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MODULE 7
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER SKILLS
Welcome to Module 7 … the final module!
By this point, you’ve learned so much about the psychological and nutritional influences on our challenges with food and body. Along the way, you’ve discovered a whole new paradigm and set of tools for working with clients – which we’ll be tying together and deepening in through this final module.
In Module 7, you’ll learn key distinctions for both beginning and advanced practitioners, specialized tools for working with men and women, and key considerations when it comes to working with younger clients. You’ll join Marc in another conversation around weight loss, including further ways to deepen into the process of weight loss with clients, and foundational tools for working with the larger weight loss client.
You’ll hear about the many ways we can – and should – bring timeless wisdom into our professional practice, something that is sorely needed in the practitioner space.
Finally, you’ll discover key principles when it comes to conscious relationships, along with core concepts when it comes to teaching, leading and presenting; the future of nutrition; and the future of eating psychology.
Congratulations on arriving at the final module of The Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training!
Let’s wrap everything up on a high note!
Remember to complete all your Module 7 videos, exercises, and quiz.
After completing Module 7, if you’ve missed taking any quizzes from previous modules please be sure to also go back and complete those, as well. Remember, you’ll need to complete ALL quizzes from each of the seven modules in order to receive your certificate as a Mind Body Eating Coach!
Overview Video
Greetings.
Once again, friends. Mark David here,
founder of the Institute.
Wow. We have arrived at the last part of this training,
so congratulations.
This is like the last few miles of a marathon,
or it's the last thousand feet if you're
climbing a 19,000 foot peak.
So I just want to commend you for all the hard work
that you've done and really for getting to this point.
So, truly, truly, truly congratulations, my friends.
Good for you. I hope you're honoring yourself
and celebrating your journey thus far.
So included in this next section
are conversations about working with women, working
with men, working with young people.
There are conversations for beginning practitioners
and for advanced practitioners.
I've also included some pieces about the future of nutrition
and of health, and additionally,
we will be talking more about weight, uh,
and about some timeless wisdom distinctions
for your professional practice.
We're also going to cover some useful distinctions around
teaching, leading and presenting.
And we're gonna have a conversation about conscious
relationship and how that relates to eating psychology,
and of course, the challenges we face with food and body.
And to finish things up in this final section,
I'll be giving a presentation on the future of the work,
which is essentially my thoughts around sort
of looking into the crystal ball
and how to take this work out into the next few
decades or more.
I like to think ahead. So my friends allow me
to say a few words about some of
what you will be learning in this
final part of the training.
Now, in the presentation for beginning practitioners,
I'd actually love all of you who are just starting out
to really tune in here.
You're gonna get some good insights into some of the steps
and distinctions to launching your
practice and your business.
I think that one of the most common challenges beginning
practitioners go through is they think that they have
to be there already.
You know, we think we have to be at the finish
line when we begin.
We think that we have to know everything and be perfect
and not make any mistakes.
You know, because if you do make some kind of mistakes,
then no more clients
and everything's gonna come crashing down.
And you know what I'm gonna say about this?
Please don't waste your time living in that kind
of neighborhood, because the beauty of beginning your
practice is that indeed we don't know everything.
And the beauty of starting out is that we're beginners.
So it's a, it's a new journey,
and I think this is a great life lesson
because really on a certain level, we, all of us are
so often beginning again in some part of our lives.
So, you know, you could be in the same marriage
for 25 years, and in a strange way,
begin again in that marriage.
You could be studying the same musical instrument
that you've been at for years,
and all of a sudden hit a whole new level and begin again.
You could be alive on planet earth for decades
and quite suddenly feel
that you're just coming out the womb and everything's new.
So all I'm saying is when we are in beginner's mind, it's,
it's about humility.
It's about being fresh.
It's about being new again, it's about being open,
being a willing learner,
and letting go of the belief that you
and I need to know everything.
So I really want all of us beginners to enjoy the road,
enjoy the journey, and even enjoy the challenges
that you shall inevitably face.
Please welcome the challenges,
because that's what's actually going
to help you be a better practitioner.
Expect to have some difficult clients expect
to be uncertain, uh, to get your buttons pushed
and to get confused here and there,
and expect that you will rise to the occasion each
and every time, and you're gonna learn something useful on
your professional journey from all the challenges.
Now, some thoughts for those of you
who have already been practicing in the helping professions
before this training, it might not be a bad idea
to tune into the beginning presentation as well, by the way,
because it will remind you of some of the basics.
In truth, the basics are always good for all of us,
you know, and by the way, for the beginners here,
I would love for you to hear what I'm saying
to the advanced practitioners, just so you can get a sense
of what's in store for you and where you're going.
Okay? So for our advanced
or already practicing professionals
who have some years under your belt, I'm gonna ask you
to speed things up a bit.
So, even though I'm usually a proponent of slow,
sometimes it's good to increase the pace.
And here's what I mean.
I would love for you to stop wasting the kind of time
that we can waste when we believe
that we don't really have a gift to give when we hold back,
when we hide our light under a bushel, so to speak,
when we stop ourselves from being truthful and authentic.
So what I'm saying to you, advanced practitioners,
is it is time to claim what you do best
when you are with clients.
Essentially, what I'm saying is don't hold back.
I don't want you to stop yourself
from sharing from a deep place.
I, I, I'd love to see you let go and just be you.
Really share from your heart, be generous in that way.
There are often powerful intuitions
and insights that are wanting to come through you.
You know, messages, gifts, that you have to give your client
that's really worth everything, and I really mean that.
So if you've been practicing for a while,
then there's no time to waste.
Think of every single client session, perhaps
as the last one you might ever give.
So, make it the best one ever.
Give every single client, every session
the best that you've got.
Just, just bring all of you to the table. Okay?
Let's talk about the presentations on working with men
and working with women.
I'll be covering some new distinctions
that we haven't talked about yet while reminding us of some
of the key approaches to have in our toolkit.
As you know, in this training, I've been trying my best
to emphasize that one
of the big missing pieces in psychology and nutrition
and health and in personal growth in general,
is looking at ourselves, looking at our clients
from the standpoint of masculine and feminine psychologies.
So for sure, when it comes to actual men
and actual women, I believe it's extremely important
to be on board with the knowing that as women
and men, we are all so different.
In fact, I think we're at a time in history when we're
starting to reexamine recontact story rewrite
what it is to be a male
and what it is to be a female on planet earth.
So it's a new exploration. So let's be open there.
What does it really mean to be a man in this world?
What, what does it mean to be a woman in this world?
The these are powerful questions
that I strongly believe deserve our attention
and impact our relationship with food.
So my observation is
that we still don't quite know collectively
what we're doing here.
Uh, we're in flux and perhaps a little confused.
So it's time to dive deeper into this topic
and take a good look at ourselves so we can help us
and our clients to be the best
that they can be in this realm.
So when I'm with a woman client, for example, I like
to ask myself,
how do I support this person in being the woman
that she's supposed to be when I'm with my male client?
Same, same, same. How do I support this man in being the
best man that he's supposed to be?
What does that mean? So to me, when we're uplifting a woman
and helping her be who she's meant to be, then
by definition we are helping support her in having the
metabolism and the body that she's meant to have.
And, and same thing for a man.
If you're supporting a man
and all that he's supposed to be as a man on planet earth,
then definitionally,
you are supporting him in having the metabolism and the body
and the health that he's naturally designed to have.
Because you know this, it's all on a continuum.
It's all connected,
and we are really that wonderfully complex and magical.
So I'm saying that this is kind of like a secret ingredient,
a secret sauce that makes the work that do with our clients
more powerful and more effective.
Now, you've already learned so many key distinctions around
masculine and the feminine archetypes.
I hope you are noticing how these play out in your own life,
in your own relationships, in your own family, your friends,
your circle of influence,
and certainly in your professional practice.
So again, I would love for you
to constantly ask the universe on behalf of your client,
what does it mean for them to be a man
or the woman that they are meant to be in this world
and in this lifetime?
Just hold that powerful question.
Listen for the cues, listen for the answers.
Now, to me, the clearer
and more empowered we become about who we are
and what we represent as men
and women in this world, the more we can have a happy
and empowered relationship with food
and body, that, that's just my personal
and professional experience.
I hope I really do.
I hope you experiment with this for yourself.
Now also in this next session section,
we'll be talking about working with young people.
Now here I'm referring to teens,
approximately 14 into the early twenties.
I'm not, not, not, not talking about working
with children younger than that.
Anybody younger than that, 13 ish and below my friends.
That's a whole different set of distinction
that is far more specialized
and beyond our scope of practice in terms of the kind
of training that it really takes
to work with that age group.
You know, this entire training has been about working
with adults age 21 plus.
And we have seen that even within this group called adults.
We have vastly different distinction in terms
of life stages.
For example, early princess, middle princess,
late princess Queen in Training Queen.
So we go through these life stages.
Our conversation about teens is meant to give you
educational distinctions, not to empower you to go out
and work with them, of course,
unless you already have prior training
or credentialing here.
So what I want to do is alert you, um,
in advance about teens and those in their early twenties.
Um, you have to create a lot of space
for them to be on their journey.
You can't focus on fixing them
and trying to take them out of the chaos
and the upset and their quest to find themselves.
It's all a package deal.
Their life stage by definition, tends to be chaotic, tends
to be in flux.
It's fast growing, it's changing.
We cannot simply rescue teenagers
and young people from the
necessary struggles of their journey.
I know you want to do that. You can't just take away their
pain and all of a sudden make things all better.
You know, you probably remember from your own journey.
It's a rough ride for so many young people in this world.
And I believe in many ways that we're trying
to figure out collectively our relationship to young people,
to the teenagers,
because in so many cultures, we simply don't know
what to do with our teens.
You know, they have a lot of energy, they have a lot
of physical energy, they have a lot of explorational energy,
they have a lot of sexual
energy, they have a lot of passion.
They have a lot of anger.
They might have a lot of angst,
and some of them have a lot of violent energy.
They have a lot of hope, they have a lot of dreams.
How do you manage all that? How do you help them?
How do you guide them? How do you mentor them?
So these are not easy tasks.
So we, the adult world, tend to get a little confused about
what to do with our young ones.
And by the way, I don't think there's anything wrong
with our young people.
If anything, it's the world that we've invited them into
that tends to have the problems.
So at the very least, if you happen to be working with teens
or those in their early twenties, you gotta create a lot
of space to let young people be on their journey.
You can just be a very committed, present
and clear guide, a mentor
and advocate someone who's there for them.
You know, oftentimes as a helping professional,
that's the best you can do.
In other words, again, we aren't here to fix them
because they are not inherently broken.
You are not necessarily here to help them
eradicate their eating issue,
because so often it's just not their time.
Yet. So many of our young people, oddly enough,
need their eating issues so they can eventually learn
and grow and find themselves.
So yes, you are here to contribute information to them,
to be a presence, for them to listen and to be consistent.
The young ones need consistency and consciousness,
because we, the adult world,
we've thrown them into a very crazy and chaotic world.
So you as the coach, as the practitioner might end up being
the one person who is consistent in delivering to them
the same positive messages.
You have to let them know on some level,
this too shall pass.
You're gonna make it through.
This is a challenging time for you.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
That's the message we have to hold for them.
Now, oftentimes with any client,
but especially with the young ones, your job is indeed
to deliver the same messages over
and over as if you're saying it for the first time
to a client, even though you've told them many times.
And that's
because if you're a human being on planet
earth, you know this.
We often need to hear things over and over again.
Perhaps you've noticed this about yourself, how you might,
you know, here's something that sounds so profound,
yet you needed to hear it dozens
and dozens of times until one day it finally
sinks in and you get it.
That's just who we are.
So my friends in this section, we'll be closing, closing out
with a good cross section of topics along
with some final thoughts on the future of the work.
Now, on one level, you know, who knows
where it's all going in terms of the future, uh, one thing
that I do find is important is
that when we're looking into the future, you will often need
to work hard to do good work in the world.
In other words, the world isn't exactly rolling out the red
carpet for you when it comes to right livelihood
and to helping others in a sincere and heartfelt way.
You might have noticed this,
I certainly wish it was different.
You know, uh, we often need to be courageous to do
what is good and just, and right, and to follow our heart.
That's simply the time in history that we live in right now.
If you wanna do good work in the world,
then you are essentially, correct me if I'm wrong,
you're going against the grain of
how our economic system is set up.
And it takes effort and commitment.
It takes a sense of purpose.
So by being in this training,
you've been participating in an innovative
kind of education.
And whether you realize it
or not, you're at the cutting edge of eating,
psychology and nutrition.
So, by definition, I believe you
therefore have a responsibility to share the light
and the love and the wisdom and the information,
and the distinctions and the details
and the consciousness that you've learned.
We can't keep it to ourselves.
So we need to have, I believe, a high tolerance,
a good metabolism, a strong digestion for the fact
that the world doesn't always accept us for who we are, for
how we look, for how much we weigh the color of our skin,
the nation you're born in,
or for the kind of work we're doing in the world.
You know, if we walk through life expecting
or waiting to be accepted, uh, you know, what do I have
to do so that everybody approves of me?
Uh, we're gonna be in a lot of trouble
and we're going to waste a lot of energy.
You would have to morph differently for every person
that you meet so that you can accommodate their opinions
about what's right and what's wrong,
and how you have to show up so that they like you.
And as you likely know, that's exhausting.
And it doesn't work anyways, my friends.
So you have to follow your guidance.
You have to follow your, your inner star,
your soul's compass.
You have to do the work
that you're supposed to do in your life.
And I'm not just talking about your professional world,
I'm talking about all of it.
In many ways, our job is indeed sort of
to light a candle in the darkness.
So as you take your work out into the world, I want you
to know that you are doing good.
You are doing something real. You're doing something honest.
You're doing something meaningful.
You're doing something potent. And you have to trust that.
You have to trust yourself.
You have to trust in the wisdom of life, in your life.
You have to trust the whole show,
because I believe that's what's going
to help us be successful at this work.
When you value what you do, when you trust what you do,
then the world can respond to you in kind
the people who need your services will see you.
They'll find you, they'll hear you. They'll notice you.
They'll recognize you
because you are staying true to your voice.
You are staying true to your heart.
You are staying true to
what a higher power is asking of you.
That's magnetic. And that to me is what's going
to heal this world in so many ways.
That's what's going to heal the planet.
That's what's gonna take us where we need to go.
And that's what you are imparting to your clients.
You're giving them the tools, you're modeling for them, how
to be the most fully self-expressed person
that they can be in order for their metabolism
to be what it can be.
It's all connected. So I want you to be the coach,
the practitioner, the healer, the teacher, the mentor
that you are supposed to be in this world.
And as you do that, you success will be
what it's supposed to be.
Your finances will get where they need to go.
Your health, your personal growth, your soul's growth,
your metabolism will synergize in the way that they ought to
and that they will, and that they're meant to.
So again, my friends, congratulations on making it this far.
I applaud you for all your efforts and all the time
and energy that you have put into this work.
Enjoy the material and I'll see you on the other side.
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MODULE 7
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MODULE 7
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SECTION 1
Key Distinctions for Beginner Practitioners
SECTION 2
Key Distinctions for Advanced Practitioners
SECTION 3
Working with Men
SECTION 4
Working with Women
SECTION 5
Working with Young Clients
SECTION 6
Timeless Wisdom & Professional Practice
SECTION 7
Deepening Into Weight
SECTION 8
Helping Larger Weight Loss Clients
SECTION 9
The Power of Conscious Relationship
SECTION 10
Teaching, Leading, Presenting
SECTION 11
The Future of Nutrition
SECTION 12
The Future of the Work
Journaling
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Supplemental
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Module 7
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