What is Food Being?
How does it work?
How is Food Being different than other culinary or nutritional classes?
Who is Food Being?
What inspired Food Being?
Why take the Food Being Seminar?
How can the Food Being experience benefit me?
What is the key to success with my Food Being experience?
Who might be a fellow Food Being classmate?
Will I learn real kitchen skills?
How will I have a hands-on experience in an on-line course?
Who are the seminar guides?
How much time should I expect to spend on Food Being?
How long will it take to prepare for the weekly seminars?
Do I have to be on-line at a prescribed time each week?
How much is Food Being and how do I register?
How does one obtain Continuing Education and Graduate credit?
What is the TIES and Food Being collaboration?
Can you tell me more about TIES?
What is Food Being?
Food Being is an on-line nutritional educational experience. Through a prepared environment of carefully selected content, using a self-exploratory experiential approach, and dialogue-based group interaction you will broaden your relationship with food and nutrition.
How does it work?
Your Food Being experience will take place on-line and in your own kitchen over a four week period.
How is Food Being different than other culinary or nutritional classes?
Instead of a “go at your own pace” or individual model, Food Being engages the collective group in a dialogue centered format. And unlike traditional teaching where there is teacher providing information to students, the participants and guides are on the journey together.
Who is Food Being?
Food Being is the brainchild of food-frontier couple Sharon and Warren Moliken. Life partners for 17 years and business partners for a decade, Food Being is a long-held dream and natural extension their combined life’s experience in social work, leadership, coaching, nutritive wellness, manufacturing (both food and media), entertainment, and not-for-profit community education in food, farming and the healing arts.
What inspired Food Being?
For 15 years we’ve been in the gourmet food-as-medicine world. We are extremely fortunate to have had so many direct client experiences sharing healing foods with our communities in San Francisco, New Zealand and Portland. For a long time we thought we were just feeding people. And people kept coming back, not just for the great food. They returned for the lively and informed discussion and then the subsequent human connection. People wanted food engagement on a deeper level. Over the course of a month, Food Being seeks to cultivate and ignite this food experience amongst our on-line learning communities.
Why take the Food Being Seminar?
To engage in a fun, interactive, informative, communal and exploratory food experience.
How can the Food Being experience benefit me?
We live in an ever-confusing natural foods and nutritional misinformation marketplace. The shared experiential and dialogue approach as well as the exploration of the broader nutritional story will enhance your confidence and connection to the food you purchase, prepare and consume.
What is the key to success with my Food Being experience?
Food Being is best enjoyed with your active participation in the dialogue coupled with a willingness to be open and honest about your experience.
Who might be a fellow Food Being classmate?
Most people seeking to enhance health and wellness begin navigating the path of food and nutrition. Understanding one’s food story is critical to setting stage for taking ownership of one’s healing through food. This understanding is a journey of discovery within itself, multifaceted and without manual. Expect Food Being participants to be willing explorers on their own food journey.
Will I learn real kitchen skills?
Indeed. During the month of Food Being you will learn a foundational skill set to properly prepare nutrient dense and delicious foods.
How will I have a hands-on experience in an on-line course?
Each week there will be a creative culinary exercise completed at home by each participant. This might take 30 minutes to an hour. The experience will then be shared with the group via photo, video, and/or observations. These hands-on exercises are designed to engage the individual’s sense of nutritional identity and set a backdrop for developing the group’s collective experience.
Who are the seminar guides?
Sharon Moliken is a 15 year veteran in the healing foods world. She is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Natural Foods Chef, founded and operated a gourmet food-as-medicine venture in NZ, holds an MSW, and has been a leader in community food arts and activism since 2006.
Warren Moliken grew up in the food and entertainment industry. He spent his youth in the kitchens of a 2000 seat dinner theater, feeding the summer festival and concert masses of Philadelphia before discovering the world of nutrient dense foods. His early education is steeped heavily in the natural sciences. With Sharon he operated the family’s gourmet healing foods business. As a master kombucha brewer he founded and developed the award-winning WabiO Kombucha.
How much time should I expect to spend on Food Being?
Individuals should expect to spend 15 minutes to an hour each day.
How long will it take to prepare for the weekly seminars?
Each week there will be readings and videos on a common theme. This preparatory material will take no more than two hours. There will be additional optional content each week for participants desiring deeper exploration.
Do I have to be on-line at a prescribed time each week?
No, there are no specified meeting times. After completing the readings and the creative exercise at the start of the week, the flexibility of the on-line seminar will allow individuals to log into the dialogue forum at any time of day or night reflecting and responding to the postings. Participants are strongly encouraged to check-in on a daily basis.
How much is Food Being and how do I register?
Food Being is $145 and you can register here.
How do you obtain Continuing Education and Graduate credit?
Food Being is presented by TIES. The Institute for Educational Studies offers M.Ed. Graduate Programs in Integrative Learning and Montessori Integrative Learning. Send inquiries here for fee and coursework requirements for credit.
What is the TIES and Food Being collaboration?
During 2015, The Institute for Educational Studies celebrates its 20th Anniversary. In that time TIES has guided over 400 teachers in 40 countries toward their Masters in Education. Food Being brings the hands-on leadership, nutritional experience and content development to the seminar. The Food Being on-line concept and process is informed by the wisdom and experience of TIES in the fields of education and web-based learning communities. In this inaugural nutritional seminar Food Being Host, Sharon Gang Moliken, follows in the footsteps of TIES’ Academic Dean and her father, Dr. Philip Snow Gang.
Can you tell me more about TIES?
TIES was established in 1987 order to advance integrative teaching and learning in workshops, seminars, and courses for teachers/leaders in business and education.
TIES has conducted teacher formation courses in Norway, New Zealand and Canada. The faculty has also provided consultation for schools throughout North and South America, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia. Launching its eCampus in 1996, TIES has been an innovator in the field of experiential online graduate programs.
The Institute:
- Emphasizes the teacher’s role in advocating for a secure and sustainable world.
- Recognizes that diversity, interdependence, ecological awareness and a realization of the body-brain-spirit connection are integral to Earth stewardship
- Fosters the development of compassionate and collaborative learning communities
- Develops initiatives that use experiential learning to inform academic inquiry
In addition to the accredited online Masters programs with Endicott College, TIES has established EarthTIES.org — an organization that conducts eConferences. These virtual events promote The Great Work — a theme developed by cultural historian Thomas Berry and mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme. The intention is to raise awareness to the “great planetary turning” and the role of humanity in that Great Work.