Explore Mindful Eating Training
Our training explores and provides intensive training in the foundational mindful eating, mindfulness and compassion practices needed to become a true embodied practitioner and guide of mindful eating with the core practices of a comprehensive evidence-based program supported by NIH funded research and more. This online training embraces a non-diet, weight inclusive approach to health and well-being to support your clients.
Introduction to Andrea Lieberstein
What our Graduates are Saying
"This is a wonderful program to help professionals help people with behavior change, both learning what is your inner wisdom and your outer wisdom. This is one of the best classes I have taken in my 35 years as a nutrition professional and I highly recommend it. Andrea is a compassionate, patient teacher."
Linda R., RDN, IFNCP, CDE, CNSC
"This has been a training of incredible value, professionalism and quality. I felt welcomed and with permanent invitation to experience learning, change and progress both in my own personal mindfulness practice and as a health professional. I appreciated the depth of the content, the course materials and the warmth of Andrea’s teaching. It has helped me get aligned with my values, my own personal needs and goals, and who I am."
Maricarmen G. - RDN, France
"The course was beyond my expectations. Presentation of contents, meditations, communications, and interaction, all are conducted in a friendly and professional manner. The course provides the tools to understand and improve the relationship with food, become awareness of habits, triggers, cravings, and become a mindful eater."
Nora J. - MD, Argentina
History of MB-EAT
MB-EAT was pioneered by Dr. Jean Kristeller, an Indiana State University professor, and supported by NIH-funded research. It addresses mindless and stress-related eating, emotional eating, disordered eating patterns and obesity so prevalent in our culture through the application of mindfulness meditation. The tools of inner and outer wisdom, integral to the program help support each person to make informed, balanced, healthy sustainable choices over a lifetime, while being truly nourished by food and other aspects of their lives on many levels.
You will learn to become an embodied Mindful Eating and meditation practitioner and instructor. This course integrates the step-by-step tools for you to teach the 12-week MB-EAT Group outpatient program to your clients. These Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) principles are also invaluable to utilize with your clients to integrate into your private practice.
Overview of Practices
Practices and topics introduced include mindfulness meditation, eating exercises, eating meditations, guided visualizations, loving kindness and self-compassion practices, didactic instruction, inquiry method, role playing, tools, weekly home practices, assignments, coaching and self-reflection to cultivate mindful awareness and a more balanced and positive relationship to eating and weight. This training program provides a weight neutral approach.
Learn how to navigate this terrain with new skills, tools, love and compassion in this evidence-based in-depth program that will transform your personal and professional practice. The mindful eating and living practices have a wide range of applicability including for disordered eating, emotional and stress-related eating, and weight concerns. These tools can be integrated into a general clinical or coaching practice, applied individually, group or offered in the multi-session group program.
Program Qualifications
This program is designed for health care professionals to integrate the Mindful Eating MB-EAT concepts and tools into their practice to better support their individual clients and community.
MB-EAT Graduates that would also like to offer the 12 week Group MB-EAT Program to their clients and community must meet eligibility requirements to become a ‘Qualified MB-EAT Instructor' or MB-EAT-P (MB-EAT Practitioner). This includes having a regular Mindfulness Meditation practice of 6 months or more (the 3 months of meditation practice and training during this training program may count towards this requirement), related professional degrees, licensure, registration or certification and professional/clinical experience with eating issues along with group facilitation experience (group experience may be gained by joining our Graduate Group Mentoring and Support program along with individual coaching sessions with our team).
Upon completion of the training, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and links to apply for CE credits, if they apply to your profession and region.
Our Mindful Eating and Living MB-EAT Training qualifies for 48 CE credits and has been approved for most health care related professions including RD, MD, psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses.
Andrea Lieberstein is a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindful eating (MB-EAT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and coach, trainer, and registered yoga instructor has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 25 years. She leads well nourished, mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat centers across the country and internationally.
She trains health professionals and the public in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness (MB-EAT) online and has taught at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Esalen Institute, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and 1440 Multiversity.
She is the best-selling author of "Well Nourished", a contributing author to Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook and also contributed to the books The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (fifth edition) and Some Leaders Are Born Women.
Her formal education includes a Baclaureate Degree from Stanford University in Human Biology with an emphasis on preventive medicine and healthy lifestyles and a Master's Degree in Public Health Nutrition from University of California, Berkeley.
Andrea has practiced vipassana (mindfulness) meditation and yoga since the mid-1980's. She enjoys practicing in nature and incorporating the healing power of nature and mindfulness based nature practices into her retreats and programs whenever possible.
Mindful Eating Training Program Curriculum
- Carta de Boas Vindas / Welcome letter
- Cronograma de Aulas / Program Outline
- Orientações do Programa de Treinamento Profissional - Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living / Training Program Guidelines
- Links para o power point do treinamento / Training Powerpoint Links
- Artigos Científicos e Pesquisa / Research articles
- Materiais de Suporte / Support Materials
- Qualificações dos Professores / Teacher´s Qualifications
- Diretrizes para o uso do manual e dos Materiais na sua prática / Guidelines for Using the Manual and Materials in Your Practice
We recently offered a live Introduction webinar to the Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living program with Andrea and would love to share the highlights with you to give you a more in depth understanding of the program. You can view the basic overview in about 15 minutes plus an additional 30 minutes of detailed Q&A answers about the practices you will learn and a guided 'mini - meditation' check-in practice from our program.