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• Mindful Eating for Well-Being: What's Weight Got to Do with It?

  • Start
    06 Dec 2018
  •  
    (EST)
  • End
    13 Dec 2018
  •  
    (EST)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    2-Part Webinar Series, 2 CE, $30 TCME Members/$60 Non-Members

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  As concern about body size continues as a primary topic among those interested in health and well-being, it is essential that mindful eating teachers understand the role of mindful eating in supporting the internal regulation of a healthful weight. 

  
  

  Equally important is to recognize weight stigma, which is a driving factor for eating and weight struggles among many people. 

  
  

  This presentation will equip mindful eating teachers with understanding, knowledge and tools to help their clients move beyond the thin ideal to make eating choices that truly support their health and well-being.
  

  
  

  
  

  Mindful Eating for Well-Being: What's Weight Got to Do with It?
  

  Thursday December 6 and 13, 2:00 PM EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  This is the final program of our 6-part Foundations of Mindful Eating webinar series for 2018. 

  Two (2) continuing education credits provided by International Seminars Group 

  $30 TCME Members, $60 Non-members

  Not a member? Take 50% off the cost of this program with an annual membership today!

  
  

  Learning Objectives Part 1
  

  • Compare the outcomes of weight-focused and mindful approaches to eating
    
  • Identify three ways that weight stigma contributes to poor health

  Learning Objectives Part 2

  • Describe how mindful eating supports internal regulation of body weight

  

  Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and science writer, most recently the author of Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss. Her talk at TEDGlobal 2013 about why she stopped dieting and started eating mindfully has received over four million views, and she has published opinion pieces in The New York Times and elsewhere.

  
  

  In collaboration with Sam Wang from Princeton University, she wrote two other books. Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life was named Young Adult Science Book of the Year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College was published in 2011.
  

  
  

  She received her undergraduate degree in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. After four years of postdoctoral research at Yale University, she joined Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research, in 1998 and was editor in chief from 2003 to 2008.

  
  

  In her free time, Sandra loves dancing, truck camping, travel photography, hiking, and cooking. You can reach her via sandraaamodt.com, on Twitter @sandra_aamodt, or at sandra.aamodt@gmail.com.

  
  

  Continuing Education credits provided by International Seminars Group, ISG. This program will meet twice for a total of 2 hours and will be recorded. Two (2) CE/CPE for therapists and dietitians will be provided by ISG following completion of the post-test survey and evaluation. ISG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ISG is also a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). ISG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  

  
  

  
  

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• Depression and Mindful Eating: Possible or Impossible?

  • When
    18 Dec 2018
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Teleconference

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  Depression and Mindful Eating: Possible or Impossible?

  Presented by Ronna Kabatznick, PhD.

  Tuesday December 18, 1:00 PM EST,  (time zone converter)

  Free to all mindful eating professionals 

  Donations gratefully accepted!

  

  Sadness and despair are normal human emotions. We all have those feelings from time to time but they usually go away within week or so. Major depression, or major depressive disorder, however, is something more. It’s a diagnosable condition that’s classified as a mood  disorder and can bring about long-lasting symptoms such as overwhelming sadness, low energy, loss or increase of appetite, and a lack of interest in things that used to bring pleasure. One in ten US adults has depression, and the rate is almost twice as high for women as for men. 

  As noted, sometimes depression depresses appetite; other times it increases the craving to eat. That craving to overeat when depressed is often fueled by the desire to numb oneself from the pain of this condition. One of the strongest symptoms of depressive overeating is to mindlessly eat more than is needed and yet never feel satisfied. Mindless eating for emotional relief is the opposite of mindful eating because of hunger. 

  
  

  This seminar will address key issues such as: How does one work with mindful eating and learn methods to manage symptoms of depression? What coping skills help address mindful eating which in turn have the potential to improve depression and reduce mindless eating?

  
  

  Learning Objectives:

  1. What is depression? And how does it impact appetite?
  2. How to bring mindfulness to both overeating and depressive symptoms
  3. Learn specific coping strategies

  

  

  Ronna Kabatznick, Ph.D is a social psychologist specializing in eating, depression and relationships. Dr. Kabatnick helped develop the

  behavioral weight management component of the Weight Watchers Program and is the author of two best-selling books: The Zen of

  Eating: Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems and Who by Water: Reflections of a Tsunami Psychologist. 

  
  

  She has served as a TCME Board member is currently an advisor to TCME. 

  You can find her publications here:

  Who by Water

  The Zen of Eating: Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems

  
  

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• Mindful Eating Community Meditation

  • When
    03 Jan 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and open to all, donations accepted

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  Mindful Eating Community Meditation

  Lead by a member of TCME's Board of Directors

  Tuesday, January 8, 2019 

  12 pm EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Free and Open to all - Donations welcomed!

  
  

  Join us for our monthly online community meditation! Meditation cultivates attention and awareness of thoughts, feelings, and all the senses without judgment. It encourages curiosity and cultivates compassion, thus providing a foundation for mindful eating.

  
  The Center for Mindful Eating is committed to developing a community that shares the common goal of increasing awareness and compassion. We want to create a protected time and space where you can learn to meditate, or deepen your existing practice, in the company of like-minded people. 
  

  We are fundraising for a full-time Executive Director. Please consider a donation to help us reach our next BIG milestone. Visit our GoFundMe to learn more

  

  
  

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• Integrating Mindful Eating Skills in Your Professional Setting

  • When
    17 Jan 2019
  •  
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar, 1 CE, TCME Members free/ Non-Members $15

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  Integrating Mindful Eating Skills into your work as a Professional

  Presented by Jan Chozen Bays, MD and Char Wilkins, MSW, LCSW

  Thursday, January 17, 2019, 1:00 PM, EST, (time zone converter)

  
  

  TCME Professional Education Series

  One (1) continuing education credit provided by The Center for Mindful Eating

  TCME Members - Free, Non-Members - $15

  
  

  Not a member? Take 50% off the cost of this program with an annual membership today!
  

  
  

  Do you work with patients or clients who struggle with unbalanced eating patterns?

  Join Jan and Char for tips, examples, dos and don’ts and a few exercises you can appropriately integrate in your work. There will be time for your questions as well.

  
  

  Jan Chozen Bays, MD and Char Wilkins, MSW, LCSW, creators of Mindful Living-Conscious Living™ (ME-CL) have been training professionals worldwide for 8 years in how to safely incorporate mindful eating skills and meditation in health and mental health settings.

  

  
  

  

  As a psychotherapist, Charlotte Wilkins, MSW, LCSW, specialized in working with women who had experienced childhood abuse and struggled with depression, anxiety and unbalanced eating patterns.

  Charlotte is the senior trainer for both ME-CL 1 & 2 trainings and the MBSR foundational program, a Certified MBSR teacher, mentor of teachers-in-training, and serves as an advisor to The Center for Mindful Eating.

  Never without a sense of humor about herself, she is happiest in her garden which she considers her therapy and it’s “dirt cheap!” and is an avid bread baker - her “kneady-needy” meditation.

  
  

  Jan is a pediatrician (specializing in child abuse cases), and Zen teacher who has taught and practiced mindful eating for over thirty years. She became concerned about the health consequences of the current obesity epidemic, and wrote the book Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food, which has been translated into ten languages. She loves to garden, play marimba and bake gluten free bread.

  
  

  You can find them at Mindful Eating-Conscious Living.

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• Comunidad de Meditación de Alimentación Consciente (en español)

  • When
    04 Feb 2019
  •  
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and Open to All

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  ¡Únete a nuestra comunidad de meditación mensual (en línea)! 

  La meditación cultiva la atención y nos ayuda a tomar conciencia de los pensamientos, sentimientos y todos los sentidos, sin juicio. Alienta la curiosidad y cultiva la compasión, proporcionando así una base de presencia para la alimentación consciente.
  

  
  

  El centro de Alimentación Consciente se ha comprometido a desarrollar una comunidad que comparta la visión mencionada y crear un tiempo y espacio seguros para profundizar tu práctica de meditación junto con personas que tienen los mismos intereses que tú.

  
  

  Durante los próximos meses Claudia Vega & Cuca Azinovic compartirán con la comunidad diversas meditaciones que nos ayuden a crear este espacio de práctica y cultivo de la atención plena y el amor bondadoso. Cada mes habrá una práctica diferente con el fin de ayudarte a que encuentres tu propia práctica base de meditación con la que trabajar. 

  
  

  Estas sesiones de meditación gratuitas están diseñadas para cualquier persona interesada en aprender a meditar o profundizar en la práctica de meditación existente. La meditación será dirigida por miembros de la junta directiva de TCME.

  
  

  Adjunto un conversor de zona horaria para que puedas saber qué hora será en tu ciudad:

  http://bit.ly/2oLCvNp

  
  

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• TCME Conscious Cafe

  • When
    05 Feb 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and open to all, donations accepted

  Register

  

  
  

  TCME Conscious Cafe
  Facilitated by Alice J. Rosen

  Tuesday, February 5, 2019 

  12 pm EST (time zone converter)

  Free and Open to all - Donations welcomed!

  
  

  An opportunity to practice mindful eating in community. Participants will come prepared with a midday meal chosen to satisfy their hunger. The one- hour group includes guided invitations to cue back into one’s senses during the entire eating process with time to process the experience.  

  
  

  Please note this is not a substitute for professional mindful eating intervention.  This is a taste of mindful eating practice offered by donation to those interested in learning more.

  
  

  

  Alice J. Rosen, MSEd, LMHC, is the founder of "The No-Diet and Self-Led Eating Workshops" and "The Conscious Cafe'. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, and former Director of Education for "Feeding Ourselves (SM)".   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  We are fundraising for a full-time Executive Director. Please consider a donation to help us reach our next BIG milestone. Visit our GoFundMe to learn more

  

  
  

  
  

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• Mindful Eating Community Meditation

  • When
    07 Feb 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and open to all, donations accepted

  Register

  

  
  

  Mindful Eating Community Meditation

  Meditation lead by a member of TCME's Board of Directors

  Thursday, February 7, 2019 

  12 pm EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Join us for our monthly online community meditation! Meditation cultivates attention and awareness of thoughts, feelings, and all the senses without judgment. It encourages curiosity and cultivates compassion, thus providing a foundation for mindful eating.

  
  

  The Center for Mindful Eating is committed to developing a community that shares the common goal of increasing awareness and compassion. We want to create a protected time and space where you can learn to meditate, or deepen your existing practice, in the company of like-minded people. 
  
  

  We are fundraising for a full-time Executive Director. Please consider a donation to help us reach our next BIG milestone. Visit our GoFundMe to learn more

  

  
  

  
  

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• Comunidad de Meditación de Alimentación Consciente (en español)

  • When
    04 Mar 2019
  •  
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and Open to All

  Register

  
  

  ¡Únete a nuestra comunidad de meditación mensual (en línea)! 
  

  
  

  La meditación cultiva la atención y nos ayuda a tomar conciencia de los pensamientos, sentimientos y todos los sentidos, sin juicio. Alienta la curiosidad y cultiva la compasión, proporcionando así una base de presencia para la alimentación consciente.
  

  
  El centro de Alimentación Consciente se ha comprometido a desarrollar una comunidad que comparta la visión mencionada y crear un tiempo y espacio seguros para profundizar tu práctica de meditación junto con personas que tienen los mismos intereses que tú.
  
  Durante los próximos meses Claudia Vega & Cuca Azinovic compartirán con la comunidad diversas meditaciones que nos ayuden a crear este espacio de práctica y cultivo de la atención plena y el amor bondadoso. Cada mes habrá una práctica diferente con el fin de ayudarte a que encuentres tu propia práctica base de meditación con la que trabajar. 

  
  Estas sesiones de meditación gratuitas están diseñadas para cualquier persona interesada en aprender a meditar o profundizar en la práctica de meditación existente. La meditación será dirigida por miembros de la junta directiva de TCME.

  
  

  Adjunto un conversor de zona horaria para que puedas saber qué hora será en tu ciudad:

  http://bit.ly/2oLCvNp

  
  

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• TCME Conscious Cafe

  • When
    05 Mar 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and open to all, donations accepted

  Register

  
  

  TCME Conscious Cafe
  Facilitated by Alice J. Rosen

  Tuesday, March 5, 2019 

  12 pm EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Free and Open to all - Donations welcomed!

  
  

  An opportunity to practice mindful eating in community. Participants will come prepared with a midday meal chosen to satisfy their hunger. The one- hour group includes guided invitations to cue back into one’s senses during the entire eating process with time to process the experience.

  
  

  Please note this is not a substitute for professional mindful eating intervention. 

  This is a taste of mindful eating practice offered by donation to those interested in learning more.

  
  

  

  Alice J. Rosen, MSEd, LMHC, is the founder of "The No-Diet and Self-Led Eating Workshops" and "The Conscious Cafe'. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, and former Director of Education for "Feeding Ourselves (SM)".   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  We are fundraising for a full-time Executive Director. Please consider a donation to help us reach our next BIG milestone. Visit our GoFundMe to learn more

  

  
  

  
  

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• Mindful Eating Community Meditation

  • When
    07 Mar 2019
  •  
    12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Free and open to all, donations accepted

  Register

  
  

  Mindful Eating Community Meditation

  Lead by a member of TCME's Board of Directors

  Thursday March 7, 2019 

  12 pm EST (time zone converter)

  
  

  Join us for our monthly online community meditation! Meditation cultivates attention and awareness of thoughts, feelings, and all the senses without judgment. It encourages curiosity and cultivates compassion, thus providing a foundation for mindful eating.

  
  

  The Center for Mindful Eating is committed to developing a community that shares the common goal of increasing awareness and compassion. We want to create a protected time and space where you can learn to meditate, or deepen your existing practice, in the company of like-minded people. 
  
  

  We are fundraising for a full-time Executive Director. Please consider a donation to help us reach our next BIG milestone. Visit our GoFundMe to learn more

  

  
  

  
  

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