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• Mindful Eating During the Pandemic: Exploring the Experience to Strengthen Your Practice

  • When
    Friday, October 23, 2020
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Webinar | All Members: Free, Public $15

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  Educational Series: Exploring Mindful Eating

  Personal enrichment webinars,  for those who wish to learn more about how to begin or maintain a mindful eating practice on a individual level. While these webinars are aimed at the general public, professionals are welcome to attend. 

  
  

  Date: Friday, October 23, 2020

  Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT

  All TCME events are scheduled in the Eastern Time Zone. Please use this handy Time Zone Converter to find your local time.

  Can't attend in person? Registered participants will have access to the course within 1-2 business days after the course has ended.

  About the Event

  This webinar will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on your personal experience with food, eating, and body and how mindful eating can help. The session will include a guided meditation, an overview of Mindful Eating Principles,  group discussion, and an opportunity to practice mindful eating. 

  The guided meditation will focus on reflections of the pandemic experience and its impact on attitudes and behaviors toward food and body.  We will explore the challenges and struggles but also as these experiences are related to improvement, awareness, and positive changes.

  The group discussion will be a space for participants to share some of their personal experiences with food, eating, and body during the pandemic. The principles of mindful eating and how to use the practice will be discussed. 

  To end the session, a mindful eating practice will be offered. Participants are encouraged to have a snack available to engage in this mindful eating practice.

  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Deepening your awareness and the ability to reflect and share your own experience related to food and body
  2. Exploring your understanding of mindful eating and learning from other people's experiences
  3. Strengthen your mindful eating practice

  

  About the Presenter

  Cecilia Clementi, Ph.D., Psych.D, is a TCME Board member. She is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and psychotherapist. She is also a teacher in Mindfulness-based programs (MBSR, MBCT, MBRP, MB-EAT, I Eat). Cecilia qualified as a mindfulness teacher at The Italian Center for Mindfulness studies (CISM) and trained as a mindful eating teacher in Bruxelles (Belgium) with Jean  Kristeller. 

  Cecilia has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bologna (Italy), where she also obtained her Clinical and Community Psychology degree and her Specialization as a Health Psychologist and psychotherapist. She has also qualified in Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Compassion focused therapy (CFT).

  Her areas of expertise include eating disorders, obesity, addiction, trauma, mood, and anxiety disorders. She lives in Italy, and she works as a psychotherapist and Mindfulness Teacher in her private clinic and at  San Nicola’s Addiction Rehab Center. She also collaborates with The Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna and The Center for Mindfulness- Motus Mundi, Italy, as a co-trainer of the I Eat Mindful Eating Professional Training. 

  Cecilia has been practicing Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism for 20 years.

  Connect with her online at:

  Web: www.ceciliaclementi.altervista.org

  Facebook: @MindfulEatingItalia

  Email: cclementi@tcme.org

  

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• Common Misconceptions of Mindful Eating

  • When
    Tuesday, November 03, 2020
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Webinar| Members: Free, Public: $15

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  Event Details

  Education Series: Exploring Mindful Eating

  45-60 minute personal enrichment webinars,  for those who wish to learn more about how to begin or maintain a mindful eating practice on a individual level. While these webinars are aimed at the general public, professionals are welcome to attend. 

  
  

  Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2020

  Time: 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

  All TCME events are scheduled in the Eastern Time Zone. Please use this handy Time Zone Converter to find your local time.

  
  

  Can't attend in person? Registered participants will have access to the course within 1-2 business days after the course has ended.
  

  About the Event

  Mindfulness and Mindful Eating are on the rise and it is wonderful that these concepts are getting more attention. However, as more people are introduced to these practices, there is often a misunderstanding of what Mindful Eating actually is. 

  This webinar will define Mindful Eating and its main characteristics so as to clarify some common misconceptions. It will also explore how Mindful Eating is often confused with similar approaches such as Intuitive Eating. 

  Learning Objectives

  1. Define mindful eating 
  2. Distinguish between mindful eating and intuitive eating 
  3. Understand what is not mindful eating 

  
  

  

  About the Presenter

  

  Cinzia Pezzolesi, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapist and a senior lecturer on mental health and wellbeing. She qualified as mindfulness teacher at the University of Bangor (North Wales, UK), and trained as a Mindful Eating trainer in Boston (USA). 

  Cinzia has a PhD in Human Factors in Health Care and obtained her Clinical Psychologist degree from the University of Urbino, Italy.  She currently lives in the UK, and over the years she has developed a strong research interest around wellbeing and mindfulness in various health care settings. Her areas of expertise include eating disorders, substance of misuse, anxiety and depression. 

  Cinzia enjoys spending time with her family and has a strong passion for sport. She played volleyball professionally in Italy for over 15 years and she is now a supporter of the UK team ‘Polonia Volleyball’.

  Connect with her online at http://www.cinziapezzolesi.com .

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• Somatic Self-Compassion for Shame Resilience

  • Start
    Thursday, November 12, 2020
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    (EST)
  • End
    Thursday, November 19, 2020
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    (EST)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Webinar, 2 CE | Professional & Student Members: $25, Personal Members: $40, Public $60

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  Educational Series: Foundations

  2-part webinars on foundational mindful eating topics for professionals, however anyone is welcome to attend. These webinars offer 2 CEs through CDR for dietitians. 

  
  

  Date: Thursday, November 12 &19,  2020

  Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm EDT

  All TCME events are scheduled in the Eastern Time Zone. Please use this handy Time Zone Converter to find your local time.

  Can't attend in person? Registered participants will have access to the course within 1-2 business days after the course has ended.

  About the Event

  The Somatic Self-Compassion for Shame Resilience workshop offers information about:

  1. How shame feels in our body and why it feels so painful.
  2. The link between shame and our survival response within the context of the Polyvagal Theory.
  3. The relationship between shame and attachment wounds.
  4. Practices to help us mend attachment wounds and the pain of disconnection brought on by shame by connecting with ourselves, our community, nature and spirit.

  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Identify the link between shame and our survival response within the context of the Polyvagal Theory. 

  2. Describe the relationship between shame and attachment wounds. 

  3. Demonstrate practices to help support shame resilience.

  

  About the Presenter

  

  Kristy Arbon is the Founder and CEO of HeartWorks Training LLC, supporting people in their practice of self-compassion, mindfulness, somatic awareness,

  shame resilience and tapping into emergent self-wisdom. Her work has deep roots in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing, Sensory Modulation, Brene Brown’s shame resilience model, Mindful Self-Compassion, Internal Family Systems, Buddhist philosophy and exploration of archetypes.

  
  

  Kristy is a qualified social worker, a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, and a qualified fitness instructor. She has completed Somatic Experiencing Level 1, Internal Family Systems Level 1, Sensory Modulation & Trauma Informed Care training and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness training. Her undergraduate training is in psychology. She is the developer of the Somatic Self-Compassion curriculum.

  
  

  She is passionate about supporting people in learning about old patterns of being that no longer serve them and transforming them into self-compassion practices so that they can go out into the world and courageously do the important work they are called for. She is also passionate about supporting contemplative teachers to be increasingly and safely embodied and trauma-informed.

  
  

  Kristy was born in Australia and has lived in the US for the last 15 years with her American husband. She currently lives in St Louis, Missouri and Mylor, South Australia, teaching trauma-informed self-compassion and mindfulness in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Bhutan, Singapore, and online.

  
  

  You can connect with her online at:

  Website: https://kristyarbon.com/

  Facebook: @KristyArbon

  Instagram: @KristyArbon

  Twitter: @KristyArbon

  

  Continuing Education Information

  

  This program offers 2 CE for Dietitians.

  The Center for Mindful Eating is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 2 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of both parts of this program.

  Dietitians may receive continuing education credit for live attendance or for watching the recorded program (to be emailed after the program is broadcast), following successful completion of a post test.

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