Canadian Organic Growers (COG) is a national charitable organization (13014 0494 RR0001) with members in all regions of Canada. COG is connected to the regions through thirteen regional Chapters, four affiliated organizations, and to the international organic community through membership in the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).

COG hosts events all across Canada. Check our event calender for an event in your area.

Hollingview Trail Retirement Residence in Aurora, Ontario is looking for a nutritionist to do a presentation for residents on February 17th.  The presentation content should be very general info on healthy lifestyle choices, active lifestyle tips, hydration, etc. and be 30-45 mins long.

Please call Janet or Patti at 905 841 1001 if you are interested.

Body-Mind Spirit: Radical Self-Responsibility for Creating Client Compliance

When: February 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: Ontario Science Centre
Don Mills Road
Toronto, ON
Canada
Contact:
csnnalumni@hotmail.com

To Register

Learning to drop our own bias to create better client options

As holistic nutritionists, our intention is to guide our clients to lifestyle choices that will help them to enjoy balance, vitality and health in all ways. Even with the best of intentions though, we often experience resistance and less than optimal compliance from our clients.  This workshop will provide you with effective tools and concepts that can be implemented immediately to broaden your personal and professional experience.

Join us for this full-day experiential workshop!

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On Saturday, October 3rt, CHFA launched its new lobby campaign, save Our Natural Health Products

With over 42,000 product license applications submitted to Health Canada and, after five years, only 16,000 applications approved for a license, it's time for us to act. We need you to help make our campaign a success.

 

My name is Svetlana Antonyshyn. I am a founder of a Holistic Health Centre that is located in Maple, ON. I am looking for a Holistic nutritionist and possibly other alternative medicine healers to join our team and was wondering is there a way to reach your graduates.

(Below there is an ad for what we are offering, maybe you can forward it to your students and graduates. Hopefully I am not imposing with my message; and my request is appropriate.)

 Thank you for your time!

 Hope to hear from you!

 

 Kindest wishes,

Svetlana Antonyshyn.

Holistic Psychotherapist, R.I.H.R.

 416.648.4497 416.648.4497.

www.TorontoHolisticPsychotherapy.com  

Job Posting for RHN- CSNN Graduate

Rachelle Wood, RHN and CEO of Positive Change Nutrition in Charlottetown PEI requires another RHN to work 20-35 hours per week seeing weight loss clients in the Summerside and Charlottetown office locations beginning immediately. Positive Change offers competitive wages, and with full time employment a health plans after 6 months.

Positive Change Nutrition specializes in one on one weight loss counselling. In 4 ½ years the weight loss program has helped Islanders lose almost 40 000 pounds! Rachelle has written a 52-week weight loss program including weekly themed handouts, goals, homework questions and recipes. Meal plans are customized for clients to ensure success. Preference will be given to applicants who have battled weight issues personally or professionally with counselling experience.

 

Ideal Applicant will:

-Be a graduate of CSNN or affiliated school

-Have a valid drivers licence with own vehicle

-Be passionate about health and weight loss

-Able to work with minimal supervision

-Be willing to re-locate to PEI

-Be computer and tech savvy

 

Job Description Includes:

-          One on one weight loss counselling in office and online

-          Booking clients via telephone and email

-          Light office duties, cleaning, and banking, ECT.

 

To find out more about Positive Change Nutrition check out www.rachellewood.ca. To apply for this position email your resume and cover letter to rachelle@rachellewood.ca. Rachelle Wood is dedicated to changing the way the world eats. Also check out her online nutrition blog at http://www.blog.rachellewood.ca

 

 

Lori Nichols Davies

 

 Lori Nichols Davies is a Canadian pioneer in research and education in Applied Nutrition who has been active since 1972 in the health food business. This is an expansive field today, attracting focused attention to chefs because people of all ages and lifestyles are expressing concern about making healthier food choices in restaurants.  As a new breed of chef, Lori is recognized by the Who’s Who of Canada 2009 as an outstanding entrepreneur, business woman and professional. The Canadian Naturopathic Community recognizes her as a holistic chef and friend, and the Canadian Association of Natural Nutritional Practitioners as an honorary member and ardent spokesperson.  She has a diploma from the Strathmore Institute in Toronto as a Natural Health Consultant, has studied with the International Edison Institute as a nutrition consultant, and is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. (115 schools)

Based on a lifetime of professional experience as a healing food consultant since 1972 in Toronto, Lori has attracted a group of clinical scientists and international food professionals to join her in a clearly defined goal. Using life-style kinesiology and mineral-rich foods she teaches how to build immunity one meal at a time. Her Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada is maintaining its expertise in Ottawa. She has expanded to the Greater Toronto area in 2009. It will go wherever her teaching staff wishes to take it.

Lori’s professional advisory board is dedicated to knowing everything possible about nutritional food. Using their research, she teaches others to become holistic teaching chefs and enlightened home chefs. With funds accumulating through a $40.00 annual membership fee to the Holistic Cooking Club she envisions facilities with equipment and expertise to train professional chefs as holistic chefs. She offers a 220-hour program spread out for a part time 55-week education program to enable working adults to create a new career, Certified Holistic Teaching Chefs.  An intensive 15-week program will start February 2010. Since 1998, Lori has trained over 2,000 home chefs. Her teaching staff began in 2008 in Ottawa to expand the Academy’s message at five locations.

Lori is one of Canada’s first certified ‘Touch for Health’ kinesiologists. She added holistic expertise to her curriculum by taking earlier courses in The Language of Herbs and the Essential Healing Oils. As an invited speaker at public forums, audience members feel her passion and dedication as a ‘green leader’. Chef Lori N-D is creating an important legacy: holistic teaching chefs to assist nations to greater health and deeper happiness naturally with organic foods as medicine. Come enjoy 42 culinary herbs that will help you to gently detoxify in a world of 85,000 toxic chemicals and 14,000 harmful food additives.  

 

Making it her responsibility to understand how nutrients factor into healthy longevity on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels Chef Lori N-D has produced fourteen cookbooks under name The Enlightened Home Chef series. The first textbook, “Cooking with Herbs and Spices (5000 years of Wisdom Confirmed by Modern Science)” is now available at $49.95. It is a trendsetter, laying down principles by which readers will gain insights to tweak other cookbooks.

 

 

Now Playing in Toronto: Look for it in a theatre near you

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Janice Visinski, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist who has combined knowledge in natural skin care formulations with a doctoral level biomedical scientist, to create a skin care line based on Ayurveda – a time tested 5000 year old holistic approach to health. Ayurvedic philosophy teaches that youthful and radiant skin comes from being in a state of harmony with nature. Keeping with this philosophy, Vysada uses natural ingredients such as ayurvedic herbs, natural butters and therapeutic grade essential oils without the use of harsh chemicals and preservatives found in many cosmetics today.