
Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Online Training and Mentoring Program
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.
Our 12-week online Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training includes:
· 12 Live Interactive 2-hour sessions (Zoom)
· Day long virtual retreat
· Q & A sessions
Group coaching session
Training materials
MB-EAT Teaching Manual
- BONUS - Graduate Mentoring and Support Group for up to one year (weekly hour-long sessions)

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.
Upon completing this program, you will receive a Certificate of Completion as an MB-EAT-P Practitioner to integrate these tools and skills to work with your individual clients.
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'. 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.
If you do not have professional Group facilitation experience, this may be gained by joining our Graduate Complimentary weekly Graduate Group Mentoring and Support program when you are ready to start teaching your first group program.
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 (MB-EAT) and Living Professional 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.
You can review our recorded Introductory webinar to the Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training program with Andrea. We 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.
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
Jennifer Buettner, RD
"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
As health practitioners, we feel confident about what we tell our clients but sometimes we forget to work on ourselves. Every session of the program had material that left me grateful, motivated, and inspired. The classes were a constant reminder to be kind with myself, enjoy my food and movement, but also not to judge myself. The program is concise, practical, scientific and comes with a concrete full manual.
SL, Psychologist
Anne-Marie Crisco, RD
The techniques and skills I’ve learned through the MB-EAT training have been extremely eye opening and cultivating to personal health and self-care habits for both myself and my clients. I have also had the opportunity to implement some of these techniques and skills when working with groups at a behavioral health and addictions facility. There I have witnessed significant shifts in their awareness and relationship with both food and substances. Many have expressed a real desire to continue to explore this relationship further now that they have become more mindful of the food to health relationship.
Natalia Garcia, RD
Laurie Weisman, MA
This program looks at mindfulness and it’s relationship to food in a thoughtful yet compassionate way. I loved the whole person approach and the opportunity to share & build relationships with others in a safe, nurturing environment. I especially like the way Andrea made time for conversation and offered feedback during the sessions. It was very helpful when we discussed which resources & meditations may be most appropriate for different types of clients, ie. BED, depression/anxiety, stress eaters.
Julie Barbaro, RD
Melisa Arias, PhD
The online MB-EAT Mindful Living and Eating Professional Training and Mentoring Program with Andrea helped me gain clarity about my personal and professional values as a mental health professional looking to help others heal from diet culture and develop more compassionate and nurturing relationships with food and themselves. I look forward to integrating MB-EAT tools and practices into my work.
Robyn Gobin, RD
Zena Edwards, RDN
COMBO Special Discounts for Enrolling in both Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training and Well Nourished Coach Training Programs
You can become a Certified Well Nourished Health Coach after you complete your Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) certification program to better support your clients!
Our MB-EAT Graduates are loving this 'next level' Well Nourished program to learn how to coach their clients in a fully integrated method to add value to their clients. See more details on the Well Nourished Coach Training overview.
You will receive a 30% discount on the Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training program along with discounted pricing for the Well Nourished Coach Training! See pricing options below.
Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training Program Curriculum
- Welcome to our October 2022 Mindful Eating MB-EAT Program
- Class Schedule and Participant Outline/Attendance Form
- Training Program Guidelines
- Participant Information Form - Fill out within 10 days of registration
- Mindfulness Meditation CD and Instructions
- Program Support Materials, Home Practice and Journaling Worksheets
- Class Outline
- Bibliography
- Training Powerpoint Video on the History and Research of MB-EAT
- Research Video with Jean Kristeller
- Research Articles
- MB-EAT Teacher Instructor Qualifications Overview
- Zoom Link for All Classes
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.
