Want to Become a Certified Mental Game
Coaching Professional? Enhance Your
Coaching Skills or Therapy Practice By Enrolling
in Dr. Cohn's MGCP Certification Program!

If you have been an athlete; worked with, or coached athletes at any level; or simply want to maximize your athletes or client’s potential, you may have what it takes to become a mental game coach!

Mental Game Coaching Professional Certification offers powerful strategies to give athletes a cutting edge—each and every time they perform! Our certification is designed for:

1. Psychologists and therapists who want to work more effectively with athletes and teach mental skills to enhance performance.
   
2. Coaches who want to uncover mental game obstacles, develop strategies to overcome them and to instill confidence, focus, and composure in the athletes they coach.
   
3. Athletic trainers who want to utilize mental coaching with their athletes to help athletes triumph over mental obstacles resulting from a sports-related injury or other health-related challenge.
4. Mental game coaches or sport psychologists in training who want to supplement their studies with Dr. Cohn’s proven mental game strategies and mental training system.

Taught by master mental game coach and sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, the MGCP certification program will teach you the skills and techniques needed to empower teams or individual athletes at any level of competition—including junior, high school, college or professional. Plus, as a Certified Mental Game Coaching Professional (MGCP), you’ll learn to master the methods you need to help athletes build confidence; improve focus; increase team cohesion; improve communication skills; enhance productivity; and maximize performance.

Our comprehensive and in-depth programs are offered in two formats:

• One-on-One certification (in person or via the phone)
  
• Group teleclasses certification (via telebridge / tele-conference technology)
  

How the Program Works…

To become a Certified Mental Game Coaching Professional (MGCP), takes approximately 20 weeks (10 weeks for summer program), meeting once a week for one hour by telephone. In addition to weekly learning sessions, there will be approximately 30-40 hours of homework assignments, which include athlete mental game assessments and application of mental game skills based upon actual situations where athlete performance is stunted by mental obstacles.

Throughout this 20-week program, you will assist live athletes, receive case studies, get hands-on experience in dealing with real-life challenges (work with a local athlete), and receive written materials to ensure that you have the tools necessary to be a powerfully effective mental game coach. By the end of the program, (provided you have completed all requirements for graduation, including passing the certification exam,) you will receive a certification from Peak Performance Sports as a certified Mental Game Coaching Professional and will be able to use the MGCP title and insignia and earn a listing on peaksports.com as a certified MGCP.

Requirements to Participate…

• 5 years or more of experience as a competitive athlete, a coach, or trainer in your sport of expertise; or a MS in psychology or counseling psychology, or an NLP certification.
  
• Understanding of the psychological demands of your sport.
  
• Ability to apply what you learn to real-life sport scenarios.
  
• Have access to a team or individual athletes you can mentally train.
  
• A desire to learn about mental game coaching and sports psychology.
  
• Solid communication skills.
  

What You Get…

1. Use of Dr. Cohn’s Athlete’s Mental Aptitude Profile (AMAP) to help you identify an athlete’s or team’s mental game strengths and weaknesses.
2. Examples of pre-seminar questionnaires to use before you give a seminar.
3. The MGCP 20-chapter workbook including exercises to teach you how to identify mental game challenges and obstacles that influence performance; develop mental skills individual and team members; and improve teamwork and communication.
4. Over 50 mental game coaching handouts you can use with your students and help you give effective team seminars.
5. 15 real-life case studies focusing on a different challenge in sports psychology and Dr. Cohn’s solution to each.
6. A list of books, audios, and other resources you can purchase to enhance your mental game coaching knowledge.
7. A life-time subscription to peaksports.com membership site with all member benefits. This gives you the ability to email Dr. Cohn with any questions you may have about the MGCP program for one year!
   

Once You’re Certified…

• A listing on peaksports.com as a Certified Mental Game Coaching Professional in which you are eligible to receive referrals in your area of the country.
• Ongoing tips through our Mental Game Coach bi-monthly bulletin, "Coaching the Coaches" to provide continuous learning, information on trends and keys to implementation of principles in real situations.
  
• Unlimited FREE access to our members only area for mental game tools, resources, and more.
  
• Access to leads from athletes looking for a mental game coach.
• Access to Dr. Cohn for questions via email on mental coaching questions.
  

Topics include:

• The stages of mental coaching athletes.
  
• Top mistakes to avoid.
  
• How to get work with athletes & coaches.
  
• How to use the AMAP and when Mental Game Assessments should be used.
• Mental skills for peak performance (confidence, focus, etc.).
  
• Mental game coaching for female vs. male athletes.
  
• Improving the quality of practice.
• Practicing mental toughness.
  
• Enhancing team cohesion and communication.
  
• Getting feedback on your mental game coaching from athletes.
  
• How to sharpen your mental game knowledge via other readings and research.
  
• Ethical principles for mental game coaches.
  
• Recognizing when you need to refer your students to other more qualified professionals.
  

Participant Outcomes:

• Identify mental game obstacles affecting an athlete's performance.
  
• Administer and interpret Dr. Cohn’s AMAP or mental game assessment.
  
• Identify mental game strengths and weaknesses of athletes.
  
• Outline a mental game plan for individual athletes and teams.
  
• Deliver one-hour seminars to teams on achieving peak performance.
  
• Communicate effectively with athletes by asking the right questions.
• Integrate mental game skills into an athlete’s regular practice.
  

Options & Fees:

• One-on-One Certification programs: $7,500.00 US
  
• Teleclass Group Certification Program: $4000.00 US
  
• For coaches only—Check out our Self-Paced Program (Non-certification): $1500.00 US
  
• ASK US about our payment plans.
  
• Get started now! Complete an application and submit application and resume to Dr. Cohn.

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