The Center for Mindful Eating

From the Taste of Food to the Food of our Memories

September 8, 2014 - Caroline Baerten, RD

Join Caroline Baerten, RD (Belgium) as she explores the question: What is taste? The taste sensations we experience when we take a bite of food are dependent on the food (external input) as well as how we perceive the taste (our sensory experience). So the question becomes, how do we really taste food? Is it through the taste buds, the nose, the eyes, or … the memory? During the teleconference, we will look at the different layers of taste that gives us pleasure but may also keep us trapped.

Learning Objectives:
to understand what our sensory experiences really tell us
to offer different tools to their clients and patients
learn a simple guided meditation

Caroline Baerton, RD, (Belgium), is a Mindfulness-based dietitian/RD and integrative psychotherapist (i.t) specializing in work with disordered eating behaviour, weight issues and sustainability. She is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) trainee with the Center for Mindfulness, UMass Medical School (USA) and a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh at the Institute of Applied Buddhism (Germany).

Caroline has founded MeNu, a health center for Mindful eating and Nutrition in Europe, Brussels.