Presenter: Ian Rubin, MA

Original Date: February 2, 2020

Helping clients start, succeed and sustain meaningful dietary change is one of the most difficult tasks for any wellness practitioner. A multitude of powerful forces, including cultural, mental, emotional and spiritual—present hurdles, preventing patients from applying the nutrition know-how they already possess, and prevents them from being ready, willing or able to receive and implement new information. Dietary programs given to patients are rarely successful due to these under-appreciated influences. A new approach that increases patient efficacy and program adherence is needed. Food Story Coaching® is one such system that takes an inside-out approach to creating behavior change. Drawing from motivational interviewing, health coaching and positive psychology, Food Story Coaching® is a deeply humanistic way to empower patients to make long term dietary change.

1.5 General CEUs approved by OBNM