Price: $195 USD
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Price: $195
Presenter: Naureen Hunani, RD
Recording: Recording available for 90 days after registration.
Duration: 2x2-hour training sessions (4 CPEUs in total).
In this course, we explore the critical role of interoception—the sense that helps us perceive internal body signals—and its profound impact on our clients’ abilities to nourish themselves with confidence and autonomy.
Interpreting and understanding our internal signals physical sensations and emotional states, play a crucial role in understanding hunger, fullness, and other sensations connected to nourishment and eating. Neurodivergent individuals may experience and perceive these internal sensations differently, which can significantly impact their eating patterns and relationship with food.
External influences such as diet culture, ableism, capitalism, systemic oppression, and racism often disrupt interoceptive awareness, creating further barriers to nourishment. Additionally, societal invalidation and the lack of understanding of diverse sensory experiences lead to a profound disconnect from the body.
When neurodivergent individuals face dismissal or misunderstanding of their unique sensory and bodily experiences, it can foster self-doubt, mistrust, and alienation from their internal signals, intensifying challenges in relating to food and self-care.
This course offers essential insights and practical tools to support interoceptive awareness in neurodivergent clients. Together, we’ll examine how to create affirming, inclusive spaces that validate individual sensory needs, empowering clients to reconnect with their inner signals, develop positive relationships with food, and cultivate a sense of trust. Join us to gain the skills to support neurodivergent individuals in reclaiming their connection with their bodies and fostering nourishing, affirming relationships with food and self.
Investment: $195 USD
Facilitator: Naureen Hunani, RD
Topics Covered:
Learn about interoception, the eighth sense, and its fundamental role in feeding and eating.
Explore how neurodivergent individuals might experience and interpret interoceptive cues differently, impacting their eating patterns and relationship with food.
Discover the connection between interoceptive awareness and nourishment, recognizing the unique challenges and strengths of neurodivergent clients.
Examine how external influences like diet culture, ableism and other systems of oppressions can disrupt interoceptive awareness and disconnect neurodivergent people from their internal cues.
Learn how added demands, compliance-based therapies, interoceptive exposures, and neuronormative expectations can lead to masking and burnout, impacting interoception and eating patterns, and further disconnecting individuals from their bodies.
Facilitator: Naureen Hunani, RD
Topics Covered:
Examine how neuronormative standards shape expectations around interoception and body awareness, emphasizing the need for curiosity to truly understand and honor neurodivergent experiences.
Learn to recognize and validate diverse interoceptive experiences in neurodivergent clients with decreased awareness of internal signals.
Explore the impact of executive functioning differences on eating routines and food choices, and identify strategies to support these challenges.
Discover practical, neuro-affirming tools and accommodations to help clients enhance their awareness of hunger, fullness, and other bodily cues.
Develop techniques to promote trust and autonomy, building a compassionate, affirming approach that respects each client’s unique sensory experiences.
Investment: $195 USD
I’m Naureen Hunani, a multiply neurodivergent dietitian with over 18 years of clinical experience. I specialize in feeding disorders, including ARFID, and I’m particularly interested in the intersection of neurodivergence and feeding differences. I’m incredibly passionate about helping dietitians and helping professionals build neurodiversity-informed practices.
Even though feeding differences are commonly seen in the neurodivergent population, not many of us were trained in how to support this population in a way that is affirming and trauma-informed. I love to support pro-justice, HAES®-aligned professionals who are striving to build liberatory practices.
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Dietitians & Nutritionists
Mental health professionals
Healthcare providers
Anyone working with adult neurodivergent clients!
As with most educational organizations, we don't offer refunds for courses.
Any professional working with neurodivergent folks experiencing feeding and eating challenges can benefit from attending this course.
Whether you are a recent graduate or have been practicing for several years, you would benefit from this course.
You will have 90-day access to review and integrate the material.
Investment: $195 USD