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    Mental Performance Training for Coaches

    Professional Development Series:Mental Performance Training for Coaches
    Graduate/Undergraduate Level:Graduate
    Micro-Credential Overview:Help your athletes perform at a higher level by improving their mental game. These courses show you how to help them manage pressure, get through social media noise, and understand how personal well-being impacts performance. You’ll affect positive, lasting change by supporting your athletes with tools, research, and practices that will help them grow and improve as players – and as people.
    Faculty:Julie Jones
    Denise Reading
    Cost:$1605 per course

    Courses

    CourseDescriptionDates
    Mindset Coach TrainingThis course will prepare participants to become a mindset coach. Topics include understanding the brain, conquering personal challenges, learning the tools and processes that affect change, understanding effective communication skills, building a mindset clientele, understanding ethics in coaching, and building effective programs to increase performance. Participants will study positive psychology research, understand hands-on theory and exercises, and be introduced to the practice of mindset tools that can create change. (3 credits)Mar 28, 2022 - May 7, 2022
       
    Understanding & Coaching Sustainable Behavioral ChangeThis course will prepare participants to become a mindset coach by focusing on coaching for lasting behavioral change by looking at the biological, environmental and psychological triggers that derail the change process. The impact of effective coaching is measured by the results that the recipient achieves through personal self-awareness and empowerment. However, changing behavior is difficult for most individuals. Participants will explore change management theory, theories of human motivation, adult learning theory, and the science of change. This course will focus on understanding the triggers that derail personal change and how to support athletes in developing tools to increase their success rate in meeting their personal change goals. (3 credits)Feb 14, 2022 - Mar 26, 2022
       
    Well-Being: Theories and Practical Applications for Better Performance and a Better LifeThis course will address the science of well-being, focusing on research in positive psychology, change and happiness. Topics include a self-assessment, discovering signature strengths, well-being and happiness research and theories, happiness misconceptions, understanding false predictions of happiness, overcoming biases, and strategies and practices to improve well-being. (3 credits)Jan 10, 2022 - Feb 12, 2022