Upcoming Workshop Dates – Australia 2009
For remaining Workshop dates please click here to see the 2009 dates brochure. In 2010 I will be running more two day workshops and a group therapy workshop. I would be Continue Reading →
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What does nutritional education actually change? It’s about motivation not education.
People who attend my workshops have heard me rant that educating people about how to be healthier through exercise and what to eat is, largely, a waste of time. It’s Continue Reading →
Weight loss maintenance in children – the window closes during adolescence
While the story for weight loss maintenance in adults is fairly dismal, children are much more likely to maintain their weight loss. In one comparison reviewed in “Long-term maintenance of Continue Reading →
Workshop Reading
For those professionals who will be attending my workshop here is your pre-reading material. These are seminal papers in the psychology of weight loss field. 1) Westenhoefer, Behavioural Correlates of weight Continue Reading →
Developing the Art of Giving
There are two types of Giving. There is the giving that expects a return (even if it is later down the track). Then there is the Giving where the reward Continue Reading →
Exercising freedom of choice – ‘Lag Time’ management
[This post is very much for my patients as an aide de memoir, it may not make much sense to others.] Three steps sit behind the process of changing our Continue Reading →
Don’t spend the rest of your life doing what you’re good at …
SPEND IT DOING WHAT YOU LOVE!! (From the movie Flash of Genius) I love this quote because being reasonably good at things often means we go down a path that Continue Reading →
Shifting negative emotional states – for adults and kids
In this article I want to look at what is perhaps the most troubling issue for every human on the planet – how to move ourselves out of a troubling, Continue Reading →
Bereavement: And the Mountain said ???
Yesterday I attended a stimulating workshop with Bob Neimeyer a psychologist expert on bereavement and grief who has published widely on the subject (click here for his website). It was Continue Reading →