Certificate in Sports Coaching Beyond the Game: Psychology and Facilitation

You know your sport. But when a participant loses confidence, a team stops communicating or someone asks a question you cannot answer, technical knowledge only takes you so far.

How do you help them reflect, find their own solutions and grow?

Coaching Beyond the Game is a practical, four-hour pilot programme for sports coaches and facilitators who want to develop people through sport. Drawing on coaching principles, psychology and experiential learning, it gives you approaches to use in your next coaching session, camp or workshop.

78% of coaches report that coach education improved coaching effectiveness. Your impact goes beyond the drills you run. It also comes from how you listen, respond and turn an experience into a learning opportunity.

• Recognise when to teach, manage, coach, facilitate or partner, and set psychological safety.
• Make teachable moments count: lead short debriefs that help athletes reflect, work out what to change and test it in the next attempt.
• Listen and adapt: understand the participant’s perspective, ask useful questions and adjust your coaching to different people.
• Bring the group into the conversation: invite quieter voices, explore different views and help participants learn from one another.
• Develop people through your sport: adapt familiar drills and games to shape values and practise soft skills.
• Redesign an activity from your own sport to support learning in these aspects.

1. The role of the coach
   Explore the differences between a manager, coach, facilitator, partner and teacher. Practise contracting to agree on the learning, and recognise that effective coaching does not require having every answer.
2. Learning through experience
   Use Kolb’s learning cycle to identify teachable moments and facilitate mini-debriefs that connect experience, reflection, learning and experimentation.
3. Listening and individual conversations
   Practise listening with the intention to understand rather than reply. Explore different levels of listening, participants’ perspectives and motivation through scenario-based conversations.
4. Facilitating a group
   Invite participants to respond and learn from one another. Explore Tuckman’s group development model and practise setting expectations for psychological safety, inviting participation and responding productively.
5. Designing better sporting experiences
   Use LyfeGo’s seven activity-design dials to adapt activities within your own sport, making deliberate changes to support engagement and learning.
6. Expect to practise
   This is a participatory workshop. You’ll work through one-to-one coaching scenarios, group facilitation exercises and activity-design challenges. Bring a situation from your own coaching or facilitation experience. Use it to explore what you could do differently in your next session.

• Sports coaches who want to develop participants beyond technical performance.
• Camp instructors and facilitators who want to lead more purposeful experiences.
• Educators and trainers who use sport or games to support learning.

Luke brings 13+ years of experience in competitive sport and coaching, alongside 4+ years in the training and development industry.

His experience includes team and leadership facilitation for schools and corporate C-suite participants across Southeast Asia, reaching more than 1,700 participants. He holds professional certifications in public speaking, coaching and DISC.

Through LyfeGo, Luke brings these experiences together to help coaches and facilitators turn sporting activities into opportunities for personal and team development.

1. Certificate of Completion
   Receive a LyfeGo-issued Certificate of Completion after completing the four-hour course.
2. Certificate of Achievement
   Participants who subsequently pass the assessment will receive a separate LyfeGo-issued Certificate of Achievement. The assessment includes reflection on how you have applied course techniques and how your coaching has changed.

These are certificates issued by LyfeGo. They do not confer a coaching licence or external accreditation.

Date: Saturday, 5 December 2026

Time: 2–6pm

Duration: Four hours

Venue: TBC (Lavender or Bugis)

Standard admission: S$150 per person

Coffee and light snacks will be provided. Meals are not included.

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