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
A hybrid course designed specifically for those with a background in professional psychology, coaching or healthcare who would like to incorporate FIT into their work.
FIT in Practice comprises 7 hours of independent learning time and 11 hours of taught workshop time. The taught component is delivered as a one day in-person workshop or 4 weeks (2 hour sessions) remotely. In both cases, we support your FIT skill development with remotely-delivered group masterclass sessions at 6 weeks and 6 months after the course. The assessment comprises a remote practice and feedback session with one of the course leads.
- Learn how to use personalised imagery to super-charge clients' motivation and accelerate change.
- Develop core competences in FIT through hands-on practice with individual feedback from peers and course leads.
- Experience FIT from a client’s perspective.
FIT in Practice is worth 18 learning hours.
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.