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 clients 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 edgeeach
and every time they perform! Our certification is designed
for:
- Psychologists and therapists who want to work more
effectively with athletes and teach mental skills to
enhance performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mental game coaches or sport psychologists in training
who want to supplement their studies with Dr. Cohns
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 competitionincluding
junior, high school, college or professional. Plus, as
a Certified Mental Game Coaching Professional (MGCP),
youll 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
- 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.
- Examples of pre-seminar questionnaires to use before
you give a seminar.
- 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.
- Over 50 mental game coaching handouts you can use
with your students and help you give effective team
seminars.
- 15 real-life case studies focusing on a different
challenge in sports psychology and Dr. Cohn’s
solution to each.
- A list of books, audios, and other resources you
can purchase to enhance your mental game coaching knowledge.
- 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 Youre 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. Cohns 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 athletes
regular practice.
Options & Fees:
- One-on-One Certification programs: $7,500.00 US
- Teleclass Group Certification Program: $4000.00 US
- For coaches onlyCheck 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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