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The
Next Round Table Conference Call is
Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Noon (Eastern Time)
No need to register.
Just call: 1-218-862-1300
Conference Code: 163008
The Recording of the Spring,
2013 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is
available here.
25 attended. Topics included:
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The value of focusing on
the positives of what the client is doing.
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How to convince
administrators and team members of the value of
this new way of working with clients.
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How to clue patients in
that this will not just be “education.”
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The value of working with
mindfulness, especially with people with eating
disorders.
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How to handle conflict with
spouses that come into a session.
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What about when the
conflict is just in body language?
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How to address parent guilt
when working in a pediatric obesity setting?
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Some examples of supporting
each other to continue to grow in skills.
The Recording of
the Winter, 2013 Nutrition Counseling Round Table
Call is available here
Almost 40
attended and 9 got a chance to contribute. Topics
included:
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Getting co-workers
to buy into client-centered counseling processes
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The power of using
affirmations especially with the WIC population
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How to build
referrals for a private practice
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Addressing food
fears
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How to approach a
first session with someone who likely has an
eating disorder and doesn’t think so
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When a client does
not speak English and you need to work with a
phone translators
The Recording of the Fall 2012
Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here.
Twenty-nine attended.
Topics included:
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Success with handling a
client personal question.
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How to deal with high
cancel rates in employee wellness program.
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When a client says they
“lack motivation.”
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Working with teens and
children when the child says they won’t do
something and Mom insists they do.
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Groups discussion of how to
handle meal planning (or not), meal planning
sites and helping clients feel like they go home
with something.
The recording of the Summer,
2012 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is
available here.
Thirty-seven attended.
Topics included:
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How to handle limited time
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Ideas for working with
clients who are coming back and not making
changes
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What about clients how seem
to want a food plan?
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When clients are afraid of
eating due to GI conditions
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Resources for beginning a
private practice
The recording of the Spring,
2012 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is
available here.
Thirty-five attended.
Topics included:
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How to respond to clients’ unrealistic
expectations
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Ideal frequency of visits and how to talk about this with clients
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Focusing sessions, especially when a client has lots of goals and ideas.
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Taking less time with documentation
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How to vary reflections and make them more powerful
The recording of the Fall,
2011 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is
available here.
Topics included:
- How
to get a private practice going.
- Using
reflecting to address a client’s need for
therapy.
- The
struggles of doing phone counseling.
- Ways
to approach clients who are turning to food for
emotional reasons and those who don’t seem to
understand how much their diet is effecting
their health.
The
recording of the Summer, 2011 Nutrition Counseling
Round Table Call is available here.
I was overwhelmed by the number of people who called into this Round Table call and apologize that we didn’t get to hear from everyone. Some shared successes and we had a chance to talk about a few challenges:
• How to handle the difficult conversation with clients when you tell them their insurance will not cover their visits.
• Responding to a client who says, “I know what I’m supposed to do…”
The recording of the
Special Winter 2011 Call, Awakening Your Courageous Heart,
is available here.
With my Guest, Lorraine
Cohen, we addressed:
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How to distinguish intuition and fear
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The single most important factor in unhooking from fear
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The impact your stories have on creating your fearfull reality and how to take your power back
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Ways you might be unconsciously sabotaging your success and well-being
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One profoundly powerfull tool that will empower your faith, trust, and courage to navigate any of life’s challenges
About Lorraine Cohen
Creatively inspiring and innovative, Reverend Dr. Lorraine Cohen is recognized as a cutting edge expert in the fields of personal growth, spiritual evolution, and conscious entrepreneurship. Founder of Powerfull Living, she is a gifted spiritual life coach and advisor, published writer, speaker, and popular radio broadcaster. For more than 20 years, Lorraine has coached thousands of conscious business owners
(including me) to overcome the limitations of their mind to know their value, claim their Divine Power, and live their purpose in alignment with their spirit. Learn about her
at http://www.powerfull-living.biz/
The
recording of the Fall, 2010 Nutrition Counseling
Round Table Call is available here.
It was also a celebration
of the 100th Counseling Tip! Fifteen Tip readers
joined in to share their favorite Tip and share how
they have used it. I acknowledged those on my
"team" who help me get them out and shared
the experience of writing them.
The
recording of the Fall, 2009 Nutrition Counseling
Round Table Call is available here.
Topics
included:
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How to build referrals (and a
recommendation of Jessica Setnick’s valuable
webinar, Double
Your Referrals)
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How to market a practice on the
web and in ads
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Struggles with collecting fees,
whether to accept insurance, etc.
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Guilt over accepting money for
sessions when client seems to not be reaching
goals.
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…and more
The Spring, 2009 Nutrition Counseling Round Table
call was a 50-minute, lively, free-wheeling
discussion among 6 of your colleagues. It’s free
to listen
to the recording. Thanks to everyone who called
in.
Topics included:
- How to engage with clients who are a
"captive audience" such as teens or
those in a dialysis unit
- Coping with anxious clients who want us to
"fix" them (and right away)
- Clients who are doing better medically, but
are resistant to continued work on normalizing
their relationship with food
The January '09
Nutrition Counseling Round
Table Call is available to download and
listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer
click here.
To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click
here.
Topics
included:
- Addressing
family dynamics when working with children
- Helping
clients turn around negative self-statements
- What
about when clients lie to us?
- Responding
to client food records
- Ways
to handle clients who have to tell us
everything about their week
The September '08
Nutrition Counseling Round
Table Call is available to download and
listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer
click here.
To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click
here.
Topics
included:
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What to do when we
need motivation or get bored with our work.
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Shifting to discussing
with our clients about what is happening (or
not) in a session.
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How to best implement the
Tips (one at a time.)
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The value of recording
sessions to learn from them.
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How effective it is (nor
not) to
work with the appetite scale with a very heavy
client.
The May '08
Nutrition Counseling Round
Table Call is available to download and
listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer
click here.
To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click
here.
Topics
included:
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Conversation Maps and
their use in diabetes groups.
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Setting up a website
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A successful example of
addressing resistance
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Use of food records (or
not)
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Success with using the
appetite scale
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The power of listening
carefully to clients
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Some ideas for recording
your sessions and learning from them
The March '08 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and
listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer
click here.
To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click
here.
Topics
included:
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Recording sessions to learn
about your counseling process.
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Keeping clients on topic.
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Addressing alcohol use.
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When clients come back not having
achieved goals
The
Summer '07 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and
listen to free. Click
here.
Topics
included:
- The value of affirming
clients, especially when they challenge or
resist us.
- A discussion of nutrition
counseling on the phone, a growing area of
practice.
- …and more
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