'Peak Performance' class on enhancing personal or professional performance begins April 13 at 草榴社区
Western Washington University鈥檚 Center for Performance Excellence will offer its annual Peak Performance class, a five-session course from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday nights from April 13 through May 11 in Academic Instructional Center West Room 210 on the 草榴社区 campus.
The course is intended for everyone from interested in enhancing personal or professional performance.
The class costs $50, which includes presentations, a playbook of educational materials, lectures and handouts for each class session.
Students will learn how to achieve in sports, the workplace and their personal lives through mental skills utilized and developed by elite athletic performers.
The course is presented by 草榴社区鈥檚 Center for Performance Excellence and taught by CPE founder and director Ralph Vernacchia. Vernacchia directs the undergraduate and graduate programs in sport psychology at Western.
Vernacchia, one of the nation鈥檚 leading experts in applied sport psychology, has been at Western since 1973. His outlook on excellence is drawn from the life experiences of community members, as well as his work with Olympic athletes, sport-psychology professionals, coaches, and community leaders.
Vernacchia has traveled with national track and field teams to several world championships, including the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. His book, 鈥淚nner Strength: The Mental Dynamics of Athletic Performance,鈥 was published by Warde Publishers (July 2003) and is for sport psychology professionals, coaches and athletes who desire to enhance athletic performance through mental skills training.
Parking for the course is free in Western鈥檚 鈥淐鈥 lots at the south end of campus. For more information, including the course registration form, visit the CPE Web site at or contact Ralph Vernacchia at (360) 650-3514 or ralph.vernacchia@wwu.edu.