We are excited to share our Mindful Eating Foundations Program to get a taste of our Mindful Eating and MB-EAT program that is easily digestible and gives you some of the highlights of the 12 session MB-EAT public program - for your personal and/or professional growth to learn new key healthy living skills and practices.
This pre-recorded program includes videos with Andrea along with support materials will give you an overview and introduction to our Mindful Eating and Living skills and tools, based on MB-EAT. You can integrate these practices into your personal life and better support your clients if you are a health care professional.
This program is backed by years of research and experience in the field by Dr. Jean Kristeller, Andrea Lieberstein and other dedicated health professionals.
It is informed and nourished by our METI’s weight inclusive approach and the freedom and liberating possibilities in your life, mind, body and heart when you learn this sustainable, balanced and joyful way to mindful eating and living, free from diet culture.
Come learn and immerse yourself in a new well-researched sustainable way of eating and living based on tried and true skills, techniques, mindfulness and self-compassion practices.
You will learn how to have a sustainable, joyful and peaceful relationship with food, free of shame or guilt. METI’s weight inclusive program is paced in a way that offers successful behavior change, a new way of being, and a more discerning mindset free of the pitfalls and suffering of diet culture.
Rooted in behavioral, mindfulness and cognitive science, you’ll learn how to make food choices attuned with both your inner wisdom and outer wisdom balancing evidence-based nutrition and mindfulness approaches to make food and lifestyle choices.
Originally created by Dr. Jean Kristeller at Indiana State University and backed by years of NIH research, the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) is curated and taught by Andrea Lieberstein (founder of Mindful Eating Training Institute) to address all forms of “mindless” eating through the application of mindfulness, cognitive and behavioral science including: stress-related eating, emotional eating, binge eating, disordered eating patterns and obesity.
Research has found that “how” you eat using mindfulness can have a more positive and lasting effect on your health than simply focusing on “what” you eat. Mindful Eating is a practice that allows you to revolutionize your relationship with food. Cultivating awareness of your present moment experience, along with the focused awareness building practices in our program, can increase your enjoyment of food, enhance taste satisfaction and help you learn to tune into your body cues related to eating such as hunger, stomach fullness and body satiety. .
If you are a health care professional, you will have the option to join an upcoming Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training three month program (which we offer four times annually) and receive full credit towards our in-depth professional training program (within one year of registering for the Foundations program).
What our Graduates are Saying
If you have a passion for mindfulness and a love of food, this program is a great way to learn and experience evidenced based wisdom to have a more balanced view of your relationship with food, your body and life.
KW, Canada
I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the practice of Mindful Eating. It is so well designed, compassionate and caring.
Diane W, U.K.
Your program has changed my life and my health, one of the best decisions I ever made.
Tracy G, U.S.A
I would thoroughly recommend this course to anyone wishing to delve deeper into mindful living and eating. This course has really transformed my relationship to food, eating and to my body.
Claire, U.K.
What you will Receive
- Ten pre-recorded online sessions
- MB-EAT Mindful Eating Practices and Tools
- MB-EAT Worksheets
- Guided Meditations
- Online Class Portal with everything you need
- Recommended Reading List
- Health Care professionals will have the option to join our Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training three month program and receive full credit from our Introductory program
The Benefits of Mindful Eating
Developing a healthier relationship with food, your body and yourself through kind, non-judgmental awareness
• Increased awareness of body cues relating to hunger and satiety
• More enjoyment of food through your mindful presence and attuning to your senses
• Saying goodbye to shame and guilt - – ability to enjoy the foods you love
• Recognizing the difference between physical, psychological, environmental
and emotional hunger
• Greater awareness of thoughts and emotions relating to food
• Awareness of patterns and cues that lead you to over- or under-eat during the day
• Understanding cravings and how to manage them mindfully
• Enjoying More and Eating Less (or sometimes more) as you learn to come into a healthy balance with your body
• Making Choices attuned to both Inner and Outer Wisdom
• Shifting from feeling controlled by food to being at ease with food choices and with eating
• A new plethora of tools and practices in your toolbox for a lifetime
Who can benefit from Mindful Eating?
This course is recommended for you if you relate to any of the following:
• Are you weary of a constant struggle with food, yo-yo dieting, and/or
incessant self-judgement
• Wish to find a new sustainable way of eating and living through mindfulness
and proven techniques
• Want to improve your relationship with food
• No longer wish to feel guilty about food
• Have trouble with overeating or restrictive and overeating patterns
• Have challenges with certain foods
• Are interested in changing your habits around food, emotions, thoughts and actions
• Want a more relaxed relationship with food
• Want to stop the inner critic around food
• Want to become more aware of stress or emotional eating and how to break the cycle
• Ready to learn how to increase kindness and self-compassion towards yourself, your eating and your body
• Wish to increase the enjoyment, pleasure and quality of food and eating
• Wish to improve your metabolic health and mental well-being
• Ready to learn a non-diet mindful approach to staying in a healthy relationship and balance with your body that can also lead to sustainable healthy weight management over the long term
Mindful Eating Foundations Program Curriculum
- Introduction Video to Session 1 with Andrea
- Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation and Resting in Awareness Video
- Mindfulness Meditation Video
- Setting Up a Regular Mindfulness Meditation Practice Video
- Waking Up out of the Trance of Diet Culture Lecture- Video
- Introduction to Inner Wisdom/Outer Wisdom Lecture
- Introduction to Mindful Eating Exercise - Video
- Mindful Eating Raisin Exercise
- Program Support Materials -Introduction: Inner Wisdom/Outer Wisdom
- Home Practice
- Intro to Session 2 with Andrea
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Mindful Eating Exercise - Cheese and Crackers
- Follow up to Mindful Eating Exercise; Self-Compassion and Working with Judgements; Introduction to the Mini-Meditation
- Mini Meditation Exercise
- Introduction to Keep In Balance Lecture
- Program Support Materials
- Home Practice
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.
