Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Workshop – Free Training from the Food Revolution Network
You can understand which foods and daily habits support health and still feel frustrated when the people you care about struggle to make changes that last.
Knowing what may help is different from knowing how to listen, ask useful questions, work with resistance, and help another person turn information into realistic action.
This free three-day workshop brings Ocean Robbins together with expert faculty in whole food nutrition, lifestyle wellness, evidence-based coaching, and ethical business-building. The sessions connect health education with the human skills that support behavior change.
You can use the experience to deepen your own understanding, support loved ones more effectively, expand an existing professional toolkit, or explore whether nutrition and lifestyle coaching fits your values and goals.
Why Attend the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Workshop
Health information is widely available, but information alone rarely resolves the practical barriers that shape everyday choices. People may understand the value of nourishing food, movement, sleep, stress management, and connection while still feeling stuck when routines, emotions, relationships, or competing demands get in the way.
This workshop brings nutrition and lifestyle science together with evidence-based coaching skills. You will explore how a coach can listen carefully, ask better questions, work with resistance, and help another person build motivation and accountability without relying on lectures or pressure.
The experience also looks beyond one-to-one coaching. Faculty and alumni examples show how these skills can be applied in private practice, healthcare settings, families, communities, education, advocacy, and other purpose-driven forms of work.
Who Should Attend the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Workshop
This workshop is for people who care about the connection between food, lifestyle, and health and want a more grounded way to support change. You do not need to be a coach to benefit from the educational sessions or guided exercises.
The material can also help aspiring coaches and experienced professionals understand how nutrition education, behavior-change skills, and real-world impact fit together. It offers a practical introduction for people considering a new direction as well as those expanding work they already do.
- Personal health-seekers who want a clearer understanding of whole food nutrition and lifestyle wellness
- Family members and caregivers who want to support loved ones without creating more resistance
- Wellness advocates who regularly share health information in their communities
- Aspiring nutrition and lifestyle coaches exploring a possible career or side practice
- Established coaches who want to deepen their nutrition and behavior-change skills
- Healthcare professionals looking to expand their approach to sustained lifestyle support
- Educators and content creators who want to communicate health information more effectively
- Community leaders interested in healthy, ethical, and sustainable food systems
What You’ll Learn During the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Workshop
You will examine the evidence-based foundations of whole food nutrition and lifestyle wellness, including how food, movement, sleep, stress, and connection work together. The faculty will translate these themes into practical considerations for supporting real people in ordinary life.
You will also explore why advice and information often fail to create sustained behavior change. The coaching sessions focus on the skills that help people move from intention to action while navigating emotions, family dynamics, social pressure, and personal history.
The final day broadens the conversation to impact, career pathways, sustainable practice-building, and ethical use of AI. A guided strategy exercise continues across all three days so you can connect the teaching with your own interests, values, and next steps.
- How whole food nutrition fits within a broader lifestyle approach
- What food, movement, sleep, stress, and connection contribute to health education
- Why knowing what to do does not automatically lead to doing it
- How evidence-based coaching helps bridge the gap between intention and action
- Ways to meet resistance without damaging trust or the relationship
- How family, social, emotional, and cultural factors can shape food choices
- Questions and listening skills that support self-motivation and accountability
- How coaches work in private practice, healthcare, and community settings
- Principles for building a sustainable and values-aligned coaching practice
- How AI tools may support coaching work without replacing human connection
The Nutrition, Coaching and Impact Framework
The workshop is organized around the three pillars of Food Revolution Network’s Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Certificate: Nutrition, Coaching, and Impact. Together, these pillars connect health knowledge with behavior-change skills and practical ways to bring the work into families, professions, and communities.
Nutrition focuses on whole food nutrition and the wider lifestyle system of movement, sleep, stress, and connection. Coaching examines the evidence-based skills that help people move from knowing to doing with greater self-awareness and ownership.
Impact explores the different pathways coaches use to apply their training, including independent practice, healthcare collaboration, and community leadership. A three-part guided strategy session runs through the weekend to help you clarify where you are, where you want to go, and the gap between those points.
- Build a grounded foundation in nutrition and lifestyle science
- Practice a more collaborative approach to behavior change
- Connect coaching skills with meaningful forms of service and work
- Use the guided strategy process to consider a realistic path forward
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The workshop faculty includes physicians, registered dietitians, board-certified health and wellness coaches, coaching educators, and business leaders. Their combined experience supports the workshop’s three-part focus on nutrition, coaching, and impact.
Ocean Robbins
Ocean Robbins is the co-founder and CEO of Food Revolution Network. He hosts the workshop and frames the connection between whole food nutrition, lifestyle wellness, human behavior, and values-driven impact.
Tracy Garrigan, NBC-HWC
Tracy Garrigan is the founding director of the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Certificate and a program director at Food Revolution Network. Her work centers on coach training, program leadership, and evidence-based health and wellness coaching.
Makini Duewa, NBC-HWC
Makini Duewa is lead faculty and a coach mentor for the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Certificate. She brings experience in integrative nutrition health coaching, functional nutrition, holistic health, and lifestyle practice.
Michael Klaper, MD
Michael Klaper is an author, speaker, physician, and plant-based nutrition expert. His contribution supports the workshop’s educational foundation in food, health, and lifestyle science.
Nichole Dandrea-Russert, MS, RDN
Nichole Dandrea-Russert is a bestselling author and plant-based dietitian. She contributes registered-dietitian expertise to the workshop’s discussion of practical, evidence-informed nutrition.
Howard Jacobson, PhD
Howard Jacobson is co-founder and lead instructor of WellStart Health Coaching Academy. His work focuses on coaching methodology and the science of helping people make sustainable changes.
Melinda Cohan
Melinda Cohan is co-founder and CEO of The Coaches Console. She contributes experience in ethical business-building and the systems that support a sustainable coaching practice.
Workshop Schedule and Daily Themes
The workshop runs from Friday, August 21 through Sunday, August 23, 2026. Each live session begins at 9 am Pacific Time, 12 pm Eastern Time, and 5 pm GMT, and runs for about three hours.
The curriculum moves from the foundations of nutrition and lifestyle science to coaching skills and then to practical pathways for applying the work. Each day includes expert teaching, interactive question-and-answer time, alumni perspectives, and another stage of the guided strategy session.
Day 1 – Friday, August 21: The Health Revolution
- Core theme: How nutrition and lifestyle function as powerful forces for health and planetary wellbeing
- Science focus: Evidence related to whole food nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress
- Systems focus: Connections among chronic disease, environmental pressures, and the current food system
- Practical focus: Alumni examples and the first stage of a personalized strategy session
Day 2 – Saturday, August 22: The Art of Change
- Core theme: Coaching and the science of behavior change
- Skills focus: Why information is not enough and what helps bridge the gap between knowing and doing
- Human focus: Social pressure, family dynamics, emotions, and personal food history
- Practical focus: A guided coaching exercise, alumni perspectives, and the second stage of the strategy session
Day 3 – Sunday, August 23: The Opportunity
- Core theme: Building a career and life around nutrition and lifestyle coaching
- Professional focus: How coaches can contribute in private practice, healthcare, and community settings
- Business focus: Sustainable practice-building, ethical use of AI, and the value of human connection
- Practical focus: Completing the strategy session and exploring the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Certificate
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
The Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Workshop is a free online event running from August 21 through August 23, 2026. A new live session begins each day at 9 am Pacific Time, 12 pm Eastern Time, and 5 pm GMT.
Each session runs for about three hours. When you cannot attend live, that session remains available on replay for one day after it airs.
Check your email after registration for viewing links and schedule updates.
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- Set aside time for the sessions or one-day replay windows that matter most to you
How to Register for the Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Workshop
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How to Get the Most From the Workshop
This workshop covers nutrition science, coaching practice, and professional application in three substantial sessions. A simple participation plan can help you stay focused without treating every idea as an immediate assignment.
Begin with one question you want the weekend to help you explore. It may concern your own health education, supporting someone you love, improving an existing practice, or deciding whether coaching belongs in your future.
1. Protect the Live or Replay Window
Each session is approximately three hours, and its replay remains available for one day. Add the sessions you plan to watch to your calendar before the workshop begins.
2. Follow the Three-Pillar Structure
- Use Day 1 to note the nutrition and lifestyle principles that feel most foundational
- Use Day 2 to identify coaching habits that differ from advice-giving
- Use Day 3 to consider where these skills could fit in your life or work
3. Complete the Guided Strategy Exercise
Keep your notes from all three days together. The strategy session builds in stages, so earlier reflections support the final exercise.
4. Choose One Practical Follow-Up
After the workshop, select one idea to study, practice, or discuss with an appropriate professional. A focused next step is easier to evaluate than a long list of simultaneous changes.
About Ocean Robbins and Food Revolution Network
Ocean Robbins is the co-founder and CEO of Food Revolution Network. He has devoted much of his work to the relationship among food, human health, ethical choices, and environmental sustainability.
He hosts this workshop and guides the larger conversation about why clear nutrition information must be paired with practical support for behavior change. The guest faculty contribute specialized experience in medicine, dietetics, health and wellness coaching, coach education, mentoring, and business systems.
Food Revolution Network educates and advocates for healthy, ethical, and sustainable food for all. Its community includes more than one million people, and the organization works with voices in food and health to share research-based education.
Food Revolution Network is also a certified B Corporation. The workshop reflects its broader emphasis on connecting personal wellbeing with compassionate coaching, responsible professional practice, and positive community impact.
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- Aug 21 - 23 2026
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- 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Aug 21 - 23 2026
- Time: 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
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