Responsive Feeding Therapy: Foundations workshop for healthcare professionals September 2026

Workshop description

Responsive and affirming approaches are fundamental to supporting children to develop positive relationships with food, with others and with their bodies. This workshop has been designed to support eating differences by assisting healthcare professionals to deeply understand responsive and affirming feeding foundations and how to support children and families through a responsive feeding lens. This workshop is neurodiversity affirming and celebrates the many different ways to be eat, drink and feed.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Differentiating between eating and feeding presentations: Eating/feeding differences including sensitive/cautious eaters in the early years, paediatric feeding disorders and ARFID 

• Responsive feeding therapy foundations

• Affirming eating and feeding supports

• The ‘tilt’ concept to assist you to assess feeding dynamics and relationships between feeding partners and those who are eating or feeding

• Assessment techniques throughout the different ages and stages to support you to understand some of the unique situations that arise and how you can support using a responsive approach 

• Understanding eating and feeding cues and how to work with families and supporters around pressure, communication (as the foundation of eating behaviours) and feeding cues, including those who eat by mouth and/or receive nutrition via feeding tube 

• Shaping responsive feeding therapy interventions, including caregiver coaching models and direct feeding therapy 

• Case studies using a responsive feeding and neurodiversity-affirming approach 

• Q&A

Workshop objectives

• Participants will increase their understanding of what responsive feeding is (and isn’t) and how to apply a responsive lens to all the work that you do with individuals and families

• Participants will understand the importance of neurodiversity-affirming feeding intervention supports

• Participants will increase their confidence in assessing feeding practices from birth through to adulthood

• Participants will increase their understanding of how to assess eating and feeding differences using a responsive, affirming and strengths-based lens

• Participants will utilise their reflective practice skills in relation to how they are supporting families using a responsive feeding framework

• Participants will increase their confidence and competence to deliver direct responsive feeding therapy interventions in a timely and individualised manner, and build their clinical reasoning skills in relation to goal setting, case formulation and decision making to undertake direct feeding therapy

Workshop recording information
This workshop will be recorded. A recording will be available for a 60-day period after the live workshop occurs. You can attend all or part of the live workshop. You will have access to the recording whether you attend all/part of the live workshop or not. 

Additional fees apply for content access extensions after the 60 day period. Workshop recordings may be used by the event organiser only. By enrolling in the workshop, you consent to this workshop recording being used at the discretion of the organiser. No permission is granted for screen recordings or sharing of any workshop materials.

Ticket information

Single tickets and group/workplace tickets are available. 

Group/workplace tickets: You don't need to work at the same organisation to purchase a group/workplace ticket. You can enrol with one or more colleagues or peers and learn together. Group enrolment not only offers a cost saving, but also provides an opportunity to build shared knowledge of responsive feeding therapy practices, making it easier to reflect together and provide clients and families with a consistent approach.

All attendees must be listed as attendees at the time of purchase. 

All ticket holders will receive a certificate of attendance. 

All ticket holders will receive a workshop login link, however you may also attend the live workshop as a group. It is helpful to let the event organiser know that you will be attending the live workshop in a group setting. 

Tickets are not transferrable to other parties.