Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating^®
CERTIFICATION COURSE

Foundations of
Whole Person Integrative Eating^®
CERTIFICATION COURSE

Deborah Kesten, Founder of Whole Person Integrative Eating® (WPIE), has teamed up with the American Academy of Sports Dietitians and Nutritionists (AASDN) to provide the Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certification Course for health professionals.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Build a Healthier Relationship with Food, Eating, and Weight

Whole Person Integrative Eating^® is a science-backed dietary lifestyle; a lifetime food-and-eating practice that gives you the tools you need to help clients, patients, and coachees overcome overeating, overweight, and obesity.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Throughout this powerful, practical, hands-on WPIE certification program, Deborah Kesten will guide you through her scientifically sound Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) Certification Course. The course provides the knowledge, skills, strategies, and “in action” techniques for health professionals to guide clients, patients, and coachees to make the sustainable behavior changes needed to overcome overeating, overweight, and obesity.

During each of the 20 step-by-step modules in the WPIE certification course, participants are trained to administer the “What’s Your Overeating Style? Self-Assessment” tool; and they are given step-by-step skills about what (food choices) and how (eating behaviors) to eat so that overeating lessens, and weight loss becomes a natural “side effect” of the WPIE dietary lifestyle. The WPIE Certification Course also provides practical WPIE coaching skills to use with clients, patients, and coachees.

The 20 modules in the WPIE Certification Course provide:

The course is ideal for those health professionals aspiring to instill healthful and optimal food-and-eating behaviors in their patients, clients, coachees, family, and friends…and in themselves.

THE RESEARCH

WHAT GRADUATES ARE SAYING

The Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certification Course is comprised of 20 modules you can access any time. Throughout the training, you will discover: 

Research
The scientific basis and principles of Whole Person Integrative Eating

Root causes of overeating
7 statistically significant, new-normal overeating styles linked with overeating, overweight, and obesity

WPIE program
The scientifically sound 7 elements of the Whole Person Integrative Eating dietary lifestyle that are the antidotes to the 7 overeating styles

Exercises & tools
Experiential practice and hands-on tools that empower you to turn food struggles into a WPIE-based relationship to food and eating that lessens overeating, overweight, and obesity

Coaching skills
Practical application of WPIE to work with clients, patients, and coachees to develop and implement behavior change based on Whole Person Integrative Eating in both personal and clinical settings

The WPIE Education Materials

Graduates of the Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certification Course have exclusive access to a variety of free tools and materials. From the statistically validated and automated WPIE assessment quiz and an audio of The WPIE Guided Meal Meditation to materials in The WPIE Playbook, recipes, and more, you will have the resources you need to support your WPIE coaching with patients, clients, and coachees.

Your “How To” WPIE Support

As a Certified WPIE Specialist, you will have access to many free WPIE education materials to support your work with patients, clients, and coachees. These include:

THE WPIE PLAYBOOK

Created by Deborah Kesten, founder of Whole Person Integrative Eating, “The WPIE Playbook” provides an abundance of WPIE education materials for you to use with patients, clients, and coachees. Special Features include charts and posters, the automated assessment quiz, and audio of The WPIE Guided Meal Meditation, while materials in Phases I-V include lots of practical, easy-to-understand didactic information, and experiential exercises about each “ingredient” of Whole Person Integrative Eating.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Automated assessment tool. The 76-item “What’s Your Overeating Style? Self-Assessment Quiz” reveals a person’s overeating styles, root causes of overeating, trouble spots, and strengths. It enables participants in the WPIE program to revisit their food choices and eating behaviors with the goal of replacing the overeating styles with the elements of the Whole Person Integrative Eating dietary lifestyle.

Audio meditation. “The WPIE Guided Meal Meditation” synthesizes, translates, and applies each element of Whole Person Integrative Eating. The audio is a guide for putting the Whole Person Integrative Eating Program into action each time you eat.

WPIE RECIPES

Fresh. Whole. Inverse. These are the three what-to-eat guidelines of Whole Person Integrative Eating that lead to less overeating and weight loss. The WPIE Playbook is filled with quick-and-easy, flavor-filled, nourishing WPIE-based recipes.