Tanya is an Irish born, UK trained dietitian and nutritionist. She previously founded Nutrilicious Communications, the first solely dedicated nutrition communications agency in the UK, which has supported multiple change agents in food and health over 20 years. Now, the culmination of her mission to help everyone to eat well is the award winning MyNutriWeb.com, which uses all her experience and network, curating and running authentic influential learning and dialogue events, including traditional conferences, policy, networking, and training opportunities. Supporting and empowering all health professionals and other change agents in food with nutrition matters is in Tanya’s view, critical to improving citizens health whilst also helping to protect our planet. Tanya was awarded the Caroline Walker Trust Award for Freelance Nutritionist of the Year 2021 which recognises distinctive and outstanding work in promoting public health which maintains and advances the standards of food and nutrition. Tanya has recently taken up the role of chair of the BDA Sustainable diets group and is looking forward to working with the BDA to help advance the professions impact on sustainable eating.

Susan has been facilitating on the Behaviour Change courses for BCT for 10 years now after attending as a participant herself and seeing the impact it had on her practice. She has used those skills to deliver training locally to many staff groups including a variety of health professionals, community and voluntary sector groups and is a huge advocate of using behaviour change skills for a person centred approach.

Sam is a HCPC Registered Dietitian of 15 years, Full Member of the BDA and Director of Sunlight Nutrition Limited and Behaviour Change Training. Sam has developed a passion for understanding human behaviour and applies this to both her clinical work and the Behaviour Change Training Courses.

Every person working in healthcare has the ability to influence their patient’s choices. We all provide information on behaviour changes that could be made to optimise health.
This talk focuses on the ‘what’ – what is the behaviour change approach to healthcare and what do we need to consider as a practitioner when working in this way.

Cheryl is a Dietitian who has worked in the NHS in a variety of settings. These include weight management, diabetes education, palliative care and eating disorders. Cheryl has been delivering and facilitating BCT training for many years and has found these skills essential for supporting patients with health behaviour change.

Karan has more than 35 years’ experience in Public Health practice, working with frontline staff locally, nationally, and internationally.
Karan’s skills are in delivering training and facilitating engagement. She’s worked for BCT for over 20 years supporting staff to use a behavioural approach. She specialises in how to have ‘hard conversations’.

Do you find yourself frustrated with your patient’s lack of progress and their ‘apparent inability’ to put into practice your advice? You’re not alone.

Building a helping relationship with your patient creates the foundation for working behaviourally. This paves the way for the development of a collaborative relationship where the patient has an opportunity to tell their story and feels heard and understood and the practitioner easily gains the information needed to conduct their assessment. In this session we discuss the small but significant changes you can make to your practice that will help to engage patients and influence patient change from the earliest opportunity.

Karan has more than 35 years’ experience in Public Health practice, working with frontline staff locally, nationally, and internationally.
Karan’s skills are in delivering training and facilitating engagement. She’s worked for BCT for over 20 years supporting staff to use a behavioural approach. She specialises in how to have ‘hard conversations.

Working with patients in a group setting can be an efficient and effective way of supporting patient change. However, facilitating change in group settings doesn’t just ‘happen’ as if by magic. This session will identify the small yet significant changes you can make to create a comfortable and effective learning experience for your patients.

Clare is a dietitian who has worked for over 25 years in specialist tier 3 and tier 4 weight management services. Currently she is working in Leeds managing a service delivering a diabetes remission project through face-to-face and online groups.

Groups may provide additional benefits in helping people change health related behaviours, and different types of groups and methods of delivery may be suitable in different healthcare settings. This session will focus on real-life case examples from weight management groups to illustrate some of the aspects of group work.

Karen started her career as a registered dietitian 15 years ago working in specialist obesity multidisciplinary teams in the UK and Ireland. She developed a keen interest in supporting people with behaviour change and now provides training to healthcare professionals in communication skills and motivational interviewing. In her current role as Obesity Programme Manager in the HSE, she leads on the design and implementation of quality, non-stigmatising obesity services, staff training and patient resources within Ireland, in-line with the Obesity Model of Care. She is a committee member of the Association for the Study of Obesity in Ireland and BDA Obesity Specialist Group; a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and works closely with the Irish Coalition for People living with Obesity (ICPO).

Motivational interviewing is a way of exploring the common problem of ambivalence to change. This session will cover motivational interviewing in dietetic consultations. We will explore why people find change difficult and what we, as dietitians, can do to build motivation with our clients for better outcomes. The session will cover the theory and practical skills of motivational interviewing.

Matt is a consultant clinical psychologist, the clinical lead for the Oncology Psychology Service at UCLH, where he provides psychological assessment and interventions to people with cancer and supports the wider MDT. He draws on a range of evidence-based psychological models throughout his work, with a particular interest in behavioural change interventions.

Sometimes the interventions we set up with our clients just don’t go to plan, despite good intentions. This session offers an overview of how to identify blocks to progress and introduces some simple strategies based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) that can help clients (and clinicians) get un-stuck when unplanned behaviours result in slip-ups in behaviour change interventions.

Yes, if you have registered and paid for the symposium in advance of the event date but cannot attend you will receive a unique link and access code to view the recording of the full symposium and individual sessions via email after the event. Please do allow up to a week for the recordings to be processed and check your junk/spam folders before contacting us.

Please check your spam/junk folders. If you can’t find the email, contact hello@mynutriweb.com with your full name and payment receipt.

The symposium is priced at £50 to enable us to cover some of the running costs and continue to provide you with the highest quality e-learning, whilst ensuring that it is still accessible.

Included in the registration fee you will gain access to 6.5 hours of CPD with leading experts in behaviour change. After the live event, you will also receive speaker presentations, on-demand access to the full symposium and individual sessions to refer back to for at least 12 months, and your personalised CPD certificate for your records. A student discount is available (see separate question).

Yes, we are offering a student discount of 50% (£25). To receive your discount code, before registering please email hello@mynutriweb.com with your full name and a photo of your student ID.

Registration to the symposium gives you access to the live event and individual session recordings after the event. You can use the same access link to join the live event at intervals throughout the day and will still have access to the full event recording and any sessions you missed live after the event. Your CPD certificate from the live event will reflect the total time you joined for.

Yes, personalised CPD certificates will be emailed to attendees within seven days of watching. Each certificate is personalised to include the total length of time you attended the live symposium. If you watch individual sessions on demand, you will receive an individual certificate for each. Please note, if you attend the event for less than 30 minutes you won’t qualify for a CPD certificate.

If you can no longer attend the session, you will be able to access the recordings of the session on-demand for up to 12 months after the live event. However, if you wish to cancel your registration entirely please contact us in writing by emailing hello@mynutriweb.com by midnight BST 28 September 2022 for a partial refund of £47 (full price of the symposium excluding £3 processing costs). Cancellations received after the stated deadline will not be eligible for a refund. All refund requests must be made by the attendee or credit card holder. Refund requests must include the name of the attendee and the email address used to register. Refunds will be credited back to the original credit card used for payment, please allow 10 working days.