Change Psychology Course 1

How Do We Change Our Behavior

A digital course on behavior-change, designed to give you a deep understanding of why your clients both struggle and succeed, so you can help them experience more of what they really want: incredible results that last.

Help your clients achieve their goals—even when motivation and willpower fall short
Get expert tools and assessments to measure your clients’ readiness to change, so you can develop a more strategic plan for success
Discover the coaching skills that facilitate change faster, leading to better client buy-in and retention
Earn Continuing Education Credits (CECs)

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WHO IT’S FOR

Nutrition professionals who want to further develop their coaching skills—along with those who simply want a deeper dive into this topic.

COURSE LENGTH

This course is entirely self-paced, and the material can be covered in detail in about 20-24 total hours.

FORMAT

100% online. Access the course materials from any device, at any time, through your online Precision Nutrition dashboard.

100% GUARANTEE

Try the entire course for 45 days. If you don’t love it, let us know and we’ll give you all your money back.

Coaching nutrition is about more than
macronutrient splits and meal plans.

As a coach, you work with real people, dealing with real situations, real struggles with change, all within the messiness of real life…

People who wake up in the morning determined to eat healthy… but find themselves raiding the snack cabinet in a moment of emotional distress just a few hours later.
People who want to improve their habits and make a change, but continually struggle.
People who may even know what they need to do—they just can’t seem to do it consistently.

If you can’t help people overcome these real life challenges, you’ll struggle to feel confident that you can help your clients get the results they truly want (and deserve). And your clients will feel stuck in the cycle of quick fixes that give them temporary hope—without lasting change.

This is why great coaches understand the complexities of how behavior and change works and why, so they can move people toward their goals—even when motivation and inspiration fall short.

How Do We Change Our Behavior is a deep-dive into understanding why we battle change, even when it’s what we want most, and how you can sharpen your change-making skills to help your clients overcome obstacles and move forward in a healthy direction.

What you’ll learn in How Do We
Change Our Behavior

A deep understanding of how habits are built and why we do the things we do so you can help your clients choose the change they want and work productively towards it.

Why common client challenges like low motivation and stressful lifestyles are actually incredible coaching opportunities—and how you can leverage change psychology to help clients move in a healthy direction.

Why relying on willpower, external motivation, and ‘hacks’ will never produce sustainable change and the “deep change” concept to focus on instead.

A behind-the-scenes look at the coaching tools, resources, assessments, and tools Precision Nutrition has used to help over 100,000 clients achieve jaw-dropping results—that last.

Specific skills, practices, and actions that facilitate behavior-change, helping improve client results and retention.

How to use change psychology to make an amazing first impression and improve your business processes.

Key phrases to eliminate from your coaching vocabulary, so you don’t accidentally demotivate your clients.

The steps required to explore, assess, and track your own process of change, so you’re at the top of your game when helping others.

How the course works

How Do We Change Our Behavior is a self-paced, digital course that’s broken down into two carefully-crafted units that cover both the science and practical application of behavior-change psychology. Here’s an overview of what’s covered in each unit:

Unit 1 – Understanding Behavior

Estimated learning time: 10-12 hrs

You’ll learn what behavior is and where it comes from. This unit takes a biopsychosocial, deep health perspective and explores how both behavior and change result from complex interactions between our body, brain, and environment.

Building on these ideas, you’ll learn the “deep change” concept of sustainable, wide-ranging growth and evolution (rather than “hacks” or “quick fixes”).

Unit 2 – Change in Practice

Estimated learning time: 10-12 hrs

You’ll go deeper into how change happens and how you can facilitate it with clients to produce incredible results. You’ll get specific skills, practices, and actions to support growth and understand why these particular techniques are most effective.

Included is PN’s Change Predictor Assessment Tool, with advanced features to assess your clients’ readiness to change, helping you develop a plan that will have the most chance of success.

Become a master of behavior change

Help your clients achieve their health and fitness goals—even when motivation and willpower fall short.

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What’s included in How Do We
Change Our Behavior?

Everything you need to develop a deep understanding of why your clients both struggle and succeed, so you can help them experience more of what they really want—incredible results that last.

40+ downloadable resources.

Get exclusive access to the coaching resources we use with clients at PN, like our Deep Health questionnaire, food and eating journals, motivational interviewing cheat sheet, and more.

Tools & assessments to measure change readiness.

Including the Change Predictor Assessment Tool, plus other client assessments and forms that will help you learn and practice your skills in the course, and that you can use with clients moving forward.

Study at your own pace, anywhere.

All of the course materials are delivered digitally, so you can work through the course at your own speed, from anywhere in the world.

Real-world case studies.

Drawing on our experience with over 100,000 clients, we’ll share real-world examples of what you might see working with people—and provide an opportunity for you to get hands-on practice and apply what you’re learning.

Apply this towards an Advanced Certificate in Change Psychology.

This is one of three required courses for the Specialist in Change Psychology Certificate. Take any course as standalone, or all three to earn the certificate and showcase your expertise.

Use this course to earn CECs.

How Do We Change Our Behavior qualifies for continuing education credits with the following organizations: ACE, AFAA, CPTN, NASM, ISSA, NBHWC (CE-000097-2), REPs NZ and UKIHCA.

Why learn with Precision Nutrition?

Here are just a few reasons…

We’re the originators of behavior-change for nutrition coaching, and since 2005 we’ve used the tools, science, and systems in our courses to help over 100,000 people transform their health and fitness. (No other nutrition company in the world can say this.) That means everything you’ll learn has been proven in the real world, with real people.

We are the experts that other experts come to for help. Precision Nutrition advises organizations around the world, coaches elite athletes and sports teams, and has been featured in leading publications. There’s a reason over 2 million people come to our website every single month.

We’re the home of the world’s #1 nutrition coaching certification, with over 150,000 health and fitness professionals choosing to get certified by us.

Science-backed and peer-reviewed. Our coaching method was recently validated in 3 peer-reviewed studies. This means everything you’ll learn is backed by science.

Bottom line: If you want to learn how to coach nutrition from the best in the field, you’ve come to the right place.

Meet the course authors

Our team includes some of the best nutritionists, PhDs, strength coaches, counselors, researchers, and specialists in the field.

Krista Scott-Dixon is Precision Nutrition’s director of curriculum. She earned her doctorate in Women’s Studies from York University. She holds counseling certifications from George Brown College and Leading Edge Training, which is certified by the Canadian Psychological Association.

Krista Scott-Dixon, PhD

Brian St. Pierre is the director of nutrition at Precision Nutrition, the coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching, and the mastermind behind the Precision Nutrition Calculator. He holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from the University of Maine.

Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD, CSCS

Adam Feit is Precision Nutrition’s head strength and sport psychology coach. Feit earned his master’s degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College. He recently received his PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College where he examined the use of mental skills in collegiate strength and conditioning.

Adam Feit, PhD, CSCS, SCCC, PN2

Helen Kollias, PhD, is PN’s science advisor and coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching. An exercise physiologist, Dr. Kollias earned her doctorate in Molecular Biology from York University in Toronto, specializing in the area of muscle development and regeneration. She has a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo, and has taught exercise physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry at the university and college level.

Helen Kollias, PhD

Craig Weller is Precision Nutrition’s exercise systems and program director and a PN Master Coach. His certifications include US Navy SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant Crewman), Department of State WPPS-2 (Worldwide Personal Protective Service), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, StrongFirst Girya Level 1, and Precision Nutrition Level 2. He’s also a US Department of State Worldwide Personal Protective Service Security Specialist and formerly a nationally-registered emergency medical technician.

Craig Weller, CPT, US Navy SWCC, SFG1, PN Master coach

Karin is a Curriculum Writer with a PhD focused on health behavior change. In addition to that, she has a M.A. in Communications, a Bachelor's in Psychology, and she has published research on Mindset Theory.

Karin Nordin, PhD, PN1

Alexander Schwartz, PhD, is a nutrition scientist and curriculum designer with Precision Nutrition. Dr. Schwartz earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences in the area of testosterone, appetite regulation and exercise physiology. His master’s of science degree in Human Kinetics focused on energy expenditure, weight loss and obesity and he has been heavily cited on the subject.

Alexander Schwartz, PhD

Dr. Ezinne Meribe is a Research Scientist and Curriculum Writer at Precision Nutrition. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Medicine & Surgery from University of Nigeria Nsukka. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from Kumamoto University, Japan where she is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate. The core of her work is built on using client centered communication to improve health outcomes.

Ezinne Meribe, MD, PhD(c)

Ryan Andrews is a principle nutritionist and adviser for Precision Nutrition and an adjunct instructor at Purchase College, State University of New York. He holds master’s degrees in both Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Kent State University and a BS in Exercise Science from the University of Northern Colorado. Ryan completed his dietetic internship at Johns Hopkins Medicine and studied sustainable food systems at Columbia University in the executive education program.

Ryan Andrews, MS, MA, RD, RYT, CSCS

Dr. Marge Garrod is a retired clinical researcher with a PhD in Nutritional Biology and Masters in Pharmacology/Toxicology, who worked mostly on human nutritional absorption and metabolism studies both through UC Davis and the ARS-USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center at Davis.

Marjorie Garrod, PhD

Carlos Davila, M.A. Developmental Psychology, is an Adjunct Professor at LIU Brooklyn (where he teaches Sports Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level) and at John Jay College (where he teaches Intro to Psychology). He’s also a CrossFit coach and group exercise instructor at Fhitting Room.

Carlos Davila, M.A.

Laura Castellani is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding the metabolic implications of antipsychotics, and how exercise and nutrition can restore metabolic and mental health. Prior to joining CAMH, Laura completed her PhD in Exercise Physiology & Metabolism, her MSc in Human Health and Nutritional Science, and a BSc in Biological Science, all at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Laura Castellani, PhD

Elnaz is a researcher and writer for Precision Nutrition. She holds an HBSc in Biology and Psychology and completed her PhD degree in Kinesiology and Health Science at York University. Elnaz is also a Precision Nutrition Level 1 certified coach and a registered holistic nutritionist through the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition.

Elnaz Moghimi, PhD

Pricing

Get instant access to the How Do We Change Our Behavior digital course materials for only $349 USD. You’ll lay the foundation for a deep understanding of why we both struggle and succeed, so you can help your clients experience more of what they really want—incredible results that last.

How Do We Change Our Behavior

$ 349 ONE-TIME PAYMENT

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How Do We Change Our Behavior

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