Learn With LCIE
Training for Professionals
Training for Professionals
When working in the world of Intuitive Eating, Non-Diet approaches and body affirming care, there’s so much to learn (and unlearn!) so it can be difficult to know where to start. Believe us, we’ve been there. We know how challenging it can be to find ways of working that align with our values of kindness, justice and care for our clients and community, especially in a weight-centric system.
At the core of everything we do is our goal of providing better, more compassionate healthcare for all people, but we can’t do that alone. As such, we’re also big believers in supporting and empowering other clinicians; so it’s part of our role as educators and advocates for the non-diet approach to share the things we’ve learned along the way. Throughout our Learn with LCIE program, we’re serving up a big juicy slice of the essential literature, tools and skills that inform our practice as nutrition counsellors, with a side serve of our team’s knowledge, experience and support along the way.
The Learn with LCIE program is a series of three courses, designed to equip nutrition professionals with the knowledge, skills and understanding to support your professional development as a nutrition counsellor, and provide your clients with care that you can be proud of!
Nutritionists, dietitians and healthcare professionals who are involved in giving advice around food, eating and nutrition, and/or supporting folks with eating disorders, disordered eating or body image concerns. This program is not a substitute for appropriate qualification(s) in your relevant field, and you as a clinician are responsible for staying within your scope of practice. This program for informational and educational purposes only, and is not a substitute for clinical supervision or appropriate clinical registration.
We currently offer three courses to support professionals in their practice. Our original course, Applying Intuitive Eating and Non-Diet Approaches in Practice, launched in early 2019, and has since seen hundreds of professionals learn about, and make a commitment to, non-diet, weight inclusive practice. But we also acknowledge that one course could never contain the breadth and depth of learning useful when working as a nutrition counsellor.
So, in October 2019, we ran two in-person workshops for clinicians, to help them build some of the advanced counselling skills we and our colleagues find useful in supporting our clients. It was always our intention to continue providing this training and support to our colleagues, and while we love being able to do this in person, 2020 had other plans for us! We also wanted to make these workshops more accessible to HCPs worldwide, and so the second and third online courses were born!
To develop these courses, we took the key themes from our in-person workshops, built on them and adapted the content for an online learning environment. Splitting the workshop into two courses enabled us to pack in even more juicy content, skills and learning for you to sip on, and allowed us to refine the modules into a logical, theory to practice model to support your learning. As such, we recommend undertaking the courses in order, starting with 1. Applying IE and NDA in Practice, then completing 2. Advanced Counselling Skills, before rounding it out with 3. Nutrition Counselling in Practice.
All of our courses under the Learn with LCIE program include access to an exclusive online Facebook community, where we hold monthly live Q&A sessions and our team (and your peers) are on hand to offer support and advice. The courses are now available on Teachable meaning you’ll have unlimited access to them upon purchase.
Introduction to Intuitive Eating and The Non-Diet Approach
Learn how dieting and weight focussed interventions may be causing more harm than good and how to help your clients move from weight loss towards Intuitive Eating using non-diet tools and principles. Learn how to market yourself as a non-diet practitioner and how to set up sessions with clients. Learn how to assess a client using the IES-2 tool.
Unconditional Permission to Eat
Learn how to teach clients to move away from the diet mentality and black and white food rules. Teach clients how to systematically reintroduce ‘off-limits’ foods back into their diets in a way that feels comfortable and doesn’t overwhelm the client. Understand the principles of habituation theory and articulate the differences between restrained, flexible, and intuitive eaters.
Reliance on Hunger + Satiety Cues
Learn how to help clients reconnect with their hunger & satiety cues and troubleshoot reasons clients may not experience H&S and how to help them ‘recalibrate’. Understand the benefits of mindful eating and teach your clients how to eat mindfully (at least some of the time).
Eating For Physical Rather than Emotional Reasons + Body Image:
Find out how to help clients differentiate between physical and emotional hunger and help them build their ‘emotional coping’ toolkit without food. Help clients stop body bashing and learn to develop body acceptance. Understand scope of practice and when to refer to therapy.
Body Food Choice Congruence + Non Diet Exercise:
How to talk to clients about food without using good/bad labels and to help clients understand how food makes them feel. How to help clients find physical activity they enjoy and warning signs of overexercise and when to refer to GP.
Putting it all together:
Live Q+A - Facebook live w/ Q+A to troubleshoot and answer questions (in private Facebook group)
Introduction to nutrition counselling:
Familiarise yourself with the role and scope of nutrition counselling, learn how to create and hold space for your clients, and explore some key ideas to hold with you throughout your practice.
Critical Dietetics & Critical Nutrition Studies:
Learn about the Critical Dietetics framework and principles, and explore a range of ways of knowing to support your practice. Explore the concept of healthism, and learn to think critically about your own biases and those present in the healthcare system.
Weight Stigma Theory:
Guided by guest lecturer Nicola Haggett, explore some of the key literature behind Weight Stigma to learn to define, identify and understand the implications of it for your practice.
Person Centred Care & Motivational Interviewing:
Explore the values that underpin a person centered approach and how this allows us to build therapeutic trust with our clients. Learn how to use a person-centered approach to explore and evoke a client's own motivation and commitment to change.
Introduction to Therapeutic Models
Learn the basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and their use in nutrition counselling, explore how they differ as therapeutic models, understand the evidence and key tools for their use in practise.
Trauma Informed Care:
Guest lecturer Jenna Daku guides you through the foundations of trauma-informed care; what it is and why it's important to our practise as nutrition counsellors. Explore what trauma is and how it impacts the body, mind and life, and explore what this means in the context of disordered eating. Learn when to refer on to a therapist and how to have this conversation with clients.
Putting it all together:
Live Q+A - Facebook live w/ Q+A to troubleshoot and answer questions (in private Facebook group)
Foundations for Health Promotion:
Learn how to approach 1:1 work with clients from a non-diet perspective. In this module you will explore how to build therapeutic relationships, create and hold space for your clients, and work within a multidisciplinary team, to support your clients in building peaceful relationships with food and their bodies while also managing health conditions and promoting wellbeing.
Self Care Toolkit & Self Compassion:
This module will guide you through supporting your clients in developing self compassion and genuine, meaningful self care habits. You’ll also learn how to implement these practices within your personal and professional life, to help create a sustainable and meaningful practice in and out of the clinic room.
Weight Stigma in Practise:
In this module, guest lecturer Nicola Haggett will provide you with practical ideas of how you can challenge weight stigma within your professional work, as well as learn to identify and unpack internalised stigma and biases.
Body Compassion:
Learn to counsel clients in finding kindness and neutrality around their body image, and improve their relationship with their body alongside their relationship with food and eating. Explore the concepts of embodiment, trust and compassion to support your clients in treating their body with care.
Applying ACT & CBT:
This module takes the key tools from CBT & ACT discussed in the introduction to therapeutic models and how we can use them in nutritional counselling. For example how you can use CBT in planning food exposures and how we can use ACT to support our clients to live a value filled life and how we can relate this body image and helping clients to sit with their body image concerns.
Eating Disorders:
to understand the role of nutritional counselling in step down care of ED’s clients. This module explores the key aspects of the assessment with clients including exploring their stage of change, when and how it's appropriate to weigh clients, and developing a safety plan with the client. We explore meal planning as a bridge to intuitive eating looking at adequacy, timing, variety and regularity of eating. We also think about the role of the Nutritional Counsellor within the MDT.
Putting it all together:
Live Q+A - Facebook live w/ Q+A to troubleshoot and answer questions (in private Facebook group)