EDRS Archive
Institute of Noetic Sciences 101 San Antonio Rd. Petaluma, CA 94952
For directions go to: www.noetic.org We encourage car pooling/shuttle from parking lot is provided.
Cost: $20 per day includes workshops, lunch and shuttle each day - $30 at the door, space permitting.
Limited Scholarships are available.
Call to register or for more information 707-778-7849
Saturday Feb 28th, 2009:
Panel Presentation/Questions and Answers: “The Helix Model Treatment Team Approach to Restoration of Health”
With Ronnie Benjamin RD; Pam Carlton MD; Haleh Kashani PhD; Adair Look MD; and Michelle E. Minero MFT(in alphabetical order)
Chi Gung: Lee Gwin MFT Certified Chi Gung Teacher
Lunch provided by Institute of Noetic Sciences
Restoring Balance in Eating and Weight Issues: Video/Discussion: “Your Perfect Weight” and Interactive Process “Decoding Food Cravings and Body Talk’ With Connie Sobczak, co-Founder The Body Positive and Barbara Birsinger, ThD, RD
Panel Presentation/Question and Answers “The Many Faces of Recovery”
A panel of people will tell their stories of recovery from anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating. Individual and parent perspectives will be offered.
Sunday March 1st
Self Love; The only diet that works: Michelle E. Minero MFT
Chi Gung; “Enhancing your Life Energy” Lee Gwinn MFT Certified Chi Gung Teacher
Toning; “Using your Voice as a Tool for Healing” Roberta Vinck MFT
Lunch provided by Institute of Noetic Sciences
Soul Collage; “Celebrating the Spectrum of Self", a collage process for individuals, family members and professionals with Cat Meehan, CIC and Darcy Meehan
EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK 2008
FEBRUARY 23RD - MARCH 2ND 2008
EDRS, Center for Discovery and The Petaluma Health Care District kicked off national Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDAW) 2008 by sponsoring a free presentation for the families at the ANAD support group in Petaluma California.
Later that evening Buck described the Center for Discoverys' programs, and presented on the topic of self injurious behaviors and the eating disordered client. One of the goals of EDRS Is to increase training in the field of eating disorders. Therapists, nurses, dietitians, psychiatrists, and medical personnel in attendance gained knowledge and awareness through the information Buck graciously provided pro-bono in honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Photo above - left to right: Shawna Kelly, Marketing Director for CFD, Michelle Minero, Executive Director of EDRS, Buck Runyan, Chief Operations Officer for CFD, Barbara Murphy, PsychA, and ANAD group facilitator, and Joan Thompson, Eating Disorders Outreach Coordinator, and ANAD family group facilitator.
EDAW 2008 Event recaps:
Buck Runyan, MS, LMFT, LPC, CEDA, Chief Operations Officer for the Center for Discovery will be presenting:
Healthy, Helpful Communication
A Developmental Approach to Treating Eating Disorder & Self Injurious Behaviors
An Evening of Empowerment with Michelle Minero and Imagine!, Center for Creativity and Healing - storytelling and enactment explore the core component of empowerment to recovery.
Sylvia Israel, MFT (MFC 31245), TEP, RDT/BCT, is the founder and director of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and Healing and Bay Area Playback Theatre. She teaches at CIIS and maintains a private practice in San Francisco and Marin County. Michelle Minero, MFT is the Executive Director of Eating Disorders Resource Services. Michelle is responsible for the annual eating disorders awareness week events, and has a private practice specializing in eating disorders in Petaluma.
A Panel presentation: “Is Healing Possible?”
With: Pam Carlton MD Author of “Take Charge of Your Child’s Eating Disorder”
Michelle E. Minero MFT, Executive Director of Eating Disorders Recovery Services
Ronnie Benjamin RD Eating Disorder Specialist
Roberta Vink MFT Substance Abuse Specialist
A woman describes the past 7 years of freedom from bulimia
Cat Meehan recounts the journey of family and parental recovery
Darcy Meehan tells her story of healing from anorexia
“Soul Collage™” Journey to Recovery
Experience the “soul collage™” process. Art materials provided.
2007 Eating Disorders Recovery Week
The EDRS Community Comes Together to Provide Free Services:
Presentation and book-signing: Dr. Pam Carlton, from Stanford’s Lucille Packard Hospital, and author of: “Take Charge of Your Child’s Eating Disorder: A Physicians Step by Step Guide to Defeating Anorexia and Bulimia”
Workshop: Honoring the Recovery Journey. Ananda Institute: Irene Ives, PhD & Audrey Bell MFTI.Topics include: Appreciate progress rather than perfection; Curiosity with compassion; Trust self-others-and the journey; Self-esteem.
Michelle Minero, MFT: The Four Treasures of Recovery from Eating Disorders; and Najine Shariat, RD: Nutrition for Health. Classroom: Bertolini 131.
Panel Presentation: Complimentary and Alternative Approaches for Resolving Eating and Weight Issues. Topics: Medical risk factors and metabolic changes with chronic dieting, restricting, over-exercise or other eating disorder behaviors; Intuitive eating, nutritional needs and supplements; Integrative body work and movement therapy; Somatic (body-centered) psychotherapy and hypnotherapy; Family involvement ; Q&A. Presenters: Gary Nichols, MD, Eating Disorders Specialist; Barbara Birsinger, MPH, RD, Nutrition Therapist; Wil Formaker, MFT, Eating Disorder Therapist; Valerie Luoto, Rosen Practitioner; Beverley Benoit, MFT, Integrative Psychotherapist.
An evening of story telling, metaphor, and enactment.“Name your Hunger: Food as Metaphor for Inner Hungers,” presented by Michelle Minero, MFT.
One Woman Show: Singing My Song: reflections of my healing work from eating disorders and trauma to help encourage others along their journey to wholeness, with Lindsey Wert. You are invited to a night filled with truth, comedy, slide shows, art, drama, music, ritual, storytelling and the a hope for recovery from eating disorders and trauma. Be prepared for some difficult images and topics which include the emotional and true reality of those who suffer from eating disorders, self hatred and abuse. You will also see the healing. Through my story I pray to help others in pain realize healing is possible, and perhaps inspire others to look inside their heart to see their beauty and inner voice; the power within and the power of love.