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Mindful versus Mindless Eating (online recording)
Program description:  Mindful Eating has become very popular over the past decade. It focuses on slowing down, distinguishing between quality and quantity and the awareness of different levels of hunger and fullness. But are these skills enough to uproot the forces that sustain mindless eating? Join this teleconference to learn about the significant and radical differences between mindful and mindless eating.
Date/Day:  January, 25, 2012, Wednesday
Times:         10:00am PST/1:00pm EST
Offered by: Ronna Kabatznick, Ph.D., TCME Board Member

Fullness: There’s No Single Right Level! (online recording)
Program description: Tuning into feedback from our stomachs can be a powerful way to interrupt mindless eating. Learning to recognize these feelings is the first step. Choosing how full to be after a meal is the second, which may differ from a light lunch to eating a holiday meal. This program will address the need for flexibility with this process with clients.
Date/Day: January 24, 2012  Tuesday
Times: 6:00 pmPT/9:00pmET
Offered by: Jean L. Kristeller, Ph.D.

The Role of the Inner Critic in Out-of-Balance Eating (mp3, 6.9mb)
Date/Day: August 31, 2011 Wednesday
Time: 2:00pmPT/5:00pmET )
Program description: The Inner Critic is a voice that criticizes us from within. When it invades the realm of eating, it can cause a great deal of confusion and distress. Chozen Bays, MD, will discuss how to recognize and antidote the Inner Critic so that eating can become mindful, enjoyable and balanced again. There will be case examples and time for questions.
Offered by: Jan Chozen Bays, MD
Handout: The Role of the Inner Critic in Out-of-Balance Eating

Dynamics of Craving and Desire (mp3, 5.5mb)
Date and Time: (Thursday, November 6, 2:00pm-2:50pm)
Brief Description: When craving is misunderstood or misguided, it often has the power to propel people into a vicious cycle of mindless eating. Ironically, the desire for fullness often turns into deeper levels of both physical and emotional hunger, usually followed by intense craving for more and more food. Mindfulness at any stage of the cycle opens up choices and opportunities to step into a new way of relating to craving and the habits that drive it.
Presented By: Ronna Kabatznick, Ph.D.

Working with Food Triggers (mp3, 6.25mb)
Date and Time: (Tuesday October 21, 1-1:50 ET)
Brief Description: Join Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE as she explores the issue of Food Triggers.  This talk will explore and expand the article published in the October 2008 issue of Food for Thought, which can be downloaded in October.

Target Audience: (Dietitians, Mental health therapists, Nutrition therapists, Physicians, Nurses, Health Educators.)

Educational Objectives: Participants will 1) learn how to present eating as a dynamic state to clients.; 2) State 3 common areas that trigger over eating and 3) help clients create an intentional pause to reduce over eating.

7 Mindful Views for Balanced Eating (mp3, 5.4mb)

Date and Time: (Thursday October 2, 3-3:50 ET)

Brief Description: Join Donald Altman, M.A., LPC for a look at how each mealtime can be viewed as a process that contains 7-new perspectives. Using his book Meal By Meal as a guide, Donald will describe and explore how each meal can be understood and experienced through mindful awareness of entry, choices, preparation, rituals, eating, community, and departure. This will be an interactive call. If you have used similar concepts in your work, we want to hear your ideas and experiences!

Target Audience: (Dietitians, Mental health therapists, Nutrition therapists, Physicians, Nurses, Health Educators.)

Educational Objectives: Participants will 1) learn these seven elements of a meal and how to use them with clients; 2) learn how bring balance into a meal by reflection on a mealtime meditation, and 3) help clients create a daily mealtime practice.

Coping With Head Hunger (mp3, 12.5mb)
Recorded August 11, 2008

Chocolate Doesn’t Cause Weight Gain: How to Get Rid of Guilt (mp3, 13.9mb)
Recorded July 28, 2008

What's for Dinner?-- Eating with Themed Meal Cards (mp3, 12.2mb)
Recorded July 24, 2008

Mindful Eating with Bariatric Surgery (mp3, 13mb)
Presented by: Rochelle Voth, PhD
Recorded March 24, 2008

The program will cover unique concerns to bariatric surgery patients and investigate mindful eating techniques that providers can use with patients assist in them in the adjustment process to surgery. At the conclusion participants should have a more comprehensive understanding of the bariatric surgery patient and how mindfulness can be helpful in treating these patients.

Learning Objectives :
Identify eating concerns specific to that of a bariatric surgery clients
The value of training mindful eating in adjustment to
bariatric surgery
Clinician’s role in developing mindfulness in bariatric surgery clients.

Introducing Mindful Eating into Health Counseling When Patients Resist (mp3, 12mb)
Presented by: Molly Kellogg, RD, LCSW
Recorded Wednesday, February 13, 3 – 3:50 PM ET.

There are 2 handouts: Resistance handout  & Lanugage handout necessary for this call.

Educational Objectives: participants will be able to
· Identify signs that a patient is resistant to change
· Use language that allows rolling with resistance
· Determine when to let go of mindful eating and pursue other goals

Mindfulness Exercises to try or use with patients.
By Donald Altman, MA
MP3 - Recorded on July 11, 2007
Download Here ( 5.28mb)

A 50-minute program that explored some mindfulness exercises to try or use with patients.
Objectives include:
1) To review mindfulness exercises,
2) exploring some of the ideas/questions often raised by exercises, and
3) explore the importance of practice and non-judgment/non-attachment to the outcome.

Working Mindfully with Binge Triggers (mp3, 10mb)
Presented by: Char Wilkins, LCSW

Description: Join Char Wilkins, TCME vice president and MB-EAT instructor as she shares ways to work with clients using mindful eating approach to binge triggers.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identifying the types of binge triggers
2. The role of body sensations in identifying emotions
3. Exploring the role of mindfulness in working with binge triggers