Sport Practitioner

What is the NLP Practitioner for Sport Programme?

It's a high quality programme for individuals who don't have the time to spend years studying sport psychology and  is an accelerated approach to gaining the essential skills required to work effectively to get the most out of themselves and others.

This programme is based on NLP and Sport Psychology and has a specific focus on maximising personal and professional performance for working in sport, and provides a practical, balanced and experiential approach.

Our aim is to provide a course that works to further professionalise sport and coaching, and add the professional development aspects that traditional coaching and technical courses don't always deliver

Who is it for?

• Professional and amateur athletes and players wanting more practical application and understanding of mental skills and development
• Anyone involved with sports coaching, development or personal training, and wants to enhance their coaching potential.
• Those looking for quality, recognised CPD courses, to enhance personal and professional careers
• Professional Full and Part time club coaches
• Personal trainers.
• Professional players just starting out and those looking to move into coaching, training and management at youth and senior levels.
• Physio's
• Sport psychologists
• Parents/youth sport organisers
• Managers
• Business professionals looking for the competitive edge and support staff across the board.

If you are involved in sport, at whatever level, then we guarantee this training is something you can't afford to miss out on.... after all, sport isn't about being second best, it's about doing what ever it takes to get to the level that right for you!

Why choose the Inside Performance™ Sport NLP Course?

• Our trainers are Sport Specialists, all current or ex-sports people with over 15 years experience working with athletes from grassroots to Olympians.
• They bring a wealth of experience, knowledge and credibility to the field of Sport NLP as certified Master Practitioners and Trainers.
• Registered with the Health Professions Council, who regulate all accredited psychologists working as practitioners
• The Programme is nationally recognised as being of the highest standard, and as such, we are the official trainers for UK Sport, training some of the UK's best Coaches, Performance Directors and Managers to use these techniques for Beijing 2008, London 2012 and beyond..... oh, and there's a lot of fun, laughter and enjoyment on offer too! 
• We are the only company to provide sport-specific NLP learning materials on all our NLP for Sport programmes.

Please take a look at our Why train with us? page for even more reasons why you would choose an Inside Performance™ training.

What will you learn?

A wide range of practical and effective techniques and skills, including:

• How to communicate effectively, and enhance your ability to coach, train, manage and succeed
• How to improve goal setting and to motivate teams and individuals
• How to understand and 'unlock' problems faced by your athletes
• How to create states of Confidence, Composure and Concentration
• How to deal with doubts, worries, limiting beliefs and negative emotions that get in the way of performing at our peak
• How to achieve sustained results over time
• How to use imagery, relaxation and 'The Zone' states
• How to apply the mindset for sport success.
• How to recognise and coach people with different types of motivation.
• All the essential skills necessary to become a certified NLP Practitioner, making you eligible for training in TLT, Hypnosis and as an NLP Master Practitioner, plus additional learnings and applications of sport psychology.

...plus a whole load more...

An added bonus to this course you are offered the opportunity to complete the EQi, which is the Emotional Intelligence Inventory. As you are probably aware, Emotional Intelligence is a key aspect of being successful in all areas of life, including sport, and NLP is an excellent field for EI development.

The EQi will give you insights into where your emotional intelligence is strong, and also the areas for improvement, meaning that you can use your NLP training to work on the areas' most applicable to you; so that you get the most out of the training you are receiving. After all, you're coming on this training for a purpose ... so finding out more about how to get the most out of what you learn has to be a good thing!

Please click on the image to see a sample EQ-i report

How is it structured?

• This course is a 9 day programme, delivered in 3 X 3 day blocks.
• Personal attention and plenty of Q & A time
• Practical demonstrations and exercises. 
• We split the course up, giving you the opportunity to learn and practice over a period of time, rather than rushing everything through at once!

Next programmes start - June 2010 - Village Hotel, Walsall & October 2010 - London

For more detailed information on our NLP Practitioner for Sport programme, including prices and venue, please click below...

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Alternatively, you can call us now on 020 8398 2127 or 020 3174 0186 or email sport@inside-performance.co.uk

Hypnosis in Sport - learn about it on our Sport NLP Programme!

Hypnosis is a fascinating and frequently misunderstood subject. It is not the submissive state that many people think it is from movies, stage shows and misinformation.

It is a progressive mental training technique that allows individuals the opportunity to channel attention and sharpen focus so that they can concentrate solely on the task at hand.

It can relax your body and mind and help you to control unwanted negative thoughts and emotions.

Hypnosis allows you to get into an optimum psychological state so that you can mentally rehearse future goals such as success in sport, confidence in business, or reaching your fitness & weight loss targets.

More and more we are seeing hypnosis and guided imagery being used to great effect in areas such as Sport Performance, with world class athletes Jonny Wilkinson, Jean-Claude Killy, Andre Agassi, Wayne Rooney, and Lennox Lewis all publicly acknowledging the importance of mental training to improve performance - and no-one can deny the success Wigan FC have had - maybe that's why the Mexican National Team employed a hypnotherapist to help with their preparation for the World Cup!

In Sport, hypnosis can help athletes of all levels with areas such as confidence, focus and improving 'closed' skills such as serving in tennis, conversion kicking in Rugby and penalty kicks in football.

Athletes and Sports people often talk about being 'in Flow' or 'In the Zone'. Being in a hypnotic trance has been likened in many ways to being in Flow. Starting to incorporate hypnosis into your regular training programme can therefore have the effect of assisting you to achieve the elusive flow state on a more regular basis, thus facilitating the right mental state and emotions to be able to perform at your optimum.

Developing and delivering mental training for all sporting bodies is where Inside Performance fills the gap of what it takes to be 'The Champions' - not simply the development of mental strength and flexibility of players, but the development of mental strengths and flexibility of those around them - making the difference between a good team and a great team!