Training and Education
Kathleen Burns Kingsbury is a national speaker who offers a variety of workshops to meet your individual and organizational needs. Whether you want to learn more about the clinical treatment of eating disorders, or how to help students build body confidence—there is a workshop for you.

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Clinical Workshops:

New! Connecting to Recovery Online: Using the Internet as a Treatment Tool
Everyone is online nowadays! Learn how the internet can be used effectively in the recovery process. In a focus group format, professionals explore the use of email, internet based programs, websites, and chat rooms in eating disorders treatment. Find out the advantages, disadvantages, ethical and clinical considerations of using innovative technology in your practice.

Nothing to Lose: Effective Treatment Strategies for Working with Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating disorder (BED), also known as compulsive overeating, is the eating disorder that is most misunderstood and overlooked. This workshop will give clinicians and healthcare providers an overview of BED and the latest information on how to effectively diagnose and treat individuals with this clinical issue.

You're Not Crazy, You're Coping: Effective Treatment Strategies for Helping Individuals with Food and Body Concerns
This workshop teaches participants how to use a blend of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help clients recover from eating disorders. Through the use of metaphors, storytelling, and affirmations, Kathleen will help clinicians and healthcare providers more effectively identify and treat adolescents and adults with food and body image concerns.

Other Workshops:

Be a Super Model
Learn how to be a “super model” for body image and healthy eating. This workshop trains parents, teachers, coaches, and guidance counselors to become activists in the prevention of eating disorders. Learn how to identify the “red flags” of disordered eating, how to become media savvy, and what to do should you be concerned about a student or a loved one. Each of us can make a difference!

Body Blues: Helping Students Gain Weight Wisdom on Campus
This workshop trains resident life staff, coaches, and college counselors on how to effectively identify, support, and refer students with eating disorders. Learn how to set up an eating disorders policy on campus, how to work as a team and how to protect each student's confidentiality in the process.

Building Body Confidence
Building and maintaining a healthy body image in a society obsessed with carbohydrates, fat grams, and thinness is a challenge for many men and women. Participants discover the ways in which our industrialized society uses our insecurities to sell products and how each of us can fight back and learn to love ourselves inside and out. Participants walk away with concrete strategies for improving body confidence, increasing "weight wisdom" , and having fun in whatever size and shape you are currently in.

Upcoming Workshops:

January 26th - Women and Money: Why Setting Fees is Emotional Business. An experiential workshop to help women explore their relationship with money and how to ask for what they are worth. Sponsored by KBK Connections, Inc. and held at 1 Adams Street, Suite 400, Quincy, MA from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. To register, call 617-773-2344 ext. 2 or visit www.kbkconnections.com.

February 2nd - Connecting Online: The Internet as a Treatment Tool. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association and held at the Milford Marriot Courtyard, Milford, MA from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. CE credits available. For more information, call the MaMHCA office at 508-698-0010 or visit www.mamhca.org.

February 9th - Fishing for Referrals: How to Build Your Business by Referrals. Sponsored by MEDA Inc. and held at 92 Pearl Street, Newton, MA from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. No charge for MEDA Professional Members. To register, call 617-558-1881 ext. 12. For more information about MEDA, visit www.medainc.org.

March 29th - Connecting Online: When is it OK to have "MySpace?" Sponsored by Project Alliance and held at Regis College, Weston, MA from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm. PDP and CE credits offered. For more information, email info@projectalliance.org or call 617-679-6550.

April 9th - Fishing For Referrals: How to Build Your Business by Referrals. Sponsored by the Southeastern Technical Institute and held at 250 Foundry Street, South Easton, MA from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. For more information, call 508-230-1575 or visit www.sersd.org.

April 13th - Emotional Eating: When Food and Feelings Become One. Sponsored by Commonwealth Educational Seminars and held at the Holiday Inn, Dedham, MA from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm. CE Credits available. For more information, visit www.commonwealthseminars.com.

April 28th - You're Not Crazy You're Coping: Effective Treatment Strategies for Working with Food and Body Concerns. Workshop offered at the Untangling the Web of Disordered Eating and Weight Disorders Conference sponsored by Plymouth State University Eating Disorders Institute. The conference will be held at the Common Man Inn, Plymouth, NH from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. CE Credits available. For more information, call 603-525-2515.

Seminars are offered for large and small groups and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your school or organization. To find out more about how to sponsor a workshop at your location, please contact Kathleen at kbk@weightwisdom.net or call (617) 773-2344.