2010 Workshops 
April 2010: in collaboration with PESI I will be offering a workshop on "10 Skills of Mindful Eating" in Allentown, PA (April 7th), King of Prussia, PA (April 9th), Cherry Hill, NJ (April 10th).
May 2010: I will be offering the workshops in Towson, Maryland; Ellicott City, Maryland, and Fairfax, Virginia.
Click here to see seminar details at pesi.com
You can also purchase a CD/CEU from PESI (this teleseminar took place in 2009)
This teleseminar broadens the definition of mindful eating by going beyond the mindfulness of the flavor and of the process of eating. Learn strategies for helping clients overcome emotional eating by using five core skill-sets of mindful eating know-how: Hunger Recognition, Craving Control, Fullness Recognition, Process Focus, and Mindful Emotional Eating. This teleseminar is based on awareness-building and habit-modifying exercises for managing overeating described in book Eating the Moment (NH, 2008).
Broadening the Definition of Mindful Eating
- The origins of mindful eating
- Contributions of Buddhist psychology to managing eating behavior
- Beyond the “raisin meditation”
Hunger Recognition Training
- Differentiating cravings from hunger
- Hunger recognition exercises
Craving Control Training
- Not all craving control strategies are created equal
- Craving control master skill: mindfulness + relaxation
Process-Focus Training
- Four process targets of awareness – flavor, eating movements, meal setting, and meal script
- Pattern-disruption techniques to leverage awareness of the process of eating
Fullness-Recognition Training
- Continuum of fullness
- Fullness recognition exercises
- Redefining fullness: from stomach fullness to mind-fulness
Mindful Emotional Eating Training
- Harm reduction vs. abstinence approaches to emotional eating
- 5 principles of mindful emotional eating
- Mindful emotional eating exercises
Sowing the Seeds of Mindfulness
- Mindful eating as an opportunity to infuse a greater degree of presence and self-awareness into day-to-day living
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the differences between hunger and cravings.
- Describe strategies for helping clients reduce harm of emotional eating by making emotional eating more mindful.
- Utilize mindfulness (meta-cognitive distancing/dis-identification) as a craving control strategy.
- Demonstrate how to combine mindfulness and relaxation into a master craving control skill.
- Optimize the craving control value of self-talk and distraction strategies.
- Summarize use pattern interruption techniques to increase mindfulness of the eating process.