Coaching the Mental Game (FutureLearn)

Offered by Deakin University,
Coaching the Mental Game (FutureLearn)

Learn how coaches in sport and business can help players reach their full potential both mentally and physically. Apply frameworks, principles and strategies for coaching players mentally. Culture is one of the primary mental conditioners in sport and it affects players’ performance and continued development.

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Coaches are responsible for establishing a team’s culture either intentionally or unintentionally.
On this course, you’ll explore how an empowering culture, servant leadership or player-centred approach can help to create ideal mindsets.
You’ll learn how to foster an environment that enables people to perform to their potential and understand how to coach the mental game.

What topics will you cover?

  • The thinking and the instinctive brain and their separate functions in key moments of performance
  • The performance equation
  • Ways of enhancing players’ A-game
  • Dealing with the B-factors (situations and conditions)
  • The impact of past-present-future on players’ performance
  • The ‘zone.’

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Identify elements of the mental game
  • Explain key features of the thinking and the instinctive brain and their separate functions in key moments of performance
  • Apply frameworks, principles and strategies for coaching players' mental game
  • Reflect on your coaching practice incorporating insights gained through the course.
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