RAISE THE MENTAL HEATH BAR

Certificate in Mental Health Promotion.

Strategy, Systems, Processes and Tools for Flourishing Environments and Athletes.

The world’s first Elite Sport training program focused on Mental Health Promotion and preventing mental ill-health by focusing on the environment and what it means for individuals to be mentally healthy.

Elite sport has spent decades asking the wrong question. For too long people have been asking “what do we do when things go wrong/”.

Elite Sport deserves better than this.

The WSI Certificate on Mental Health Promotion take a fundamentally different approach by asking how do we create mentally healthy environment that will give us the best chance of our people being mentally healthy.

A Bioecological Approach

Athletes, coaches and officials do not live in a vacuum. They function within highly complex social and organisational environments that exert major influences on who they are and how they perform.

Our Certificate in Mental Health Promotion is grounded in evidence informed principles such as Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological Systems Theory, Haslam’s Social Identity Theory, Keyes’ Dual Continuum and Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence framework providing elite sport with its most effective strategy for mental health by addressing the environment, the systems and the people simultaneously

Elevating Your Mental Health Game

Who Is This Programme For?

This programme is for practitioners who want to lead, not follow — who believe that real change in mental health requires commitment, not just compassion. It is designed for:

Athletes, coaches, officials, safeguarding and player care staff
Player development and wellbeing specialists, psychologists and counsellors
Educators and sports chaplains working within elite or professional sport organisations

We make no apologies for the fact that this programme is demanding.

It is also highly rewarding and will give you the best possible chance of making a genuine impact with a whole of organisation mental health strategy and develop customised, proactive mental HEALTH action plans for your athletes, coaches and staff.

The depth and breadth of course topics reflect the reality, nature and complexity of elite sport mental health including psychological safety and managing psycho-social risks.

Unlike many courses we don’t skim across important topics, instead we drill down to ensure your knowledge and skills are deep, not superficial.

Transforming Mindsets & Unleashing Potential

Creating change begins with clear goals and clear strategy.

This intensive blended programme, meticulously designed and unique in its approach will empower you to become a catalyst for positive change, ensuring the wellbeing and peak performance of the athletes, coaches and staff under your care.

Grounded in Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Systems, Haslam’s Social Identity approach and Keyes’ Dual Continuum model, nine carefully sequenced modules take you from reframing mental health and building flourishing environments, through coach education, athlete voice and interdisciplinary crisis management, to designing a whole-of-organisation mental health strategy – all delivered through self-paced LMS learning and live facilitated Zoom sessions, and supported by customised cases, ready-to-use templates and culture change strategies proven successful in elite sport.

You will not simply study mental health, you will build the strategy, the action plans and the practical toolkit to lead change from day one.

Develop an Elite Sport Mental Health Promotion Toolkit

Develop a comprehensive Mental Health Promotion Toolkit for your sporting organisation that includes the following:

A Mental health strategy for your organisation
Impact measurement tools for your mental health strategy
An Ecological systems mental health practitioner guide
Best Practice Guide to “Working with Mental Health Professionals
A Flourishing Mental HEALTH Training Program for athletes
A guide to avoiding coaching staff burnout

Templates for the design of Customised Mental HEALTH Plans
Coaching Skills for Mental HEALTH with athletes, coaches and staff
Guidelines for Educating Coaching Staff on Complete State Mental Health
Guidelines for working with Coaching Staff on Mental HEALTH as performance enabler
Supporting change efforts at the Individual & team and organisational level