Mental coaching: advice, information and providers

Mental coach training costs between CHF 2,000 and CHF 10,000, depending on the provider. Compare exactly what you get for your money: Course content, number of hours, documents and degree. This will make the offers of the individual training institutes more comparable.

You will be admitted to a mental coach training course if you have the following:

• Completed basic training (coach certificate) or equivalent qualification
• Experience in working with people is required
• Willingness to engage in a personal process
• First experience in accompanying people in a structured process
• It is strongly recommended that you conduct your own mental coaching and training sessions at the latest at the same time as attending the course
• Frequently: over 18 years of age, good knowledge of German, good reputation and good physical and mental health

The requirements for training as a mental coach vary depending on the training institute.

We therefore recommend that you contact the school of your choice directly via our contact form or use the "Ask a question" button to get in touch with the right contact person.

Sport mental training is suitable for anyone who does sport. More and more people are interested in it because it helps to implement visions more precisely and achieve goals more quickly and easily. But it also helps people far removed from sport, such as top managers or other people who want to be successful. However, they need a push to achieve their goals better and need techniques to support them.

A sports mental coach helps athletes to realize their visions more precisely and achieve their goals more quickly and easily. Various mental techniques based on scientific findings are used for this purpose. The coach also has basic medical knowledge and good resource management skills.

Mental coaching in sport requires the following in order to optimally support people in their change process:

• Know core competencies
• Support planning
• sport psychological interventions
• Dealing with conflicts
• Build self-confidence
• Values and regulation
• Competition VOBE
• Targeted use of body language
• Intervention matrix

With mental coaching, a mental coach accompanies people effectively and sustainably with their life issues. They help them to build self-confidence, deal with pain or resolve behavioral patterns. Specialist and methodological skills, targeted mental techniques and the necessary specialist and background knowledge are important in order to be able to apply the therapy method.

Mental coach training provides in-depth knowledge and practical methods to promote mental strength and personal development. The typical content includes

• Drive and motivation techniques: Strategies for the targeted activation of inner resources and for increasing self-motivation.
• Stress and energy techniques: Methods for effective stress management and building sustainable energy in everyday life.
• Transformation and emotional techniques: Tools for consciously changing thought and behaviour patterns and for emotional stabilization.
• Memory and concentration: techniques to improve cognitive skills and mental focus.

These topics form the basis for the professional support of individuals or groups in change processes. The training emphasizes the application in everyday life and in professional contexts such as coaching, consulting or training.

As the specific content can vary depending on the provider, each school determines the curriculum individually. To make sure that the desired topics are also part of the training, you should enquire directly with the respective school. The following button can be used to conveniently forward a question to the desired school - simply fill out the contact form and get clarification.

After completing the mental coach course, graduates have theoretical and some practical experience in the field of mental coaching. This enables them to seamlessly build on their existing knowledge and work as independent mental coaches. This enables a quick step into self-employment.

Training to become a mental coach is particularly suitable for people who enjoy working with, supporting and accompanying other people. At the same time, we are looking for people who like to present themselves and are not afraid to be the center of attention. Above all, however, a mental training course appeals to people who are willing to work on themselves, get to know themselves anew and question themselves, who expect more from life and know that they can achieve it if they only want to. Changing behavior and ways of thinking and breaking through barriers, for themselves and for their clients, is the task of mental training, for which anyone with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn new things is ideally suited.

As each school defines its target groups and admission criteria individually, there may be differences. For detailed information, we recommend contacting the right person directly using our contact form or the "Ask a question" button. Quick, easy and without obligation.

The following is needed to be able to offer good mental training:

• Methodology and basics of mental training
• Self-management
• Self-coaching
• Modeling trainer skills
• Development of the trainer personality
• Contact with the unconscious
• Dealing with "good intentions
• Mental preparation for exams, important talks, competitions, etc.
• Bring about deep relaxation within seconds
• Self and external motivation
• Prioritizes and makes good decisions
• Gain security and serenity
• Solution-oriented thinking and action
• Apply mental communication
• Quick methods for falling asleep
• Reactivation options