Art and Science of Mental Skills for Advanced Practitioners (Level 2)
In Partnership With:
High-Performance mental skills to enhance
your coaching abilities.
This course is designed for Personal Trainers, Sports and performance coaches, and other fitness professionals to elevate your coaching and communication skills.
Watch the Mental Skills Training for Coaches Experience
Everything you need to know about the
Mental Skills Training for Coaches course:
Our next intake starts September 9. Enjoy 12 live virtual sessions (2 hours each), held from 4:00–6:00 PM AEST.
All sessions are delivered online. You can join from anywhere, making it easy to fit into your schedule.
Payment plans are available. You can spread the cost over time to make it more manageable.
September 9th Intake - 10% Early Bird Discount
10 fornightly payments of:
$124.85 → $112.36
(Includes $102.15 finance charge)
Mental Skills Training Approach
This program is about
Building Resilience and Managing emotions (yours and theirs)
- Helping the Coaches help their clients to create systems that build resilient mind/body/emotional states for them to use as resources under pressure.
Creating full Responsibility and Ownership
- Teaching coaches to help their clients to focus on what is within their control and take full ownership, releasing themselves from whatever is not within their control.
Framing and Reframing the work
- Engaging in intentionally purposeful practise in all coaching/training sessions. Everything you do needs to be framed and linked to the overarching vision/outcome.
Mindfulness practices
- For building clarity and intentionality
Understanding Personality
- Identity Compass to help Coaching to understand how to be flexible in their communication to gain more influence with clients. To also be able to help clients go beyond their own biases to enable high performance.
Leadership Development
- Of Coach and their ability to pace and lead their clients.
Communication Skills Development
- Based on NLP and Integral Theory principles.
Emotional Intelligence development
- Growing the capacity to pace and lead their clients emotional experience including motivation
Reframing Anxiety
- How to go about using anxiety to unleash potential.
Curriculum Overview
Each participant completes the Identity Compass Profile
as part of their learning/self-awareness
1. Introducing the NLP Communication Model
Communication Coaching Model Understanding how you and how others communicate.
- Opening Frames for the program
- Setting a well-formed outcome for the program
- How the human mind works and what it means for High Performance
2. Meaning/Performance Model
The Engagement Model
- How engagement in high performance works –how meaning (vision, values, beliefs, inner movies of mind etc. affect performance.
- Demonstration for the groups on how meaning affects physiology. Includes mindfulness and flow (presence).
3. Learning Habituated Thinking Biases
Cognitive Intentions explained (identity Compass)
- Top 10 Cognitive Intentions
- Assessment
- Utilisation
4. Next Level Listening Skills
Advanced Active Listening
- Levels of Listening
- Learning styles – representational systems test – VAKAd – strategies for communication
- Sensory acuity
- Listening for Psychology
5. Rapport
Rapport, connection and accountability
- Pacing and Leading
- Matching and Mismatching
- Creating followership
6. Meta model of Language
Detecting Patterns
- Precision Questioning
- Meta Model of Listening
- Language distortions
7. State Management
Emotional Intelligence
- State Management 101
- Map/Territory• Anchoring
8. Perspectives
Integral Quadrants:-4-aspect of human perception
- 1st Person – Emotions and decisions (attitude)
- 2nd Person – Collective team culture, responsibility (culture)
- 3rd Person – Actions and behaviours, accountability (aptitude)
- 4th Person – High performance systems and processes (functional fit)
- Perceptual Positions Activity– leading with Perspectives
9. Values and Beliefs
Understanding what is important
- Beliefs and belief change
- How values work
- Going beyond beliefs and values
10. Framing in Communication
Managing expectations: yours and other peoples
- Framing for engagement in training sessions (and component parts)
- Framing for individual and collective contribution, interdependence.
- Framing for injuries/recovery• Reframing
11. Resilience
Build your own resource state
- 6 x steps of resilience
- Building resilience
- Anchoring a resilient state – Circle of Excellence
12. Identity Compass
Understanding Personality
- Review Identity Compass results in more detail
- Listening for biases
- Coaching to biases (motivation etc.)
- Going beyond biases
- Q and A
About the Coaches
High Performance Mental Skills Training is co-instructed by Tarek (founder of FTI) and Jay (co-founder of The Coaching Room). This program gives you the vital tools to overcoming limiting beliefs (you and your client) and mental blockages keeping your clients stuck.
Giving you mental skills techniques to help your clients (and you) stay on track and achieve their goals.
There’s a whole section devoted to building resilience through the 6-steps of Resilience Method.
You’ll also learn how to anchor a resilient state so you and your client can tap into this state at will in the event of challenges and pressure.
Resilience is one of many topics covered in High Performance Mental Skills that makes you a more valuable, unique trainer for your clients
Jay Hedley
Founder and Executive Management Coach and Trainer with The Coaching Room
- Registered NLP Trainer
- Registered Professional Meta Coach
- Enneagram Practitioner
Working with the largest companies and highest performing athletes on the Planet, Jay currently works with Alex Albon (Formula 1 Driver) and Michael Conlan (World Famous Irish featherweight Boxer) among many others.
Jay has also recently helped Gareth Baber and the Fiji 7s team win Gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
A specialist in vertical growth and development, Jay has a background in developmental psychology and is an NLP Trainer (20+ years).
Tarek Michael-Chouja
Founder of the Functional Training Institute
Flagship programs are:
- Master Functional Trainer
- Movement Restoration Coach
Tarek is a co-founder and owner of the Functional Training Institute (FTI) – a multi-platform fitness and education company that provides long term and sustainable business solutions for health and fitness clients.
As part of its mandate, FTI go beyond traditional training methods and look at full circle, proprietary training and education programs to teach clients how to build and run successful health and fitness businesses.
Gareth Baber, Rugby 7s Coach
and Olympic Gold Medalist at Tokyo 2020:
Shout out to the guys at The Coaching Room, particularly Jay Hedley who helped guide this Fiji 7s team to the heights it reached in Tokyo”.
Most elite athletes and performers like Gareth Baber work with mental performance coaches to keep their mental game in check.
So they stay at the top of their game, and not allow mental roadblocks and challenges to derail their progress.
An important part of the mental game athletes work on is – Resilience.
In other words, mental toughness.
If an athlete lacks resilience to overcome challenges and focus on the present, they’re toast.
It’s no different to you and your clients.
When a client comes to you, they may lack the resilience needed to overcome challenges and setbacks due to old habits, beliefs, and mental roadblocks.
As a coach, resilience is a trait you should constantly be working on for yourself and your clients.
Because when challenges hit, it’ll make your job easier as a coach running your business, and help your clients stay on track so they’re 100% engaged on the fitness journey.
When you sign up for your
Mental Skills Training for Coaches Course today, you’ll also get:
The Purpose Driven Movement eBook: The logical, comprehensive and road-tested guide to functional movement and fitness ($29 value)
The FTI Monthly Newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things functional training and fitness business
Entry to our Private Facebook Group where you can access Coach Tarek & the FTI Team
September 9th Intake - 10% Early Bird Discount
10 fornightly payments of:
$124.85 → $112.36
(Includes $102.15 finance charge)
My Personal Guanrantee
You’re also protected by my 90-Day Money-Back Guarantee.
All I ask is you give MFT an honest go by completing stage 1 and submitting the
quiz on each module within 90 days of enrolling.
I’m so confident you’ll begin seeing benefits in how you approach and work with clients within 90 days, I’m willing to shoulder the risk.
If you aren’t completely convinced and feel you haven’t received the value I’ve promised, you can get 100% of your money back.
What’s The Investment
It’s taken over 15 years to master functional movement and develop the Adaptive Functional Training System.
You now have the opportunity to learn this system in a tiny fraction of the time — avoiding the trial and error that goes with it — and begin putting the system to use with your clients immediately.
And with MFT being one of the world’s most comprehensive courses, I’ve decided on an investment that’s within reach of anyone wanting to achieve mastery of functional movement.
So your investment is only…
$1750
You have an option of a flexible payment plan of 12 monthly installments of $146 OR $350 OFF ($1400) if you pay in full.
A small price to pay for being handed the systems you learn over 4-12 months which can help you become a respected expert and master of functional training.
Not to mention the beginnings of a thriving coaching business because…
you’ll retain clients for longer and those same clients refer you to their friends and family
The Adaptive Functional Training System is ready to be handed to you. The choice is yours.