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Nationally Recognised Training
re:cognition · National Provider No. 40655 · 11250NAT
Nationally Recognised Training
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST  ·  NATIONALLY RECOGNISED TRAINING 11250NAT

Certificate IV in Wellbeing Science

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Registrations open July 2026 for launch in August 2026

For Australia’s high performance coaches

Performance wellbeing science, customised for the coaches at the centre of Australia’s high performance system, a nationally recognised qualification that helps coaches function and flourish. Built with coaches, for coaches, by the AIS in partnership with re:cognition.

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WHY THIS COURSE

You’re a performance enabler. This is the science that sustains you.

Coaches sit at the centre of high performance, creating the conditions in which athletes learn, develop and perform. The role is intense and dynamic; pressure, travel, relational load and a career that asks a lot over a long time. Coaches spend their working lives developing others, with few structured ways to develop their own wellbeing.

Underpinned by positive psychology and aligned with the AIS Win Well approach, this qualification gives coaches the science, the language and the tools to build their own wellbeing on purpose, and a nationally recognised credential to show for it.

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HOW IT WORKS

Online, self-paced, supported the whole way

Your Student Support Coach.

A dedicated coach guides you, gives personal feedback, and assesses your work. No classroom and no fixed timetable — the teaching sits in short videos from your coach and AIS experts.

Designed for life on the move.

Interactive diagnostics and knowledge checks, built mobile-first so you can learn between sessions or while on the move.

A hub and a community.

A resource hub of go-deeper tools, plus a quarterly community of practice with other coaches walking the same path.

At a glance
  • Cost: $2,500 · no GST
  • Duration: 6 months, self-paced
  • Commences: August 2026
  • Delivery: Online, any device
  • Issuing RTO: re:cognition · No. 40655
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

This is for you, not just your athletes

You spend your days reading other people, managing pressure and being the steady one. This qualification is built to serve you through all of it — to help you live well, not just coach well.

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IN THE PRESSURE

Steady when it counts. Reset and regulate in the hard moments, so you make clearer decisions and stop running on empty before the season even peaks.

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ON THE ROAD

Travel that costs you less. Strategies for sleep, energy and staying connected through long trips and time zones, so months away take less out of you.

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AT HOME

More of you for the people who matter. Protect your relationships and your identity beyond results, set better boundaries, and bring more of yourself back home.

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ACROSS YOUR CAREER

A career you can sustain. A career you can sustain. Durable, portable capability and a nationally recognised credential, plus the self-knowledge to last the distance.

THE TEN UNITS

What you’ll do, unit by unit

Ten nationally recognised units, grouped into clusters and completed in order. Each unit puts you in the driver’s seat — a wellbeing scientist studying your own life.

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FOUNDATIONS OF WELLBEING SCIENCE

Personal & Professional Wellbeing Measure your wellbeing with two validated scales, set a goal using wellbeing frameworks, and design the Wellbeing Portfolio you will build all course.

 

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LEARNING BLOCK 1
MINDSETS FOR WELLBEING GOALS

Self-Efficacy · Decision Making · Strengths. Reset goals with WOOP, decide clearly under load, and put your VIA strengths to work.

 

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LEARNING BLOCK 2
EMOTIONAL & SOCIAL WELLBEING

Positive Emotions · Connections.

Fuel an upward spiral and deepen the five relationships that anchor you on the road.

 

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LEARNING BLOCK 3
PHYSICAL & MENTAL WELLBEING 

Physical Wellbeing · Mental Wellbeing Make a habit stick with behaviour-change science, and strengthen your mind through mindfulness and neuroplasticity.

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ENVIRONMENT FOR FLOURISHING

Environment. Design the physical and mental conditions, and a reset practice, for wherever you are.

 

 

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CAPSTONE

Developing Others. Re-measure against your baseline and use a Notice, Ask, Support approach to guide others well. 

 

 

 

No exams, no marks. This is competency-based training. You’re assessed as competent through practical tasks applied to your own life, with personal feedback from your Student Support Coach.

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BEFORE YOU ENROL
Create a USI
Your Unique Student Identifier

Australian students need to have a USI to enrol in nationally recognised training. It takes a few minutes to create and you’ll only ever need one (if you don't already have one).

You can register your interest now and create/or find your USI before enrolments open.

Create your USI at usi.gov.au →

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

The next step is simple.

Complete the short expression of interest form and the team will be in touch with what happens next. No commitment, this just puts you on the list for the July 2026 intake. AIS enquiries: hpcoachdevelopment@ausport.gov.au

In partnership · AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) & re:cognition · RTO No. 40655.

 

11250NAT Certificate IV in Wellbeing Science is nationally recognised training owned and issued by re:cognition (RTO No. 40655); the AIS is a content customisation partner, not the RTO.

 

Open to coaches in Australia and internationally; Australian students enrol with a USI; participants outside Australia enter “exempt” in place of a USI and receive an identical certificate that is not registered with the Australian government. Entry requirements and recognition of prior learning are confirmed by re:cognition at enrolment. Details are current at publication and subject to change.