Thank you for Center for Mindful Eating sponsorship inquiry. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing education, resources, and networking opportunities for students, individuals and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding and practice of mindful eating, both personally and professionally. We welcome sponsors who are aligned with our purpose, principles and position statements.

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* 2. What sponsorship level are interested in?

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* 3. Please describe your organization:

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The Principles of Mindful Eating

Our relationship to food is a central one that reflects our attitudes toward our environment and ourselves. As a practice, mindful eating can bring us awareness of our own actions, thoughts, feelings and motivations, and insight into the roots of health and contentment. The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME) is a forum for professionals across all disciplines interested in developing, deepening and understanding the value and importance of mindful eating. The Center for Mindful Eating has created principles intended to guide people who are interested in mindful eating.

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* 6. Please rate your agreement with our principles, providing additional information about any questions or disagreement in the comment box below.

Mindful Eating is...

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Allowing yourself to become aware of the positive and nurturing opportunities that are available through food selection and preparation by respecting your own inner wisdom.
Using all your senses in choosing to eat food that is both satisfying to you and nourishing to your body.
Acknowledging responses to food (likes, dislikes or neutral) without judgment.
Becoming aware of physical hunger and satiety cues to guide your decisions to begin and end eating.

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* 7. Someone Who Eats Mindfully:

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Acknowledges that there is no right or wrong way to eat but varying degrees of awareness surrounding the experience of food.
Accepts that their eating experiences are unique.
Is an individual who by choice, directs their attention to eating on a moment-by-moment basis.
Gains awareness of how they can make choices that support health and well being.
Becomes aware of the interconnection of earth, living beings, and cultural practices and the impact of their food choices on those systems.
Position Statements on Topics Related to Mindful Eating

There is currently a wealth of information about topics surrounding food, eating, and mindful eating from many sources. Having followed some lively debates and conversations about these topics, The Center for Mindful Eating considers it essential to get across a clear message of what we understand as mindful eating and relevant topics affecting its practice for our growing community around the world.

The following position statements are in alignment with the mission, vision and values of The Center for Mindful Eating. They might not reflect all of our members’ views/opinions. It is the hope of The Center for Mindful Eating that these position statements will provide opportunities for meaningful reflection and conversations along the path to a healthy and joyful relationship with food and eating to the benefit of all beings.

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* 8. Healthy Eating Position Statement

It is the position of The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME) that healthy eating is enjoyable eating that meets nutritional needs. It utilizes the practice of mindfulness by intentionally bringing awareness to the internal and external environment while eating. This means both being aware of the feedback from the body about what supports its health, including the impact of pleasure, and also of the best available scientific evidence related to nutrition and individual health concerns. The blend of pleasure and nutrition is important for consistency in eating healthfully as well as to optimize digestion, absorption and metabolism of nutrients.

TCME endorses eating, whenever possible, food that is whole and nutritious. TCME supports flexibility around food choices, including eating food that is appropriate to the occasion. TCME recognizes that individual choices are affected by factors that may limit food choices such as economic constraints, religious choices, geography, lifespan and individual preferences. Developing a healthy relationship with food that considers individual circumstances helps foster overall well-being.

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* 9. Meditation Position Statement 

The Center for Mindful Eating endorses formal mindfulness meditation practices as valuable for the cultivation and practice of mindful eating, and mindful awareness in daily life. It supports awareness of emotional and physical hunger, and satiety cues to help guide decisions on when to begin and end eating.
Mindfulness meditation cultivates attention and awareness of thoughts, feelings, the body and all the senses without judgement. It encourages curiosity and cultivates compassion, thus providing a foundation for mindful eating.

The Center for Mindful Eating defines ‘formal mindfulness meditation practices’ as setting aside a specific time in silence where - from moment to moment- we give our full attention to our thoughts, feelings and physical sensations, in order to cultivate concentration, insight and loving-kindness.

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* 10. Sustainable Food System Position Statement

Mindful eating and sustainability have overlapping values in that both foster awareness and encouragement of humane treatment of all beings, ensuring the protection of animals, farmers, workers, consumers, and communities.

Mindful eating encourages individuals to be aware of our complex food system. It invites participation in ethical consumerism and  sustainable seafood farming and agriculture. Someone who eats mindfully becomes aware of the interconnection of earth, living beings, and cultural practices and the impact of their food choices on those systems.

The Center for Mindful Eating supports a sustainable food system because we believe it is a way of producing food while maintaining a healthy ecosystem that has a minimal negative impact on the environment. The Center for Mindful Eating supports local production and distribution infrastructures helping to make nutritious food available, accessible and affordable to all.

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* 11. Position Statement on Mindful Eating to Help Ease Food Insecurity

It is the position of The Center for Mindful Eating that food insecurity is a global issue that professionals in fields related to health, food and nutrition need to become aware of. An individual’s past and current food insecurity concerns may promote unhealthy, mindless or fear-based eating. The Center for Mindful Eating encourages members to take steps to acknowledge and, if possible, ease food insecurity in their local area as a way to benefit their community and deepen their mindful eating practice.

Learning More About Food Insecurity
  • Food insecurity means the lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life. 
  • The Center for Mindful Eating believes that awareness of the presence of food insecurity is the first step to overcome this global problem. 

The Center for Mindful Eating has identified five areas of food insecurity:
  • The lack of reliable and consistent sources of food.
  • The lack of sufficient resources to produce and/or purchase food.
  • The lack of access to food that remains stable and sustainable over a reasonable time.
  • The lack of basic sanitary conditions to choose, prepare and distribute food that has adequate nutritional value.
  • The lack of outer knowledge and inner wisdom to choose and prepare food that results in balanced eating patterns and good nutrition

The Center for Mindful Eating endorses the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report (2014) that supports the development and enhancement of sustainable, community-based strategies in the following three ways:
  • Seek ways you can improve access of low-income households to healthful, nutritious food supplies.
  • Seek ways to increase the self-reliance of communities by growing and sharing food through farming, community gardens, and food-waste recovery efforts. 
  • Encourage coordination of nutrition education with local schools, food pantries and farms.

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* 12. Position on Mindful Eating & Weight Concerns

It is the position of The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME) that mindful eating supports health and well-being. The practice of mindful eating develops awareness of and honors the internal wisdom that can guide food choices and support eating for well-being. Mindful eating cultivates connection with physical, psychological and environmental cues that can affect food decisions. 

TCME does not endorse any philosophy or program that includes or promotes weight loss measures or procedures because evidence does not support that it deepens or improves an individual’s mindful eating practice.  

The intention of mindful eating is to remain in the present moment by promoting acceptance, nonjudgment, and curiosity about an individual’s direct experience.  It is not outcome-based and does not promote any specific body shape or size. Based on scientific research, TCME expresses caution and concern about engaging in mindful eating exercises for weight loss. A weight focus and related stigmatization may exacerbate psychological issues such as guilt and shame and may keep individuals caught in an unbalanced eating cycle.

Thank you for your interest in sponsoring The Center for Mindful Eating. A member of our Board of Directors will be in touch with you in the next 30 days.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@tcme.org

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