Reframing Nutrition Messages: Tips and Tools for Dietitians

Course Description:

This self-paced course encourages dietitians to explore how others perceive our nutrition messaging and introduces reframing as a practice to avoid bringing assumptions and bias to client interactions. We then present a simple approach to prioritize participant voices and create trauma-informed messaging. This course includes short videos and reflection activities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will use reframing to avoid bringing assumptions and bias to client interactions.
2. Participants will create nutrition messages that incorporate the trauma-informed principles, while acknowledging clients’ realities and leveraging client strengths to achieve realistic and sustainable behavior change.

Intended Audience and CPEUs:  This course is intended for Registered Dietitians and Dietetic Technicians, Registered.  Completing the course will earn 2 CPEUs.

Performance Indicators:

• 2.2.2 Recognizes the importance of differences, orientation, social and cultural norms that may have an impact on individuals, groups and plans of nutrition care, services or education.
• 3.1.3 Tailors messages and communication methods to meet the needs of target audiences.
• 5.2.2 Reflects on own values, beliefs and biases.