Body Trust®
Professional
Training
Weight-inclusive care should be the norm.
A 75+ CEU training designed for professionals to help develop the language, analysis and skills for deeper conversations around bodies, food, weight, and health—both individually and institutionally.
We will do better.
Are you disillusioned with the dominant weight paradigm?
Now’s the time to connect the dots between social justice and the work of healing — and learn to love your work more than ever.
Our next cohort will start Fall of 2026 with registration opening in September. Scroll below to find out more on how you can get started now, and be sure to sign up to receive updates and early bird discounts!
The world
doesn’t need more
weight loss coaches
It doesn’t need more therapists recommending WW or Noom, teachers and school curriculums colluding with diet culture, organizations upholding anti-fat bias, or fatphobia in eating disorder treatment centers.
The world needs you.
Your brave voice.
Your radical presence.
Your bold advocacy.
Join our community of Body Trust Specialists who are advocating for and/or providing compassionate, weight-inclusive models of care.
“Almost everything I have learned about body freedom and body trust – radically accepting my body – I learned from Hilary and Dana.
As a fat black woman society has always told me I am too much, and less than, at the same time.
Body Trust and the folks at Center for Body Trust helped to teach that my body, and being just as I am, is powerful, needed and necessary.”
Desiree Adaway,
The Adaway Group
Your Trainers
Hilary Kinavey
Hilary’s work as a therapist, educator, speaker, and writer has been a study of what interrupts our sense of wholeness and how we can return to ourselves in a culture that profits from fragmentation.
Dana Sturtevant
Dana is a registered dietitian, trainer and author whose work focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty.
Sirius Bonner
As an executive in healthcare where she leads equity and inclusion efforts, Sirius is a fierce advocate for health equity and social justice.
With special guests
Desiree Adaway, Imani Barbarin, Shilo George, Sand Chang, Marcella Raimondo and more!
Two Training Paths
We offer two unique training paths designed to prepare you for shifting paradigms around weight and health and giving you the tools necessary for evolving your work.
Groundwork
Build an unshakeable foundation
Our Groundwork program is a self-paced training consisting of 14 online learning modules that will guide you in developing a different way of thinking about food, weight, health, bodies and healing.
Groundwork is ideal for you if you want Body Trust training, but are not planning to get fully certified.
If you know you want to sign up for certification the next time enrollment opens and would like to get a head start on the required curriculum, you may start with the Groundwork modules and we’ll apply the cost of the program toward your certification.
Certification
Put your training into practice
Certification is a year long training that includes a two hour webinar every month with guest teachers, panels, and roundtable discussions and Q+A time. Groundwork course modules are included and are a required component of certification.
Webinars are co-facilitated by Sirius Bonner, Hilary Kinavey, and Dana Sturtevant. Quarterly BIPOC affinity groups, led by Sirius Bonner and Body Trust Specialist, Rachael Ringwood are also included in certification.
Our 2026 Cohort will begin in the Fall!
Certification Timeline & What to Expect
- Year long online training co-facilitated by Sirius Bonner, Hilary Kinavey, and Dana Sturtevant.
- Two-hour webinar every month with guest teachers, speaker panels and roundtable discussions with plenty of opportunities for Q&A. (Recordings available on learning platform.)
- Group training cohort of 100-150 people.
- 14 self-paced online Groundwork modules to support your learning and unlearning.
- CEUs available with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) for both the live webinars and online modules. Online modules are approved for 72 NASW CEUs and 63 CDR CEUs; the webinar program is approved for 16 CEUs from both NASW and CDR.
- Monthly consultation group with Hilary & Dana rotating as facilitators.
- Quarterly BIPOC affinity group with Sirius Bonner & Rachael Ringwood.
- Office hours + monthly peer group with Program Coordinator & Certified Body Trust Specialist, Meg Bradbury.
- Conversation forum on learning platform to discuss topics, ask for support, and connect with other cohort members.
Topics & Themes We Will Explore
- Body Sovereignty
- Navigating Health Care Like a Boss
- Health Equity & Disability Justice
- Counteracting the Dominant Weight Paradigm
- Body Trust & Trans Experience
- Applying a Social Justice Lens for Eating Disorder Treatment
- Reclaiming Movement
- Helping Without Harming
- And More!
Have more questions? Check out our FAQ.
Some of the Benefits of Being Certified Are:
- Identify as ‘Body Trust® Certified’ or a ‘Body Trust® Provider/Specialist’
- Recognizable training process
- Listing on our Directory of Body Trust Specialists
- Market your programs via our social media
- Access Body Trust Professional Tools for your work, including outlines for a body story workshop and body trust retreat
- Ongoing learning via exclusive community calls, in person events, webinars, and bonus modules
- Discounted pricing on other trainings and programs Why do we call it certification?
Why Train With Us
- ✓Learn to translate theory into praxis
- ✓Strengthen your liberatory consciousness
- ✓Explore a deeper analysis of what disrupts embodiment and body trust
- ✓Get clinical relational training and develop interpersonal skills
- ✓Join a large community of practitioners to feel less alone and lean on for support
- ✓Gain exposure to thought leaders and liberatory thinkers/teachers/scholars
- ✓Receive exclusive bonus content
SIGN UP TO RECEIVE A 15% DISCOUNT ON OUR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM WHEN REGISTRATION OPENS!
Certification Pricing
Registration for our 2026 cohort will be open soon. Add yourself to the list and get a 15% discount when the training goes live.
Get started now on the Groundwork Modules that are part of certification.
PAYMENT DETAILS: There are options to pay in full, in four months, or eight months. If you choose a payment plan, the first payment is due at the time of registration.
Our three tiered pricing structure is offered with the intent of making all Body Trust programming more accessible for anyone interested in learning with us. Each tier includes full and equal access to all course materials.
In addition to having standard and equity pricing, we have a minimum of 10 low and no-cost spots in our Certification Program each year for people who are on a limited income, unable to earn income, or whose currency and exchange rate make the program inaccessible.
“Center for Body Trust has changed my life through their work. I appreciate the focus on whole-person healing, the acknowledgment of the realities we are faced with, and the holistic integration of nutrition and therapy — all taught with compassion. I personally move throughout this world with more confidence and hope because Body Trust exists.”
Jes Baker
Author, Coach, Speaker
A Note About
Accessibility
Center for Body Trust is committed to making our work as accessible as possible for everyone, as access-centered exchange of information benefits all of us, not just people with disabilities and audio/visual impairments.
- Automated closed captions available during live webinars.
- Transcripts and closed captions included with video recordings.
- Participants will have an opportunity to make additional accessibility requests after they’ve registered.
Please reach out to us with any additional accessibility needs or questions.
We believe in the possibility of a body-compassionate and weight-inclusive world.
We know you do too.
Let’s Connect
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