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Special workshop Scottsdale,
AZ
Sunday, December 4, 2011, 9 - 4:30
Steps to Mindful
Eating:
Making Peace with Eating, Body, and Weight
Presenter: Donald
Altman, M.A., LPC
6 credits for RDs and DTRs
Do you find it difficult to engage
your disordered eating clients in the change process? Do
they (and you) feel frustrated and stuck because of
their constant desire to diet or engage in unhealthy
eating behaviors? Efforts to engage highly critical
clients are even more difficult in a culture where body
image is emphasized.
This practical workshop will help
you reach your clients. Using mindfulness tools, mindful
eating principles and cutting-edge mindfulness research,
Donald will show how to train the brain for a
peaceful relationship with food, weight, and body. The
workshop comes alive with videos, humor, handouts, case
studies, demonstrations, and mindfulness practice.
At the end of the day you will
have...
- Explored
the driving forces behind disordered eating and who
would benefit from a mindful approach
- Discovered
how mindfulness short-circuits negative mood and
thoughts
- Learned
the importance of the link between stress and
disordered eating
- Gained
a host of new mindfulness tools, skills, and
techniques for giving clients new hope for long-term
change and peace from the war with food
Donald
Altman, M.A.,LPC., based in
Portland
,
OR
, is a psychotherapist, former Buddhist monk, and a
pioneer in the field of mindful eating. He serves
on the Board of Directors of The Center for Mindful
Eating, a national organization dedicated to
helping healthcare professionals bring mindful
eating principles into their work. He is the author
of Art of the Inner Meal, Meal By Meal,
and he speaks at conferences and leads mindfulness workshops
around the country. He is an adjunct professor at
Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of
Counseling and Education, as well at
Portland
State
University
, where he is a faculty member of the Interpersonal
Neurobiology Program.
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