Teach Mindful Eating Workshops
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Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Workshop Facilitator
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This wonderful, insightful and inspirational program will not only help you change your clients' lives for the better, YOU will be transformed in the process! The ongoing support, tools and organization is ever-present from start, to finish and beyond. This program is delivered with warmth, integrity and top-notch professionalism. – Lori Boothroyd, Ph.D.
I would highly recommend it. I am impressed with the thoroughness of the program and resources available for facilitators. No stone has been left unturned, and the access to Michelle and her staff has been impressive. – Amy Fuller, RYT
I loved the Am I Hungry? Facilitator Training. It took a lot of thoughts I had and coalesced them into a format that makes sense. I am excited about teaching the program and helping people. – Erica Griffin, MD
Even though I had been teaching mindful eating to clients for five years, the Am I Hungry? Facilitator Training gave me new ideas, different ways to teach mindful eating concepts, great visual learning tools as well as new language to explain mindful eating ideas. Read more...
– Katie Jeffrey, MS, RD, CSSD, LDN, CDN
I loved the program and found it to be inspiring and uplifting. It is a well-rounded healthy approach and comprehensive in that it covers emotions, nutrition, fitness, and mindful eating. I have a strong background in all of the above and it still it gave me many new ideas. I would recommend it, absolutely. I am thrilled to be a part of Am I Hungry? – Denise Cangiano, LMFT, Certified Wellcoach®; CPT
Do not hesitate. It will be one of the best financial investment decisions both personally and professionally that you will make this year. – Cheryl Davis, CPT
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Help your participants break their eat-repent-repeat cycle!
As a Licensed Am I Hungry?® Facilitator, you can offer Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Workshops in your office, community, health and wellness center, hospital, local corporations, bariatric centers, health insurance companies, churches, health clubs and spas.
You may be qualified to become an Am I Hungry?® Facilitator if you...
- are a health or fitness professional (i.e. physician, dietitian, psychologist, coach, personal trainer, health educator, etc.) OR have other training or experience that qualifies you to be a dynamic, effective agent of change
- believe in empowering individuals to live a healthier lifestyle by creating a positive relationship with food and physical activity
- want to really make a difference in the lives of your patients or clients struggling with food and weight management and eating issues
- desire more joy and fulfillment from your career or need to renew your passion for your work
- are interested in expanding your offerings by providing a unique, desperately needed, and highly sought after service to your community
- wish to earn great money doing what you love - helping people become healthier and happier!
What you can expect from Am I Hungry?® Facilitator Training
- Intensive training to become an effective, motivating Am I Hungry? Workshop Facilitator.
- Innovative, practical weight management techniques that you can share with your patients and clients immediately.
- Fun, exciting and interactive accelerated learning techniques. This is NOT your traditional, boring continuing education - be prepared to play at 100%!
- Full immersion in the Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating program.
- Continuing Education credits available.
- Great materials: Am I Hungry?® Facilitator's Guide, Am I Hungry?® DVD set, Am I Hungry?® powerpoint slide sets for all eight workshops, copy of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat, copy of Eat Mindfully, Live Vibrantly Workbook and Awareness Journal, business forms, marketing materials and wholesale discounts on participant materials.
- Access to our private Facilitator and Participant web portal at www.AmIHungry.net.
- Unparalleled personal and professional growth to take you to a whole new level.
- Supplemental facilitator training available for Bariatric Surgery Workshops - download the Facilitator Training for Bariatric Surgery information packet for additional information
Continuing Education Credits
- Am I Hungry? is recognized by the American Council on Exercise as a Continuing Education Specialist.This program has been approved for 2.40 ACE CECs.
- This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Arizona Nurses’ Association, an
accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation for 20 contact hours. - Am I Hungry? is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Am I Hungry? maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course is 24 CECs.
- Dietitians may submit this training for CPEUs using the following codes: 8130 Sensory perception and evaluation of foods and ingredients; 6000 Education, Counseling, therapy, and facilitation skills.
- Wellcoaches has approved this activity for continuing education credits.
- Instructor Michelle May, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. as owner of Am I Hungry?, P.L.L.C., has a financial relationship with this activity. There is no provision of commercial support for this program and there is no discussion of off-label usage of products during this activity.
Learn more about how Am I Hungry?® benefits your patients and clients
We are pleased to offer you two valuable resources FREE! Click here to access...
- Understanding the Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Cycle™ (60 minute audio)
In this eye-opening and entertaining presentation by founder Michelle May, M.D. you'll hear Dr. May describe six crucial decision points in the Mindful Eating Cycle™ and six specific strategies to help your patients or clients develop a healthier, more positive relationship with food and physical activity.
- Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Workshop Overview (33 minute video)
View video clips from live Am I Hungry?® Workshops facilitated by Dr. May.
Facilitator Training for Bariatric Surgery Workshops also available
Now you can also offer Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Workshops for Bariatric Surgery too! Read more...
Don't just take it from us! Read what our Facilitators say...
What an amazing program! I've integrated these concepts into our programs for those considering medically supervised weight management and bariatric surgery. In a few shorts weeks, their thoughts and feelings are already changing about weight management. Through the Am I Hungry? workshops and principles, my patients/clients are much more in charge of their health and weight for the long run, and feel empowered to become their best self to live life to the fullest!
-Chad Shirar, MS, ACSM certified, Wellcoach
I have been helping people find freedom from the bondage of the overeating/dieting cycle for years. Through Am I Hungry? Facilitator Training, I have found new and excellent tools, resources, information, and inspiration. Michelle is a stellar teacher with a powerful message. I believe that this calling is much larger than just helping people lose weight. We are helping them get their lives back. Am I Hungry? will prepare, equip, and empower you for this noble mission.
- Cindy Landham
This wonderful, insightful and inspirational program will not only help you change your clients' lives for the better, YOU will be transformed in the process! The ongoing support, tools and organization is ever-present from start, to finish and beyond. This program is delivered with warmth, integrity and top-notch professionalism. Thank you!
- Lori Boothroyd, Ph.D.
The Am I Hungry? facilitator training "sealed the deal" for me. Any questions I had about this approach were completely erased. It prepares facilitators completely and confidently to take this message of eating and living to the public. The materials are comprehensive and excellent. I know that I will be using this information for the rest of my career as a Family Physician and for the rest of my life personally. I (and hopefully all of my patients and participants to come) will never diet again!
- Lori Hurst, M.D.
Thanks from the bottom of my heart for making this evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral teaching available to me so I can share it with others!
- Jill Rife, F.N.P.
Michelle possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field of weight management. Her spirit and enthusiasm are contagious. Not only did I learn a lot about myself, I learned invaluable skills in facilitation. I was pleased to find that we have access to professional quality resources that are customizable. Offering Am I Hungry? classes will be a breeze! I would highly recommend the Facilitator Training to anyone interested in helping others reach their highest potential.
- Liz Blackgoat, RN, LMT
Both personally and professionally I will leave enlightened and inspired. Michelle is truly a mentor, someone I identified with on a professional and personal level. She is an inspiring and effective trainer. I just can't say enough how I am grateful for this experience! - Paige Gutheil, D.O. This Training gave me the tools to effectively help me and my clients normalize their relationships with food. I am so excited to begin putting these concepts to use with myself, my family and the community I serve. Thanks!
- Beth Ann Beamer, R.N., B.S.N.
Amazing workshop - exceeded my expectations. Very well organized and facilitated. The Training Manual and other materials provided an amazing amount of detail and options - very thorough and easy to use! Great energy throughout.
- Jonna Reynolds, Certified Wellcoach
I was amazed at how much material we covered is such a short time. Be prepared to come and be immersed. That doesn't mean we didn't have fun - we did! Michelle and her staff know how to put a workshop together that is both informative and meaningful. I now feel well prepared to share the Am I Hungry? process with as many folks as I can.
- Mike Ford, Alaskans In Charge
The facilitator training was "complete." Michelle, you left no topic untouched and ample time for questions and clarifications. The participants who came from various backgrounds made the training even more satisfying and interesting. Being able to practice the skills we will be teaching firsthand was a spectacular demonstration of the power of the messages of the Am I Hungry?® Program. I left the training energized to start this new venture and felt more than adequately prepared to run my first workshop. The post-workshop support has been outstanding. What a great group of people to have met and trained with. Many thanks.
- Ramona Seidel, MD
Wonderful training. The Am I Hungry?® staff works together beautifully and are very approachable. Course content excellent and informative. My participants have remarked several times how well the program is written and put together. What satisfaction when you see progress being made!
- Kim Vitellaro
"I know what I should be eating, but I just don't do it." This is a quote from many of my nutrition clients. I finally began to really understand that the gap between knowledge of nutrition and application was behavior. The Am I Hungry?® Facilitator Training program gave me exactly what I was searching for: a complete step by step process to aid my clients in nutrition and weight loss focusing on what is really important, and the only answer to health and longevity - changing our mind set.
- Laurel Puszert, B.S. Nutrition
This program and the training were completely transforming for me.
- Reva Kaufman
Impressively well-organized. Michelle is genuine, polished, spontaneous - an excellent communicator!
- Mary Delduca, M.D.
As a health professional who has also had gastric bypass surgery, I quickly realized that they didn't staple my brain! The Am I Hungry? principles apply well to bariatric surgery patients and help them better use their tools and strengths to ensure optimal health.
- Janine Kyrillos, M.D.
The Am I Hungry?® Facilitator Training was an incredibly rewarding experience, both personally and professionally. This intensive three day workshop opened my mind to my own issues with food and it taught me to use my "instincts" when dealing with those issues. Am I Hungry?® is an intriguing and fascinating yet unique approach to weight management.
- Jane Kelley, Manager of Health Education, CIGNA Medical Group
Beyond my expectations. Michelle is a terrific instructor and the materials are more thorough and well put together than I could have hoped for. I feel well prepared to start a group as soon as I return home.
- Gillian Hood-Gabrielson, M.S., Certified Wellcoach
Obesity is the new epidemic in this country, and as a family physician, I see all the complications - hypertension, diabetes, and premature arthritis and joint pain. The response to my first workshop was tremendous.
- Patrick Flyte, MD
Jammed packed three days full of information and activities. I'm going home with a full brain, happy heart and awakened muscles!
- Sue Valenzuela, R.N.
The Am I Hungry? Facilitator Training was everything I had hoped for. We were given all the tools and the training to be successful Am I Hungry? Facilitators. It left me feeling motivated, empowered and confident that I could make a difference and teach what has helped me so much. Michelle and the others were wonderful and they thought of EVERYTHING we might need.
- Monique Moore, M.S.
Why should you consider this approach? Because the emperor has no clothes!
Weight management is complex, involving genetic, metabolic, physiological, cultural, social, and behavioral factors. On the surface, the solution appears to be straightforward - decrease the number of calories consumed, and increase the number of calories used, and weight loss will result. However, while more is known now than ever before about it's molecular, genetic, and biologic determinants, the incidence of obesity has continued to rise.
This has been correlated with a host of factors, among them, readily available calorically dense foods, increase in portion sizes, decrease in physical activity, and increase in sedentary lifestyles, among others. Undoubtedly these are all important contributors, but the unprecedented attention to them so far has had little appreciable effect.
In fact, our society has become obsessed with weight and dieting. Nearly one half of U.S. women and more than one third of men report that they are trying to lose weight at any given moment in time. Many people are desperate to lose weight, making them easy targets for a billion-dollar diet industry.
The striking reality is that diets are not very effective in the long run anyway. Studies show that 90-95% of dieters regain their lost weight. Whatever the true numbers, if dieting was truly effective, the problem would have been solved with the first one.
In fact, many dieters experience a gradual increase in their weight over time. In essence, this is a microcosm of what we are seeing on a societal level. It is time to consider the possibility that the therapeutic interventions may have unwittingly contributed to the problem.
It is time to move away from promoting ineffective dieting and instead teach our patients and clients to use their instinctive ability to feed themselves an appropriate amount of food. This innate skill, coupled with accurate, non-restrictive nutrition and fitness information and skills, can help them finally break out of the weight gain-diet-weight gain cycle.
What else you can do to help your patients and clients:
- Share our website www.AmIHungry.com for great mindful eating information and resources.
- Download or reprint free mindful eating articles for yourself and your patients or clients.
- Invite Dr. May to inspire and educate your group or organization about mindful eating.
- Participate in one of our group workshops or arrange one for your group: Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Workshops.
- Become a trained and licensed Am I Hungry?® Facilitator. Send an email to Training for more information or to add your name to our mailing list.
- Supplemental facilitator training available for Bariatric Surgery Workshops - Download the Facilitator Training for Bariatric Surgery information packet for additional information
- Click here to learn more about Am I Hungry?® Workshops from two valuable resources: a Workshop Overview video and Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating audio by Michelle May, M.D.
- Sign up for our free Am I Hungry?® E-Newsletter by entering your email address below. You'll receive "101 Things To Do Besides Eat" that you can share with your patients and clients too!