Upcoming Eating Disorder Events are announced on this page. Members please feel free to submit all events that will benefit professionals in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.

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Coaching for Professionals, Conferences/Professional Trainings, Other Professional Trainings and Courses, Professionals Wanted, Community/Professional Service, Research Volunteers Needed

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Coaching for Professionals (scan down):

David Krueger MD, CEO

MentorPath

I offer Executive and Mentor Coaching to professionals in the field of Eating Disorders treatment. I formerly practiced and taught Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. I was the Founder and Director of an award winning Eating Disorders treatment program for twelve years--one of the first three formal programs in this country. I am the author of 11 books and 75 scientific papers and book chapters on eating disorders, success, self-development, and mind-body integration. I served as the CEO to two healthcare corporations in Houston, Texas.

Payment Options: Cash/Check, Credit Cards; PayPal online at website www.MentorPath.com

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Workshop for Professionals: Introducing Professional Coaching to Mental Health Specialists Teleseminar. The Core Principles of Professional Coaching Methods and Practice, Coaching Tools, and Professional Coaching as a Practice Adjunct or Career. Presented by: David Krueger MD, Executive and Mentor Coach to healthcare specialists and executives, an Eating Disorder pioneer who formerly practiced and taught Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. Format: 1.25 hour Teleclasses. Learn by telephone in the comfort of your office or home. Registration information at www.MentorPath.com

July 2008, November 2008, Year Long Events

July, 2008:

The Association for Size Diversity and Health is holding their annual conference at the LAX Marriott Hotel from July 11-July 14, 2008.  Dedicated to promoting Health At Every Size principles for all, the conference brings together professionals from many disciplines, such as therapists, nutritionists, authors, researchers, etc.  A pre-conference Symposium and Clinical Intensive is available for those who are curious or new to the Health At Every Size paradigm.  For more information about the organization and upcoming conference visit www.sizediversityandhealth.org.

November, 2008:

18th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference For Professionals, Feminist Perspectives and Beyond: The Power of Therapeutic Relationships in the Treatment of Eating Disorders. It is a four-day seminar for behavioral health professionals and dietitians, and it offers 22.5 CEUs.  The event will take place at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott, Philadelphia, PA from November 13 - 16, 2008. Please visit their websites for further information http://www.renfrew.org/news-events/event.asp?id=108 or http://www.renfrewcenter.com/news-events/event.asp?id=108

Year-long events (scan down):

Southern California - Professional Study Group: Carolyn Costin, MFT invites all treating professionals to her study group. This group takes place the first Thursday of every month from 12:00-1:00pm at her day treatment center, Eating Disorder Center of CA, www.edcca.com. You are welcome to bring a lunch. The group covers case reviews, treatment strategies, new literature and research, and other areas related to treatment of eating disorders. CEU's are given to MFT's and LCSW's. Call for more information at 310-457-9958.

Southern California - Professional Study Group: Carolyn Costin, MFT invites all treating professionals to her study group. This group takes place the first Wednesday of every month from 12:00-1:30pm at her residential treatment center, Monte Nido, www.montenido.com. You are welcome to bring a lunch. The group covers case reviews, treatment strategies, new literature and research, and other areas related to treatment of eating disorders. CEU's are given to MFT's and LCSW's. Call for more information at 310-457-9958.

Nutrition & Exercise Workshops - Finding the right balance of food and exercise is a struggle for many people with eating disorders. This workshop, featuring sports nutritionist Nancy Clark RD CSSD and exercise physiologist William Evans PhD, includes abundant information to help transform compulsive exercisers into well fueled athletes. Helpful information for health professionals as well as clients themselves. Upcoming workshops: 2008: Chicago, Aug 22-23; Indianapolis, Sept 5-6; Detroit, Sept 19-20; Columbus, Nov 14-15; Minneapolis Dec 5-6, 2008. 2009: Dallas, Jan 17-17; St. Louis, Jan 23-24; Houston, Feb 6-7, 2009 Please see www.sportsnutritionworkshop.com for complete information. Ten hours of continuing education credits are available for ADA, AFAA, ACE, ACSM, CHES, BOC/NATA, NSCA. The entire workshop is also available online as a home study; you see the powerpoint slide and hear the speaker’s voice—just like being there! $209 for both days; $135 Friday only; $90 Saturday only; add $25 late fee if registering after Tuesday, week of workshop. $109 Dietetic interns, full time students (send proof of registration); Group discount: $185 each for 4 or more registrants.

Other Professional Trainings and Courses (scan down)

Florham Park, NJ: PEER SUPERVISION GROUP-Looking to join or form a Peer Supervision Group for psychotherapists who work with eating disordered patients to discuss cases and countertransference. This group can meet in person or through conference calls. Open to ideas. Please contact.. Susan Simon-Fleischer, LCSW (973) 535-3626 or susan@psychotherapywithsusan.com
 

Nationwide Tele-class/Professional Study Groups: Donald Altman, MA, ED Counselor, award-winning writer, and former Buddhist monk invites all treating professionals to one of his study groups. Three different on-going 1-hour weekly mindful-eating and mindfulness groups are available in the afternoons. Call in the toll-free number and enter your pin# to enter the class. For group information visit www.mindfulpractices.com. Groups cover mindfulness tools and strategies, and other areas related to treatment of eating disorders and co-morbid mood disorders. Designed for both professional and personal growth. CEU's are available for some classes for dietitians. For more information e-mail info@mindfulpractices.com or call 503-650-2208 ext. 1.

Jessica Setnick’s Eating Disorders Boot Camp & Molly Kellogg’s Counseling Intensive for Nutrition Professionals. 2008 Cities: Colorado Springs, CO: July 25 – 27; Los Angeles, CA: September 26 – 28; Chicago, IL: October 24 (Counseling Intensive only); Dallas, TX: December 6 – 8.  A full weekend of training. These are practical workshops designed to advance dietitians’ proficiency with eating disorders and nutrition counseling skills.   9 credits (RDs and DTRs) for each workshop (18 for the whole weekend).  Discounted fee if you register for both programs.  Details at www.mollykellogg.com.

Home Study or Online Course: Healing Intractible Eating Problems: Course designed by Judy Lightstone (formerly Dissociative Processes in Eating Disturbances: A feminist Object Relations Approach). 6 CEUs offered. http://www.psychotherapist.org/Continuing_Education.htm.

At present there are no highly effective systematic approaches for assessing or intervening with the many patients with intractable compulsive eating, restricting, or purging symptoms. Instead we are told that eating disorders are hard to impossible to treat and we should lower our expectations for outcomes. This course covers the feminist Object Relations approach to working with eating and body image disturbances. It includes training in offering psychoeducation to your patients about how to identify and intervene into the binge/starve or diet or purge cycles, and following intuitive hunger-based eating  guidelines. The method taught is symptom-focused, yet psychodynamic in orientation, allowing the therapist to understand and use the symptoms as metaphors for other psychological issues, while still  respecting the deep pain of eating and body image obsessions. Eating problems usually involve varying degrees of dissociation - most especially somatoform dissociation of sensations of hunger, fullness, and proprioceptive awareness of body size. The correlation between compulsive eating patterns and dissociation has been noted by many, yet as yet there are no explanations for the causes of this correlation, or structured interventions with patients who may initially present with no traumatic history. Through a synthesis of anecdotal data, experiential exercises participants can immediately apply to their practice, theoretical formulations, and a review of the most up-to-date research on traumatic memory and attachment deficits, this course will cover the continuum of complex trauma and dissociation and offer clear step by step guidelines for assessment and intervention with so-called "impossible to treat" patients.

Objectives - Participants will learn: Why and how to use hunger-based symptom assessment and coaching to address psycho-somatic dissociation when working with compulsive eaters; To locate their patients' compulsive eating and body image symptoms on the dissociative continuum; How to teach patients to follow intuitive hunger-based eating guidelines; How to apply feminist object relations theory and  approach to compulsive eating, body image distortions and shame. Training designed for Helping the Helpers by Judy Lightstone, MA, MS, LMFT. Judy has been training therapists and providing professional consultation in New York and California for the past 19 years, beginning at the Women's Therapy Centre Institute where she received 5 years of post graduate training in their feminist object relations approach to eating problems. She is the author of the Workbook and Training Manual on Working with Dissociation (1992) and her article Compulsive Eating and Dissociation appears in the 2004 Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She received additional post-graduate training with faculty of the Center for Family Learning in Bowenian Systems and has two Masters degrees, one from New York University and one from California State University at Hayward. In her Berkeley private practice, she specializes in treating eating disorders and dissociation, and in working with abuse survivors (PCE 3370), (#MFC32570). Apply online at  http://www.psychotherapist.org/Continuing_Education.htm for more information.

These courses meet qualifications for LMFTs and LCSWs Mandatory Continuing Education as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #3370).  The online course can be downloaded in 5 sections - 3 sections of audio in either Quick Time or Media Player (depending on what you have on your system) that add up to 80 minutes altogether, a manual in  Microsoft Word and an article in Adobe Acrobat. The downloads may take several minutes for dialup modems, and several seconds for DSL and Cable modems. The online course costs $10 less and saves delivery costs. To take the online course, click the link below. The home study course packet includes a CD, a booklet to go with the CD, plus other required reading and a bibliography, an application for CE credit, a post test and an evaluation. All materials are copyrighted and duplication is strictly prohibited. Only one person may receive CE credit per packet. If you have any questions call Judy Lightstone at (510) 704-0940. If you are interested in obtaining a packet for the course, visit http://www.psychotherapist.org/Continuing_Education.htm.

Professionals Wanted (scan down):

San Diego, CA - Healthy Within Foundation Volunteer Opportunity: Healthy within is seeking a psychology grad student fluent in both English and Spanish who is interested in training to facilitate a Spanish-speaking ANAD support group. For more information contact Leah Bruno at leahmbruno@gmail.com and visit www.healthywithin.com.

Professional Resource: Professionals Wanted: The Aliveness Experience is looking for eating disorder professionals to take their Sacred Hunger training for the purposes of leading our TeleClasses, and becoming part of our referral network for our growing base of online clients. They offer an educational service for men and women with all food and weight issues via online courses, teleclasses and an egroup community. Their theoretical model brings together non-denominational spiritual principles, body-centered and energetic therapeutic modalities along with more traditionally based psychological concepts. For more information visit For information visit www.emotionaleating.com.

SACRED HUNGER ONLINE COURSE FOR PROFESSIONALS A SPIRITUAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY PROGRAM CEU accreditation (30 hours) from the National Board for Certified Counselors

A non-pathological framework that speaks to most disorders, addictions and codependency; Practical tools that empower your clients to see results more quickly; An innovative framework that excites, inspires and encourages; Structured assignments, in-session visualizations and meditations; Nondenominational spiritual principles integrated with the psychological for optimal results.
Essential body-centered energetic principles that empower and reframe your clients' issues; Expanded client base through our referral network; Easier, faster, more rewarding work.

Teach your clients how to: Tap into and utilize their Sacred Self to make powerful shifts; Leverage their out-of-control experiences into joy; Turn their greatest fears into their greatest gifts; Transform the underlying forces that drive their dysfunction; Live beyond the paradigm of their wound; Embrace themselves with self-love; Create a new powerful self-image. 

What  will you receive: Each Mondays you will receive a lesson and weekly assignment(s), except for 2 weeks where you have a chance to assimilate and catch up. These lessons are the same lessons the participants in the Sacred Hunger Online Course are receiving (10 lessons in all). Every week, you may participate in a phone class related to the lessons. You will be on a call with many of the participants who are taking the course. One additional value of this is experiencing Jane's responses to client issues and problems. (10 total TeleClasses optional). Participate in a professionals only phone class to deepen the lessons and address issues you may be having with your clients (12 TeleClasses). Additional Worksheets and Handouts to use with your clients. Credit towards certification as a Sacred Hunger Workshop/Group/TeleClass Facilitator. Wholesale pricing on Full Recovery tapes, Beyond the Food Game and other books and tape sets. To get the most from this curriculum, it is also suggested you order (if you don't already have) Jane's book, Beyond the Food Game from as you will be given sections to read as the course progresses. For information visit www.emotionaleating.com. The Lessons address these key topics: why you use food to cope and how to stop; the crucial foundation safety; selfish rituals that must be incorporated; food triggers and what to do about them; food plans vs. diets vs. natural eating; how to turn fears into powerful allies; how to leverage the out-of-control experience into joy; power meditations & visualizations. Most sections of this course will be applicable to both anorexia and bulimia as well as compulsive overeating. Special notations will be added for anorexia and bulimia where the information has to be adapted for those eating disorders. For information visit www.emotionaleating.com. Cost: $595 for the entire 12 week curriculum -the days for the TeleClasses to be announced.

Convenient specialized training, supervision, consultation and study: For over 12 years I have been working in the field of Eating Disorders, providing specialized training, supervision and study in this field. Aside from my own private practice with individuals, couples, groups and families in this setting, I have also supervised and provided consultation to numerous professionals. My commitment to this area of work is demonstrated by my involvement at the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia as a staff member, teacher, board member, and Director of Community Outreach. If you are as busy as I expect you are, adding on time for more training, supervision, consultation and study can be daunting. To alleviate one of the problems, travel, I am now offering VIRTUAL teleclasses in the field of Eating Disorders. These classes, on the telephone, will maximize your time to the fullest. The teleclasses will be in the areas of: Group Supervision; Individual Supervision; Consultation; Study Group. If you are interested in any of these opportunities contact Jill M. Pollack, CSW, BCD, 142 West End Avenue New York, NY 10023 (P) 212 724-7205 (F) 212 721-2771, email jmpollack@mindspring.com.

Community/Professional Service (scan down): 

LA Task Force on Eating Disorders: Karen David Reimann, MS, RD has founded LATFED, the LA Task Force on Eating Disorders. This is a group that is open to professionals who work with or would like to work with the ED population. This group focuses on community and professional education, networking opportunities, supervision, and we look forward to offering symposiums to members to help stay abreast of current trends in Eating Disorder treatment.  In the future we plan to offer CEU's. For more information contact Karen email kdavid1@socal.rr.com.

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