• Let Go of Fixing.
• Honor Every Symptom: Welcome it, Listen to its Cosmic Message.
• Let Go of “Neediness for Clients”, for Money.
• See Every Client as a Reflection of YOU.
• Be Committed to Your Client’s “Largest Goal” – Not Their Smaller Ones.
• Don’t be Seduced by “False Positives.”
• Relax Into Uncertainty, Big Time…
• Cheerlead Your Client into “Loving What Is.”
• Decipher Where Your Client Lives in “Stress” –Help Them Relax…
• Become An Extraordinary Listener.
• Invoke the Sacred.
• Re-Language all Diagnoses from Toxic to Positive.
• Fall Into Love With Your Clients.
• Listen to Their Story – Be Curious – “Can You say More About That?”
• When in Doubt, Be Courageous. Risk…
• Elicit THEIR Wisdom: “What Do You think? What Would You Tell You if You Were Me?”
• Create The End Results in the Beginning.
• Use Brief Powerful “Scientific Mind Cookies” – simple convincing science.
• Respect Your Intuition.

•  11 Mind Body Nutrition Dimensions.
•  8 Dynamic Eating Psychology Dimensions.
•  9 Key Soul Lessons.

Discussion:

Begin to familiarize yourself with these listening dimensions. The goal is to commit them to memory, somewhere inside you. For now, use them as “checklists.” That is, make sure at some point,  you have asked questions and/or listened for these elements, and begin to see their primary importance in working with clients and students. Using these listening dimensions as your overall road map or master checklist allows you to have a very condensed, complete, whole, and powerful framework with which to work with clients, explore with them, experiment with them, and do beautiful work. These listening dimensions are a distillation of the Training…

1. Stressed vs. Relaxed Eating.
2. Eating Speed.
3. Rhythm.
4. Toxic Beliefs.
5. Pleasure.
6. Nourishment.
7. Embodiment.
8. Macro-Nutrient Balance.
9. Food Quality.
10. Food Allergies.
11. Use of Powerful Substances.

1. Family of Origin.
2. Primary Relationships.
3. Work and Money.
4. Environment.
5. Spiritual/Religious Beliefs.
6. Sexuality.
7. Deeper Desires.
8. Health Constellations.

1. Agreeing to be Here.
2. Forgiveness.
3. Slowing Up.
4. Re-Claiming the Feminine.
5. Re-Claiming the Masculine.
6. Embracing Positive Spirituality.
7. Speaking the Truth.
8. Healing Our Sexuality.
9. Claiming Our Power.

If you’d like to go even deeper in this module, consider the following optional reading list:

• Nourishing Wisdom by Marc David
• The Slow Down Diet by Marc David
• The Gift of Our Compulsions by Mary O’Malley
• Healing Myths, Healing Magic by Donald Epstein

These books will introduce some of the important foundational concepts in the Training. Please spend time with them, mull them over, keep a running journal of questions that come up for you, as well as any “aha” moments that you may have from these readings.

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Nourishing Wisdom

1. What has impacted you about this book – any insights or “aha moments” – and how can you apply such learnings to your relationship with food?
2. How can you apply such insights to your work with clients?
3.  What do you want to transform in your own relationship with food?

The Slow Down Diet

1. What have you learned from this book in regards to how you see nutrition and metabolism in a new way?
2. How can the power of “slow” be a positive influence in your own life?
3. Can you make any connections between what you learned in this book and how to better understand and work with students and clients?

The Gift of Our Compulsions

1. Were there any “aha moments” or useful connections you made?
2. What are some of the gifts in your own compulsions?
3.  Has this book inspired you to change anything in your own personal life?
4. What was most difficult for you in this book?

Healing Myths, Healing Magic

1. Did you have any personal “aha” moments from reading this book?
2. How can the material covered in this book help you in working with clients?
3. What was your “favorite” myth to read about?

• What moved you about Module #1? What were your “Aha” moments? What are some of the facts or insights that really stick in your mind and have your memory and attention?

• Get real about “fixing.” Do you try to fix? Do you try to fix clients? Yourself? Friends or loved ones? How’s this working for you? Observe your own life, your own work, and notice how futile “fixing” actually is, and likely has been for you. What are you trying to fix most in life? Do your “fixing strategies” have a particular theme or flavor or method or color or feel? Can you see how fixing, how the belief that we or anyone else is inherently broken is erroneous, toxic, and a suppressant of our power and dignity and life force?

• Is there one particular “something” you learned or were exposed to in Module #1 that has you inspired to begin a change or a practice or take some tangible step in your own personal journey with food, body, and health? The intention here is to be on task about using your own inspiration to take just one practical step in your own healing/growing path…

• Make a list of your already existing strengths and talents as a healer, teacher, counselor, or coach. Be thorough and generous.

• Make a list of places where you’d like to improve, to “up your game” as a teacher or practitioner.

• In what ways do you hold yourself back from contributing to others, from giving your gifts, from showing up in the world because of your own limiting beliefs about self? Meaning where do you tell yourself such statements as “I weigh too much to counsel or teach others, my diet isn’t perfect enough for me to be in my power, I don’t have enough control over my appetite to help others, my body isn’t OK or healthy enough for me to help other people love and heal their bodies…”

• Was there anything in Module #1 that you had a reaction to, that “pushed your buttons,” that made you drop into judgment or confusion or fear or defensiveness or intense disagreement? If so, this likely means there’s a bunch of power and energy that wants to be unleashed, expressed, transformed within you. It likely means you have some potent projections or beliefs or energies that are calling for consciousness. It might mean you have something important to say about this topic that wasn’t shared or well communicated that others may need to hear. What do you think?  How is life asking you to grow and integrate around such reactions?

• How do you listen? Really, how are you as a listener? Do you give people time, attention, space, love, awareness, consciousness? Do you listen to others often? Enough? How would the world describe you as a listener? Where can you improve and grow here? In other words, if Listening were a God, what would it ask of you? Are you Listened to? Who do you feel most heard by? Do you feel that you have enough listening by others in your life? If not, how can you elicit more listening?

• What, if any, are the questions that are lingering for you after Module #1, simple or deeper questions that were inspired by or born from our time together? Or, questions that you already came in with that are still alive for you, that have power, questions that you really want answered…?

• Now that you’ve experienced the first module, do you have any insights in terms of what you can do to make this Training most worthwhile for you? To extract maximum value from it? To get more than your money’s worth?