Course Details
Course
commences
Course intake begins on September 9. Each session runs from 4pm to 6pm AEST
Live Online
Sessions
A structured series of 12 live online sessions. Join from anywhere
Identity Compass
Profile
Included as part of the course.
Co-
Delivered
Led by Jay Hedley and Tarek Michael-Chouja.
Early Bird
Discount
Secure your spot before August 19th to earn a 20% early bird discount
Learning and
Support
Access pre-recorded sessions, return to the intakes at no extra charge, via the Learning Management System and WhatsApp Group.
Your client may understand the plan, then lose consistency outside the session. Your athlete may prepare well, then tighten up when pressure, mistakes or expectations rise. Your team may have the strategy, then lose communication when momentum shifts.
Mental Skills Training Level 2 helps coaches better recognise what may be influencing follow-through, emotional response, ownership and decision-making in real coaching moments.
Regular Price $1,135 USD, Early Bird $908 USD, save $227 USD.
Regular Price $124.85 USD per fortnight, Early Bird $99.88 USD per fortnight, 10 fortnightly payments total.
You May Be Seeing This Already
For personal trainers and movement coaches, this may look like clients who understand the plan in the session, then struggle with consistency, ownership or follow-through once daily life takes over.
For sports coaches and performance practitioners, this may look like athletes who train well, prepare well and know the strategy, then tighten up when pressure, mistakes or competition intensity rises.
For physios and allied health professionals, this may look like clients who understand the recovery process, but lose confidence, motivation or trust in their body when discomfort, fear or uncertainty shows up.
At this level, the coaching question often moves beyond: “What program does this person need?”
- What pattern keeps repeating?
- What belief may be shaping the response?
- What emotional reaction is changing the behaviour?
- What meaning is this person attaching to the moment?
- What does this client, athlete or team need to understand, regulate or reframe?
Mental Skills Training Level 2 is designed for coaches who want a deeper way to understand behaviour and guide the next coaching conversation with more clarity.
Is Level 2 the Right Next Step?
Level 1
Level 2
Level 2 takes that foundation further by helping coaches better understand the internal drivers that can influence behaviour, motivation, decision-making and performance.
Advanced Coaching Education, Within Professional Scope
Mental Skills Training Level 2 is advanced coaching education for sport and fitness coaches, personal trainers, physios and performance practitioners.
It supports communication skills coaching, deeper listening, framing, resilience, emotional intelligence coaching, self-awareness and behaviour change skills within professional scope.
This is coaching education rather than therapy training. Where clinical care is needed, this work should sit alongside appropriate referral pathways.
Advanced Tools for the Human Side of Performance
Across the course, participants explore how clients and athletes think, communicate, interpret pressure, respond emotionally, attach meaning and make decisions.
You will develop practical tools for:
- Resilience and emotional regulation
- Responsibility and ownership
- Framing and reframing
- Mindfulness and intentionality
- Personality and motivation
- Leadership and influence
- Communication skills
- Emotional intelligence
- Anxiety and performance
Participants also complete the Identity Compass Profile and learn how personality, motivation and thinking preferences can influence communication, behaviour and performance.
Mental Skills in Practice: Andrew Cipriano
From Course Concepts to Team Language, Culture and Performance Conversations
Andrew Cipriano, founder of Mind Starts Now and a semi-professional basketball coach, completed Mental Skills Training and began applying the concepts inside his own coaching environment.
Rather than keeping the tools as theory, Andrew trialled the concepts week by week, applied them personally, then brought them into the athletes and teams he was coaching.
What Andrew Applied:
Perspective-taking
Stepping back from his own coaching view to better consider the players, referees, opposition and wider performance environment.
Culture and accountability
Creating practical conversations around vulnerability, self-awareness, accountability and team standards.
State management
Helping athletes take greater ownership of how they turned up emotionally, mentally and physically before and during performance.
Coaching Takeaway
Andrew’s story shows how mental skills can be translated into coaching language, athlete ownership, team culture and performance conversations.
Circle of Excellence
Using a shared framework across pre-game, halftime and post-game conversations around attitude, responsibility, presence, perspective and team energy.
This is not presented as a promise of course outcomes. It is an example of how the tools can be applied inside a real coaching environment when a coach practices, reflects and integrates the work.
Regular Price $1,135 USD, Early Bird $908 USD, save $227 USD.
Regular Price $124.85 USD per fortnight, Early Bird $99.88 USD per fortnight, 10 fortnightly payments total.
12 Live Sessions for Advanced Practitioner Development
Across 12 live online sessions, participants explore communication, meaning, personality, emotional intelligence, resilience, values, beliefs, reframing and Identity Compass integration.
Session 1: Communication Model
Explore how the NLP Communication Model can support communication skills coaching and clearer, high performance conversations.
Session 2: Meaning and Performance Model
Explore how vision, values, beliefs, inner imagery, physiology, mindfulness, flow and presence can shape performance access.
Session 3: Habituated Thinking Biases
Examine how thinking patterns influence behaviour, motivation and performance through the Identity Compass framework.
Session 4: Next-Level Listening Skills
Develop deeper listening skills, including sensory acuity, learning styles, representational systems and listening for psychology beneath the words.
Session 5: Rapport, Connection and Accountability
Explore pacing and leading, matching and mismatching, and how communication can support trust, accountability and followership.
Session 6: Meta Model of Language
Develop how to detect communication patterns through precision questioning, language awareness and deeper listening.
Session 7: State Management and Emotional Intelligence
Explore emotional intelligence, resourceful response, anchoring and practical tools for emotional regulation.
Session 8: Perspectives and Integral Quadrants
Understand how different perspectives can shape coaching, communication, behaviour, systems and outcomes.
Session 9: Values and Beliefs
Explore belief change, values, motivation and how coaches can support clients through value conflicts or limiting beliefs.
Session 10: Framing in Communication
Practice how to frame and reframe coaching moments around engagement, injury, recovery, expectation, pressure and performance.
Session 11: Resilience and the Circle of Excellence
Explore tools for building resilience and creating a resourceful response that can be accessed under pressure.
Session 12: Identity Compass Integration
Bring the course together by reviewing Identity Compass results and applying motivation patterns inside coaching conversations.
Why Choose Mental Skills Level 2?
Mental Skills Training Level 2 Is For
Practitioners who want to better understand what influences client and athlete behaviour, while developing deeper tools for communication, resilience, ownership and behaviour change.
Personal trainers
Supporting client consistency, confidence and behaviour change.
Sports coaches
Working with pressure, communication, team coaching, leadership and team culture.
Strength and conditioning coaches
Who want to better understand how the mental side can affect physical expression.
Physios and allied health professionals
Supporting recovery mindset, confidence and client engagement within professional scope.
Performance practitioners
Working with identity, motivation, emotional response and pressure.
Gym owners and educators
Developing the ability to influence, communicate and lead people more effectively.
Informed by High-Performance Coaching Environments
Mental Skills Training Level 2 is informed by work across elite sport, professional coaching and practitioner development.
Together, Jay and Tarek bring psychological depth, coaching education and practical application into one practitioner pathway.
Tarek Michael-Chouja brings the practical coaching lens through FTI Global, helping coaches connect movement, education, communication and mental skills in real training environments.
Jay Hedley’s work has included high-performance environments across elite sport, professional coaching and leadership development, including Formula 1, professional boxing and Fiji Rugby 7s.
Mental Skills in Action
Jay’s work with Fiji Rugby 7s included mental skills, mindset, communication and performance preparation during an Olympic campaign shaped by pressure, isolation and expectation.
Fiji Rugby 7s won Olympic Gold in Tokyo 2021 and later achieved Olympic Silver in Paris 2024.
For coaches studying Level 2, the takeaway is not that one model creates one result.
The takeaway is that mental skills can be trained, framed and integrated into the performance environment in ways that support communication, meaning, resilience and collective clarity.
What Coaches Like You Say About Our Mental Skills Training.
A Structured Pathway for Coaches Ready to Go Further
Level 2 brings together live advanced coaching education, Identity Compass profiling, practical tools and guided integration with Jay Hedley and Tarek Michael-Chouja.
12 Live
Online Sessions
Study in a structured live format across 12 sessions, with time for discussion, integration and applied coaching examples.
24 Hours of
Advanced Education
Go deeper into mental skills, personality, reframing and emotional intelligence for coaching practice.
Led by Jay Hedley and Tarek Michael-Chouja
Engage directly with two experienced educators as they guide the concepts, tools and practical application.
Regular Price $1,135 USD, Early Bird $908 USD, save $227 USD.
Regular Price $124.85 USD per fortnight, Early Bird $99.88 USD per fortnight, 10 fortnightly payments total.
Identity Compass
Profile Included
Gain a personalised profile designed to support deeper insight into personality, motivation and communication preferences.
Practical
Coaching Tools
Develop tools for moments where programming, cueing and motivation may not be enough on their own.
Guided
Integration
Apply the learning through coaching conversations, performance environments and a supportive practitioner community.
September 9 Intake Now Open
The next Mental Skills Training Level 2 sessions are delivered live online from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM AEST, so you can join remotely.
Regular Price $1,135 USD, Early Bird $908 USD, save $227 USD.
Regular Price $124.85 USD per fortnight, Early Bird $99.88 USD per fortnight, 10 fortnightly payments total.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Mental Skills Training Level 2 for?
Mental Skills Training Level 2 is designed for coaches, trainers, sports coaches, physios, performance practitioners and fitness professionals who want more advanced tools for communication skills coaching, resilience coaching, personality, emotional intelligence coaching, team coaching and high performance coaching.
How does Mental Skills Training Level 2 differ from Level 1?
Mental Skills Training Level 1 introduces practical mental skills tools that coaches can bring into their sessions, including pressure, confidence, communication and consistency.
Level 2 is designed for practitioners ready to explore the deeper structures that can influence behaviour, meaning and performance. It moves into areas such as personality, resilience, emotional intelligence, identity, beliefs, values, motivation and reframing.
In simple terms, Level 1 helps you bring mental skills into the session. Level 2 helps you better understand what may be shaping the response inside that session.
Who is Mental Skills Training Level 2 suited to?
Level 2 is suited to coaches and practitioners who are ready to work beyond techniques alone and develop a deeper understanding of the person behind the performance.
It is designed for those who want to work more confidently with patterns, beliefs, values, motivation, communication and emotional responses across coaching conversations and performance environments.
Where does Level 2 fit within the Mental Skills Framework?
The Mental Skills Framework looks at performance through several connected layers, including mental strength, mental conditioning, technical mental skills, tactical mental skills and strategic development.
Mental Skills Training Level 2 focuses on the human drivers beneath those layers, including belief, state, values, motivation, communication and identity. It helps practitioners recognise what may be affecting a client or athlete’s response, then apply mental skills with more clarity in real coaching conversations and performance environments.
Across the framework, Level 2 develops your ability to work with:
Mental Strength
Pressure, emotional response, resilience, ownership and state management.
Mental Conditioning
Mindfulness, intentionality, reflection, imagery and the habits that support consistency over time.
Technical Mental Skills
Communication models, reframing, state management and precision questioning.
Tactical Mental Skills
Perspective, decision-making, awareness and situational thinking to support more effective responses under pressure.
Strategic Mental Skills
Values, beliefs, motivation, identity and leadership in longer-term coaching development.
Do I need to complete Level 1 before Level 2?
Level 1 provides a helpful foundation, but the better starting point depends on your coaching experience and confidence working with clients, athletes or teams.
If you are already seeing repeated patterns around pressure, confidence, motivation, communication or emotional response, Level 2 may be a strong fit.
If you are unsure, email our team via info@functionaltraininginstitute.com and the team can help you decide whether Level 1 or Level 2 is the better starting point.
What is the Identity Compass Profile?
The Identity Compass Profile is a personality and thinking-style tool used to support self-awareness, communication flexibility and a deeper understanding of how people are motivated, make decisions and respond to performance environments.
As part of Level 2, each participant completes the Identity Compass Profile and learns how to use the insights in coaching conversations.
How is the course delivered?
The course is delivered live online across 12 virtual sessions.
Each session runs for 2 hours, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM AEST.
Is this therapy training?
Mental Skills Training Level 2 is coaching education rather than therapy training.
It is designed to help coaches improve their communication, listening, framing, resilience, emotional intelligence and behaviour change skills within professional scope.
Where clinical support is needed, this work should sit alongside appropriate referral pathways.
Is there a payment plan?
Instalment options are available for the September intake.
What if I am unsure whether I am ready for Level 2?
If you are already coaching clients, athletes or teams and noticing that performance issues often go beyond programming, cues or motivation, Level 2 may be a strong fit.
If you are unsure, book a call and the team can help you decide whether Level 1 or Level 2 is the better starting point.
Ready to Coach the Person Behind the Performance?
If you are ready to develop deeper tools for communication, resilience, personality, emotional response and performance under pressure, Mental Skills Training Level 2 gives you a practical next step.
Build tools for the moments where programming, cueing and motivation may not be enough on their own.