Bariatrics 101 - A Team Approach to Obesity Management:
Coaching Your Client's Behavior, Healthy Nutrition & Activity

Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions with 68% of the United States population of adults categorized as obese and overweight. Excess weight is the contributor to many co-morbid diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, back and joint problems, etc. This continuing education seminar is filled with practical information for weight management as well as new skills to assist healthcare professionals with behavior modification. This seminar is the first step in becoming certified as a MindMaps Education Systems professional or can be used to meet recertification continuing education requirements.

Topics Include:

1. Human Behavior and the obese client
2. Nutrition myths and facts to promote weight loss
3. Exercise myths and facts to promote weight loss
4. Assessing your client's psychological status and needs to be successful with weight management
5. Assessing your client's nutrition needs for all aspects of weight loss including bariatric surgery
6. Assessing your client's activity needs for all aspects of weight loss including bariatric surgery
7. Today's most common obesity surgical treatment options
8. Creative ways to assist client's nutritional needs
9. Coaching your clients wants
10. Coaching behavior change in obesity
11. Introduction to neurolinguistic programming(NLP) for behavior change
12. Practice coaching and NLP techniques - small group practice

Healthcare Professional Target Audience:

• Registered Dietitians (RD) - 12.0 hrs. CPE - Level 2
• Registered Nurses (RN) - NA
• Certified Life Coaches - 13 CCEs (Included in the Certified Weight and Obesity Management Coaching Program April 30 - May 3, 2010) - (ICF)
• Certified Personal Trainers (CPT) - 12 contact hours - (CI-CPT)

Dates & Location:
To Be Announced(TBA)on a Saturday and Sunday -
Location TBA
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76104

Registration Fee:
$300 (early registration - by 01/15/11)
$350 (after 01/15/11)

Please call 817.993.0639 to register for this seminar. Payment options available.

Cancellation Policy:
All credit cards will be charged and checks cashed at the time of registering by phone, mail or e-mail. A 50% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 30 days or more before seminar. A 75% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 14 - 29 days prior to seminar. No refund available if cancellation notification provided 13 days or less before day of seminar or if no cancellation notification made.

Schedule For Seminar...
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Through our experiential Vision seminar, the participant will experience themselves through large and small group interaction, one-on-one process, visualization techniques, and facilitator-driven lectures. They will get a conscious understanding of their beliefs and perceptions, both working and non-working, which influence your life. After successful completion of this seminar, the participant will have the following life tools.

1. Gain a clear sense of purpose and direction in order to influence the quality of life.
2. Learn to interrupt unconscious mental and emotional cycles, which tend to sabotage results.
3. Initiate a greater level of clarity about what drives your decision-making process.
4. Experience renewed levels of energy in both your personal and professional endeavors.
5. Learn to use feedback as a creative mechanism for producing results and getting through to others.

All MindMaps Education Systems (MMES), seminars are staffed with highly trained facilitators, certified life coaches and counselors. Dietitians, nurses and personal trainers are also available within MMES. We provide a team approach to managing obesity and a team of experts that's essential for maximum success.

The Vision experiential seminar is designed for anyone struggling with weight loss including anyone who is thinking about or has had bariatric (Lap Band, Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve, etc.) surgery.

Seminar Schedule
Friday: 9 am - 10 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 10 pm
Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm

Dates & Location:


TBA

Dallas, Texas

Registration Fee:
$500

Cancellation Policy:
All credit cards will be charged and checks cashed at the time of registering by phone, mail or e-mail. A 50% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 30 days or more before seminar. A 75% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 14 - 29 days prior to seminar. No refund available if cancellation notification provided 13 days or less before day of seminar or if no cancellation notification made.

Bariatrics 202 - Exploration (4-day)

After participating in the Vision seminar, our Exploration seminar allows participants to explore within themselves how non-working behaviors sabotage their weight loss efforts and how they can achieve positive change for success in their lives. Our Exploration seminar requires 4 days to completely process personal development. A trained facilitator will lead exercises for participants to experience how they are creating crisis or unwanted life occurrences. And, Exploration is most beneficial in helping participants create what they want in life by creating personal accountability and responsibility in everyday life.

Why 4 days? Today's society is too fast-paced to allow time for effective self-reflection. This process is designed to allow time for participants to take a close look at what choices they are making based on their own beliefs. During this process, participants can make new choices and practice how they wish to show up in life. Our journey of life is often automatic for many and this deeper Exploration of ones self can create a dramatic shift in one's life.

After successful completion of this seminar participants will:

Seminar Schedule
Thursday: 9 am - midnight
Friday: 10 am - midnight
Saturday: 10 am - midnight
Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm

Dates & Location:
TBD

Registration Fee:
Contact the office at 817.993.0639 for registration forms to be e-mailed, faxed or mailed to you. Registration is $650 for this 4-day experiential seminar.

Cancellation Policy:
All credit cards will be charged and checks cashed at the time of registering by phone, mail or e-mail. A 50% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 30 days or more before seminar. A 75% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 14 - 29 days prior to seminar. No refund available if cancellation notification provided 13 days or less before day of seminar or if no cancellation notification made.

1. 1 hour per week of personal coaching by a Certified Performance Coach for 10 weeks or certified MMES licensed counselor.
2. Creating a plan for your daily life to achieve your personal and professional goals
3. Being a leader in your life and having a positive impact on other peoples' lives
4. Working effectively as a team to produce extraordinary results
5. Living the life positively transformed into a person others recognize as you want them to see you

The Quest course is designed for anyone who has completed Vision and Exploration experiential seminars.

Dates & Location:
TBD

Registration Fee:
Contact the office at 817.993.0639 for registration forms to be e-mailed, faxed or mailed to you. Registration is $950 for this program.

Cancellation Policy:
All credit cards will be charged and checks cashed at the time of registering by phone, mail or e-mail. A 50% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 30 days or more before seminar. A 75% non-refundable fee applied if cancellation occurs 14 - 29 days prior to seminar. No refund available if cancellation notification provided 13 days or less before day of seminar or if no cancellation notification made.