The Ellyn Satter Institute is your go-to source for education on the renowned Satter feeding dynamics and eating competence models. Parents and pediatricians alike look to Satter to help solve simple and complex child feeding problems. Dietitians and other health professionals apply Satter's eating competence work to help people restore normal eating and develop a healthy relationship with food.
We follow a non-diet philosophy seek to help people eat in a positive manner and trust their body's ability to eat the right amount of food to maintain a stable weight. We invite you to explore our classes.
"If I could summarize the Satter feeding and eating approach in one word - it would be trust"
Ellyn Satter Institute Professionals
Ellyn Satter, founder of the Ellyn Satter Institute, has devoted her long career to uplifting the mealtime experience. Satter developed simple yet profound models for feeding your family and feeding yourself, validated them through research, and passed along her approaches to healthcare professionals and educators around the world. Ellyn Satter’s transformative work changes lives.
The Institute carries on her work to teach parents how to transform family meals into joyful, healthful, struggle-free events, free from drama and conflict. We teach individuals with weight issues how to release themselves from the grip of guilt and shame in their relationship with food.
Every year the Ellyn Satter Institute helps tens of thousands of parents, grandparents, children, teens, adults, and health professionals reimagine and reshape anxiety-infused relationships with food into joyful journeys of healthful well-being. We offer classes to teach the evidence-based Satter Feeding Dynamics Model and Satter Eating Competence Model, and we support individuals, parents, and professionals in the models’ implementation through education, consulting, mentoring, and publishing.
Our mission is to transform lives and achieve health through positive and joyful eating and feeding.