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COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR WEIGHT MANAGEMENT For more information or to set up a workshop in your area call Dr. Ingalls at 917 776 9978 or 212 675 6230 or email ingalls@focusedtraining.com     This is an experiential workshop for seasoned fitness professionals. Participants learn communications skills to help clients to change their "body image" and "self-talk" patterns to be congruent with healthy and enjoyable eating and exercise habits. Traditional approaches to healthy lifestyle choices for clients and a theory of mental strategies serves as a background for learning the communication patterns. Participants should have a capacity for introspection and empathy. 1.  Reviewed the traditional recommendations for motivating a healthy lifestyle and be able to identify the limitations of those recommendations. 2.   Learn the features of "mental" that regulate human behavior and understand his or her uniqueness and complexity in each individual in regulating eating and exercise habits. 3.  Learn 3 steps-- a communications pattern -- in enhancing image vividness to motivate the practice of desirable eating and exercise habits. Related Links [Home] [Books] [Articles] [Workshops] [Presentations] [Consultations]

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