Impact
The Dietitian Facilitated Book Club
If you’re reading this page, I’m guessing that you became a dietitian because you want to help people to be healthy.
But here's the problem...
Your clients may choose to come to see you. Or, clients may see you grudgingly (because their doctor or wife told them to come).
Your clients want to make changes. Maybe they want to lose weight, or they’re scared about a recent diagnosis or new blood work.
However, despite their initial motivation, they don’t make any changes.
Or, they enthusiastically make the changes, only to fall off the wagon and return to their old habits a few months later.
Leaving you to secretly wonder if you could be doing a better job in supporting people to eat healthier.
I know about that self-doubt because I’ve been there too. In fact, I’ve always been super curious about people’s behaviour – what makes us human beings tick. I’ve spent my 30 years in our nutrition field searching to understand why people make their food choices. In undergrad, my favourite course was cultural aspects of food. My masters research investigated women’s relationships with food and their bodies.
Since then, I’ve continued to look outside of dietetics to find answers. I’ve searched far and wide.
Pulling information from psychology, sociology, behaviour change, neuroscience, feminism, economics, and more to apply to my practice.
"Nutrition knowledge alone isn’t enough to create healthy eating habits that stick."
My career has spanned Indigenous health, public health, Executive Director for a non-profit, writing for the public and health professionals (including 2 published books), owning a premium nutrition counselling private practice since 2008, and presentations for groups of all ages and sizes.
My education: BASc in Applied Human Nutrition (from U of Guelph), MSc (from UBC).
The good news: There's a lot of wisdom out there to guide you.
I’m giving back to our profession by sharing with you the best of what I’ve learned.
Creating this year-long deep dive into factors that influence people’s eating habits. What I'm calling a "facilitated book club".
Imagine...
Feeling CONFIDENT in your ABILITY to help your clients create REAL EATING CHANGE
Introducing:
Effectively support clients in adopting long-term healthy eating habits (and, breaking bad habits) because you skillfully apply behavior change strategies and techniques.
Guide clients to drop quick-fix diets in favour of long-term healthy habits because you understand how the psychological impact of past failed diets/weight loss attempts impacts their current behaviours. And, you understand the pervasive impact of diet culture in shaping (and harming) clients’ relationships with food and their bodies.
Tailor your recommendations to your clients’ individual needs because you understand how the brain works (including ADD/ADHD and anxiety).
Support your clients to create eating habits that meet their physiological health needs and celebrate their culture because you understand the layers of food’s cultural significance.
Successfully direct your clients towards evidence-based advice instead of the so-called Influencer & celebrity “experts” because you’ve learned successful persuasion techniques.
In This Year Together:
We’ll be digging into the depths of human behaviour and what influences it.
We’ll be discovering how we can help clients cut through their barriers and experience change.
Expect intelligent discussions with fellow practitioners on these essential (and fascinating) topics.
Expect practical strategies for implementing these techniques into practice with your clients.
The result: Each month, you have new tools. The tools you need to maximize your limited time - to really help your clients create long-term, healthy eating habits.
To be transparent: This isn’t about surface-level tips & tricks that don’t help in the real world of providing nutrition counselling to clients with complicated lives. Quite the contrary. This facilitated book club is for those of us who truly want to understand, and help, our clients.
Details:
The Dietitian Facilitated Book Club runs from April 2025 – March 2026.
Each month: You’ll read a book that’s had a big impact on my practice. And, you’ll complete a case study, based on the thousands of real-life clients I’ve served over the years.
At the end of the month, as a group, we’ll meet to discuss the book and how we can apply it to our practices. While I’ll facilitate the discussion, we can enrich our practices by learning from the wealth of our collective experiences. Discussions will happen on Zoom. There’ll be 2 options to join in: the last Thursday of the month at 7:00-8:00 pm (Pacific time) or the last Friday of the month at 11:00 am – 12:00 noon (Pacific time). Your choice which discussion you attend. Can’t make a live discussion? We’ll post the recordings on our exclusive Dietitian Facilitated Book Club Member’s website so you can listen in at your convenience.
Each month, there’ll be additional resources so you can continue exploring the topics.
***Lifetime Access to all discussion replays and additional resources!***
2025-2026 Meeting Dates:
April 24th & 25th, 2025
May 29th & 30th, 2025
June 26th & 27th, 2025
July 24th & 25th, 2025
August: Summer Break (no reading or meetings)
September 25th & 26th, 2025
October 30th & 31st, 2025
November 27th & 28th, 2025
December: Winter Break (no reading or meetings)
January 29th & 30th, 2026
February 26th & 27th, 2026
March 26th & 27th, 2026
Are you ready to be more effective at helping your clients create changes that they can stick to?
Join us.
JUST $497.00 (Canadian)
Or, $45/month(Canadian)
Spaces are limited to allow for quality discussions.
Doors close April 6th, 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
What practice setting is this good for?
This facilitated book club is applicable no matter what population you serve (children, adults, older adults, specific health conditions, people with ADD/ADHD, anxiety, depression). And, in many practice settings (private practice, in-patient, outpatient, long-term care, grocery store).
How long do I have access?
You have lifetime access to the discussion replays and additional resources.
What if I can't make it live?
We'll have 2 live discussions each month: 7pm (pacific time) on the last Thursday of the month. And, 11am (pacific time) on the last Friday of the month. If you can't make it to either discussion, you can watch the replays any time. The replays will be posted in our exclusive webpage soon after the discussions.
Is there a payment plan?
Yes. Monthly payments of $45 (Canadian) are available.
Will I get access to Kristen?
YES! I'll be facilitating each discussion every month. We're limiting the number of facilitated book club members to allow for quality discussions.
How do I get the books?
Get the books however you prefer to read. Buy them new or used at your local bookstore, purchase them from Amazon, listen to an audio book, read on an e-reader, or borrow them from your local library. I've got the full year's curriculum posted in our exclusive webpage so you've got lots of time to get your books.
Have questions?
Email me at: kristen@kristenyarker.com