FIT training
We offer a range of FIT training packages, tailored to your level of skill and experience. Prices are set for individual trainees.
For affordable group training, please contact functionalimagerytraining@plymouth.ac.uk for a bespoke quote for your organisation or service.
A free one-hour webinar with functional imagery training (FIT) founder Professor Jackie Andrade. Jackie will introduce key aspects of FIT, explain how to become a FIT practitioner, and answer audience questions.
A self-guided foundation using quizzes, reflection, and interactive videos to hone your core skills in empathic communication. All the tools you need to start empowering and motivating your patients and clients. For practitioners in advice-giving roles, this course will teach new ways of communicating, working in a collaborative and supportive manner to provide information that is wanted and will be acted upon.
At the end of this course you should be able to:
- Understand why people do not follow health advice
- Work with patients’ own ideas for change
- Develop active listening skills to engage and motivate patients
An essential basis for the FIT practitioner training.
Through videos, case studies and reflective exercises, explore how FIT can help you help your clients more effectively. This self-guided programme explains the science behind FIT and the tools it uses to build motivation, plan actions, and strengthen confidence.
By the end of the programme, you will understand how FIT works, why it is so effective, and how you can incorporate it into your practice.
Live course delivered over two days in person or 7 weeks (2 hour sessions) remotely.
Develop core competences in FIT through hands-on practice with individual feedback from peers and course leads. Experience FIT from a client’s perspective. We support you while you practice, with group masterclass sessions at 6 weeks and 6 months after training. Successfully completing the programme gives you FIT practitioner status for 3 years, allowing you to advertise FIT as part of your service and use the FIT logo.
A live course designed specifically for those with a background in coaching who would like to incorporate FIT into their work.
FIT Coach is delivered over two days in person or 7 weeks (2 hour sessions) remotely.
- Learn how to use personalised imagery to super-charge your coaching.
- Develop skill in using imagery for motivation and confidence building through hands-on practice with individual feedback from peers and course leads.
- Experience FIT coaching from a client’s perspective.
We support you while you practice, with group masterclass sessions at 6 weeks and 6 months after training. Successfully completing the programme gives you FIT Coach status for 3 years, allowing you to advertise FIT as part of your service and use the FIT logo.
A FIT practitioner or FIT coach licence qualifies you to practice FIT, use the FIT logo, and appear in the register of FIT practitioners and coaches on this website for 3 years. Towards the end of the 3 year period, you will be invited to renew your licence.
A FIT refresher is also available for those who have undertaken FIT training elsewhere and would like to use the official University of Plymouth FIT logo and be featured as a FIT practitioner on this website.
Group settings provide peer support and encouragement as well as often being a cost-effective way to deliver interventions. We have adapted FIT for group delivery through our weight loss research, collaboration with Devon Mind, and through designing workplace resilience interventions. We typically use group FIT when working with sport teams and business organisations. This course provides training in group FIT and bespoke materials for your clients. You need to have completed Communication Skills and Foundations of FIT first.