Mindfulness-Based Eating: Healing Our Relationship with Food
Friday, November 14, 2025
1:00PM - 2:30PM PST
This session explores mindfulness-based eating (MBE) as a tool for improving well-being.
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 1.5 (Applied through NASW Oregon)
Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers and partnering clinics who are listed in our directory and who have an active MOU with RVP. We also welcome our OR/WA Vet Center and VA staff to join for free. All other community providers, please pay $29 (or apply to become a RVP volunteer provider).
Who Should Attend:
This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
This 90-minute training explores mindfulness-based eating (MBE) as a tool for improving well-being with compassion and awareness. Designed for all providers and clinicians, the training delves into how mindful eating supports nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and healing from disordered or disconnected eating patterns. Participants will gain an understanding of how MBE can effectively improve health and eating patterns, engage in experiential practices, and learn to facilitate basic mindful eating interventions.
This session centers the body as a site of wisdom and healing, rather than a problem to be fixed. No prior experience in mindfulness is
required.
Participants should bring 3 raisins, or other small food items, to class for use in an MBE practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the core principles of mindfulness-based eating and how they can be utilized to support wellbeing.
- Understand how food-related behaviors are influenced by trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and emotional coping patterns.
- Differentiate between mindful eating and restrictive/diet-based frameworks and how both inner and outer wisdom are critical for establishing a healthy relationship with food.
- Integrate mindfulness-based eating strategies in a client-centered, culturally responsive way.
CE Faculty
Alyssa Fine, MSN, RN, CDCES, CNL, is a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service with 13 years of experience in public health and clinical care. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she specialized in nursing leadership, additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in African Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CDR Fine is certified as both a Clinical Diabetes Care and Education Specialist and a Clinical Nurse Leader and is also a certified mindfulness instructor.
She began her career with the Bureau of Prisons, where she served as an infectious disease nurse, performance improvement nurse, and a Regional Diabetes Nurse Consultant. She then spent nearly seven years as the Wellness and Diabetes Coordinator for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, leading initiatives in diabetes education, preventive care, nutrition, employee wellness, food sovereignty, and holistic health.
Her work emphasizes sustainable, person-centered approaches—such as mindfulness-based eating—to support behavior change and chronic disease prevention.
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Contact: Jennifer Keeling, RVP Director of Retention and Recruitment .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
503-954-2259
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