Responsive Feeding Therapy:
The Foundational Series
Welcome to the updated and enhanced Foundational Series!
Since the launch of the Foundational Series in 2019, we’ve been thrilled that so many of you have enrolled and found it supportive of your work.
Over the last several months, we’ve been busy updating and enhancing the series: building on the content you told us you loved and adding things you’ve asked for, such as more practical guidance and content for a range of experience levels. We think you’ll love the revamped series and we’re excited to share it with you.
Each original session on the values has been updated, expanded, and re-recorded, with additional practical guidance on how to use RFT with the children and families you serve.
Order by October 1 and enter coupon code NEWFS to get 20% the standard price!
"The foundational webinar series has added so much depth to the way I work. The values are just so helpful for guiding families towards change and for not losing sight of the bigger picture."
Simone Mossop, Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, Early Intervention Feeding Practitioner
...you’re an SLP, OT, psychologist, or RD?
...you’ve been doing feeding work for a while, or you’re new to the field?
... sensory play or desensitization – or simply letting the child decide what to eat – doesn’t feel like enough?
...you want to build on your core skill set and deepen your practice?
...you sense that for a significant group of children, what you’re doing isn’t getting at the whole picture.
Early in our careers, we knew we were missing opportunities to help children heal their relationships with food, and to empower parents to support the process.
Connecting with colleagues, developing, and working in the RFT framework was what we were missing. We want to share with you what we have learned during our combined decades of practice in this field.
In the Foundational Series, you will:
- explore how the RFT values of autonomy, relatedness, competence, intrinsic motivation, and whole child care provides a cohesive framework for your work with children and families.
- increase your knowledge around factors that impact feeding and eating challenges.
- improve your assessment skills.
- empower parents to support children who seem to progress in therapy but stay stuck at home.
- increase your comfort and confidence working with children and parents.
- help you discover and address obstacles to progress that your families may face.
- get clear on what responsive feeding looks like, and how to help families implement it.
The updated series includes all-new sessions:
Assessing Feeding Concerns from Dr. Hazel Wolstenholme on why children may experience feeding challenges and struggles, and common misperceptions.
Drs. Wolstenholme and Cormack offer three all-new hours on the practical application of responsive feeding with families, in their mini-series, Responsive Feeding Basics in Practice. This practical and accessible collection includes informal chats between the presenters, three case studies woven throughout, and a wealth of practical tips to support your work. This is essential viewing for anyone new to RFT, or anyone wishing to get a clearer sense of what responsive feeding might look like IRL!
Finally, join Katja and Jo for an informal introduction to Jo’s EAF Phases, her flexible approach to organizing her work with clients.
DURATION:
13.5 hours in 11 sessions
Pricing
We offer discounts:
- Group rate for two or more registrants with a discount of at least 25% (plus tax). Please email [email protected] for a coupon code.
- Equity rate is $100 (plus tax). If you consider yourself to be part of a marginalized community or are struggling financially, please email [email protected] for a coupon code.
- Student rate is $100 (plus tax). Please email [email protected] for a coupon code, and please indicate the institution and program where you are currently enrolled.
Discounts are only available on the Standard Price. You will enter discount codes during the checkout process.
Order by October 1 with coupon code NEWFS and get 20% off the standard rate!
Jo Cormack PhD, MBACP
Jo is a feeding dynamics specialist, researcher, and registered therapist. She helps families of avoidant eaters with the relational and emotional aspects of food and feeding. Jo is also an award-winning writer on feeding and completed a PhD in psychology, with a focus on parental experiences of avoidant eating in early childhood. Her research area is parental feeding practices in the context of avoidant eating. Jo is the author of Helping Children Develop a Positive Relationship with Food (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). She trains and supervises feeding professionals internationally, and is interested in helping clinicians from diverse disciplines draw on psychological and psychotherapeutic theory in their practice.
Jennifer Berry MS, OT/L
Jennifer Berry is an occupational therapist and feeding specialist with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics. Jennifer has more than 2 decades of experience helping children overcome challenges they face when it comes to eating. Using her extensive knowledge of learning, sensory processing, attachment, and motor skill development, Jennifer facilitates children’s abilities to trust, understand and relate to food now and long into the future. Coaching parents into confidence around feeding their kids and family mealtimes brings her great joy and impactful results to the families she serves. Jennifer supports families virtually and in-person through family mealtime coaching, remote responsive feeding therapy, and the Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics Feeding Tube Weaning Program.
Heidi Liefer Moreland MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Heidi is a speech therapist and feeding specialist with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics. Heidi is a self-proclaimed “research geek,” but also has 30 years of practical experience in working with children. For the last 25 years she has specialized in working with children who have feeding challenges in a variety of settings. Relying on her training in communication, childhood development and feeding and swallowing development, Heidi helps children develop a trusting relationship with food that allows their skills to flourish. She loves helping children and families work together to develop happy and healthy mealtime communication and habits that will last and grow as they do. Heidi supports families virtually and in-person and is a frequent speaker on pediatric feeding treatment nationally and internationally.
Katja Rowell MD
Katja is a family doctor, author, and responsive feeding specialist. Described as “academic, but warm and down to earth,” she is a popular speaker and has appeared in numerous publications. Katja has developed an expertise in anxious and avoidant eating (including ARFID), food preoccupation, and supporting foster and adopted children and families. Her books include: Helping Your Child When Mealtimes are Hard and Love Me, Feed Me: The Foster and Adoptive Parents’ Guide to Responsive Feeding. Learn more about Katja at thefeedingdoctor.com.
Hazel Wolstenholme PhD
Hazel is a Feeding Psychology Specialist with a particular interest in feeding dynamics. She completed her BA (Psychology) and PhD at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her doctoral research focused on how parents and children experience and manage “fussy eating” challenges. Hazel has extensive training in responsive, behavioral and sensory feeding interventions. She works with families globally, coaching parents to use a responsive feeding approach for a range of feeding challenges. Hazel is passionate about bridging the gap between research and clinical practice by publishing research findings in peer reviewed journals and providing training workshops for health professionals.
