Mindful Eating

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Self-Compassion-Based Eating Awareness Weekend Workshop: January 2017 in Phoenix, AZ

• What: Weekend workshop for overcoming overeating with Jean Fain and self-compassion researcher Dara James
• When: 1/27-1/29/2017
• Where: Phoenix, AZ
• Who: For everyone, everywhere struggling with everyday eating issues, from yo-yo dieting and compulsive overeating to mindless eating and binge eating
• Value: $550, includes two-and-a-half day workshop and group lunch at a local restaurant
• Information: Email Jean @ jfain@hms.harvard.edu

Informed by the cutting-edge research on eating issues, Self-Compassion-Based Eating Awareness Training teaches you how to curb overeating, feel your hunger, trust your taste buds and become deeply satisfied with the quality, rather than quantity, of food. All of which helps you eat less and weigh less without dieting. Derived from principles of mindfulness meditation popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn, mindful eating research by psychologist Jean Kristeller and proven practices by self-compassion researcher Kristin Neff, you not only learn to cultivate loving-kindness and mindful awareness, you develop a sense of inner control over your eating.

Over the course of this two-and-a-half day workshop, you learn everything participants in the original eight-week training learn, plus lunch at a local restaurant. In learning the basics of self-compassion meditation and mindful eating, you practice self-compassion in formal seated meditation, walking meditation and mini-meditations. You also practice guided meditations to get in touch with hunger and fullness cues, and, ultimately, to gain a sense of control over what, when and how much you eat. In preparation for the restaurant lunch, the group eats together in the office, starting with a simple snack and working up to a favorite food you'd like to eat in moderation. Homework includes mini meditations and mindful eating at area restaurants or at home.

Item Special Note

Jean Fain, MSW, LICSW, is a Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychotherapist and the author of “The Self-Compassion Diet.” In addition to seeing individual clients in her Concord, Mass. private practice, she runs groups on self-compassion for eating issues. She also writes about food and body-image issues for newspapers (from the Boston Globe to the LA Times), magazines (O: The Oprah Magazine, Shape, Self…) and on-line publications (NPR, WBUR, The Huffington Post). You can  contact Jean through her website  www.jeanfain.com or jfain@hms.harvard.edu