We believe strongly that you, as the coach, are the perfect person to lead your team through this training process, and the Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy Coach Training gives you everything you need to do that.

NOTE: This does not enable you to offer training to other teams. For that, please see our Workshop Leader Certification Program. 

We understand. We really do. But this training takes very little of your time. Once you've completed the Coach Training, all it takes is two short meetings over two weeks and a few emails to support your athletes through the process. 

No, but great question! The core teaching is done by David Levin on video. You do learn the material as part of the program, and you learn it well. But your role during the training process is more of a facilitator than a teacher.

Once you register, you can begin immediately. After that, we estimate it will take 5-6 hours to complete the course and feel ready to begin the process with your team. Depending on your schedule, you should be ready in 1-2 weeks. 

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First, they learn the core material in a self-directed, video-based course. This typically happens over a 7-14-day period, and should take them no more then 3-4 hours total.

After that, you work with them to put what they’ve learned into action, starting with a 28-Day Challenge where they practice the skills they've learned every day for 28 days and track their progress.

As soon as they're done with the course! The material is so practical and actionable, many of your athletes will put it to work right away. For others, their results will appear more slowly. But you should notice at least some improvements right away with virtually everyone. Also, the training gives you a common language to talk with them about their mental game, which will feel like another immediate and helpful improvement.

Yes! In fact, each of your 15 student participant kits includes a dedicated training just for parents—“Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy: Parent Edition.”*

The official reason is because “the mental game begins at home” and we want parents to know how to support their child in doing the work. The unspoken benefit is that parents will learn powerful self-regulation skills for themselves.

(*The Parent Edition training is an add-on to the basic materials fee.)

Absolutely. Your tuition gives you full access to all the materials, and there is no recertification requirement. You just need to make sure that each student has their own participant materials.

Indefinitely.

No worries. If you can lead a meeting, you can lead this training process. And the system has step-by-step guides for every step of the process.

The program is designed for students 13-21 years old. It’s possible that it would help younger students, too, but our guess is that you’d need to make some modifications to the program. Meaning, you probably wouldn’t want to have them go through the full program, but would instead pull out some of the top-level concepts and work with them on those only.

If you do want to try the material with younger students, reach out to us and others in the Coaches Forum for ideas on how to proceed. We would love to help!

We do not. The mechanics of the Inner Game and the strategies for controlling it are the same for all sports, and frankly, for all areas of our lives. 

Having said that, it is true that the more you can speak in terms that your athletes relate to, the more effective the training will be. So, the system encourages you to incorporate your own sport-specific terms and scenarios into the training.

It’s a perfect addition, especially to the pillars of Focus/Awareness, Self Control/Discipline, Mental Imagery/Meditation, and Routines/Habits of Excellence–which are the highest-impact pillars.

MPM teaches helpful techniques in various areas, but because Raise Your Inner Game is based on how the inner game actually works, the RYIG skills boost athletes’ mental game to an even higher level. They’re simpler and more powerful, they apply to any situation, and most important, they’re easier for athletes to understand and use.  

In addition, because RYIG helps athletes overcome the inner resistance to any goal, Sports Academy training is a force multiplier—it helps you get more impact from everything else you’re doing. 

Finally, if you're in business for yourself with a mental game coaching practice, our Workshop Leader training offers a more robust support for growing your business than any other organization–adding important value that goes beyond the RYIG material itself.

CLICK HERE for information on our Workshop Leader training: https://www.raiseyourinnergame.com/workshop-leader

Perfectly. Truly, there isn’t a single element of the Raise Your Inner Game material that isn’t in complete agreement with the PCA vision, especially with it’s focus on Mastery versus the Scoreboard. Self-mastery is the most fundamental mastery of all! 

Bottom line, if you’re a believer in PCA, you will love Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy. And the skills athletes learn in this training will help them bring every element of the PCS vision to life more quickly and completely. 

The short answer is yes, absolutely, especially if you have your own coaching practice.

The reality is, no matter what other training your athletes have been through, the Raise Your Inner Game program will still be uniquely and powerfully helpful. Why? Because the skills this training teaches are not taught anywhere else.  

Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy teaches three powerful self-mastery skills — cognitive control, emotional self-regulation, and impulse control. These skills are considered THE fundamental success skills. And this program is the ONLY practical training available anywhere in how to develop them.

And if you're an independent coach working with athletes from various teams, our Workshop Leader program offers additional support for growing your practice that you're probably not getting anywhere else.

CLICK HERE for information on our Workshop Leader training: https://www.raiseyourinnergame.com/workshop-leader 

The biggest difference is in THE SKILLS IT TEACHES. 

When you get right down to it, other mindset programs are essentially motivational programs. That is, they take some sort of negative state the athlete is experiencing and give them positive thoughts to think instead. For example, they might suggest repeating a particular phrase when the athlete is upset or performing a specific gesture when the athlete makes a mistake. 

These techniques can be helpful, for sure. But they’re also quite limited. For one, they only apply to those specific situations, so you still need to come up with something for every other situation that may arise. For another, they tend to not work in the actual moments when help is most needed — in the middle of a run or a play, for example, when the athlete gets distracted or stuck in negative self-talk. So they’re ultimately just not that helpful.

But here’s the biggest problem with other approaches: Peak athletic performance comes when you are completely focused and present in the moment rather than being off in your thoughts somewhere.

The techniques in other programs, though better than nothing, still leave the athlete in their head. So, by definition, they can never help them reach their full potential. 

The Raise Your Inner Game skills, on the other hand, are specifically designed to get the athlete out of their head and fully into the present moment.

There’s no more important and powerful difference than that. And there’s no other training available that teaches these skills.

Another big difference is that Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy is COACH-LED. Other programs rely on an outsider coming in and presenting the material or on the student teaching themselves through a self-directed course, and they’re essentially single events versus a true training process that evolves over time. 

We could talk about this all day but in our experience, NO single event or program presented by an outsider or self-directed training will EVER have the impact of one led and held by the coaching staff. It’s not even close. 

A third important difference is the CLARITY OF THE CONTENT. As the author/co-author of six books, one of which has sold over a million copies worldwide (QBQ!), David has a proven record of making content simple and actionable. In fact, it might be his super power. :-) 

It sounds obvious, but if people don’t get what you’re saying and know what they’re supposed to do with it, they won’t use it. 

Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy  is not another training that sounds good but ends up sitting on the shelf not being used. This material was intentionally written to be so accessible and actionable that virtually anyone can understand it and immediately put it into action. 

Finally, on a per student basis, Raise Your Inner Game Sports Academy is SIGNIFICANTLY LESS EXPENSIVE than other trainings. With other programs, you either bring in an outsider for a single event (expensive), or you pay per-student for a self-directed online course (also surprisingly expensive). With this program, for one low price you learn to lead the training yourself, and the student materials are reasonably priced. 

Quicker, easier, with greater impact. That's a winning combination!

The training is video-based and includes quizzes, worksheets, exercises, and transcripts. It’s a comprehensive system, based on over twenty years experience in training and development, designed to give you everything you need to effectively lead the training process your team. Your tuition includes: 

• Full access to the online materials
• Access to the Sport Academy Coaches Forum
• A Leader Guide, for planning and leading the training
• A hardcover copy of the book Raise Your Inner Game
• A custom bronze Raise Your Inner Game medallion
• A custom Sports Academy pen

PLUS MATERIALS for your first 15 students. ("Standard" Participant Kit)

The Coach Training comes with Standard Participant Kits for up to 15 students. Standard Kits include:

• Workbook
• Custom pen
• Access to the Audio Edition
• Access to the Parent Edition

The workbook also includes a custom Workout Journal they will use to put what they've learned into action. And the pen helps keep the work in their mind after the live training is complete. 

The Audio edition is a complete set of audio recordings of the course videos ($100 value). This is very helpful for revisiting the material and deepening their understanding and mastery.

The PARENT EDITION is a full RYIG training and forum just for parents. This helps the parents better understand and support their child in developing the inner game skills. It also helps the parents in their own lives.  

Yes, for up to 15 students ("Standard" Participant Kit). These initial Kits will be shipped as soon as you register for the Coach Training.

Beyond that, materials need to be purchased separately from our Coaches Resource Store located inside the training area. 

Yes. We have a “Standard to Deluxe Kit Upgrade” available in the Coaches Store. You can purchase the hardcover Raise Your Inner Game Book and custom Bronze Medallion together for $24.95. (Regular $48.95)

"Standard" materials are included with your initial purchase (for 15 students). Beyond that, each athlete has to at least have the Basic kit (workbook, pen, audios).

All three kit options as well as individual kit components are available in the Coaches Resource Store. You can mix and match however it best serves your team.

The first 15 Participant Kits (Standard) are included with the training tuition, and will be shipped when you register for the Coach Training.

For additional kits, there’s a link to the Coaches Resource Store inside the training area. Click the link, select the items you want, complete the checkout process. It’s all very straightforward, and happens right there on that page.

(NOTE: For group discounts, contact us directly. [email protected])

Absolutely. 30 days, 100%, money back, no questions asked. 

Yes. All the learning materials are accessible through our learning portal and include access to video modules for self-paced individual study. But please note that all the materials are in English. 

No special skills are needed, and the material is mobile-friendly, so a computer is not absolutely required. But you will need good internet access, and you will want to be able to download and printout the support materials. 

Yes! The Forum is not a Facebook group. It’s a dedicated Forum, hosted in the same portal as the Coach Training.

Certification, in this case, just means that you have completed the training. When you finish the course, we send you a Completion Certificate and a Certified Coach badge that you can share however you wish.

The short answer is no. The coach training only authorizes you to work with your own team. To work with other teams in your community, please see our Workshop Leader Certification Program. 

CLICK HERE for information on our Workshop Leader training: https://www.raiseyourinnergame.com/workshop-leader