Charlotte Hastings

Training events and workshops will be announced on the website; however, if you are interested in providing training for yourself or members of your organisation, please get in touch to arrange bespoke training in using food, cooking and eating as a therapeutic arena.

Kitchen Sessions is run by myself in Brighton and Sheila Erskine, lecturer in Social Work, in Aberdeen.  We are coordinating a 4 nation approach and work across the UK.

Our vision: To make food therapy an integral part of health and care, accessible and beneficial to all

Our mission:  To train health and care professionals to use food therapy in the services they provide

Kitchen Sessions CIC is a non-profit organisation promoting the use of food, cooking and eating as a therapeutic arena for the benefit of all.

We provide training to people working in the welfare professions including counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, occupational therapists, social workers and mental health professionals.  Aiming to create joined up, collaborative, effective approach to community welfare.

About us:  Our aim is to support, encourage and enable the use of food as an inclusive therapeutic approach to wellbeing, building creative confidence and intrinsic resource.

We foster healthy attachment relationships and promote ‘human village’ behaviours through the preparation, pleasure and sharing of food.  Sessions are organised around specific themes covering the four key areas that reconnect us with our instinctual life:

Attachment nutrition: recognising food as a relational bridge across time and space.

Creative confidence: cooking is the basis of creativity, technology and transformation for humans

Community casseroles:  it takes a village to raise a meal, so around the campfire or watering hole we develop interdependence

Edible spirituality: rewilding the human spirit with Nature as our guide to reconnect with our instinctual, intuitive sense.

We run workshops and online training events across the UK.

Experiential workshops are currently from Brighton with a view to delivering in Scotland in the coming year.

We currently aim for small groups (between 4-8 practitioners) which offer plenty of time and space to explore our personal relationship with food as part of a personal and professional development process.

At the heart of our mission is providing practical, accessible and affordable training that supports practitioners in this highly adaptive, multi sensory, nature-based approach of 'kitchen therapy'.

Our online sessions are timed to include partners across the globe for diverse and enlivening conversations, sharing best practice, ideas and food for thought!

Sessions are currently arranged as stand alone workshops with a view to build longer courses which will be accredited.

Join our mailing list to find out more, when the next workshop will be or to simply book a discovery tool to see how you can use a kitchen therapy approach in your personal and professional practice.