Meal Time Magic
Sun, 21 May
|Totara Park Village, Warkworth
Transform Mealtimes into Your Favourite Time of Day. Practical support to empower you to feed your family with ease. Enabling children to eat well and develop healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.


Time & location
21 May 2023, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Totara Park Village, Warkworth
Guests
Event details
- Does the idea of meal times fill you with dread?
- Do you feel like a short-order cook? Creating several different meals for different members of the family?
- Do you struggle to know what to cook and how to get your children to eat it?
- Do you worry if your children are getting the right nutrients?
- Do you struggle with fussy eating?
Raising children to eat well and enjoy food is often easier said than done. Information on what kids should eat is plentiful, but that doesn't always translate into what our little ones want to eat. Let alone a good vibe at the dinner table!
Let go of stress and worry at mealtimes and feed your children with confidence and ease.
This 3-hour workshop will empower you. Giving you the confidence to meal plan like a boss, and create nourishing meals the whole family will enjoy. Raise children who eat well and have a positive relationship with food nurturing their body confidence and autonomy.
In this workshop, you'll leave feeling set up for success:
- Feel confident knowing what and how to feed your children of all ages.
- Know how to raise an adventurous eater that will willingly try and learn to enjoy what you prepare.
- Learn how to raise a child who will delightfully devour fruit and veggies.
- Start meal planning like a boss - quick nutritious meal ideas for busy parents that the whole family will love.
- Nurture your child's relationship with food and create healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.
- Nurturing your child's body confidence and autonomy.
- How to manage those so-called "forbidden foods" eg. sugar.
Bonus extras:
- Receive a copy of our family recipe guide, and our Food Tree recipe planner.
- Have dedicated you-time in the workshop to focus on your individual goals for feeding your family.
- Time to ask your burning nutrition questions from one of New Zealand's leading experts in family feeding.
Create some mealtime magic to feed your family with ease.
Reserve a spot
Early Bird
$85.00
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$120.00
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Note there are a limited number of tickets for this price. Senior Citizens, Students, Unwaged and Equity members.
$65.00
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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.”

