Frequently Asked Questions

After We Play is a sports technology and athlete development platform. It is the community where athletes come to discover who they are, and who they are becoming, through the challenges of life and sport. We build better athletes. We develop better people.

Most wellness platforms offer generic content. AWP is built specifically for the athletic experience: the pressure, the identity, the grief when a season ends, the question of who you are without the sport. Everything we create speaks directly to that reality. AWP also integrates peer support, clinical access (through Mindflow), and a structured curriculum, not just content to consume but a community to belong to.

No. AWP is a personal development and peer support platform, not a licensed clinical service. We are not a replacement for therapy, medication, or professional mental health treatment. AWP is designed to complement an athlete's overall wellbeing. When clinical support is needed, we provide a direct pathway to Mindflow, our licensed clinical partner.

AWP is built around three core products: The Invisible Game, a curriculum built for the athlete; The Huddle, our daily content and community platform; and The Drive Home, a six-module curriculum built for the sport parent.

The Free Assessment is a short self-check-in that helps you see where you're carrying stress or pressure right now, and what kind of support could help. It's the entry point into The Invisible Game curriculum, not a standalone product.

You rate a series of statements based on how often you've experienced them over the past two weeks, using a 0 to 3 scale: Never, Several Days, More Than Half the Days, or Nearly Every Day. It takes about 2 minutes.

No. It's for informational and educational purposes only, and it isn't a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment. If you're concerned about your mental health, we encourage you to reach out to your healthcare provider.

The Assessment is free and available at afterweplay.com/quiz. No account, payment, or commitment is required to take it.

No matter what your results show, they're a starting point, not a verdict. They're designed to help you turn awareness into growth, and point you toward The Invisible Game and the rest of the AWP community as your next step.

The Invisible Game is AWP's foundational curriculum, a self-paced online program that helps athletes understand and manage the internal challenges of sport that no one talks about in practice. It covers pressure, anxiety, identity separate from performance, fear of failure and shame, emotional resilience, and purpose beyond the game.

The curriculum is delivered digitally through short video lessons, guided reflections, written exercises, and frameworks. It is fully self-paced, athletes move through the material on their own schedule. Group discussion options are available for clubs and teams who complete it together.

The Huddle is AWP's private digital community, the ongoing support ecosystem that members access after joining AWP. It is built for one purpose: to give athletes a space to be understood, not evaluated. The Huddle is where athletes come when they're ready to talk about the real game, the one they play inside.

The Huddle includes eight integrated programs:

• The Inner Circlepeer-to-peer support with daily prompts and weekly small groups
• First Whistlea daily opening question
• The Training Tabledaily nutrition content
• The Still Pointguided meditation, breathing, and movement sessions
• Athletes Speaka speaker series
• The Playbookan expanded curriculum library
• Mindflow Clinical Supportlicensed clinicians accessible directly through The Huddle
• The Drive Homea private peer support community for sport parents

Yes. The Huddle is actively moderated to maintain a safe, respectful, and supportive environment. All content is subject to community guidelines. Sensitive keyword monitoring is in place and routes to clinical support when needed. Under-18 members have additional moderation layers.

First Whistle is a daily opening question posted in The Inner Circle. It is the first thing members see when they open The Huddle, one honest, thoughtful question designed to open the floor for real conversation before the day's performance begins.

The Training Table is The Huddle's daily nutrition program, a practical, athlete-specific nutrition post. The name comes from a deep-rooted sport tradition, the training table is where athletes fuel together before the work begins. Every post is designed to be read in under 60 seconds and acted on the same day.

Every Training Table post is created and reviewed by Kristen Hamilton, DCN, RDN, CSSD, a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics with over 20 years of experience, through AWP's partnership with SiSu Systems. Nothing goes live without her review, and content is never weight-loss focused, always framed around performance and recovery.

The Still Point is The Huddle's library of guided meditation, breathing, and movement sessions, 60 sessions across 5 series, created by Josh Fly, founder of FlyLife Performance & Wellness Coaching. Josh brings nearly two decades of experience in performance coaching, breathwork, and stress regulation to every session. Every past session stays permanently available so you can jump to whichever series matches where you are right now. Sessions are designed specifically for athletic emotional scenarios, not generic mindfulness.

Athletes Speak is The Huddle's recorded speaker series. Athletes discuss what sport actually costs, the pressure, the identity, the grief, and what comes next. No PR polish, no talking points, just honest stories from people who have been where our members are.

The Inner Circle is the peer-to-peer support community at the heart of The Huddle. It is the space where athletes talk to each other, honestly, without performance, without judgment, about the real experience of being an athlete.

The Inner Circle has eight core rules:

• What is shared here stays hereabsolute confidentiality
• You speak from your own experiencenot advice
• No screenshots or sharing outside the groupever
• You are anonymous if you choose to beand that anonymity is honored
• Celebrate as loudly as you share the hardwins belong here too
• You do not have to shareshowing up and listening is enough
• This is not a competitionevery struggle is valid regardless of sport or level
• When someone needs more than peer support can givewe point them to Mindflow

The Drive Home is both a curriculum and a section of The Huddle, built specifically for sport parents. It gives parents their own resources and peer support, a space to talk honestly about the parts of this journey that rarely get discussed, the financial sacrifice, the identity shifts, and the grief when a career ends.

Any parent or guardian of an athlete in the AWP community, at any stage of the journey.

The Drive Home lives inside The Huddle, delivered the same way as The Invisible Game curriculum, through your Huddle account, in its own private space set apart from your athlete's experience.

Yes. The Drive Home is completely separate from your athlete's community inside The Huddle. What you share stays there, your child will never see it, and that separation is permanent by design.

Yes. Through AWP's partnership with Mindflow, licensed clinicians are directly accessible inside The Drive Home, including weekly office hours with no appointment needed. This access is completely separate from your athlete's own Mindflow pathway.

Mindflow is AWP's licensed clinical partner, a mental health service providing access to licensed clinicians directly through The Huddle. It is available to all Huddle members when peer support or self-guided content isn't enough. It is not an emergency service, it is a normalized, stigma-free pathway to professional support integrated into your membership.

Access to Mindflow is included as part of The Huddle membership, meaning the pathway and intake process are built directly into the platform. Specific session fees, if any, are determined by Mindflow's service agreement.

Yes. Mindflow operates on a completely separate, HIPAA-compliant platform. Your clinical conversations with Mindflow clinicians are private and are never accessible to AWP staff. AWP knows only whether you have accessed Mindflow, not what was discussed.

Peer support in The Inner Circle is powerful, and it has limits. Use Mindflow when something feels bigger than peer connection can hold, persistent hopelessness or emptiness, thoughts of self-harm, anxiety or depression that interferes with daily life, processing trauma, or any situation where you feel you need a professional rather than a peer.

If you are in immediate crisis, please contact emergency services (911) or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) immediately. Mindflow provides clinical support but is not a 24/7 emergency service. For immediate crisis support, use 988, it is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day.

Yes. The Services are available to users 13 and older. AWP does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13, and does not permit an individual under 13 to register.

For any user under 18, AWP obtains consent from the user's parent or legal guardian, or from the enrolling sports organization acting with the parent's or guardian's authorization, before collecting or processing the minor's personal information.

No. For every user under 18, AWP does not sell personal information, use it for targeted advertising, or profile the user for decisions that produce a legal or similarly significant effect. Data collected from minors is limited to what the Services need.

Yes. A parent or legal guardian may submit a request to access, correct, or delete their minor child's personal information on the child's behalf.

Every AWP membership includes full access to The Invisible Game curriculum, The Huddle community and all its programs, and Mindflow clinical support access, available on mobile and desktop. What differs by membership type is the term and billing, covered in the next question.

It depends on how you join. Institutional members, clubs, universities, and school districts, get 12 months of platform and curriculum access as part of their partnership agreement. Individual and family memberships are billed monthly, and members keep full access to the entire platform for as long as they continue paying. There's no fixed term for individual or family memberships.

If you're on an individual or family membership, yes, you can cancel at any time and access continues through the end of your current billing period. Institutional memberships (club, university, or school district) follow the term and cancellation provisions in that organization's partnership agreement.

Refund policies vary depending on how your membership was purchased, individual, family, or institutional agreement. Please refer to the terms in your original agreement or contact AWP support for clarification.

Nothing you have to figure out on your own. Once you join, you'll get a series of onboarding emails that walk you through your first days in The Huddle step by step, so you always know what to check out next instead of landing on a page full of options and guessing where to start. We built it to feel simple and welcoming from the very first email.

Check that you are using the email address your invitation was sent to. Use the “Forgot Password” option on the login page. Check your spam or junk folder for the reset email. If the issue continues, contact AWP support.

AWP support is available through the website contact form, by email through that same form, or in-platform using the Help or Contact button in your member dashboard. Response time is within 1 business day for standard requests.

Seven guidelines hold the space:

• Maintain absolute confidentialitywhat is shared here stays here
• Respond from personal experiencenot advice or judgment
• Never screenshot or identify another member's words outside the community
• Honor anonymity
• Celebrate wins as genuinely as you hold difficult things
• Treat every member's experience as valid
• Point toward Mindflow when something exceeds what peer support can hold

AWP collects only the information necessary to provide the platform: your name, email address, date of birth, and engagement data. AWP does not sell your data to third parties or use it for advertising.

You are in the right place. The Huddle exists exactly for this. The Inner Circle peer support, the meditation sessions, and First Whistle are all here to help you feel less alone. And when peer support isn't enough, Mindflow clinical support is available directly through your dashboard.

If you are in immediate crisis, please contact emergency services or a crisis line right now. Do not wait. Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, free, confidential, 24/7), text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line), or call 911 for emergency services.