honest conversation and guided reflection, participants will explore:
- Who am I without the jersey? Separating self-worth from performance and identity from position.
- The transition nobody trains you for — why leaving sport can feel like grief, and how to navigate it.
- From competitor to contributor — translating the discipline, resilience, and teamwork built in sport into what comes next.
- Writing your own playbook — practical tools for setting purpose-driven goals beyond athletics.
Athletes will leave with a clearer sense of identity beyond their sport, language for talking about the mental and emotional weight of transition, and a starting framework for defining what "winning" looks like in the next chapter of their life.
This workshop will be followed by a networking reception, bringing together student-athletes, sports business students, professional athletes, executives, and industry professionals from across the region. The goal is to create an informal space for meaningful conversation, mentorship, and connection — giving students the opportunity to engage directly with leaders in sport and build relationships with both industry professionals and their peers.
About World Mental Health Day Festival
The Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Festival is where visionaries, thought leaders, culture-markers, and advocates gather to celebrate and shape the future of mental health. The Festival convenes the most consequential leaders from across public policy, media, culture, sports, business, and the research worlds for groundbreaking conversations about the future of mental health. From headline-making mainstage talks featuring luminaries like Jonathan Haidt and Katie Couric, to cause-driven fitness programming like mindful fitness classes led by Kendall Toole and Kelsey Wells, celebratory runs with Timm Chuisano, Hellah Sidibe and Raymond Braun, and Equinox meditation experiences, this is where the world gathers for World Mental Health Day.
About Project Healthy Minds
Project Healthy Minds is a next-gen mental health tech non-profit dedicated to expanding access to mental health services across the country. Project Healthy Minds is building the world’s first free digital mental health marketplace, destigmatizing mental health by partnering with culture-makers, and improving access and affordability by advocating for innovative workplace investments in employee mental health. The non-profit is focused on closing the treatment gap in America by attacking these primary barriers to care: stigma, discoverability, and affordability. Project Healthy Minds’ programmatic initiatives serve more than 200,000 people annually.
Event venue & nearby stays
Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York, United States
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