Dina offers keynote speeches and workshops for parents, educators and health care professionals. Each inspiring and informative program is customized to speak directly to your group's goals. Dina has a warm and down-to-earth speaking style that is fun and informative, and her research-based programs are packed with practical take-home strategies that participants can immediately use at home.
Workshops
A simple mindshift—from focusing on nutrition to shaping habits—can transform the way children eat. It's almost impossible to succeed at nutrition-based parenting because nutrition is complicated and nuanced and it's always changing. Moreover, nutrition is about food but eating is about behavior.
Shifting from nutrition to habits fixes everything. It changes how kids eat, how parents and children interact around food, and it changes how well prepared children are for a lifetime of healthy eating.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- How to Introduce New Foods … So Your Kids Will Actually Eat Them!
- Why Some Kids Eat Peas.
- End Your Child’s Resistance to Eating Right.
- Surviving the Holiday with Your Kids' Healthy Eating Habits Intact.
- Helping Kids Who Overeat.
- What to Do When the Doc Says Your Child Needs to Gain Weight: 3 Things You Can Do Now.
There are no sample menus to memorize, and no portions to measure, just a method for making food and eating choices that can be used with different children, at different times and in different situations. In other words, Dina's workshops give you a realistic plan for living in the real world.
Program Options:
- 1 hour with Q & A
- 2 hour with Q & A
- Morning or afternoon workshop
- Full day workshop
Schedule a workshop.
Corporate Events
Today's corporate focus is on workforce wellness, but how well children eat should be a corporate concern too.
Childhood eating-related health and obesity issues impact the workplace in 4 ways:
- Direct payments for child healthcare.
- Lost productive time when caregivers are absent or tardy.
- Caring for sick children is a source of distraction and interruption for working parents.
- Employers are at risk of inheriting a future workforce with a high prevalence rate of obesity and early manifestations of obesity-related conditions.
Consider hosting monthly or quarterly lunch-and-learn sessions during which your employees can learn successful strategies for teaching kids the habits they need for a lifetime of healthy eating.
Workshop topics can be customized to meet your goals.
Program Options:
- 1 hour with Q & A
- 2 hour with Q & A
- Morning or afternoon workshop
- Full day workshop
Schedule a Corporate Event.
Gabfests
Forget the formal talk. Sometimes you just want a good old-fashioned Q&A session. At Gabfests you and your friends set the agenda in the comfort of your own home. Kind of like a Tupperward Party, only more useful!
At Gabfests you get 1½ hours of talk, tips and techniques. These sessions really dish it out. Kids welcome.
Schedule a Gabfest.
One-on-One Parent Coaching
This service is for you if you desire individualized attention, privacy and convenience. This option includes:
- 90 minute consultation.
- Individual follow-up report including summary of discussion and all recommendations.
- Follow-up e-mail support.
Stop struggling and start succeeding. Learn to...
- Deliberately and consciously shape your children's eating habits.
- Identify why your children eat the way they do.
- Manage events as they happen so unexpected treats don't ruin your plans.
- Use taste and texture to teach your kids to eat a wide variety of foods.
- Avoid the 3 most common ways parents inadvertently teach bad eating habits.
- Teach your children how to try new foods.
- Identify how your parenting style influences your children's eating.
- Solve eating problems that arise at different developmental stages.
- Know what to do instead of bribing and begging your kids to eat.
- Consciously shape your children's relationships to food.
Consultations can be conducted in-person or over the phone. $150.
Schedule a Coaching Session.
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