NCCP: Make Ethical Decisions

By successfully completing the NCCP Make Ethical Decisions training, coaches will be fully equipped to handle ethical situations with confidence and surety. The training helps coaches identify the legal, ethical, and moral implications of difficult situations that present themselves in the world of team and individual sport.

The NCCP Make Ethical Decisions module is a cornerstone of the NCCP and leaves coaches with no doubt as to what to do in challenging situations.

The module equips coaches to handle challenging ethical situations with confidence and surety. It helps coaches identify the legal, ethical, and moral implications of difficult situations that present themselves in team and individual sports.

After completing the NCCP Make Ethical Decisions module, you will be able to:

• analyze a challenging situation to determine its moral, legal, or ethical implications; and
• apply the NCCP Ethical Decision-Making Model to properly respond to situations in a way that is consistent with the NCCP Code of Ethics.

After you have taken the module, you can access the NCCP Make Ethical Decisions online evaluation free through the Locker. Successful completion of the evaluation is necessary for coach certification in any NCCP program.

Next Course Offerings – TBD

*This course will no longer be offered in-person beginning March 31st*

To request this course, please contact Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Advanced Practice Planning

The NCCP Advanced Practice Planning module examines the impact of daily training sequencing, and the manipulations that can affect training outcomes.

This module is an ideal follow-up to NCCP Planning a Practice. Coaches are advised to take the NCCP Performance Planning module before taking NCCP Advanced Practice Planning.

After completing the NCCP Advanced Practice Planning module, you will be able to:

• identify the factors that affect practice planning;
• ensure that practice plans are consistent with the microcycles and phases of which they are part;
• sequence exercises in a practice so that their order is consistent with the research on sequencing;
• develop a plan for training athletic abilities over a microcycle;
• develop a plan for training technical and tactical abilities over a microcycle; and
• develop a plan for a microcycle that helps athletes taper before a competition.

Next Course Offering: 

March 21st, 2026 (9:30am-2:30pm) at Parkinson Recreation Center, Kelowna BC – REGISTER NOW! 

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Manage a Sport Program

As coaches begin to take on more responsibility, they are expected to plan and execute tasks that extend beyond the delivery of daily training and the management of the daily training environment.

The NCCP Manage a Sport Program module provides coaches with the opportunity to plan and interact with program budgeting, setting staff and team expectations, arranging team travel, building athlete agreements, and reporting on athlete/team progress.

This module is perfect for any club head coach, provincial team coach, aspiring team manager, or technical administrator.

After completing the NCCP Manage a Sport Program, you will be able to:

• manage administrative aspects of the program and oversee logistics;
• manage staff roles and responsibilities;
• manage camp and tournament finances and travel, and;
• report on athlete progress throughout the program.

Next Offering: 

March 28th, 2026, (9:30am-2:00pm) at Parkinson Recreation Centre, Kelowna BC – REGISTER NOW!

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com 

Aboriginal Coaching Modules (ACM)

To educate Indigenous people about the value of and to encourage their participation in the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP), the ASC embarked on a multi-year consultative process to develop training material for Indigenous coaches.

The result of this process was the launch of the Aboriginal Coaching Modules (ACM) in 2003. The ACM responded directly to the identified need for a national coach training curriculum that reflects the uniqueness of Indigenous culture, values and lifestyles. Originally designed for coaches of First Nation, Métis and Inuit heritage, the program has been expanded to include non-Indigenous coaches working within Indigenous communities and with Indigenous people.

Designed to complement the NCCP certification process, the ACM is a professional development training tool for all coaches who coach Indigenous athletes. Learn more here about the general and long term objectives. ACP Learning and Long Term Objectives

The ACM is comprised of three learning modules:

*Typically these modules are completed in a 1 day (8 hour) workshop but can be provided separately upon request.

Module 1: Holistic Approach to Coaching
Module 2: Dealing with Racism in Sport
Module 3: Individual and Community Health and Wellness

Aboriginal Coaching Modules 1: Holistic Approach to Coaching

Type: In-Class Workshop
Duration: 3 hours

This module encompasses topics such as:

• Creating a positive coaching environment
• The Medicine Wheel: a holistic approach to coaching that embraces the physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, cultural and spiritual.
• The Four Pillars value system.
• How to create constructive coach-to-community relationships.

Aboriginal Coaching Module 2: Dealing with Racism In Sport

Type: In-Class Workshop
Duration: 2 hours

This module addresses issues of racism in sport including:

• Defining racism; a lexicon for use in the discussion of racism.
• Risk monitoring, assessment analysis and mitigation.
• Situational learning and application.

Aboriginal Coaching Module 3: Individual and Community Health and Wellness

Type: In-Class Workshop
Duration: 2 hours

This module focuses on the unique lifestyle, health situations and challenges that Indigenous people may face. Topics include:

• Understanding the community where you coach.
• Mental health and sport.
• Personal and community health practices.
• Diet and nutrition.
• Health conditions and diseases.
• Influencing change.

Next Course Offering: TBD

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Psychology of Performance

The goal of the NCCP Psychology of Performance module is to support coaches in developing mental skills in their day-to-day practice as a coach.

Note: There are similarities between this module and the NCCP Basic Mental Skills module. While the NCCP Basic Mental Skills module provides an overview to mental skill development and application, this module covers the knowledge of mental skill development at a deeper level and provides more opportunities for coaches to practise. Both modules follow a similar structure, yet they cover different depths of applying the development of mental skills.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the focus skills that will help athletes achieve their goals in training and in competition
• Train athletes in the focus skills that will help them achieve their goals in training and in competition
• Work with athletes or teams to identify appropriate outcome, performance and process goals
• Use debriefing skills to work with athletes and assess their performance in training and in competition

Duration

Training for the NCCP Psychology of Performance module takes approximately 7.5 hours and it covers 7 topics:

• Introduction
• Overview of key mental skills
• Focus
• Setting goals
• Debriefing performance
• Planning for mental skill development
• Conclusion

Once you have completed the workshop, credit for the module will appear in your coach transcript in the Locker.

Next Course Offering – TBD

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Basic Mental Skills

The goal of the NCCP Basic Mental Skills module is to support coaches in developing mental skills in their day-to-day practice as a coach.

Note: There are similarities between this module and the NCCP Psychology of Performance module. While this module provides an overview to mental skill development and application, the NCCP Psychology of Performance module covers the knowledge of mental skill development at a deeper level and provides more opportunities for coaches to practise. Both modules follow a similar structure, yet they cover different depths of applying the development of mental skills.

Learning Outcomes

• Integrate mental-preparation strategies into practices
• Help participants be mentally prepared for competition

Duration

Training for the NCCP Basic Mental Skills module takes approximately 4 hours and it covers 6 topics:

• Introduction
• Basic mental skills
• Developing and maintaining focus
• Setting goals
• Planning for mental skill development
• Conclusion

Once you have completed the workshop, credit for the module will appear in your coach transcript in the Locker.

Next Course Offering: TBD

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Teaching and Learning

The NCCP Teaching and Learning module is designed help less experienced coaches develop their coaching skills.

Learning Outcomes

• Implement an appropriately structured and organized practice.
• Make interventions that promote learning and development.

Duration

Training for the NCCP Teaching & Learning module takes approximately 4.75 hours and it covers 7 topics:

• Introduction
• Foundations
• From plan to action
• Approaches
• Microteaching
• Reflection
• Conclusion

Once you have completed the workshop, credit for the module will appear in your coach transcript in the Locker.

Next Course Offering: TBD

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Planning a Practice

The NCCP Planning a Practice module consists of two components:

• a free NCCP Emergency Action Plan eLearning activity
• a five-hour in-class/online delivered module.

Coaches must complete both components to receive full credit for having taken the NCCP Planning a Practice Module.

The goal of the module is to prepare coaches to plan safe and effective practices.

The NCCP Planning a Practice learning activities will prepare coaches to:

• explain the importance of logistics in the development of a practice plan;
• establish an appropriate structure for a practice; and
• identify appropriate activities for each part of the practice.

After completing the NCCP Emergency Action Plan eLearning activity, coaches will be able to:

• describe the importance of having an Emergency Action Plan (EAP);
• identify when to activate the EAP;
• explain the responsibilities of the charge person and call person when the EAP is activated; and
• create a detailed EAP that includes all required information for responding to an emergency.

Visit the Locker to complete the free NCCP Emergency Action Plan eLearning activity.

Next Course Offering: TBD

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com

NCCP: Managing Conflict

NCCP Managing Conflict introduces new and experienced coaches to the impact of conflict on sport in their day-to-day coaching practice. This module teaches key skills for achieving positive outcomes using effective conflict management techniques.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the NCCP Managing Conflict training module, coaches will be able to:

• Identify common sources of conflict in sport
• Take steps to prevent and resolve conflict resulting from misinformation, miscommunication or misunderstanding
• Listen and speak for themselves in conflict situations to maintain positive and healthy relationships with athletes, parents, guardians, officials, other coaches and administrators

Duration

Training for the NCCP Managing Conflict is a minimum 6.5 hour module that covers 6 topics:

• Introduction
• Conflict in sport
• Managing conflict
• Resolving conflict
• Preventing conflict
• Conclusion

Next Course Offering: TBD

To request this course, please email Kasey Wright at kwright@pacificsport.com