Become a Certified
Transformation Specialist
* 20 Credits *
Transformation is where lasting change begins
How It Works
ISSA 20 CEUs
Why Become a Transformation Specialist?
As a certified Transformation Specialist, you have the power to help your clients create lasting positive changes in their physical, mental, and emotional health. With your expert knowledge of identifying change, motivation, and positive psychology techniques, you can help clients break through any roadblocks that are keeping them from reaching their goals. Through your skillful guidance, they will learn how to effectively manage their behavior and develop strategies to create healthy habits that will last a lifetime. With your help, they can achieve the transformation they desire and take control of their life.
Become a certified Transformation Specialist and make a difference in the lives of your clients! Unlock the potential within them and watch as they blossom into healthier, happier versions of themselves. The possibilities are endless when you become a Transformation Specialist.
What You'll Learn From This Course
✔️ Recognize and identify the stages of change.
✔️ Describe characteristic features of each stage of change that can be used to assess the client.
✔️ Identify the basic principles of Motivational Interviewing.
✔️ Design strength-based program that incorporates elements of flourishing.
✔️ Apply Motivational Interviewing techniques to change client behavior.
✔️ Characterize the five components of positive psychology.
✔️ Demonstrate knowledge of commitment devices and the ways in which personal trainers can employ them to improve the consistency of client behavior.
✔️ Describe the techniques utilized in Motivational Interviewing.
✔️ Incorporate specific skills to move the client from surviving to thriving.
✔️ Summarize the ISSA Drawing In Process.
✔️ Describe the theoretical premise of commitment devices and how they may be helpful to personal trainers and clients.
✔️ Explain the way in which commitment devices improve conscious control.
✔️ Summarize the experience sampling method and how it can be used to generate behavior change.
✔️ Incorporate the steps necessary to utilize experience sampling with personal training clients.
COURSE CONTENTS
Why Personal Trainers Need to Know About Behavioral Change
How This Information Can Help Personal Trainers
The Stages of Change and How to Identify Them
Assessing the Client
Applied Skills for Each Stage of Change
The Motivational Interviewing Model
The New Science of Motivation: The Latest Research and Motivation Skills
Using Ambivalence to Motivate Your Clients
The Motivational Interviewing Coach: How Empathy Enhances Change
Modifying Personal Behavior
Modifying Your Client’s Behavior
The Positive Psychology Model
Positive Psychology Skills for Personal Trainers
Commitment Strategies
Part Two: To Win the Game, You Have to Know the Rules
Flow and Why It Matters
The Complete Change Workbook
Self-Motivation Booster: At Home Exercises to Supercharge Motivation
Get Positive: Positive Psychology Skills to Create a Winning Mindset
Change Methods That Work: The Complete Commitment Strategy Guide
Am I Getting Better? How to Use Experience Sampling to Propel Change
Who are ISSA Transformation Specialists?
The ISSA’s commitment to its clients is unparalleled, providing the highest level of personalized fitness coaching for those who are serious about transforming their bodies and lifestyles for the better.
ISSA Transformation Specialists are fitness professionals and lifestyle coaches who specialize in helping people reach their health and fitness goals. Through evidence-based techniques, extensive training, and experience, they know how to create tailored programs and strategies that help individuals achieve the transformation they seek with lasting change. From modifying personal behavior to exercises designed to build muscle or shed fat, ISSA Transformation Specialists can provide people of all levels with the support and guidance they need to make their fitness dreams a reality.
What You'll Get With This Course
✔️ Learn Anytime, Anywhere – 100% Online
Study on your own schedule! Our easy-to-use online system lets you access lessons from any device, anytime.
✔️ Easy-to-Understand Video Lessons
Watch and listen to experts explain key topics in a simple, clear way that you can use in real life.
✔️ Simple, Searchable Online Textbook
Get all the information you need in one place, easy to read and search whenever you need it.
✔️ Quick Practice Quizzes
Test yourself with short quizzes to see what you know and what you need to review—no pressure!
✔️ Take Your Certification Exam at Home
No need to stress! Our open-book, open-note online test helps you show what you’ve learned without anxiety.
✔️ Ready-to-Use Forms for Clients
Start working as a transformational specialist right away with professional forms for client assessment.
✔️ Complete Study Workbook
Strengthen your understanding with this alternative study format that helps you absorb important information, practice real-world scenarios, and prepare for your assessment through step-by-step exercises.
Read on about Transformation Specialists
Make a real difference in people’s lives as you learn how to positively influence behavioral patterns that impact physical, mental, and emotional well-being. As a Transformation Specialist, you go beyond basic fitness programming—you help clients break through limiting habits, build sustainable routines, and create meaningful, long-term change.
COURSE AUDIENCE (for whom this course can be useful)
✔️ Aspiring Transformation Specialists, fitness trainers, and wellness professionals looking to build a career in behavior change, lifestyle transformation, and holistic well-being coaching.
✔️ Individuals aiming to expand their expertise in guiding clients through the stages of change, strengthening motivation, and creating structured programs that support long-term physical, mental, and emotional growth.
✔️ Those seeking reputable, internationally recognized certifications to enhance their professional credibility as Transformation Specialists and behavioral change coaches.
✔️ Fitness and wellness professionals striving to improve their communication skills, motivational interviewing techniques, client accountability systems, and long-term lifestyle coaching strategies.
✔️ Motivated individuals committed to helping clients break limiting habits, build sustainable routines, increase resilience, and achieve lasting transformation in health and overall quality of life.
Approved by the International Sports Sciences
Association (ISSA), USA.
