Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Online
Training and Mentoring Program
Our Three Month Online Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Training Program will provide you with training in the practices and approaches of the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program (MB-EAT) and other mindfulness practices as they support the practice of mindful eating and living.
This online training embraces a non-diet, weight inclusive approach to health and well-being for disordered eating and binge eating to support you to support your clients to healing and a healthy relationship with food, body, self, and heart based on NIH researched approaches, clinical experience and collective wisdom. Our program is approved for 48 CE credits for RD's in the U.S. and Canada.
For Registration details with Tuition and Payment options, scroll to the bottom of this page.
You receive thorough training in mindful eating, in the practices and approaches of the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program (MB-EAT) in our fully weight inclusive model with best mindfulness practices, including self-compassion and compassion training, and well nourished practices, as a foundation to the practice of mindful eating and living.
This professional training program is designed for health care professionals including dietitians, psychologists, physicians, mental health practitioners, nurses, social workers, counselors, yoga trainers and related fields. Upon completion of the 3 month training, you will receive a certificate as an MB-EAT Practitioner ( MB-EAT-P) or MB-EAT Qualified Instructor (MB-EAT-QI) to share the MB-EAT skills and tools with your community through individual client sessions and clinical practice or the public group program.
You will learn how to better support your individual clients, experience the 12 week MB-EAT program yourself and receive training to become a Qualified MB-EAT Instructor to lead the public 12 week group program in your community. These tools can be integrated into a general clinical or coaching practice, applied individually or offered in the 12 week MB-EAT group program.
Through mindful eating practices, one learns to pay attention to what the body really needs, how to experience the full pleasure and taste of food without overeating, and how to release the guilt and struggle so often associated with eating.
You will learn to become an embodied Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) 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 individual clients to integrate into your private practice. This program also includes a day long virtual retreat, a small group coaching session, unlimited email access, training materials, manuals and more!
Our certificate training program is:
Interactive and Experiental
Didactic and Skills-Based
Offers Certification in Mindful Eating as an MB-EAT Practitioner or MB-EAT Qualified Instructor
Prepares you to be a skilled and embodied practitioner or teacher of Mindful Eating in the most research based program
Learn to lead mindful eating and mindfulness meditation practices confidently and skillfully
Provides in depth training in Best Practices and a weight inclusive approach
Grounded in mindfulness and compassion-based training
Where Your Personal Practice meets Your Professional Practice
Enhances and Enriches Your Professional Community Building
Our 12-week online Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training includes:
· 12 Live Interactive 2-hour sessions (Zoom)
· Day long virtual retreat
· Monthly Q & A sessions
Unlimited Email Access
Mindful Eating and Meditation MP3 Recordings
Group coaching session
Training materials
MB-EAT Teaching Manual
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BONUS - Graduate Mentoring and Support Group is complementary for up to one year (bimonthly one hour-long sessions)
‘FLEX TIME’ Available:
If your schedule does not allow you to join our ‘live’ weekly sessions, we offer the ‘Flex Time’ option, whereby you review each weekly session, along with the current class, on your own schedule. You will be matched up with another student for the Teachback home practice as well. We also arrange special monthly Q&A sessions for the Flex Time students at a different day and time that usually works for everyone. You will follow the same course curriculum and receive the same Certificate of Completion and Achievement upon graduation. More details available upon request.
Informational Call Available
If you would like to discuss more details or requests regarding our programs with Andrea before registering, please use this Scheduling Link to set up a Zoom meeting:
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 as a 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' and receive the MB-EAT-QI Certificate .
Qualifications 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 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 Achievement 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 for Registered Dietitians (RD).
Introductory Webinar to the Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) and Living Professional Training Program
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
Jennifer Buettner, RN, BSN
"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
Registration Details
We have a number of payment options detailed below.
Partial Scholarships are available for students with financial hardships. Please email us to apply.
Payment Options:
Please note that some areas may charge VAT or sales tax when registering through our teachable.com website. If so, you may request by email us to register 'manually' with our registration form to avoid these extra taxes
Refund Policy:
You can receive a full refund from teachable.com within 14 days of registration. If you need to change your program date due to schedule changes, this tuition is transferable for up to one year (program is offered four times annually).
Program Policy:
All materials including course program, handouts and videos are copyrighted by Mindful Eating Training and Andrea Lieberstein and are NOT authorized for reproduction online or print for promotional or instructional purposes beyond the scope of this training to use these materials to support your work with individual clients or teach the 12 week MB-EAT public program as a Qualified MB-EAT Instructor.
Andrea Lieberstein, founder and director of the Mindful Eating Training Institute is an integrative mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, certified mindful eating (MB-EAT) and certified mindfulness meditation instructor, Well Nourished coach, Buddhist Eco-Chaplain and certified registered yoga instructor who has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 30 years. She leads well nourished, mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat centers across the country and internationally.
As one of two authorized MB-EAT teacher trainers (trainer of teachers) in the world she trains health professionals and the public in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness (MB-EAT) online and has offered trainings and retreats as Guest Faculty at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Esalen Institute, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Vajrapani Institute and 1440 Multiversity.
She is the best-selling author of "Well Nourished", recognized as a "Best Mindfulness Book of 2020" by Mindful Magazine, 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 and has a dedicated Dzogchen and Vajrayana practice. She is a graduate of Anam Thubten's Dharma Leadership Program and a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Dharma Training Institute's, "Dedicated Practitioner Program". She enjoys practicing in nature and incorporating the healing power of nature and mindfulness based nature practices into her retreats and programs whenever possible, inspired by her 40+ years of nature-based meditation practices, training as a certified eco-therapist and Buddhist Eco-Chaplain through the Sati Center of Buddhist Studies.
