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PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONThe Mindful Eating Certificate Course is designed to provide instruction and training in foundational mindful eating competencies, knowledge, and skills. It is designed for professionals who would like to understand and apply the best practices associated with mindful eating in their private practice, public workshops, webinars, and other professional activities. Throughout this course you will:
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We recognize that our students represent many different countries and cultures with varying economies. As such we are pleased to offer enrollment for this course using a sliding scale based on the work of Worts and Cunning Apothecary and Embracing Equity. Our aim is to keep our programs accessible for all. CPEU are available for an additional fee of $120 USD at checkout. Please review the Checkout Instructions for more details.
Please consider the following and choose the option that best suits your personal and economic situation while honoring the INSTRUCTOR's expertise and supporting the organizations Mission:
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Are you interested in joining TCME's Community of Professionals? Start your membership today to take advantage of the special member price!*Additional fees apply for those seeking CPEU. Discounts do not apply to CPEU. |
Interested in a Scholarship? | A limited number of scholarships are available. If you are passionate about joining this course and these fees are beyond your reach, you are encouraged to apply. Learn more. |
1. Create a new account.* The Thinkific Learning Management Platform is independent of your TCME member login. This will be your user name and log in information to access this course.2. If you would like to earn CPEU through APA, CDR, or NBHWC, please select 'Add to Order' for the CPEU Add-on of $120 USD. This is a one-time payment due upon checkout. This fee helps to cover the expense of offering CPEU.3. Complete your purchase and look for your welcome email! Free Introductory Session | August 21, 2024 @ 12:00 Noon ET |
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How it Works
The Mindful Eating Certificate is a 9-module program with a new module presented each month by a different instructor. At the end of the certificate program, learners will obtain a certificate of completion and a digital badge that they may use on websites and in communications with the public.
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About the Module:Learn the ground, path, and fruition (or foundations, methods, and results) of what we know today as mindfulness. We will begin by exploring several key Buddhist teachings, including the Three Marks of Existence and two lojong slogans, "First train in the preliminaries" and "Three objects, three poisons, three seeds of virtue." We will also discuss the Buddhist "view" and what the real "point" of meditation and mindfulness is, contextualized for modern life. Next, we will discover how to put these teachings into practice every day. And finally, we will describe the fruition or general outcome of these practices, including their impact on the structure and function of the brain and nervous system, the subjective perception of one's life and worthiness, and how we relate to food and our bodies. Learning Objectives:
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About the Instructor:Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RD, CDN, is a nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of five books. Her work combines intuitive eating, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, polyvagal theory, and other embodied modalities. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Self, Health, Lion’s Roar, Mindful, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Women’s World, and U.S. News & World Report. Jenna lives in the greater New York City, NY, area with her family. For more on Jenna’s work, go to jennahollenstein.com and follow her on Instagram @jennahollenstein. |
About the Module:Gather in community to practice mindful eating and feel supported in your learning journey. We will explore guiding a scripted mindful eating session, with ample space for self-reflection and sharing your experience with the group. Then, we'll examine the research that supports mindful eating and how to identify clients who may benefit from the practice. This interactive module aims to foster a safe and encouraging environment for all participants. Learning Objectives:
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About the Instructor:Linn Thorstensson is a registered Nutritional Therapist, based in Co Mayo in the West of Ireland, with a special focus on helping people heal their relationship with food and eating, through a mindful eating and self-compassionate approach. Linn is the current Chair of Board of Directors for The Centre for Mindful Eating. Linn holds a three year PGDip in Nutritional Therapy, certifications in mind-body medicine, and Mindful Eating (MB-EAT). She is a past director for the board of Nutritional Therapists of Ireland. When she is not found reading, writing or in her clinic, she tries spending most of her time in nature, with her dogs, with friends and in deep conversations. You can connect with Linn online at: www.straightforwardnutrition.com Facebook: Straightforward Nutrition Instagram: @healing_relationship_with_food Email: linn@straightforwardnutrition.com |
About the Module:Learn the importance of bringing a trauma-informed approach to mindful eating. While mindful eating can help heal one's relationship to food and cultivate a more joyful approach to eating, understanding the impact of trauma and offering trauma-informed mindful eating practices are paramount to being a more effective mindful eating guide. This module will provide an overview of trauma-informed mindfulness and trauma-informed yoga practices that can be incorporated into mindful eating. We will discuss specific teachings on trauma, trauma-informed mindfulness, and their connection to mindful eating. Learning Objectives:
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| About the Instructor:Sharon A. Suh is Professor of Buddhism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University. She received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and is the author of several articles and book chapters on Buddhism, gender, and race. She has published three books: Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community (University of Washington Press, 2004); Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism in Asian and Western Film (Bloomsbury Press, 2015); and Occupy This Body: A Buddhist Memoir (Sumeru Press, 2019). She explores the intersections of Buddhism, gender, race, and film. She is interested in exploring trauma from the perspectives of Buddhism and neuroscience and focuses particularly on the experiences of women of color. She emphasizes the importance of trauma-informed embodiment practices such as meditation and yoga that can increase the capacity for resilience. She is President of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women She is a Mindful Eating-Conscious Living Level II certified teacher through the UCSD Center for Mindfulness. She received her 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher training and trained extensively in trauma-informed yoga and currently resides in Seattle, WA (USA). Website: www.mindfuleatingmethod.com Email: info@mindfuleatingmethod.com |
About the Module: Navigating challenging life experiences, grappling with difficult emotions, and wrestling with deep feelings of inadequacy stemming from weight stigma and diet culture can pose formidable obstacles to developing a mindful eating practice. Embracing a profound understanding of self-compassion as mindful eating professionals enables us to gracefully hold space and exemplify an ethos of radical acceptance for ourselves and others. In this module, you'll become acquainted with the humble art of self-compassion and its role in fostering a harmonious relationship with food and body. Learning Objectives:
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| About the Co-Instructor:Cecilia Clementi, Ph.D, Psy.D, is a Clinical and Health Psychologist, psychotherapist, and Mindfulness and Mindful eating Teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Bologna (Italy), where she also obtained her Clinical and Community Psychology degree and Specialization as a Health Psychologist and Psychotherapist. As a psychotherapist, she is qualified in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT, Acceptance and Committed Therapy (ACT), and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and she is a certified Eye Movement Desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner. Her areas of expertise include eating disorders, addiction, complex trauma, and personality disorders. Cecilia is qualified as a mindfulness teacher in 2008 at the Italian Center for Mindfulness Studies, and in 2014, she trained as a mindful eating teacher in Bruxelles with Jean Kristeller. She teaches MBSR, MBCT, MBRP, MB-EAT, and I Eat mindfulness-based programs. Cecilia lives in Italy and works as a psychotherapist and Mindfulness and Mindful eating Teacher in her private clinic at San Nicola’s Addiction Rehab Center and Villa Sivia’s Detox and Psychiatric Clinic. She also leads mindfulness and mindful eating workshops in non-clinical settings. She has collaborated with The Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna for many years, and her areas of research were eating disorders, exercise dependence, dysmorphia, body stigma, mindfulness, and mindful eating. She has also collaborated with The Center for Mindfulness- Motus Mundi, Italy, as a co-trainer of the I Eat Mindful Eating Professional Training. Since 2015, Cecilia has served on The Board of Directors of The Center For Mindful Eating and is the actual secretary of TCME. Cecilia has been practicing Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism for more than 20 years. You can contact her at: cclementi@tcme.org Facebook: Mindful Eating Italia Instagram: Dr_CeciliaClementi |
| About the Co-Instructor: Cuca Azinovic is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher and Deep Transformational Coach specializing in Mindful Eating and Self-compassion. She is now based in a little coastal town in Spain. She has a Master's degree in Mindfulness in Health Contexts from Complutense University in Madrid (Spain). Certified Teacher & Mentor of the Mindful Eating - Conscious Living (ME-CL) program and the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program at the University of San Diego (UCSD), she has been implementing both programs since 2014 in Spain. She has also completed professional training in Compassion Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders (CFT-e), developed by Dr. Ken Goss & Paul Gilbert at Derby University (UK), Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness (MB-EAT), Eat for Life (Lynn Rossy). She joined TCME as a member in 2012. In April 2018, she joined the Board as Treasurer and to promote the development of Mindful Eating as a compassionate weight inclusive practice. You will find more about her, her work, and her personal path on www.cucaazinovic.com |
About the Module:Delve into a discussion about the empowering concepts of weight inclusivity and body acceptance. We'll explore the societal pressures surrounding weight and acceptance and how they impact us on a personal and systemic level. Then, we will identify strategies for elevating our thinking around diverse bodies, communicating with healthcare partners and loved ones, and developing a mindset that ensures we are our best advocates regarding our 3-D-ness. Learning Objectives:
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| About the Instructor:Shelby Gordon is a retired world-champion professional dieter who broke the chains of restriction, excessive exercise, and body hatred by embracing Body Trust®. She now works with helping professionals and organizations to ignite their awareness of the intersection of insidious systemic racism and dehumanizing diet culture. By day, Shelby is the Senior Marketing Manager at the Hotel del Coronado. She is an awesome daughter, prolific social media disrupter, diligent meme sharer, granny square maker, and orange cat mom. |
About the Module:"But what if I have [insert chronic health condition]?" Learn to help clients turn towards the present moment through mindfulness and mindful eating practices to foster a greater acceptance of a chronic condition. We'll look at the differences between the Principles of Mindful Eating and the Definition of Mindful Eating and explain how mindful eating can support the untangling of stigma associated with chronic illness. Learning Objectives:
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About the instructor:Megrette Fletcher is a mindful eating leader and co-founder of The Center for Mindful Eating. In 2020, she founded InclusiveDiabetesCare.com, a continuing education company for professionals to improve inclusion and health equity in diabetes care. Her focus on decreasing stigma in diabetes care fuels her passion for weight-inclusive diabetes care, treatment, and prevention. IDC produces a free newsletter for professionals, which is available at InclusiveDiabetesCare.Substack.com She writes a free weight-inclusive newsletter for people with diabetes, which is available at NoWeightLossRequired.substack.com. To learn more about Megrette, visit her website at Megrette.com. |
About the Module:The roots of disordered eating are multi-faceted, and some have little to do with food or eating. When co-opted by diet culture, mindful eating may lead individuals to or justify disordered eating. This module focuses on the eating disorders most likely to present in mindful eating clients and contributing factors to consider as part of healing the whole person, including when a client may benefit from additional support. We'll name some common misunderstandings and how, when understood and applied according to TCME's Principles and Positions, mindful eating can be a beneficial and complementary approach to working with clients with disordered eating. Learning Objectives:
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About the instructor:Nicole is a Registered Dietitian specializing in working alongside folks with a diverse range of identities and life experiences that are interested in exploring their relationship with food, eating, movement, and body. She works with individuals and groups, and does presentations, volunteering, and advocacy. Her client-centered approach uses a combination of healing modalities that are weight-inclusive, trauma-sensitive, and compassionate; respects a client’s personal values and sense of health and well-being; and supports their agency and autonomy. Her undergraduate, dietetic internship (’98), and M.S. degrees (’03) were all completed at the University of Minnesota. Nicole started her private practice, Mindful Food & Motion, in 2012, and sees clients in person at her St.Paul, MN, office, and virtually in several states. You can find her at : https://www.mindfulfoodandmotion.com/ nicole@mindfulfoodandmotion.com Instagram: @mindfulfoodandmotion Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MindfulFoodandMotion |
About the Module:Dive into the principles that underlie guiding mindful eating practices in this first series of teaching workshops. We'll learn about setting general and specific intentions, safety guidelines, and their practical application. The proper range of voice tones, pacing, wording, and duration are all significant aspects of guiding mindful eating practices. In the second half of this module, we'll bridge theory and practice with a peer teach-back session, self-assessment, and group reflection on the practice. Students will receive instructions and support materials. Learning Objectives:
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| About the instructor:Daniela Araujo, PhD, MSc, is a narrative therapist, mindfulness (BMT, MBHP), and mindful eating teacher (Eat for Life, ME-CL1, MB-EAT) and mentor based in Campinas, Brazil, where she works in private practice and as a teacher trainer in Neurocognitive Foundations for Mindfulness Teachers (Mindfulness Centre of Excellence, UK). A pioneer in introducing mindful eating in Brazil in 2015, she is currently the vice chair of TCME. She is also a trained teacher in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). To get in touch with Daniela: contato@sermentemindfulness.life Follow her on Instagram: @sermente.mindfulness |
About the Module:
Quite often, the most enigmatic and intriguing (some would say intimidating) aspect of teaching mindfulness is the process of mindful inquiry. As a practice concludes and the teacher ventures into the silence formed in the wake of a guided meditation or exercise with the simplest of questions, like "What did you notice?" there is an atmosphere that is pregnant with possibility and simultaneously, completely unknowable. This experiential exploration of the inquiry process is intended to demystify and clarify the intention and purpose of inquiry as a powerful means of teaching the practice.
The second series of teaching workshops is structured around four essential elements of inquiry that coincide with the teacher's personal practice: embodiment, humility, curiosity, and mudita (sympathetic joy). We'll learn the intimate connection between the intra- and inter-personal practice of mindfulness and compassion and how we deepen our participants' experience of practice through the way in which we gently inquire into their moment-to-moment experience. All participants will have an opportunity to explore the process of inquiry in peer teachback sessions.
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate and experience the four pillars of mindful inquiry.
- Approach the teaching of mindfulness and compassion with an embodied presence.
- Identify key moments in the accounts of participants to inquire deeply.
- Support and encourage the development of participant mindfulness.
- Identify the essential difference between asking and telling in mindful inquiry.
| About the instructor:Dr. Steven Hickman is a longtime teacher of mindfulness and self-compassion and a trainer of teachers as well. He is the former Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training. Steve is a Clinical Psychologist and Retired Associate Clinical Professor in the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, as well as the Founding Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Steve is the author of Self-Compassion for Dummies a lighthearted introduction to the practice of self-compassion. He has participated in the training of over 2000 teachers of mindfulness and self-compassion around the world and has taught or trained in over 30 countries. Steve is now retired and lives on the coast of Oregon with his wife and two beloved Corgis. |
CPEU's are offered through the below accrediting bodies for an additional fee. This fee helps cover the expense of offering these credits which includes application fees and administration.
Please note: Professionals from other disciplines may be eligible to receive continuing education credits through an accrediting body of your choice. Contact your profession’s credentialing/licensing agency to learn if this may be an option for you. There is no additional cost if you choose this option.
National Board for Health & Wellness Coaches (NBHWC)
Cost: $120 CPEU: 10-15 (estimated) |
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AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)
Cost: $120
Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 12.5 (estimated) hours of credit.
California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 12.5 (estimated) contact hours may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if APA accreditation meets their requirements.
Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 12.5 (estimated) contact hours.
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