Body Trust®
Professional Training
Body Trust® Professional Training
We will do better.
Are you disillusioned with the dominant weight paradigm?
Our 2025 Cohort begins on March 13, 2025! Registration will open in December/January. Click here to add yourself to our list to receive a discount code when registration opens!
Scroll below to find out more on how you can get started now on the Groundwork Modules that are part of our certification program!
The world
doesn’t need more
weight loss coaches
The world needs you.
Your brave voice.
Your radical presence.
Your bold advocacy.
Almost everything I have learned about body freedom and body trust – radically accepting my body – I learned from Hilary and Dana.
As a fat black woman society has always told me I am too much, and less than, at the same time.
Body Trust and the folks at Center for Body Trust helped to teach that my body, and being just as I am, is powerful, needed and necessary.”
The Adaway Group
YOUR TRAINERS
Hilary Kinavey
Hilary’s work as a therapist, educator, speaker, and writer has been a study of what interrupts our sense of wholeness and how we can return to ourselves in a culture that profits from fragmentation.
Dana Sturtevant
Dana is a registered dietitian, trainer and author whose work focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty.
Sirius Bonner
As an executive in healthcare where she leads equity and inclusion efforts, Sirius is a fierce advocate for health equity and social justice.
With Special Guests
Desiree Adaway, Imani Barbarin, Shilo George, Sand Chang, Marcella Raimondo and more!
Two Training Paths
We offer two unique training paths designed to prepare you for shifting paradigms around weight and health and giving you the tools necessary for evolving your work.
Groundwork
Build an unshakeable foundation- Our Groundwork program is a self-paced training consisting of 14 online learning modules that will guide you in developing a different way of thinking about food, weight, health, bodies and healing.
- Groundwork is ideal for you if you want Body Trust training, but are not planning to get fully certified.
- If you know you want to sign up for certification the next time enrollment opens and would like to get a head start on the required curriculum, you may start with the groundwork modules and we’ll apply the cost of the program toward your certification.
Certification
Put your training into practice- Certification is a year long training that includes a two hour webinar every month with guest teachers, panels, and roundtable discussions and Q+A time. Groundwork course modules are included and are a required component of certification.
- Webinars will be held once a month and are co-facilitated by Sirius Bonner, Hilary Kinavey, and Dana Sturtevant. Quarterly BIPOC affinity groups, led by Sirius Bonner and Body Trust Specialist, Rachael Ringwood are also included in certfication.
CertificaTION TIMELINE & What to expect
Year long training co-facilitated by Sirius Bonner, Hilary Kinavey, and Dana Sturtevant. Our 2025 Cohort starts March 13th!
Two-hour webinar every month with guest teachers, speaker panels and roundtable discussions with plenty of opportunities for Q&A. (Recordings available on learning platform.)
Monthly provider consultation group with Hilary and Dana rotating as facilitators.
Group training cohort of 100-150 people.
14 self-paced online Groundwork modules to support your learning and unlearning. GET STARTED NOW!
CEUs available with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) for both the live webinars and online modules. Online modules are approved for 72 NASW CEUs and 63 CDR CEUs; webinar program is approved for 16 CEUs from both NASW and CDR.
Quarterly BIPOC affinity group with Sirius Bonner and Rachael Ringwood.
Monthly online peer group and conversation forum on learning platform.
Topics & Themes We Will Explore
Body Sovereignty
Navigating Health Care Like a Boss
Healthy Equity & Disability Justice
Counteracting the Dominant Weight Paradigm
Body Trust & Trans Experience
Applying a Social Justice Lens for Eating Disorder Treatment
Reclaiming Movement
Helping Without Harming
And More!
Have more questions?
Check out our FAQ for more information.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF BEING CERTIFIED ARE:
Identify as ‘Body Trust® Certified’ or a ‘Body Trust® Provider/Specialist’
Recognizable training process
Listing on our Directory of Body Trust Specialists
Market your programs via our social media
Access Body Trust Professional Tools for your work, including outlines for a body story workshop and body trust retreat.
Ongoing learning via exclusive community calls, in person events, webinars, and bonus modules
Discounted pricing on other trainings and programs
Why do we call it certification? Read our response here.
WHY TRAIN WITH US
Sign-up to receive PROGRAM updates And Early Bird Discount codes
Registration for our next cohort will open December/January.
Get started now on the Groundwork Modules that are part of certification.
EQUITY
$2,500
Standard
$4,000
STANDARD
PLUS
$4,500
PAYMENT DETAILS: There are options to pay in full, in four months, or eight months. If you choose a payment plan, the first payment is due at the time of registration.
Our three tiered pricing structure is offered with the intent of making all Body Trust programming more accessible for anyone interested in learning with us. Each tier includes full and equal access to all course materials.
In addition to having standard and equity pricing, we have a minimum of 10 low and no-cost spots in our Certification Program each year for people who are on a limited income, unable to earn income, or whose currency and exchange rate make the program inaccessible.
“Center for Body Trust has changed my life through their work. I appreciate the focus on whole-person healing, the acknowledgment of the realities we are faced with, and the holistic integration of nutrition and therapy — all taught with compassion. I personally move throughout this world with more confidence and hope because Body Trust exists.”
Author, Coach, Speaker
A note about
accessibility
Automated closed captions are available during live webinars.
Sign language interpreters are available upon request.
Transcripts and closed captions will be provided for program video recordings.
Please reach out to us with any additional accessibility needs or questions.
We believe in the possibility of a body-compassionate and weight-inclusive world.
We know you do too.
