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, clients, or team. 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

Course enrolment dates:

8^th September 2025

5^th January 2026

5^th May 2026

Each course is open for 3 weeks, self-guided, starting from the enrolment date.

Discover how to use multisensory mental imagery to build motivation, plan actions, and strengthen confidence. This self-guided course uses innovative multimedia teaching techniques to help you understand how functional imagery training works and what makes it so effective. Learn:

•              the science behind FIT

•              how to work with imagery, even when clients have low imagery ability,

•              how FIT combines imagery and motivational interviewing to maximise desire for change,

•              how FIT uses imagery to strengthen goal setting and planning,

•              ways to elicit imagery of past success and amplify confidence to move forward,

•              how to develop clients' habits of using imagery for motivation.

Foundations of FIT is essential preparation for training as a FIT practitioner. It is worth 5 CPD hours.

This course is aimed at practitioners with experience in person-centred, empathic communication. To strengthen this skill, we recommend taking Communication Skills for Behaviour Change before this course.

Course enrolment dates:

6th October 2025

2nd February 2026

1st June 2026

Each course is open for 3 weeks, self-guided, starting from the enrolment date.