Feeding their potential: Supporting children to have a positive relationship with food and their body
Thu, 13 Jun
|Bayfield School
Think Beyond Nutrition Raising confident, happy, healthy kids in this diet-obsessed culture is hard work! The messages children get about food and bodies at home shape the foundations for what they feel and believe about their own body.
Time & location
13 Jun 2019, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm NZST
Bayfield School, 2/12 Clifton Rd, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand
Event details
Think Beyond Nutrition
Raising confident, happy, healthy kids in this diet-obsessed culture is hard work! The messages children get about food and bodies at home shape the foundations for what they feel and believe about their own body.
This workshop troubleshoots common nutrition problems and offers practical strategies for building a positive relationship with food and body. Helping you to raise a child who feels good, eats well and has a positive body image. A child who is confident, resilient and feels good in their own skin easily thrives in the challenges life brings.
This workshop will cover all aspects of nourishing your school-aged child including:
How to feed your child in a way that sets them up with a positive relationship with food
How to deal with sugar and other “treat foods”
Nurturing a positive body image for your child
School lunch ideas (including zero waste and allergy free recipes)
A question and answer session with a registered paediatric dietitian to solve all your mealtime dilemmas
The world of feeding children is our speciality. We've designed our holistic strategies to help you empower your child to eat well and feel healthy. Enabling them to meet their potential. Get your tickets today!
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Rachael Wilson
Paediatric and Eating Disorder Dietitian &
Family Feeding Specialist
Rachael is a UK-trained, New Zealand Registered Dietitian with over 20 years of clinical experience. She specialises in paediatric feeding difficulties, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), eating disorders and neurodivergent feeding experiences, supporting children, adolescents, adults and their families.
Her professional background includes extensive specialist training in paediatric feeding and eating disorders, including Responsive Feeding Therapy, the SOS Approach to Feeding, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders and Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia. She is also an Ellyn Satter Institute Affiliate Child Feeding Affiliate with additional training in trauma-informed care, neurodiversity-affirming feeding practices and mindfulness for children.
Drawing on her extensive clinical experience and understanding of nutrition, feeding development, neurodivergence and emotional wellbeing, Rachael developed the ARFID Empowerment Model™ (AEM).
The model integrates evidence-informed approaches within a practical, neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed framework, helping clinicians look beyond food intake to understand the underlying factors influencing feeding and eating difficulties.
Don't miss out on the training!
Here's what other parents are saying about The Food Tree approach
Isabelle Vincent
“The AEM is hands down the most comprehensive course currently available to professionals in the feeding space. The content is varied, with lecture-style presentations, videos and a membership hub where learning can take place at your own pace.
Rachael’s immense expertise and holistic philosophy are beautifully woven throughout the course. I cannot recommend it highly enough!”
Speech and Language Therapist NZ
“This course takes you on a journey to look at the big picture and explore the deeper questions behind why a child does not eat. It considers questions around identity, belonging, feeling safe and capacity for change.
The course provides a place to explore and challenge assumptions about feeding that can be embedded in professional practice, bringing those working in this field to a fresh understanding of what is needed to effect change.”
“I found the AEM approach open, inspiring and liberating. It creates space to wonder, explore and challenge established ways of thinking. It’s already making me rethink how I interview and work with families.”
