DDPG Webinars

Sticky Situations in Diabetes Sessions: Scripts for Real-Life Challenges

Get practical scripts and shortcuts for navigating seven sticky situations in diabetes counseling: emotions, denial, outdated beliefs, sabotage, life crises, healthcare gaps, and high-impact habits. Learn how to support clients without shutting them down.

Some diabetes sessions feel particularly hard, and this webinar helps you handle those challenging moments. This webinar gives you practical scripts and shortcuts to handle the toughest scenarios in diabetes coaching confidently. Learn how to stay supportive (and real) while helping clients move forward. We’ll focus on seven sticky session situations: · Tears and strong emotions · Diagnosis denial or believing their situation isn’t serious · Outdated or inaccurate beliefs · Family sabotage and social pressure · Life crises · Medication or healthcare gaps · The one really bad habit You’ll walk away with what to say, how to say it, and coaching mindset shifts you can use in your very next session, without shutting clients down or losing rapport. The included cheat-sheet toolkit makes it easy to put these skills into practice.

Learning Objectives: 

• Respond to strong emotions in session using practical language that preserves rapport and continues the work. 
• Use conversation strategies that reduce resistance and support acceptance of diabetes as a manageable condition.
• Identify and address critical barriers such as outdated nutrition beliefs, lack of family support, or one high-impact habit blocking glycemic control. 

Speaker Info

Treva Garcia, RDN, NBC-HWC, ACSM-CPT is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, National Board–Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and the founder of Real Healthy Habits, a group insurance-based private practice in Huntsville, Alabama. Treva specializes in coaching-based medical nutrition therapy. She teaches dietitians exactly what to say and do in session to help clients with diabetes and other chronic conditions make real, sustainable changes. Treva believes that the hard part of behavior change isn’t knowing what to do - it’s actually doing it in real life. That’s where coaching conversations and skills make all the difference. She is committed to giving RDs practical tools, language, and confidence to lead more effective sessions, so clients feel supported, capable, and ready to follow through.

Register Here: https://eatright-org.zoom.us/j/87328227531 

Diabetes Educators EmpowerED

Strategies for Optimizing Patient Outcomes with Emerging Weekly Insulin Therapies

Hosted in partnership with Decera Clinical Education with support from an educational grant from Lilly.

The goal of this webinar is to improve the knowledge and competence of healthcare professionals regarding the latest evidence on weekly insulin formulations in development, equipping healthcare professionals with the skills needed to incorporate emerging therapies once available by identifying appropriate patients, analyzing recent evidence for novel and emerging therapies, and counseling patients on the safe use of these therapies to achieve glycemic goals in patients with T2D.

This educational activity is intended for certified diabetes care and education specialists and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with type 2 diabetes, including registered dietitian nutritionists, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, and pharmacists.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Evaluate strategies for diabetes educators to maximize patient glycemic control
• Analyze recent evidence for new and emerging therapies for glycemic control in T2D
• Identify the role of diabetes educators in optimizing patient care in light of emerging insulin therapies 

Speakers:

• Mara Fiorio, DCN, RD, LD, BC-ADM, CDECS
  DC WIC Dietetic Internship & Workforce Development Coordinator
  Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Bureau
  Washington, DC
• Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES, FCCP
  Endocrine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
  Director, Education & Training in Diabetes Technology
  Co-Director, Endocrine Disorders in Pregnancy
  Cleveland Clinic Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute
  Cleveland, Ohio
• Richard E. Pratley, MD
  Samuel E. Crockett Chair in Diabetes Research
  Medical Director
  Advent Health Diabetes Institute
  Senior Investigator and Diabetes Program Lead
  AdventHealth Translational Research Institute
  Adjunct Professor of Medicine
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Orlando, Florida

Register Here

IMPORTANT REGISTRATION NOTE: This webinar is hosted in partnership with Decera Clinical Education. DDPG Members must create a free account on Decera’s website to register for the webinar (this only takes 30 seconds!). Please reach out to DiabetesPracticeGroup@eatright.org if you have questions or concerns.