You already recognize the connection between your members’ physical, spiritual, and emotional health, and you strive to help them make wise choices in all three areas.  However, with all that your organization already does to meet the pressing needs of your community, it’s challenging to find a proven, effective program that is both cost-effective and consistent with your organization’s values.  What if there was an affordable way to give the families you serve the tools they need?

Dr. William Sears, along with exercise physiologist Sean Foy, have created a series of interactive, clinically proven workshops to help families embrace four pillars of health: Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude, and Nutrition.  Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. workshops provide simple, easy-to-implement tools for making nutrition education fun and engaging.  This proven approach provides participants with all the tools necessary for sustaining health and wellness. In addition, the readily-available materials are simple and easy for participants to understand, from expectant and nursing moms, to parents and their children.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Workshops Will Help Your Organization:

•    Offer families fun, engaging, and realistic solutions
•    Save on program development
•    Develop a sense of unity and collaboration
•    Set an example from the top down
•    Teach members to be good stewards of their physical bodies, in addition to their financial resources

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. + Faith Communities:  An Ideal Match

Certified Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Coaches are available throughout the U.S.  Search for a certified coach in your area, or participate in turn-key training so that you can share our workshops and materials with families in your area.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Workshops

Each of the following practical, affordable Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. workshops includes simple, easy-to-implement tools that make nutrition education fun, interactive, and engaging:

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Start is a series of six one-hour nutrition education classes for parents of children ages 3-12.  Each class can be taught to a group of parents or adapted to suit the needs of parents and their children, collectively.  This flexibility makes Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Start perfect for ongoing ministry and outreach.  Each class also includes fun, interactive activities, lots of healthy snacks, and engaging DVD segments which allow participants to absorb the material in a variety of ways.  Participants also receive an 80-page Parents’ and Caregivers’ Guide, along with an activity book for their children, to help them implement incremental nutrition changes at home.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Essentials is a one-time, two-hour class that introduces the basic concepts covered in Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Start.  This option is ideal for large groups and outreach events.

Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Expectations is a series of three classes that teach pregnant women how to best care for themselves and their babies during any stage of pregnancy.  This would be ideal for women’s ministries and community outreach programs, particularly for congregations that want to reach out to single moms.

Note: Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. workshops are not a substitute for appropriate medical care for patients with special dietary needs.