Courses & Webinars

NE Webinars are a member benefit of Nutrition Entrepreneurs (NE) DPG.  Most webinars are free to NE members.  If a webinar is “Open Access”, then it is open to non-members as well.  If you are not a member of NE, it is only $40 annually and you receive 18+CEUs annually free with your membership.  More info on Joining NE.

 

NE Webinars: 2 in the month of October!

Title: Effectively Connecting for Better Health Outcomes: Communication That Influences Change

Date and Time: Tuesday October 22, 3pm EST

Speaker: Presented by Sonja Stetzler, MA, RDN, CPC and Yolanda Bogaert, MD, PhD

Description: Communication underlies the success of any nutrition practice and requires the application of social and behavioral science in order to be effective. The aim of this webinar is to explore and utilize current research and apply the principles of neuroscience, social identity, and behavioral science to our communication to quickly develop rapport and trust. This workshop builds and strengthens participants’ communication skills that empowers and enables them to successfully hold crucial conversations, detach from elements they cannot control, and allows them the satisfaction of guiding the healing process which positively improves patient outcomes. This webinar covers the neuroscience of word choice, how social identity influences decisions, and the detached-attachment model impacts behavior change.

Learning Objectives:
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

  1. Develop and apply a framework based in neuroscience to craft communication messages that build trust, empathy, and collaboration.
  2. Identify how our social identity and our environment influences our decisions with regards to healthy behaviors.
  3. Understand and apply the DETACHED-ATTACHMENT model to successfully empower clients in behavior change.

Performance Indicators:

  • 1.5.1 Builds rapport and trust within relationships while respecting professional boundaries.
  • 2.1.2 Develops awareness of one’s own personal biases, privilege, beliefs and values to inform understanding of and reduce biases. 
  • 3.1.3 Tailors messages and communication methods to meet the needs of target audiences.

Title: Deep Dive into Motivational Interviewing for Dietitians

Date and Time: Tuesday October 29, 2:30pm EST

Speaker: Presented by Joyce Faraj-Ardura, PhD, RD

Description: In this session, Dr. Faraj-Ardura will highlight the updates to motivational interviewing and will share strategies to integrate MI into dietetics practice using common scenarios and challenges that tend to arise in counseling sessions. This will be an interactive session where case studies will be presented and the audience will get to apply the concepts learned.

Learning Objectives:

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the updates to MI in the 4th edition (2023)
  2. Identify responses that are MI-adherent using common scenarios in dietetics practice
  3. Apply MI strategies to challenging cases in an interactive manner

Performance Indicators:

  • 10.6.8 Develops counseling or coaching goals in collaboration with clients.

  • 10.6.2 Applies a variety of counseling theories, psychological methods and strategies that empower clients/patients to make changes.

  • 10.6.9 Assists with resolution of barriers to achieving goals of counseling and coaching.