Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and introduction

📕UNIT 1: Introduction to going plant-forward

📕UNIT 2: What's your goal?

 Complete your Personal Strategy Questionnaire 

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Module feedback

Module Quiz

0. Professional Fundamentals

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Is my client on a plant-based diet? 

POLL: Share  your Plant-based Diet Check results

POLL: Can you tell plant-forward, plant-rich, and plant-based apart?

📕UNIT 2: What are the various plant-forward approaches? 

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

Before you take your quiz

1. What is a Plant-Forward Diet?

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Where is your client in their health journey? 

📕UNIT 2:  Assessing your client's diet

POLL: How would you describe your overall diet quality?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: What is my client’s plant consumption level?

POLL: How varied is your current plant intake?

2. Assessing Your Client’s Food and Eating Practices

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Identifying your client's WHY to moving plant-forward

POLL: What do you see as the main driver of plant-based choices?

📕UNIT 2: Why do people go plant-based?

POLL: How much plant variety do you think we need?

📕UNIT 3: Plant-based for health reasons

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Is a vegan diet healthier than eating meat and dairy?

📕UNIT 4: Plant-based for animal welfare reasons

3. Why Go Plant-Based?

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: What are your client's animal beliefs and attitudes?

POLL: Do you believe a truly sustainable diet is possible?

📕UNIT 2: Plant-based for the planet

📕UNIT 3: Plant-based for the environment

📕UNIT 4: Food miles and food losses

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The food that is good for the planet

POLL: How heavy is your diet’s environmental footprint?

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™: What's your ecological food impact?

Share with your classmates! Where did you sit on the Ecological Burden Of Your Diet Scale™?

4. Planetary Health and Sustainability

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: What is your client’s kitchen skill level?

POLL: Share your Kitchen Skills Investigation results

📕UNIT 2: Reading food labels

POLL: What role do nutrition labels play in your choices?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Reading Ingredient Information On Food Labels

📕UNIT 4: BONUS: Online grocery shopping skills

5. Practicing New Plant Food Skills

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What makes plant-forward change more sustainable?

📘 UNIT  1: Skills Lab™: How confident is your client in going plant-based?

📕UNIT 2: Transitioning to a plant-based diet

📕UNIT 3: Supporting behaviour change

POLL: Which message is more likely to support lasting diet change?

📕UNIT 4: Communicating with clients

6. Transitioning to a Plant-Based Diet

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current processed meat intake

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Level 1 Check-in

POLL: Have you tried meat-mimicking products?

📕UNIT 2: Health advantages of removing processed meat

📕UNIT 3: Overcoming disadvantages of removing processed meat

POLL: How much risk do you think processed meat adds?

📕UNIT 4: Processed meat-mimicking products: Good or bad?

7. Level 1. Phasing Out Processed Meats

 Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current red meat intake

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Level 2 Check-in

POLL: What is your guess on average weekly red meat intake?

📕UNIT 2: Advantages of removing 4-legged animals

📕UNIT 3: Overcoming disadvantages of removing 4-legged animals

POLL: What is your guess on the global scale of pig farming?

POLL: How much do livestock contribute to global emissions?

📕UNIT 4: Environmental impact of 4-legged animals

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™: 4-Legged Meat Swap Guide

📘 UNIT 6: BONUS Skills Lab™: Restaurant Beef Restaurants Swap Guide

8. Level 2. Phasing Out 4-Legged Animals

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current poultry intake

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Level 3 Check-in

POLL: What is your guess on average poultry intake?

📕UNIT 2: Advantages of removing poultry from the diet

POLL: What is your guess on the global pace of poultry slaughter?

📕UNIT 3: Overcoming health disadvantages of removing poultry

📕UNIT 4: Environmental impact of poultry

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™: Poultry Swaps Guide

9. Level 3. Phasing out 2-legged animals

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current fish intake

POLL: Share your current shellfish intake

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Level 4 Check-in

📕UNIT 2: Health advantages of removing seafood

📕UNIT 3: Overcoming disadvantages of not consuming seafood

POLL: What is your sense of overfishing worldwide?

📕UNIT 4: Environmental impact of seafood industry

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The real impact of overfishing 

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™: Seafood swap guide

10. Level 4. Phasing Out Seafood

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current egg intake

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Level 5 Check-in

📕UNIT 2. Health advantages of removing eggs

📕UNIT 3: Overcoming disadvantages of removing eggs

POLL: How much space do you think caged hens are given?

📕UNIT 4: Environmental impact of the egg industry

11. Level 5. Phasing Out Eggs

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current dairy intake

📘 UNIT 1:  Skills Lab™: Level 6 Check-in

POLL: How common is a dairy intolerance?

 📕UNIT 2: Health advantages of removing dairy

POLL: Can a vegan diet provide all essential amino acids?

 📕UNIT 3: Overcoming potential amino acid deficiencies

 📕UNIT 4: Overcoming additional disadvantages of removing dairy

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Which type of milk is best for you?

 📕UNIT 5: Environmental impact of the dairy industry

📘 UNIT 6: Skills Lab™: Dairy Swap Guide

12. Level 6. Phasing Out Dairy

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: Level 7 Check-in

POLL: Are many additives from animal sources?

 📕 UNIT 2. Identifying animal-based hidden ingredients

POLL: How often do you check labels for hidden animal ingredients?

📘 UNIT 3. Skills Lab™: Contacting companies about hidden ingredients

POLL: Do you investigate products beyond the label?

13. Level 7. Phasing Out Hidden Ingredients

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current supplement habits

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: Level 8 Check-in

POLL: Are supplements always necessary on a fully plant-based diet?

 📕 UNIT 2. Supplements which may be necessary

 📕 UNIT 3. Protein and amino acid supplements

 📕 UNIT 4. What is in my supplement? 

14. Level 8. Sorting Out The Right Supplements

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current intake of bee-derived foods

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: Level 9 Check-in

 📕 UNIT 2. What are products of animal labour?

POLL: Is migratory beekeeping something you think about in food choices?

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Colony Collapse: The Mystery of the Missing Bees

📕 UNIT 3. Overcoming disadvantages of removing products of labour

15. Level 9. Phasing Out Products of Labour

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1. Skills Lab™: Level 10 Check-in

📕 UNIT 2. Overcoming psychological challenges

POLL: Where is plant-based eating hardest to maintain?

📕 UNIT 3. Handling difficult conversations

16. Level 10. Successful Long-Lasting Change

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Are you a junk food vegan?

POLL: Do you like junk food?

📕UNIT 2: From junk to health

17. Minimising Junk Food Veganism

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can a vegan pregnancy support a healthy baby?

POLL: Can infants thrive on a vegan diet?

📕UNIT 1: PBE for pregnancy, breastfeeding, infancy

POLL: Can vegan diets support healthy growth in children and teens?

📕UNIT 2: PBE for childhood and adolescence

📕UNIT 3: PBE for mature adults

18. Plant-Based Nutrition for Different Life Stages

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

📕UNIT 1: Plant-based for health and longevity

📕UNIT 2: Plant-based for weight loss

📕UNIT 3: Plant-based for athletic performance

📕UNIT 4: Plant-based for gut health

📕UNIT 5: Plant-based for skin health

📕UNIT 6: Plant-based for brain and mental health

19. Plant-Based Strategies for Diverse Client Health Goals

Module 20 Learning Outcomes

📕UNIT 1: Organic, local, and seasonal produce

📕UNIT 2: Choosing good, better, or best

20. Better Plant-Based Choices for Health and Environment

Module 21 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Designing a plant-forward nutrition plan

📕UNIT 2: Structuring your client consultations

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Tracking your client’s progress

21. Designing a Plant-Forward Nutrition Program

Module 22 Learning Outcomes

📕UNIT 1: Dos, don'ts, and must dos

📕UNIT 2: Professional, legal, insurance, and tax considerations

Before you take your Final Exam

Final Exam

22. Setting Up Your Practice and FINAL EXAM

 Complete your Certificate Registration Form

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Accessing Your Certificate

23. Final Steps

<p>Plant-based eating appeal is on the rise, with personal and planetary health being the key motivators. More of us just seem to want a healthier planet whilst feeling healthier ourselves. But what is plant-based eating – and what is it not? Does it allow for some animal foods, or is it about going entirely vegan? In this 85-unit professional certification, we put an end to this debate by navigating our groundbreaking 10-level framework for transitioning from plant-rich, to plant-based, to possibly plant-exclusive, in a way that respects each of your client’s needs and self-determined goals. We will show you impactful strategies to support your clients’ interest in eating more plant foods and how to facilitate plant-forward eating behaviour change, the right way.  We'll also answer the question: are all plant-food diets healthy? Although research has related plant-based diets with health advantages and overall disease risk mitigation, going exclusively plant-based (especially when done wrong) carries&nbsp;dangerous risks. So, what’s the right way of helping a client mitigate these problems? How might you support a smoother plant-eating transition without fears and unwanted complications? Completing this professional training will equip you with vital know-how underpinning plant-forward nutrition client practice, alongside insights about adequately building personalised plant-focused dietary plans that clients enjoy and can keep up with.</p>

Supporting better health for you, your clients and the planet through this advanced training

Advanced Plant-Forward Nutrition Specialist™

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Discern what plant-forward eating is, the health risks of going exclusively plant-based, how these might be mitigated, and why it is vital to ensure nutritional adequacy whilst reducing deficiency risks

Identify a client's motivations behind wanting to include more plants in their diet (e.g. planetary health, personal health, religion, animal welfare) and where their current eating patterns stand in the plant-forward continuum

Support a client who is transitioning from plant-rich, to plant-based, to possibly plant-exclusive eating in a way that respects their needs and self-determined intentions

Apply the 10-Level Plant-Forward Nutrition Client Framework based on a client's autonomous decisions about progressively limiting processed meats, 4-legged animal foods, 2-legged animal foods, seafood, eggs, dairy, hidden animal-derived ingredients, animal-derived supplements, or products of labour

Evaluate the appropriateness of plant-forward eating for different health goals, including disease risk mitigation (e.g. cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, immune/inflammatory conditions), weight loss, athletic performance, gut health, skin health, brain and mental health

Ascertain the risk/safety considerations of plant-based eating for diverse life stages (pregnancy, breastfeeding, infancy, childhood, adolescence, elderly years) and when veganism may not be appropriate

Integrate plant-eating behavioural change strategies into your work and help clients develop new skills related to food-label interpretation, grocery shopping, eating out, food handling, cooking, and meal preparation

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