Professional Integrative Nutrition (PIND): Professional Integration Labs
Professional Integrative Nutrition (PIND): Professional Integration Labs
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Rhodes semesters move quickly, often with very little downtime in-between. Students have shared that this pace makes it harder to fully absorb and integrate everything they are learning, including the theories, the skills, and the personal growth that shape them into confident and integrated, professional helpers.
To support this, we now offer Professional Integration (PI) Labs. These sessions provide intentional space to meet with peers in your program stream/semester, reflect on your experiences, and connect the dots between coursework, your personal journey, and your professional development in the coaching, counselling, and wellness fields.
What to Expect
Facilitators will:
- Create a reflective and supportive space to pause from the pace of coursework.
- Invite you to step back and integrate your learning across classes and personal experiences.
- Encourage dialogue and connection, rather than content review.
- Help you link insights to your personal and professional growth.
- Support you in seeing the bigger picture of your development as a practitioner.
How They Work
Format: Six(6) Semester 6 PIND PI Labs offered intermittently throughout each semester. For courses affected by a stat holiday, PI make-up Labs will be scheduled within 1–2 weeks after each statutory holiday. Attendance: Labs count toward attendance in each student's relevant course impacted by statutory holidays (April 3, April 6, and May 18). There are specific make-up labs assigned to count towards attendance for each statutory holiday (each providing 0.5 attendance time for the 'missed' class day).
Why Join?
PI Labs go beyond attendance! They are a chance to:
- Network with students from other cohorts who may become future colleagues or referral partners.
- Exchange perspectives and practice professionalism, empathy, and peer support.
- Build community and form long-lasting friendships and professional connections.
Each lab is two hours & 15 minutes long. Students can attend any or all sessions. Each lab is structured but also features organic space to address individual student needs.
Students can expect each lab to be facilitated with the following approximate schedule: Welcome & Framing • Briefly introduce the purpose of the lab: a space to integrate classroom learning into professional identity as a nutritional counsellor. • Acknowledge that participants are from different cohorts and stages; emphasize that the session is about shared themes relevant to all practitioners. • Invite each student to share (in 1–2 sentences) what they hope to get from today’s lab.
Mini-Lesson / Concept Spotlight • Facilitator introduces a universal theme relevant to professional counselling • Keep the teaching brief, focusing on: o Core concept (theory or skill) o Professional relevance (why it matters in practice) o Reflective prompt (how it connects to students’ current stage of training)
Guided Reflection • Students individually write or journal in response to reflection questions connected to the mini-lesson. • Prompts should allow students to ground the concept in their own experience, regardless of training stage.
Group Engagement • Options: o Large group dialogue: Facilitator facilitates an open discussion of student reflections. o Small group breakout: Students share insights with 2–3 peers, then return to the full group. o Skill practice: If appropriate, students pair up and practice a short counselling skill connected to the theme.
Integration & Application • Facilitator helps students identify: o How today’s theme shows up in their coursework and client/practice work. o One specific action, mindset shift, or experiment they want to try before their next class.
Closing • Round of final reflections: “One takeaway I’m leaving with is...” • Facilitator thanks and reminds participants that labs are an ongoing space for integration, and encourages ongoing reflection.
Dates:
Extracurricular Sessions (Elective)
Friday, July 24, 2026 | 2:00–4:15 PM with Tish Boyle
Make-Up for BC Day (Monday, August 3)
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | 2:00–4:15 PM with Kate Shivers
Friday, August 7, 2026 | 2:00–4:15 PM with Kate Shivers
Make-Up for Labour Day (Monday, September 7)
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | 2:00–4:15 PM with Kate Shivers
Wednesday, September 11, 2026 | 2:00–4:15 PM with Kate Shivers
REGISTRATION INFO:
Registration is required and closes 15 minutes before the start of the event. Ticket Tailor will email the event Zoom link to all registrants upon registration, 3 days/1 day/10 minutes before the session.
WHO CAN ATTEND:
Rhodes students enrolled in our Professional Integrative Nutrition Program in Semester 3