WOPC1 – VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Certificate in the Use of Mental Well-being to Optimise Performance (RQF)

Qualification summary

This qualification has been developed for learners with a budding talent to flourish, maximise their potential and perform at the highest level possible.

It has been designed to support learners to optimise their performance through a programme of neurofeedback and cognitive training, physical conditioning and mental strength and resilience. It explores the use of meditation, self-control and mindfulness, as well as a range of techniques that can be used to enable the learner to optimise their performance.

The range of units contained in this qualification enable you to gain an understanding of the use of meditation to gain self-awareness and to regulate thought and behaviour patterns, how to improve health and performance through mindfulness, the regulation of stress, the maintenance of emotional control and the management of distractors. It also enables you to understand how to improve your performance through physical and mental strength and resilience.

This qualification could also prove invaluable towards your personal and career development and does not require you to have any prior qualifications or levels of prior learning.

On completion of the VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Certificate in the Use of Mental Well-being to Optimise Performance (RQF), you may progress into further learning, employment or onto Skillsfirst vocationally-based qualifications, such as the:

•  VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Award in Ways to Maintain Personal Well-being (RQF)
•  VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Certificate in Personal and Social Development (RQF)
•  VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Certificate in the Principles of Maintaining  Personal Well-being at Work (RQF)

or similar vocationally-based qualifications.

VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Certificate in the Use of Mental Well-being to Optimise Performance (RQF) Handbook

Qualification structure

All three modules from Group M must be achieved to gain the qualification.

Guided Learning Hours (GLH) are 104

Total Qualification Time (TQT) is 122

Qualification numberQualification reference
WOPC1603/5324/7

Group M – mandatory units

RQF
unit no.
Skillsfirst
mod. no.
Module titleUnit LevelGLH Value
M/617/8841WOP1Introduction to meditation128
T/617/8842WOP2Use control and mindfulness to improve health and performance142
A/617/8843WOP3Principles of how to optimise performance134

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