CounterPunch uses boxing-inspired movement and performance psychology to develop the person behind the athlete.
COUNTERPUNCH FACILITATOR TRAINING
You're Already Coaching Their Performance. What About the Person Behind It?
Discover how CounterPunch combines boxing-inspired movement, performance psychology and a structured youth-development Method to help coaches build confidence, emotional awareness, resilience and leadership in young people.
13 minutes: the Method, Damien's story, the Coaches Roundtable, and who it's for.
What You're Joining
The Method
Connect, Relate and Communicate, across nine areas of development
Training & resources
The activities and practical resources to deliver the program
Coaches Roundtable
Fortnightly live Zoom sessions with direct facilitator access
Access
Twelve months of training registration
Licence
Pathway to becoming a licensed CounterPunch facilitator
Where you deliver it
Your gym, club or organisation, with young people you already work with
Investment
Walked through on your Coach Conversation with Merc
You're already teaching skills, technique, discipline and performance.
But young people bring more than their sporting ability into your coaching environment.
They bring frustration, fear, pressure, self-doubt, relationships and everything happening outside training.
And whether you intended to or not, you're already dealing with the human side of coaching.
CounterPunch gives you a structured Method for that part of the job.
Not to turn you into a psychologist.
Not to replace specialist support.
But to help you use movement, coaching and reflection more purposefully.
You can finish a course. You never finish coaching.
THE METHOD
CONNECT
Head + Body
Movement creates opportunities for engagement, awareness, safety and trust.
RELATE
Self + Environment
Young people begin recognising their responses, understanding what influences them and discovering where they have choice.
COMMUNICATE
Potential + Action
Young people begin applying what they've learned through emotional regulation, confidence, communication, contribution and leadership.
What it builds in your young people.
They take the correction and ask what to fix, instead of firing back.
They breathe and stay in the round, instead of freezing.
They start putting feelings into words, instead of acting them out.
They carry it outside the gym.
The ones who stick with it start helping the younger kids do the same.
Some kids get there quickly. Others take longer. That's why we build opportunities for growth into every session, rather than leaving it to chance.
Questions coaches ask
Who we are looking for
THE PERSON
A coach who cares about developing the person behind the athlete.
THE PEOPLE
You already coach, work with, or have genuine access to young people.
THE PLACE
You have an appropriate environment to practise in.
THE PLATFORM
You have somewhere CounterPunch becomes part of what you already do.
If that sounds like your table, let's talk about a seat at ours.
Book 15 minutes with Merc. We'll talk about your young people and where you coach, and walk you through the training, investment and payment options.