You are committed to helping clients...
- Experience five key feelings - belonging, ease, feeling seen and heard, non-judgment, and support to discover and engage in wholesome self-care!
- Feel confident using mindful eating to decrease internalized weight bias for people with or at risk of diabetes.
- Move out of dietary and activity extremes and towards sustainable balance.
- Know the four critical times to talk with you.
How weight stigma Is a barrier to self-acceptance
The wait is over!
Our Inclusive Diabetes Care Approach
makes your job easier because it...
- Identifies current and compelling research about the value and need for inclusion.
- Provides an easy-to-understand way to cultivate a sense of belonging at every session.
- Promotes balance, not unsustainable, unrealistic, and oppressive suggestions to diabetes care.
- Uses Motivational Interviewing as the nonjudgmental counseling model.
Upcoming Live Programs
1 CPE, Case study, EMR swipe file, Small Group Discussion at a great value! $24.99
Dec - Essential tools to understand diabetes: Seeing the big picture
- Your clients are confused. They want to understand diabetes, but the information seems contradictory and disorganized. In our current information-saturated society, it is hard to grasp the big picture of diabetes care because diabetes isn't a simplistic condition that can be reduced into one actionable step.
Our Self-Paced Program
How to teach balance to someone with diabetes in this diet-culture-crazed world?
It is easy to help clients understand how to manage their blood sugar and overall care without dieting.
This professional training is perfect for the following:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
This course provides 1 CPE from The Commission of Dietetic Registration, CDR, for $29.99
What Mindfulness Isn't: Separating mindful eating from diet culture
Increase your confidence in spotting wishful thinking and unsustainable lifestyle changes for your clients with prediabetes and diabetes.
This professional training is perfect for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
This course provides 1 CPE from The Commission of Dietetic Registration, CDR, for $29.99
Increasing Your Referrals:
Four critical times for people with diabetes to get the needed education
Understanding when clients need education is how you can increase your referrals.
This professional training is perfect for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
This course provides 1 CPE from The Commission of Dietetic Registration, CDR, for $29.99
Fostering a sense of belonging: Countering diabetes stigma, distress, and burnout
Why do clients stop caring for their diabetes? How do we distinguish between diabetes Stigma, Distress, and Burnout? This program will help untangle these three familiar terms to help clients struggling with stigma, distress, and burnout.
This professional training is perfect for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
This course provides 1 CPE from The Commission of Dietetic Registration, CDR, for $29.99
Digging deeper: How To Untangle Weight-Centered Diabetes Care
- Weight discrimination to be the 3rd most common form of discrimination reported by women and fourth most common form of discrimination reported by men.
- Rates of discrimination were 19.2% for BMI 30-35 and 41%for people with BMI >35
- 40% of adults report being the target of teasing or differential treatment because of their weight.
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Despite considerable scientific evidence that genetic and physiological factors are preeminent factors many individuals believe that body weight is a mater of personal responsibility and willpower.
This professional training is perfect for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
This course provides 1 CPE from The Commission of Dietetic Registration, CDR, for $29.99
How to use Motivational Interviewing with Mindful Eating
Diabetes care is becoming more and more divisive. Here are a few typical "shoulds" on social media that fail to come alongside our clients. For example, instead of reinforcing the binary view that there are good and bad foods, you want to use MI and come alongside by asking: What foods impact your blood sugars the most? Instead of reinforcing diabetes shame by saying there are foods you should eat if you have diabetes. You want to use MI and come alongside by reflecting the client's deeper intention, which might be: You want to learn if there are foods that can stabilize blood glucose.
This course is ideal for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
Learning objective: Participants will be
- State the Spirit of MI using the PACE acronym
- Complete the three writing prompts to come alongside a client
- State the purpose of Mindful Eating
- State how holding a nonjudgmental stance reduces internalized weight bias.
1 CPE will be provided.
Diabetes Distress: Creating Space and Grace for Your Clients
Explore the power of coming alongside diabetes and offering acceptance.
The process of learning about diabetes is cognitive, but acceptance is emotional. Clients can’t think themselves into accepting diabetes. Helping our clients accept diabetes requires a sense of belonging, enhanced support, and drips of information. With each weight-inclusive nonjudgmental visit, you help clients build more and more tolerance, allowing them to accept a chronic condition that before was rejected out of hand.
This course is ideal for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
Learning objective: Participants will be
- Define the state of mental health and diabetes care
- List two ways Acceptance can help with blood sugar management
- Participate in a Case Study
1 CPE will be provided.
There has been a lot of press surrounding the idea that most people don’t need medication for blood pressure, cholesterol, or diabetes if they make the appropriate dietary or lifestyle changes. Yet, is this true? Ask yourself these questions:
- Are clients unsure why they need medication for diabetes, blood pressure, or cholesterol?
- Are clients uneasy with taking medication for their diabetes?
- Are clients confused by the number of diabetes medications available?
If you said yes to any of these questions, then this webinar can help you understand the top three assumptions about medications for blood sugar management.
Learning objective: Participants will be
- Using MI learn how to come alongside your client’s uneasiness regarding medication as part of diabetes care.
- Review the current classes of diabetes medication.
- Identify two websites/resources to help clients explore medication options
- Participate in a Case Study
1 CPE will be provided.
Talking To Peers: Convincing Conversations for Inclusive Diabetes Care
While the future of diabetes is inclusive, deciding how to talk with your team, referring providers, or administration isn’t always easy. So, how can you get everyone on board and offer care to higher-weight individuals? This course will help you discuss the concept of stigma in diabetes care to your peers and colleagues.
This course is ideal for:
- Dietitians, Diet Technicians
- Health and Fitness professionals
- Community Health Workers
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Health Coaches
Learning objective: Participants will be
- List seven stigmas that impact people with diabetes
- State two examples of how stigma impacts the Social Determinants of Health for people with diabetes
- Participate in a role-play to talk with peers regarding the impact of stigma in diabetes care.
1 CPE will be provided.
Healthcare Needs Support
Unpacking Weight-Centric Diabetes Care
- Diabetes Care and Education Specialists trying to understand medications and the standards of care.
- Dietitians & Nutritionist looking to address internalized bias
- Health and Fitness professionals who want to help clients focus on behaviors.
- Health Coaches who are looking to deepen their motivational interviewing skills.
- Community Health Workers who are craving new ways to talk about diabetes.
- Weight Inclusive Healthcare Companies that are helping people with or at risk of diabetes.
- Organizations that want to understand all forms of oppression in diabetes care.
- Universities looking to update their training program to include nonjudgmental counseling.
- Companies that are interested in untangling weight from health.
#Health Equity Now
The American Diabetes Association has created the Health Equity Bill of Rights, which envisions a future without unjust health disparities. Understanding the complexity of health inequity takes time, but the good news is you don’t have to recreate the wheel!
Free helpful tool for you to use.
It is excellent that you are even thinking about inclusion! Here are some valuable tools to get you started.
- The Challenge
- Understanding What Is A Weight Centric View in Diabetes Care
- Roadmap for Separating Weight from Health in Diabetes Care
- What is Health Equity
- Disordered Eating in Diabetes Care
- Why A Weight Neutral Approach is Essential in Diabetes Care
- Connecting the Dots Free course and workbook
- Logical Fallacies Against Inclusive Diabetes Care
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the land and the people: This company is housed on N’dakinna, which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook, and Wabanaki Peoples, past and present. We thank and acknowledge the land, waterways, and alnobak people who have stewarded N’dakinna throughout the generations.