Body Trust®
Professional
Training
Body Trust® Professional Training
Weight-inclusive care should be the norm.
A training designed for professionals to help develop the language, analysis and skills for deeper conversations around bodies, food, weight, and health—both individually and institutionally.
We will do better.
Are you disillusioned with the dominant weight paradigm?
Now’s the time to connect the dots between social justice and the work of healing
—and learn to love your work more than ever.
The world
doesn’t need more
weight loss coaches
It doesn’t need more therapists recommending WW or Noom, teachers and school curriculums colluding with diet culture, organizations upholding anti-fat bias, or fatphobia in eating disorder treatment centers.
The world needs you.
Your brave voice.
Your radical presence.
Your bold advocacy.
Join our community of Body Trust Specialists who are advocating for and/or providing compassionate, weight-inclusive models of care.
Almost everything I have learned about body freedom and body trust – radically accepting my body – I learned from Dana and Hilary.
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.”
– Desiree Adaway,
The Adaway Group
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 apply for certification the next time enrollment opens and would like to get a head start on the required curriculum, you may take groundwork 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 one live webinar every month for 12 months with guest teachers, panels, and roundtable discussions.
- Monthly webinars will be co-facilitated by Sirius Bonner, Hilary Kinavey, and Dana Sturtevant. Certification also includes a quarterly BIPOC affinity group, led by Sirius Bonner and Body Trust Provider Rachael Ringwood.
- Groundwork course modules are a required component of this certification.
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, Rebecca Cokley, Shilo George, Sand Chang, Marcella Raimondo and more!
What to expect
Learn to translate theory into praxis
Strengthen your liberatory consciousness
Explore a deeper analysis of what disrupts embodiment and body trust
Get clinical relational training and develop interpersonal skills
Join a large community of practitioners to feel less alone and lean on for support
Gain exposure to thought leaders and liberatory thinkers/teachers/scholars
Get plenty of opportunities for Q&A
Receive exclusive bonus content
Certification Topics and Themes
We Will Explore
Body Sovereignty
Navigating Health Care Like a Boss
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 additional questions? Read our FAQ.
“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.”
Jes Baker
Author, Coach, Speaker
PROGRAM PRICING
This training is offered once per year
Standard
Pricing – $4000
For those who have sufficient resources and can cover themselves
STANDARD
PLUS – $4500
For those who have enough resources to cover themselves and donate to increase access for marginalized folks and those in need
EQUITY
Pricing – $2500
For people with marginalized identities and those in need; limited to 25% of registrants
We believe people should not be turned away for lack of funds, so if none of the prices in our three-tiered pricing structure work for you, you may request additional equity pricing when registration reopens. Learn more about our pricing structure here.
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A note about
accessibility
Automated closed captions are available during live meetings.
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.
