BOOKS BY BELEN DEL AMO PEREZ DE LARA
Resilience isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build.
Every 3VERS programme rests on one idea: resilience is a skill, and the science of how to build it is clear. These two books put that science into the hands of the people who need it most. One is for families and classrooms. The other is for the dressing room.
NEW · DECEMBER 2026 · ENGLISH & SPANISH EDITIONS
Forged Under Pressure
A COMPLETE MENTAL PERFORMANCE SYSTEM
Champions aren’t marked at birth. They are forged in fire.
Two seasons. Two consecutive promotions. A dressing room that learned to perform when it mattered most. Tested across army units, boardrooms and classrooms, Forged Under Pressure is the inside story of the complete mental performance system behind CE Sabadell FC’s return to professional Spanish football, for athletes, coaches and parents of athletes.
In this book you will learn how to:
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Perform at your best when the pressure is highest, and sustain it in success.
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Build an identity and confidence that no scoreboard can touch.
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Access flow states deliberately, not by chance.
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Install wins into your brain so setbacks stop defining you.
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Create a portable mental routine that works anywhere: the dressing room, the rehab room, the bench, the transfer window, home or away.
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Support the athlete in your life, whether you are their coach or their parent.
Quadri Liameed
Midfielder, CE Sabadell · MVP, Promotion Play-offs
“Belén taught me to keep believing in myself through positive self-talk, and she is one of the main reasons I had such a great season.”
Ferran Costa
Head Coach, CE Sabadell
“Training the mind is also training for performance.”
Antonio Hidalgo
Head Coach, Deportivo de La Coruña
“We gave each other superpowers, and Belén’s tools helped us do that.”
Kaiser
Captain & Centre-back, CE Sabadell
“She prepared each of us differently, in part thanks to the psychometrics, but always with the same goal: bringing out the best version of ourselves.”
Genar Fornés
Centre-back, CE Sabadell
“She gave me the tools to find my dial: the right level of activation and focus for each match.”
Rubén Martínez
Captain, CE Sabadell 2025–2027
“She gave us tools for the moments when clarity isn’t easy to find.”
WINNER: BEST 20 RESILIENCE BOOKS OF 2020
How to Thrive By Building Resilience
Schools teach maths and grammar with care, but rarely resilience. Until they do, it falls to parents and educators. Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology and years of leadership advisory work, this book sets out a practical four-step process, with exercises for adults and children, so you can build resilience in yourself and pass it on.
Whether your child dreams of becoming a CEO, an actor or an athlete, or of carving their own path, it gives you the tools to help them become the best version of themselves.
Spanish edition: Padres Resilientes, Hijos Resilientes. Paperback and Kindle. Bringing it to your school or parent community? Explore 3VERS EDU →
Two books. One method.
Both books come from the same place: twenty years of helping people perform at their best. Each one is the written foundation of a 3VERS practice.
3VERS EDU
How to Thrive by Building Resilience
Spanish edition: Padres Resilientes, Hijos Resilientes
For parents and educators. A practical, science-based guide to building resilience in yourself and passing it on to the children in your care. It is the foundation of our work with families and schools.
Forged Under Pressure
Same science, different arenas. Whichever book you start with, the other will feel familiar.
About the Author
Belen del Amo Perez de Lara
Belén works where performance and wellbeing meet: in boardrooms, in classrooms, at kitchen tables and, most recently, inside a professional football dressing room.A Scottish-born Spaniard and an only child, she had lived in more than twenty cities on four continents by the age of twenty-four, rebuilding her life almost every year. She later lost both her parents to cancer at key moments of her life. Those experiences taught her that resilience is not a personality trait. It is a skill, and it can be built.
She has spent twenty years building it in others. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania (triple major, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), the London School of Economics and INSEAD, she worked at JP Morgan, Accenture and CEB (now Gartner), assessed C-suite leaders at Egon Zehnder, and became Global Head of HR, Security and Facilities at Open Society Foundations. She is an accredited psychometrician through the British Psychological Association and has published case studies with INSEAD’s Global Leadership Centre and CESEDEN, the Spanish Ministry of Defence’s think tank.
In 2018 she founded 3VERS to bring the science of resilience to executives, sports teams, parents and educators. Her first book, How to Thrive by Building Resilience, was named one of the best resilience books of 2020 and underpins 3VERS EDU. As high-performance advisor to CE Sabadell FC, her methodology helped the club through one of European football’s most remarkable unbeaten runs and two consecutive promotions back to professional Spanish football. Forged Under Pressure is the system behind that work, and the foundation of 3VERS SPORT.
She works in English, Spanish, French and Italian, and lives with her husband and two children between London, Barcelona and Menorca.
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