Healing with Food: Models for Positive and Joyful Eating and Feeding

Online Training
​Wednesday, April 19th 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Early childhood community nutrition and educational settings are positioned to help children and their parents become eating competent and grow into the body that is just right for them. The Satter models offer a protective approach to child feeding that preserve a child’s capabilities with eating and allow the development of a strong sense of self. Sometimes known as the “trust” model, this work is sensitive to eating difficulties a child may have previously
experienced and it approaches feeding from a food insecurity, nutrition trauma-informed perspective.

This session will explore strategies that community nutrition workers and wellness educators/school personnel can implement to support the child in developing eating competence skills. Topics from helping parents be successful with meal and snack time management, activities providing neutral food exposure, and supporting parents in their roles
with child feeding will be covered.

Training Objectives:
1. Identify how the Satter models for feeding and developing eating competence fit into community nutrition settings, schools and resource centers.
2. Explore how community nutrition workers can re-think their approach to child feeding and help children achieve and maintain high levels of eating competence. This includes discussing how the Satter Hierarchy of food needs addresses nutrition trauma related to food insecurity.
3. Understand the child’s role and the adult’s role in feeding and eating that allows the child to develop a lifelong healthy relationship with food.
4. Identify positive educational interventions and classroom practices to promote food acceptance and eating competence skills in children.

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Meet Your Trainer - Jennifer Harris, RDN LD CEDS-S

Jennifer is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who has worked on a multidisciplinary treatment team in the field of eating disorders since 1991.  She is a faculty member at The Ellyn Satter Institute and a certified eating disorder dietitian supervisor through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.

Learn more about Jennifer here. 

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"The non-profit Ellyn Satter Institute is named for Ellyn Satter, and was created to carry on the legacy of her work. The Satter Feeding Dynamics Model and the Satter Eating Competence Model address not only food, eating, and feeding, but emotional health and positive family relationships. ecSatter and fdSatter are food-neutral and weight neutral: They support what you eat and what you weigh. Research shows that being Eating Competent—being self-trusting and positive with respect to food, eating and feeding—does more for nutritional, medical, and emotional health than adhering to a set of rules about what to eat and not eat. 

Satter is an internationally recognized authority on eating and feeding. She created the Satter Feeding Dynamics Model and the Satter Eating Competence Model and is active in research testing the models as well as helping professional and parents apply them. Satter is the author of the division of responsibility in feeding, which is considered the gold standard for feeding children. 

The Ellyn Satter Institute philosophy:

• We believe eating can and should be joyful.
• We believe that bodies are designed to know how much to eat and grow accordingly.
• We believe that meals provide the foundation for this trust, whether dining by oneself or in a group of twenty.
• We believe that understanding and supporting positive feeding and eating relationships is the key for avoiding feeding eating struggles.
• We believe that people are healthier in all ways when they eat and feed with practicality, trust and enjoyment."

Source: www.ellynsatterinstitute.org

Learn more about the Ellyn Satter Institute here. 
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