WOPC1 – VTCT (Skillsfirst) Level 1 Certificate in the Use of Mental Well-being to Optimise Performance (RQF)
This qualification is now closed for Registrations
Certification end date: 31/07/2026
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.
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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 number | Qualification reference |
| WOPC1 | 603/5324/7 |
Group M – mandatory units
| RQF unit no. | Skillsfirst mod. no. | Module title | Unit Level | GLH Value |
| M/617/8841 | WOP1 | Introduction to meditation | 1 | 28 |
| T/617/8842 | WOP2 | Use control and mindfulness to improve health and performance | 1 | 42 |
| A/617/8843 | WOP3 | Principles of how to optimise performance | 1 | 34 |
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