The Curriculum


The curriculum for our 5 Month TeleTraining focuses on the core principles of Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition. The material presented is highly specific, and targeted at helping students become effective counselors, coaches, and educators when it comes to the kinds of eating and health challenges that the majority of our clients face. This program is highly condensed and information packed. Here are the key curriculum headlines of the 5 Month TeleTraining:

  • Practice Building - we'll look at Universal Principles and Timeless wisdom teachings that will help build your practice from a place of authentic purpose and power


  • Core Counseling Fundamentals - you'll increase your effectiveness as a counselor, coach, therapist, or educator by learning the essential maps, checklists, and principles of Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition

  • Deep Listening - there's a vast resource of wisdom and information hidden within the language of our clients. You'll learn to listen and communicate from a deeper place and discover the healing power of story

  • Deep Diagnosis - by looking below the surface of things and seeing through the perspectives of both science and soul, you'll learn to make effective diagnoses' and offer effective healing strategies for your clients


  • Specific Conditions -  we'll look at the key strategies from Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition for working with these specific client challenges that represent over 90% of what most practitioners tend to see:

Weight Loss Concerns

Chronic Dieting

Compulsive and Binge Eating

Body Image Concerns

Energy and Fatigue
 Challenges

Immune Issues

Mood Disorders

Digestive Concerns


This is the core of the 5 Month TeleTraining – a deeper dive into the most common psychological and mind body related eating challenges – and how to effectively work with them. Practitioners who are looking to learn the skills and tools to be more confident and effective with clients will be well rewarded with a much expanded “toolkit” and a refreshing sense of confidence. If you’d like more details for the above conditions, please see the related modules in the curriculum for our Year Long Training.

In addition to these highlights, here are some of the additional topics we’ll be covering:

  • Working with Difficult Clients – the common characteristics of challenging clients and how to move through resistance, uncertainty, and confusion with the “stuck” client

  • Working with Fear – how to work with and move through the fears that arise within you, and within your client

  • The Wisdom of Symptoms – symptoms are more than just irritations – they have deep and profound meanings and messages

  • Working With Food Cravings – simple strategies for understanding and transforming unwanted cravings and urges

  • The Body As Teacher – how the body in all it’s successes and challenges is designed as a powerful wisdom teacher on our path through Life

  • Yoga Psychology and Eating – the timeless teachings of practical Yoga philosophy and how it can help heal and empower us around food, body and health

  • Breathing Practices in Mind Body Nutrition – simple psychophysiologic breathing tools for working with a host of nutrition and health and eating concerns

  • The Healing Power of Embodiment – the most useful body based practices to help move us from a head centered experience of eating to a somatic one

  • The Powerful Use of Language – how to use language that is positive, empowering, evocative, and in itself - healing

  • Creating a Container with your Clients – techniques for creating safety, comfort, and an atmosphere of discovery with your clients

  • The Psychology of Exercise and Movement – enlightening distinctions about the unspoken assumptions and hidden psychology of the exercise world

  • Metabolic Empowerment – how personal power and a positive sense of self is profoundly linked to physiology and health

  • Inspired Eating – how to move from a motivation based to an inspiration based relationship with food

  • Reclaiming the Culture of Nourishment - empowerment skills for elevating self and clients from a culture of “feeders” to one of nourishing eaters

  • From Mindful Eating to Soulful Eating - eating and nourishing ourselves from a place of celebration, naturalness, pleasure

  • Food, Body and Feminine Psychology – understanding the unique architecture of the feminine psyche, and the feminine polarity of men

  • Food, Body, and Masculine Psychology – understanding the unique architecture of the masculine psyche, and the masculine polarity of women

  • The Nutritional Power of Slow – the emotional, cultural, psychophysiologic, and metabolic importance of slowing down