AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT · ENROL
Built with coaches, for coaches, by the AIS in partnership with re:cognition.
11250NAT
The science that sustains you.
ENROLMENT · COMMENCES AUGUST 2026
Enrolment for the AIS edition takes about ten minutes through our secure online enrolment form. Once it's in, a re:cognition course specialist will confirm your eligibility and get you underway.
Not ready to talk yet? Download the course guide and read it in your own time.
Takes about ten minutes, and you can save and come back at any point.
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Coaches sit at the centre of high performance, creating the conditions in which athletes learn, develop and perform. The role is intense. Pressure, travel, relational load, and a career that asks a lot over a long time. Coaches spend their working lives developing others, and have had few structured ways to develop their own wellbeing.
This qualification gives you the science, the language and the tools to build your own wellbeing on purpose, and a nationally recognised credential to show for it. It is underpinned by positive psychology and aligned with the AIS Win Well approach under High Performance 2032+.
Twelve hand-picked coaches worked through the standard Cert IV first. After every second unit they told us what needed to change. All ten units were rebuilt on what they said.
re sults
You spend your days reading other people, managing pressure and being the steady one. It is a privilege, and it is a load. This qualification is built to serve you through all of it.
IN THE PRESSURE
Reset and regulate in the hard moments, so you make clearer decisions, hold your standards, and stop running on empty before the season even peaks.
ON THE ROAD
Strategies for sleep, energy and staying connected through long trips, foreign hotel rooms and time zones, so the months away take less out of you.
AT HOME
Protect your relationships and your identity beyond results, set better boundaries, and bring more of yourself back to family and friends.
ACROSS YOUR CAREER
Durable, portable capability and a nationally recognised credential, plus the self-knowledge to last the distance and navigate the changes coaching brings.
“Course has changed my thinking on the concept of positive wellbeing and performance. Now a believer. It's a must have for coaches. My life is so much better, I'm in control.”
“The main changes have been around the simplicity of wellbeing for me. A clearer picture of the key things that help me thrive.”
re designed
Everything lives in a dedicated AIS learning space. Every video, activity, diagnostic and your Wellbeing Portfolio, in one place. Work in your own time, around training and travel, on any device. The foundation unit comes first, then each learning block unlocks in order.
A re:cognition Student Support Coach guides you, gives personal feedback and assesses your work. The teaching sits in the videos, so there is no classroom and no fixed timetable.
Short HP coach videos, AIS expert segments, interactive diagnostics and knowledge checks, built mobile-first to WCAG 2.2 AA so you can learn between sessions or while travelling.
A resource hub of go-deeper tools, plus a quarterly community of practice with other coaches walking the same path.
This is competency-based training. You are assessed as competent through practical tasks applied to your own life. If something is not yet competent, you get guidance and resubmit, with no penalty.
Ten nationally recognised units, grouped into learning blocks. Every unit runs the same loop. Learn the science, diagnose where you are, choose a strategy, apply it for about two weeks, review what changed.
Scientific Foundations of Wellbeing
Self-Efficacy for Wellbeing Goals
Decision Making for Wellbeing
Strengths for Wellbeing
Positive Emotions and Wellbeing
Connection and Social Wellbeing
Physical Wellbeing
Mental Wellbeing
Crafting Environments for Flourishing
Supporting Others with Wellbeing Science
Australian students need a Unique Student Identifier to enrol in nationally recognised training. It is free and takes a few minutes. If you have studied since 2015 you may already have one.
Create your USI at usi.gov.aureassurance
Ask it before you enrol. A short call is usually faster than an email thread.
Book a discovery callNot sure if it's right for you? Have a 15-minute chat with Yulia before you decide.
ENROLMENT · COMMENCES AUGUST 2026
Enrolment for the AIS edition takes about ten minutes through our secure online enrolment form. Once it's in, a re:cognition course specialist will confirm your eligibility and get you underway.
Not ready to talk yet? Download the course guide and read it in your own time.
Takes about ten minutes, and you can save and come back at any point.
Download course guide
