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• Changing Your Relationship to a 'Difficult' Food Using Mindfulness

  • When
    10 Jun 2019
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar Meeting, Members Free, Non-Members$10
  • Spaces left
    65

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  Changing Your Relationship to a 'Difficult' Food Using Mindfulness

  An Experiential  Workshop

  PRESENTED BY Alice J. Rosen, MSEd, LMHC

  Monday June 10,12:00 PM EST, (time zone converter)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Members: Free

  Non Members: $10

  

  This is an experiential exploration of your relationship to a food which is problematic for you. This could be a food you have difficulty savoring, difficulty staying present with while eating, or do not have a joyful relationship with for any reason. Please bring a food in that category.

  We will look at the quality of relationship to food as it connects to relationships with others and to ourselves, and then practice repairing that relationship eating by eating that food in a mindful way.

  Participants should have some familiarity with mindful eating prior to attending this program. The resources at the Introduction Mindful Eating page on our website are a good place to begin, as is our monthly Conscious Café.

  Learning goals:

  1. Learn to non-judgmentally access the quality of one's relationship with food

  2. Understand the good intentions of a relationship based upon emotional need

  3. Learn a path of mindful eating as a way to repair an uneasy relationship to food.

  

  

  Alice J. Rosen, MSEd, LMHC, is the founder of "The No-Diet and Self-Led Eating Workshops" and "The Conscious Cafe'. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, and former Director of Education for "Feeding Ourselves (SM)".

  Alice initially trained as an expressive therapist and presently works as a psychotherapist and educator specializing in eating and body image issues. She also addresses more general issues such as anxiety, mood disorders, life transitions, and chronic pain/stress.

  Mindfulness is a key reference point in Alice's practice. She started meditating in 1974. In 1979, during a mindfulness meditation retreat, in the midst of 17 years of conflict with food and her body, she experienced being calmly in charge, and fully satisfied. In eating mindfully, she discovered that she had an inherent wisdom about when, what and how much to eat.

  Alice leads mindfulness-based experiential workshops and groups designed to instill a healthy and satisfying relationship with food.  In addition, her work, using the Internal Family Systems Model, helps people understand and heal the emotional underpinnings of un-attuned eating.

  She has authored and produced the CD set, The Feeding Ourselves Method, A Guide to Achieving a Healthy Relationship with Food. Her publication credits include her column, "BODY INTELLIGENCE REPORT" which appeared for three years in the journal-letter, FOOD ISSUES.

  You can find Alice at http://www.TheConsciousCafe.org

  

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• Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Habits: Finding balance through mindful eating

  • Start
    25 Jun 2019
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    (EDT)
  • End
    02 Jul 2019
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    (EDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    2-Part Webinar Series, 2 CE, $30 TCME Members/$60 Non-Members

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  Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Habits:
  

  Finding balance through mindful eating
  

  Presented by Caroline Baerten, MA, RD

  Tuesday, June 25 and July 2, 10:30 AM EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Two (2) continuing education credits provided by TCME

  $30 TCME Members, $60 Non-members

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  Take 50% off the cost of this program with an annual membership today!

  

  For several decades the interventions for eating disorders (AN, BED, BN) were dominated by a behavioral cognitive approach based on scientific studies using this angle. In the past ten years there has been a new wave in research: mindfulness and compassion-based interventions are receiving more attention. Along with this, mindful eating has become an effective tool for patients on the spectrum of restrictive eating and binge eating.

  In this two-part webinar series, we will discuss and practice different mindfulness, mindful eating and compassion-based exercises which benefit people with eating disorders and those with unbalanced eating habits. These meditations will be offered as a home assignment after the first session and practiced on a daily basis throughout the following week. It is recommended that health professionals only offer mindfulness exercises if they practice these skills and embody mindful living themselves.

  In part one of the series, we offer a framework that will provide participants with a better understanding of eating disorders from mindful eating perspective, a resume of up-to-date research, the preliminaries to work with patients with eating disorders, and the benefits.

  In the second part of the series, there is time for sharing and an opportunity to learn from each other what they’ve noticed in the past week. There will be further deepening of the mindful eating-based model for individuals with eating disorders (working with resistance, self-criticism, shame, difficult emotions). 

  

  Caroline Baerten is the founder of MeNu, Centre for Mindful Eating and Nutrition, in the heart of Europe (Brussels).

  She works as a Mindfulness-based nutritionist/RD, integrative psychotherapist and is also a qualified chef. She is the first certified Mindful Eating, Conscious Living teacher (ME-CL) worldwide and offers additionally Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion courses to her clients.

  Since 2012 she has created an international platform for mindful eating teachers in Europe. In her institute, mindful eating training programs are facilitated for European healthcare professionals and mentoring in mindful eating is offered through e-coaching. 

  You can find her online at:

  Website:  www.me-nu.org

  Facebook: 

  Instagram:  carolinebaerten

  
  

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• Trauma-Informed Teaching: Creating an inclusive space for survivors of abuse and neglect

  • When
    26 Jul 2019
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar, 1CE, Members - free, Non-Members $15

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  Trauma-Informed Teaching:

  Creating an inclusive space for survivors of abuse and neglect

  
  

  Presented by Char Wilkins, MSW, LCSW

  Friday July 26, 1 PM, EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Members - Free

  Non-Members$15

  1 CE for Dietitians provided by The Center for Mindful Eating

  

  It is highly likely that you will have participants with trauma histories in your mindful eating groups or work with individuals. There are many things to be thoughtful about when working with survivors of abuse or neglect. Informed planning is important, but so is the teacher’s self-reflection about how they view these participants.

  Learning Objective:

  Participants will be able to establish one way in which they can create an inclusive physical environment for survivors of abuse in a mindful eating program.

  

  Charlotte Wilkins, MSW, LCSW has for the past 8 years traveled internationally with her co-teacher, Jan Chozen Bays, MD, training professionals in the Mindful Eating-Conscious Living™ program. Their wish is to help end the suffering that surrounds food, eating and body image.

  As a psychotherapist she specialized in working with women who had experienced childhood abuse and struggled with depression, anxiety and unbalanced eating patterns. Charlotte is the senior trainer for ME-CL 1 & 2 trainings MBSR training, a Certified MBSR teacher, mentor of teachers-in-training, and serves as an advisor to The Center for Mindful Eating.

  Never without a sense of humor about herself, she is happiest in her garden which she considers her therapy and it’s “Dirt cheap!” She is an avid bread bake which is for her a hands-on meditation.

  Free Mindful Eating Blog. Subscribe to MEBlog

  www.me-cl.com

  mindfuleating@amindfulpath.com

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• Engaging Resistance: A Mindful Approach

  • Start
    22 Oct 2019
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    (EDT)
  • End
    29 Oct 2019
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    (EDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    2-Part Webinar Series, 2 CE, $30 TCME Members/$60 Non-Members

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  Engaging Resistance:

  A Mindful Approach

  
  

  Presented by Jenna Hollenstein & Alice Rosen

  Tuesday, October 22 & 29, 12:00 PM EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Two (2) continuing education credits for dietitians provided by TCME

  $30 TCME Members, $60 Non-members

  Not a member? 

  Take 50% off the cost of this program with an annual membership today!

  

  Resistance arises during any process of change. Wherever there are deeply held beliefs and habitual thoughts and behaviors, there will always be ambivalence about true transformation. This is especially true in the case of thoughts and behaviors related to food, eating, and our bodies.

  Rather than viewing resistance as a problem, however, it can be seen as an essential teacher and ultimately part of the transformation. Further, we will explore how mindfulness practices can support our ability to engage resistance, both our own and that of our clients, by helping us re-frame how we see it and how we work with it in an ongoing way.

  

  

  Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, is a non-diet dietitian who helps people struggling with chronic dieting, disordered eating, and eating disorders. She uses a combination of Intuitive Eating, mindfulness techniques, and meditation to help her clients move toward greater peace, health, and wellness.

  Jenna’s private practice is located in New York City where she consults with clients in person and virtually. Jenna is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a Certified Dietitian Nutritionist (CDN) in New York State. She has a Bachelors degree in Nutrition from Penn State, a Masters degree in Nutrition from Tufts University, is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and an Open Heart Project meditation guide. In 2018, Jenna joined the board of The Center for Mindful Eating.

  Jenna teaches at mindfulness retreats in the United States and France. She has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, Health, Mindful, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Fox News, Women's World, Lion's Roar, and Bustle.

  Jenna is the author of Understanding Dietary Supplements, a handy guide to the evaluation and use of vitamins, minerals, herbs, and botanicals for both consumers and clinicians, and the memoir Drinking to Distraction. Her third book, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life, was released in January, 2019.

  www.eat2love.com @jennahollenstein (instagram), @jhollenstein (facebook), @jennahollens (twitter)

  

  Alice J. Rosen, MSEd, LMHC, is the founder of "The No-Diet and Self-Led Eating Workshops" and "The Conscious Cafe'. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, and former Director of Education for "Feeding Ourselves (SM)". Alice is on the board of The Center for Mindful Eating and is a lifetime member.

  She works as a psychotherapist and educator specializing in eating and body image issues, but also addresses more general issues such as anxiety, mood disorders, life transitions, and chronic pain/stress.

  Her private practice, which spans over twenty-seven years, is located in Concord, MA. Alice leads workshops and groups designed to instill a healthy and satisfying relationship with food.  She addresses the general public, parents, and colleagues on prevention, early intervention and treatment approach for disordered eating and related topics.

  Her publication credits include her column, "BODY INTELLIGENCE REPORT" which appeared for three years in the journal-letter, FOOD ISSUES. Alice has published pieces on the topic of media and body image, and has also been profiled in both Glamour and Self Magazine, and in the 2011 book by Jean Fain, THE SELF-COMPASSION DIET.

  http://www.theconsciouscafe.org

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• Mindful Eating After Bariatric Surgery

  • When
    18 Nov 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar, 1CE, Members Free, Non-Members $20 with CE, $10 without CE

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  Mindful Eating After Bariatric Surgery

  
  

  Presented by Dr. Susan Wnuk, Ph.D., C. Psych

  Monday, November 18, 2019, 12:00 PM, EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  
  

  Free to members

  $10 to non-members (without CE/CPE Certificate)

  $20 to non-members (with CE/CPE Certificate)

  One (1) CE for dietitians provided by The Center for Mindful Eating

  
  

  Not a member? Attend this program for free with an annual membership today!

  In recent years, more and more people worldwide have turned to bariatric surgery to treat medical problems like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and sleep apnea that may be associated with weight. Many people who seek bariatric surgery struggle with emotional eating, binge eating, body image distress, and other eating disorder symptoms that are not resolved by bariatric surgery.

  Mindful eating approaches can help those who are planning to undergo surgery or who have already undergone surgery, to develop a more balanced, peaceful relationship with food and eating. In this webinar, we will briefly review bariatric surgery, the typical ways that bariatric surgery procedures impact eating, and how mindful eating skills and practices can be successfully adopted by people undergoing bariatric surgery.

  * Please note that this webinar does not promote or advocate bariatric surgery. It is being offered in recognition that mindful eating teachers and clinicians sometimes have clients who have undergone this type of surgery.
  

  
  

  Dr. Susan Wnuk, PhD., C. Psych, is a psychologist at the University Health Network Bariatric Surgery Program in Toronto where she provides clinical care to pre and post-bariatric surgery patients and conducts research.

  Her current areas of interest are mindfulness, emotion regulation, and the effectiveness of behavioural interventions for bariatric surgery patients. She is involved in research projects investigating psychosocial predictors of outcome in bariatric surgery patients and the effectiveness of various therapies for this population.

  Prior to joining the Bariatric Surgery Program in 2010, she worked in hospital-based eating disorder and borderline personality disorder programs. She facilitates workshops for professionals and presents at research conferences.

  Dr. Wnuk holds an academic appointment at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry at the level of Assistant Professor.

  https://www.susanwnuk.com/
  

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