The Locker Room Playbook: A Practical Guide to Heal Hurt, Overcome Adversity, and Build Unity

By Stephen Mackey and Damon West

Discover how to achieve success together with this hands-on guide to the lessons found in The Locker Room

In The Locker Room Playbook: A Practical Guide to Heal Hurt, Overcome Adversity, and Build Unity, bestselling author Damon West and player development coach Stephen Mackey teach you how to apply the principles and concepts found in The Locker Room. You’ll find lists of core lessons, chapter summaries, detailed lesson breakdowns, discussion questions, exercises, and key takeaways in every chapter. You’ll also discover:

• Insightful commentary on key concepts, including respect, loyalty, character, teamwork, prejudice, integrity, and mental health
• Crucial blueprints for helping athletes, professionals, and students learn how to navigate all aspects of their lives
• How to rely on your teammates, coaches, colleagues, leaders, and partners to achieve success together

Filled with must-have team building and coaching resources, this book proves that there’s always a path teams can take that allows them to work together. The Locker Room Playbook is your roadmap to finding that path and staying on it as you and your team work together to overcome adversity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Nov 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781119902690

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THE LOCKER ROOM PLAYBOOK

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Heal Hurt, Overcome Adversity, and Build Unity

DAMON WEST

Bestselling Coauthor of The Coffee Bean

STEPHEN MACKEY

Player Development Coach

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Copyright © 2023 by Damon West and Stephen Mackey. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: West, Damon, author. | Mackey, Stephen (Development coach), author.

Title: The locker room playbook : a practical guide to heal hurt, overcome adversity, and build unity / Damon West, Stephen Mackey.

Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2023]

Identifiers: LCCN 2022015063 (print) | LCCN 2022015064 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119902683 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119902706 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119902690 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Self-actualization (Psychology) | Equality. | Cancel culture. | Discrimination.

Classification: LCC BF637.S4 W4478 2023 (print) | LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | DDC 158.1—dc23/eng/20220401

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022015063

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022015064

COVER ART & DESIGN: PAUL McCARTHY

A Note from the Authors

When we sat down to write The Locker Room, in the summer of 2021, we had one simple goal: to help people experience the miracle of the Locker Room.

The miracle of the Locker Room is a concept where, on healthy teams, people from all different backgrounds, with all kinds of hurts, histories, and hang-ups, come together and agree to six concepts:

A common goal that is bigger than self.

Making a mistake doesn’t make you a mistake.

Diversity is not an obstacle to overcome, but our strength to overcome our obstacles.

The standard is the standard.

Hard days, truths, and conversations are endured, received, and had.

The success of the team is greater than the success of the individual.

We believe that any time a group of people makes this commitment, whether in sports or life, the conditions are set for that team or organization to overcome adversity, heal hurt, build unity, and ultimately, reach their goals.

With The Locker Room, we wanted to tell the story of a fictional team as an encouragement and example to help you or your team or