Workshop for professionals

Children, weight, and the community, helping without harming

Audience

Professionals and the public: Health, medical, public health, WIC, mental health, child care, eating disorders professionals, community health workers. Friends, students, parents.

Description        

If you are looking for someone to tell you how to get children to eat less, move more, and lose weight, this is not the workshop for you. On the other hand, join in if you want to learn realistic and rewarding ways of working together as a community, doing an excellent job of parenting with feeding and with activity, and letting your children grow up to get good bodies that are right for them. Children are born feeling good about eating, loving their bodies, and inclined to eat, move, and grow in ways that are right for them. Good parenting—by the whole community—preserves children’s natural abilities and lets them become all they can be.

Workshop text: Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. 

Training mode

Lecture, discussion, video, case examples, role plays

Objectives

As a result of taking this introductory workshop, the learner will be able to:

• Understand how to raise children to be good eaters and movers: to follow Satter Feeding Dynamics Model (fdSatter) and the Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter).
• Seek community-based approaches and networks that emphasize raising happy, healthy, productive children, whatever their size.
• Identify key parent-centered approaches for establishing structure and extinguishing pressure and restraint.
• Consider the next steps in integrating eating competence and feeding dynamics based interventions in routine practice.