Members Announcements for Treatment Professionals, binge eating, anorexia, eating disorders

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. Scan the page or select from the list of topics below:

February 2010 (scan down)

Atlanta, GA: 1st Annual Southeastern Eating Disorder Conference - "Reframing Disordered Eating.” Date: February 11-13 2010. Location: The Embassy Suites, Atlanta “Buckhead” 3285 Peachtree Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30305. Be a part of the evolution in understanding and treating Eating Disorders. You will hear many of the most current experts in the fields of western, complementary and alternative medicines. These integrative points of view will broaden your acumen about how to best work with Eating Disorders. We invite you to join us for this information-packed weekend, and earn CEU’s when you attend. Cost: 3-Day Workshop - $175.

Yoga-Based Professional Development Retreat in Eating Disorder Recovery. Location: The Negril Escape Resort and Spa, Jamaica. Date: February 14 - 20, 2010. Take your counseling and teaching skills to a level that never imagined, by investing in yourself and your career. Treatment facilities -consider offering a new avenue to promote healing and self-care for your patients. The goals of this professional retreat are to give registered yoga teachers (RYTs) the tools to create their own yoga program in eating disorder recovery/body acceptance for individuals using the philosophy of yoga. In addition to RYTs, other professionals that may enroll in and benefit from this program in order to use the wisdom of yoga in their respective professional setting are: Mental Health Professionals (psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors), Registered/Licensed Dietitians, Physicians, and Educators. Yoga Alliance Approved to offer CECs and Approved by Commission on Dietetic Registration for Registered/Licensed Dietitians/Nutritionists. All other professionals may requests continuing education through their respective professional organization's credentialing body. For more information visit http://www.reconnectwithfood.com/professionals/index.htm or call 248-336-2868. Contact: Beverly Price, RD, MA, E-RYT, www.reconnectwithfood.com.

Full of Ourselves: A Wellness Program to Advance Girl Power, Health & Leadership! We will LEARN…How to be “full of ourselves” in the very best sense of the phrase! We will TALK about…Assertiveness, popularity, media and healthy living! We will FEEL…More confident and be better prepared for any future challenges! Role-Playing! Yoga! Games! Meditation! Good Talks! Fun! When: Start date Week of Feb 22nd, 2010. Time: After School or Saturday mornings. Call 858-622-0246 for details. Where: La Jolla, Lemon Grove, Sorrento Valley, Pt. Loma, Chula Vista. Who can attend: 6th, 7th and 8th Grade Girls (Program is FREE). Contact: Charlotte Wickham at 858-622-0246 for information. Email: divyakakaiya@gmail.com. Website for curriculum: www.healthywithinfoundation.com. Groups are facilitated by volunteers from Healthy Within Foundation.

Ashland OR: RainRock, along with Creekside Counseling and the Southern Oregon University Health and Wellness Center are hosting a screening of the film, America the Beautiful. The screening will be held in Ashland, Oregon on Tuesday February 23rd at the Stevenson Union Arena from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. For more information contact Kim Grynick at 541-488-9530, or visit www.RainRock.org. Carolyn Costin has been a specialist in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders for over 30 years. Author of “Eating Disorder Sourcebook”, “Your Dieting Daughter”, “100 Questions & Answers about Eating Disorders.” Carolyn is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the RainRock Treatment Center.

Omni Behavioral Health Eating Disorder Clinic will be hosting a Candlelight Vigil and Educational Conference on February 25, 2010 to raise awareness for eating disorders. Their guest speaker will be Kirstin Haglund, Miss America 2008. Contact: Danielle Jackson, Day Program Specialist, Omni Behavioral Health Eating Disorder Clinic, 8715 Oak Street, Omaha, NE 68124. Call 402-333-0809 or email djackson@omnibehavioralhealth.com.

February 27, 2010: America The Beautiful - A documentary by Darryl Roberts. The Art Theatre of Long Beach at 7:00pm, Ticket Donation: $50. For more information visit www.shoreline-eatingdisorders.com or www.americathebeautifuldoc.com or call 562-434-6007.

Long Island, NY: NEDA - Long Island: "Beauty, Body Image, Disordered Eating and Campus Life." Location: Omni Building, Uniondale, Long Island, New York. Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 10 am-noon. A FREE public awareness event featuring the screening of two films "Beauty in the Eyes of the Beheld" a documentary by Liza Krazinsky looking at modern perceptions of beauty, and "Recovering Bodies" which features stories of college students with eating disorders will be shown. Following the films there will be a lively panel discussion of students and professionals. The slippery slope leading toward the development of eating disorders during the college years and the many pathways to their prevention will be emphasized. This event is appropriate for both high school and college students, and their families. For more information, call 516-794-0415. or visit website at www.neda-li.org $10 Donation is suggested.

San Diego, CA: Join the San Diego Chapter of iaedp for a Special Showing of the Documentary Film, America The Beautiful with honored guest, Carolyn Costin, MA, M.ED, MFT. When: Saturday, February 27, 2010. 1:00-4:00 pm. Location: University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute (Kroc Center).Cost: Free -- Requested Donations: $10.00. Profits from this event will benefit SD iaedp's scholarship fund to provide eating disorder treatment for those in need. RSVP: iaedpsd@gmail.com.

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Seattle WA Workshop: Join Carolyn Costin for a Workshop and NEDA Benefit in Seattle. RainRock is hosting a two-part workshop with Carolyn Costin on the treatment of eating disorders in Seattle, WA. Date: March 6th, 2010. There will be a morning and afternoon session, including video presentations of Carolyn working with her clients at Monte Nido. Up to 6 CEU credits will be available, and lunch will be provided. Fees will be $15 per person, and $30 additional per session for CEU credits. All the funds raised by the event will benefit the National Eating Disorder Association. For more information visit www.RainRock.org. Carolyn Costin has been a specialist in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders for over 30 years. Author of “Eating Disorder Sourcebook”, “Your Dieting Daughter”, “100 Questions & Answers about Eating Disorders.” Carolyn is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the RainRock Treatment Center.

Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) National Conference. March 4-6, 2010. Renaissance Harborplace Baltimore, Maryland. For the agenda and to register on-line visit www.bedaonline.com. More than 15 million individuals are affected by binge/compulsive/emotional eating disorders and many struggle with overweight and obesity issues. Attend this powerful conference to hear the latest evidence-based research and how to bridge to the clinic, deal with the shame surrounding the disordered eating, and learn skills for working with affect intolerance, body image issues and much more. Presenters included nationally recognized speakers Cynthia Bulik, PhD; Mary Boggiano, PhD; Deb Burgard, PhD; Margo Maine, PhD; Michael Levine, PhD; Roberta Pearle Lamb, MPH, RD; Amy Pershing, LMSW; Mark Schwartz, ScD, and others. CEUs are provided.

Asheville, NC: Healthy Eating and Living (HEAL) Conference of Western NC- EveryBody is Different. To be held March 4th 5:30-7:30 pm and March 5th from 9 am- 4:45 pm at MAHEC- 501 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801. Sponsored by MAHEC, T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating and The Renfrew Center. The overall objective for the HEAL Conference in 2010 is to increase participant knowledge and understanding about the different aspects of disordered eating across the life span. March 4th: Parents play a key part in preventing and healing youth with disordered eating. There will discussion with, and suggestions given to the community about how parents can encourage healthy eating and body image at MAHEC Thursday evening. The discussion will explore the parent skill training model that is used at the Duke Eating Disorder Program. March 5th: Participation will provide a good foundation regarding options for treatment and ideas about how to approach the clinical aspects of eating disorders in general or in specialized treatment settings. Four main areas to promote health and reduce relapse will be discussed as well as the background on addressing youth eating disorders, current recommendations for treatment and an overview of what to include in parent skills training. For registration, visit http://www.mahec.net/calendar/default.aspx. Keyword: HEAL or call 828-257-4466.

International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation Symposium. Wanted: Eating Disorders Treatment Professionals Ready for Breakthrough Success with their Patients! The reason that treatment professionals from every discipline keep coming back year after year is that they know that the curriculum is applicable to their skills building when working with this difficult patient population! Highly distinguished faculty! Earn CMEs/CEUs (CDR approval for PEs). iaedp Symposium 2010. Behind Closed Doors: Face to Face with the Client. Date: March 11-14, 2010. Location: Walt Disney Swan Resort, Orlando, FL. Phone: 800-800-8126 X80, email: iaedpmembers@earthlink.net , website: www.iaedp.com.

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Hungry For Hope: Premiere Christian Conference for Eating Disorders - June 4-6, 2010. FINDINGbalance, in partnership with Remuda Ranch, Selah House, and TrueFaced/Leadership Catalyst is pleased to announce the third annual "Hungry for Hope", the premiere Christian Conference for eating disorders and body image issues, June 4-6, 2010. Hosted at the beautiful Glen Eyrie castle and retreat center in Colorado Springs, CO this one of a kind conference offers professional and community tracks featuring experts in clinical and lay recovery eating disorder fields, including Travis Stewart, LPC and Dena Cabrera, PhD (Remuda), Misty Rees, CEDS and Todd Davis, MA, LMHC (Selah House), bestselling author John Townsend, PhD ("Boundaries," "Safe People"), author John Lynch ("TrueFaced," "Bo's Café") and FINDINGbalance founder and CEO Constance Rhodes, author of "Life Inside the Thin Cage" and the "Finding Balance with Food" small group curriculum. This year's theme is "Real-ationships Heal." Participants will learn how to achieve optimum relational health in regard to peers, clients, family, their body, and God. In addition to robust workshop offerings, special experientials include a "Yadah" body movement class, a small group training workshop, an afternoon hike in the Garden of the Gods and an evening concert under the stars with JJ Heller, whose song "Your Hands" recently shot to the top of the charts after being featured on TV's Dancing with the Stars. For clinicians, lay counselors and those personally impacted by ED's and seeking faith-based perspectives and resources. CEU information pending. Full schedule, speakers and pricing at http://www.findingbalance.com/hfh.

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Thousand Oaks, CA - Professional Roundtable: La Ventana Treatment Programs hosts a monthly professional's round table to welcome your thoughts and insight as you collaborate with colleagues on various issues. Support your practice with clinical and peer review while forming a cohesive team approach. No RSVP necessary and feel free to bring your lunch. Location: La Ventana Treatment Programs, 275 East Hillcrest Drive Suite 120, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. Time: 12:00 -1:00pm. For more information contact the Community Outreach Coordinator at 805-444-8072 or visit www.laventanaeatingdisorderprograms.com.

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.

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. Contact Susan Simon-Fleischer, LCSW at 973-535-3626 or email susan@psychotherapywithsusan.com.

Eating Disorders Case Consultation Group: Monthly free meeting for consultation, sharing of knowledge, and support for clinicians working (or interested) in the field of eating disorders treatment. When: 2nd Monday of each month, 12:30- 2:00pm, Where: Suite N-B at New Beginnings Counseling Center. Call or email susanrichter.mft@verizon.net to reserve your space. A prior consultation is required, Call Susan at 805-987-3162 ext. 5 for more information.

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

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. For more information 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.

Survey Participation Needed: Eating disorders that occur post-bariatric surgery have received limited research, but anecdotal reports appear more common. Survey for practitioners working with eating disorder and bariatric surgery patients located at http://tinyurl.com/practitionersurvey.

Online Courses for Professionals: The Aliveness Training in Somatic Process™ Certification Program. This is a course of study that bridges body-centered processes and nature reconnection exercises to teach foundational life skills needed for psychological health, as well as deep transformative processes for Somatic Soul work. Two concentrations of study, BodyWay and the Aliveness Intensive, are available. Students in both specialty areas receive the overall curriculum acquiring techniques for overcoming struggles with: relationships; symptoms of extreme stress such as addictions and codependency; the emotional impact of life-threatening disease; work challenges like burn-out, overwhelm, or boredom. The life skills imparted include practical, step-by-step techniques drawing on research from the fields of ecopsychology, energetics, and somatic psychology to facilitate optimal states of functioning. Additionally, the somatic soul work draws on indigenous, shamanic and expressive arts practices to facilitate an individual’s deep connection with the calling of their Soul.

The BodyWay concentration’s focus is on somatic processes for healing areas of non-chemical addictions, eating disorders, and codependency, as well as related areas of dysfunction.

The Aliveness Intensive concentration’s focus is on accessing the somatic soul through pre-symbolic activities and experience which results in co-creative, cooperative and flow-based living. Somatic processes are augmented with creative and heart-based modalities.

The training program consists of four learning modules of three months duration each. Aliveness Intensive students additionally attend, at minimum, one 4-day in-person retreat in Portland Oregon. BodyWay students with an interest in eating disorder or weight related issues receive a fifth learning module that focuses on the specifics of eating and body image issues. All learning modules are delivered via teleconference format. A student may take one, two, three or all four modules. Certification requires, however, that all four modules plus additional focus work is met.

Communities Served: Executive and Mentor Coaching to Eating Disorder and Healthcare Specialists and executives, entrepreneurs, and authors.

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.

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