Become an Eat Breathe Thrive Practitioner
Train to lead eating disorder recovery groups using embodied practice and peer support.
This training prepares you to deliver the Eat Breathe Thrive recovery intervention (EBT-R) in clinical and community settings. You’ll learn how to support clients to develop interoceptive awareness, emotional regulation, mindful eating, and self-compassion through embodied learning and practice.
You will learn how to introduce and adapt embodied practices, respond to distress as it arises, and manage boundaries and risk in group settings. The training is suitable for professionals working in treatment services, private practice, and community settings, and leads to certification to deliver the Eat Breathe Thrive recovery intervention within your existing scope of practice.
How to become an Eat Breathe Thrive Practitioner
-
Level 1: Foundational Training
The Online Immersion introduces four foundational embodiment skills to support clients struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image challenges.
15 hours, online.
-
Level 2: Become a Facilitator
The Facilitator Training focuses on eating disorder prevention. It prepares you to lead a seven-week intervention that helps clients build skills for mindful eating, emotional resilience, and positive body awareness.
50 hours, online.
-
Level 3: Become a Practitioner
The Practitioner Training focuses on eating disorder recovery. You will learn to lead a four-week intervention for individuals in active stages of recovery, including those with more severe or complex presentations.
30 hours, online.
-
Level 4: Become a Trainer
Following certification, you will have the opportunity to enroll in our trainer development pathway to present and supervise trainings for Eat Breathe Thrive.
Online, ongoing.
What You Learn
Through this training, you will learn about:
The core components of the Eat Breathe Thrive recovery intervention, including its three skill domains
• How to introduce and guide embodied and experiential activities that support interoceptive awareness, emotional regulation, and connection
• How lived experience is integrated into the intervention and how practitioners can draw on this appropriately to support insight
• Approaches to establishing safety, responding to distress, and managing risk in community settings
• Considerations for adapting the intervention for different ages, settings, and levels of readiness
• Skills related to co-facilitation, community engagement, and reflective practice.
Mayra V.
"I have been working with eating disorders for almost 8 years. I had all these great ideas but did not always know how to bring them together, especially working at a residential level facility. Eat Breathe Thrive really helped put everything together for me. Everything I have learned previously about the nervous system, mindfulness, movement and yoga was presented in such a simple structured way. And at the same time, some of the activities have a depth that is hard to come by. The program was easy to follow and to share with others. It had simple yet rich information for participants. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of eating disorders and how to help this population better.”
