An Eco-Mentor is a parent or educator who is concerned about the health challenges that are impacting people and the planet, and who wants to use their awareness of the problem to support themselves and others in creating a cleaner and greener experience of life. In this course, I introduce you to my collection of Tabletop TUTORS Infographics™ which make it easy and fun to learn about (and teach o
Learning Objectives
- Eco-Intelligent Lifestyle (Learn why to adopt an eco-conscious lifestyle rooted in simple abundance+ Gain insights about how to heal Affluenza and imagine a new American dream + Explore grounding, nature therapy, news fasting, etc.)
- Eco-Intelligent Eating Model (Discover why to farm green and eat clean + Explore 12 Food Groups + Learn how the processes used to bring food from farm to table creates eco-integration or dis-integration in your whole self and the whole earth.)
- Earth Care (Explore the value and necessity of organic, Non-GMO farming practices + Learn about seed saving, composting, bee preservation, and permaculture, etc.)
- Where Does the Food You Eat Come From? (Get an inside look at how dairy products, eggs, fish, and meats are produced, industrially and organically.)
- Custom Dietary Choices (Explore the dietary choices available to meet your body’s changing needs, including vegetarian, Paleo, GAPS, Chinese 5 Element, and more.)
- Eco-Friendly Cookware & Culinary Inspiration (Create your eco-friendly kitchen and use non-toxic cooking utensils + Prep meals with purpose, adopt a culinary archetype, and create therapeutic meals from colors and seasonal ingredients, etc.)
- Essential Health Awareness (Learn why to hydrate for health, eat healthy forms of salt, and consume antioxidant-rich natural food colors + Balance your gut bacteria for health and weight management.)
- Food & Mood Connection (Learn how beverages such as coffee and soda pop impact your energy and moods + Explore the health-giving foods that serve to balance your brain chemistry.)
- Sweeteners: Whole & Un-Whole (Learn about the multiple health issues that refined sugar, corn syrup, and fake sweeteners cause + Explore nature’s sugar substitutes, including their health benefits and culinary uses.)
- Fats: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Learn about the benefits of butter and ghee to brain, bone, and gut health + Explore the dark side of processed vegetable oils.)
- Brain/ Gut Health & Special Needs (Learn about how toxins, heavy metals, microbes, parasites, mold, and radiation impact brain and gut health+ Explore low-inflammation diets, cannabis care, and healthy lifestyle practices that serve to improve and heal the symptoms of autism spectrum, OCD, and ADHD, etc.)
- Wheat and Gluten Free Eating + Recipes (Learn about how gluten and wheat impact gut health adversely and cause many other unwanted symptoms+ Learn how to prepare wheat free recipes, including sandwiches, baked goods, and more!)
- Soy & Dairy less Eating & Recipes (Explore the reasons that you or your family members can’t drink milk or eat soy products + Learn how to create dairy-free nut and seed cheeses, as well as nut milks.)
- Whole Foods Recipes from Candia's Kitchen (Learn how to prepared healthy and delicious snacks, nut confections, puddings, beverages, meal salads, wraps, fritters, veggie burgers, baked goods, and more.)
- Male & Female Hormone Health Balance (Learn why to avoid hormone disrupting chemicals+ Get insights about how to use vitamins, minerals, and herbs, to support hormonal balance the drug-free way.)
- Eco-Conscious Moms & Dads–to-Be (Explore healthy birth planning, eating for fertility, pre-conception body cleansing + EMF’ avoidance, sound and music therapy for the unborn, green nursery planning, eco-conscious diapering, and conscious breastfeeding, etc.)
- Drug-less, Holistic Health Care (Holistic vs. conventional health care, holistic dentistry, Yin-Yang food therapy + scalar light energy for healing+ Holistic care for everyday ailments.)
- Non-Toxic House Cleaning (Explore the reasons to green clean your home, make your own cleaning aids, and use plants for air filtration, etc.)
- Non-Toxic Laundry and Eco-Friendly Clothing (Explore where your clothes come from and why they can be toxic to you and the environment+ Use eco-conscious methods and products to wash and dry your clothes, etc.)
- Non-Toxic Beauty and Personal Care (Pamper your body the eco-conscious way, use clean feminine hygiene products, deodorants, chemical-free perfumes, and beauty products, etc.)
- EXPLORE DIFFERENT USES FOR THE INFOGRAPHICS! Print the graphics and insert them into plastic sleeves for placement into a “show and tell” notebook. Laminate for use as dining table placemats; they make great conversation starters! Fasten the graphics to the door of your refrigerator with magnets. Enlarge the graphics (and prop them on an easel) for use at educational events. Give the TUTORS as gifts, along with gift basket items that complement the topics.
- Note: If you are interested in reselling the graphics or distributing them to the masses, you must become an affiliate. Please contact Candia Lea Cole for options at: clcole@comcast.net
Program Details
Program Description
An Eco-Mentor is a parent or educator who is concerned about the health challenges that are impacting people and the planet, and who wants to use their awareness of the problem to support themselves and others in creating a cleaner and greener experience of life. In this course, I introduce you to my collection of Tabletop TUTORS Infographics™ which make it easy and fun to learn about (and teach others about) the importance of healthy, non-toxic, eco-conscious living! The collection features 20 categories of topics, and you can see a brief summary of them in the Learning Objectives section on this page. A short audio or video introduces each category and serves to whet your appetite for learning about the many sub-topics featured within each of them. Eco-quizzes are also featured within each category, giving you and those whose health you care about, a way to personalize what you learn on the graphics. BONUS: I include my Eco-Health Quiz, "Are Toxins Robbing Your Health Blind", which gives you and your family members or clients a way to identify multiple sources of toxins in your home and workplace, so you can RATE your toxic body burden! All in all, this course features nearly 500 items to support you in becoming an eco-learner and an eco-mentor!
- Candia Lea Cole
Candia Lea Cole, the founder of Eco-Learning Legacies, is known by her peers within the holistic health community as the eco-intelligent lifestyle mentor. She creates educational tools that support individuals, families, and wellness educators to learn (and teach) about the why and the how of creating a clean, green lifestyle that nourishes wellness in body, mind, heart, and soul, as well as the earth and all living things. Candia's experience with environmental illness while growing up led her to awaken her innate eco-intelligence and to embark on a path of self-learning and self-healing. Her inspirational books, teaching infographics, video cooking classes, lifestyle podcasts, and her Eco-Mentor Leadership Trainings, all of which reflect her passion and compassion, have invited praise from many global change-agents.
QUIZ: Are Toxins Robbing Your Health Blind?
Tabletop TUTORS 01: Learn & Teach Eco-Intelligent Living
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Modern lifestyles can be hard on the environment and your health. Have you ever considered your ecological footprint? Does your modern lifestyle really improve your well-being, or does the rat race for the American Dream set you up for hyper-consumerism, rampant unnecessary debt, workaholism, anxiety, and fatigue? In this course, you'll address the harm caused by ego-centric living, and change yo
Tabletop TUTORS 02: Learn & Teach Eco-Intelligent Eating
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
In our modern dietary culture, standardized eating models such as the USDA Eating Model are used by schools and organizations to teach us about our requirements for good nutrition. But what if the kinds and quantities of foods they advise us to eat contribute to our ill health (and the planet’s ill health) because of the toxic drugs, chemicals, hormones, and GE organisms used in their production?
Tabletop TUTORS 03: Learn & Teach Eco-Intelligent Farming & Earth Care
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Have you ever wondered how our food is produced? Whether pesticides or genetically modified seeds are used, or which farming practices are truly sustainable? Maybe you've cruised through the aisles of your local farmer’s markets and spoken with vendors about how the food you buy is grown. Or maybe you've wondered what's at the root of GMOs and seed diversity. Have you heard about the plight of t
Tabletop TUTORS 04: Learn & Teach Food Origins
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Have you ever wondered where all the foods in your pantry and refrigerator come from? Have you ever thought about what a day in the life of a cow or a chicken looks like that produces the milk, butter, eggs, and meat you might consume? Have you ever thought about how tiny seeds turn into leafy green salad fixings or stir-fry materials, and how they all are ready for the taking at your local farmer
Tabletop TUTORS 05: Custom Dietary Choices (You Choose)
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Are you familiar with custom diets? Are you curious about vegetarian eating, or about following the paleo diet? Are you familiar with the GAPS Diet, or the Chinese 5 Elements Diet? Do you know the difference between a yin food, and a yang food, and which types suit your needs better? While these diets might seem like opposites, they actually have a lot in common, focusing on high-quality, organic
Tabletop TUTORS 06: Learn & Teach Eco-Friendly Cooking & Culinary Inspiration
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
How do you feel about spending time in your kitchen? Is it a cluttered pit stop where you prepare and eat meals in a rush? Or is it a sanctuary where you feel calm and grounded in awareness about your food choices and the reasons why you cook and eat? Are you an eco-conscious cook? Did you know that the cookware you use daily can actually affect your health as well as the environment we live in?
Tabletop TUTORS 07: Learn & Teach Essential Health Awareness
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Do you want to take action to improve your health, but wonder where to even begin? Do you wonder if you're focused on the right things, or, if the things you're doing really make a difference? Or are you just looking for some solid information on specific ways you can improve your overall health? With so many things out there that can affect your health (for better or worse!), zeroing in on tru
Tabletop TUTORS 08: Learn & Teach about The Food & Mood Connection
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
You've heard of comfort food, and while pints of ice cream may make some things all better, there's a little more to it than that! Did you know you can boost your mood by eating the right foods? The chemicals in foods affect our brains in very specific ways, and with the right foods, you can eat your way to being calmer, more focused, energized, and happy. In this course, you'll explore the kin
Tabletop TUTORS 09: Learn & Teach about Healthy Sweeteners & Toxic Sweeteners
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Have you ever noticed how many sweeteners are available to us these days? The options are endless, from honey and molasses to palm sugar, stevia, good ol' granulated white sugar, and high fructose corn syrup! Not all sweeteners are created equal, though! Do you know which sweeteners are safe, sustainable, and healthy, and which sweeteners damage your body and the planet? In this course, you wil
Tabletop TUTORS 10: Learn and Teach about Healthy Fats and Toxic Fats
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Fats have been vilified for many years, but modern research has shown that the right fats can be absolutely fantastic for your health, while the wrong fats can have long-term damaging effects on your body. The trouble is, there's a lot of different information floating around on which fats are good and which are bad! In this course, you will learn about different sources of health-giving fats,
Tabletop TUTORS 11: Learn & Teach about the Needs of Youth with Autism, ADHD, OCD, and Special Needs
Learn How to Create a Clean, Green, Nourishing Lifestyle for Youth who Are On or Near the Spectrum
Are you a mom, a dad, or an educator who is trying to figure out how your child (or the child in your care) developed Autism? Have you been told by a functional medicine doctor that you need to do a whole lifestyle makeover if you want to support your child in getting well? Are you overwhelmed by that prospect? If you are, you're not alone. But your child is depending on you for answers, right?
Tabletop TUTORS 12: Learn & Teach Wheat & Gluten Free Eating + Recipes
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
You've heard of gluten, but do you still wonder what it is, exactly? Or why do some folks make such a big deal out of gluten-free foods and wheat sensitivity? Maybe you've heard that wheat can wreak havoc in your digestive tract, or maybe you've felt just a little off and are ready to try a gluten-free diet to get back your old self. In this course, you'll find great resources for determining if
Tabletop TUTORS 13: Learn & Teach Dairy Free-Options, Raw Milk Options, & Soy-Free Eating + Recipes
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Are you, or a loved one, lactose intolerant? Do you wonder why you feel bloated and uncomfortable after eating dairy products? Are you looking for healthy, humane alternatives to conventional dairy products? Have you heard about raw milk, but aren't sure what that means, or how it is different from the processed jugs of milk you find at the supermarket? Maybe you've tried soy dairy replacement
Tabletop TUTORS 14: Learn & Teach Whole Foods Recipes from Candia's Kitchen
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
You've heard about whole foods, but have you wondered what all the fuss is about? What constitutes a "whole food", or how do you eat a diet of whole foods? Maybe you wonder how anyone has time to cook whole foods and give up the convenience of processed meals. In this course, you'll be introduced to various healthy snacks, beverages, and meals that nourish your body from head to toe. You'll see
Tabletop TUTORS 15: Learn & Teach Male & Female Hormone Health Support
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
What comes to mind when you hear the word hormones? Hormones — such as estrogen, testosterone, adrenaline, and insulin are vital to the function of your overall health. This course gives you a sense of how you can begin to re-balance your male and female sex hormones naturally (using whole foods and nutrition supplements) so you can avoid the use of controversial drugs and bio-identical hormone re
Tabletop TUTORS 16: Eco-Moms & Dads to Be (Learn & Teach Pre and Post Pregnancy Health Care)
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Many moms and dads-to-be place a lot of their energy and focus on planning a time to get pregnant, anticipating a due date, choosing a birth center, deciding how to decorate the baby’s nursery, and keeping their fingers crossed for a birth experience that provides a positive outcome for mom, dad, and baby. Sometimes other vital issues get neglected such as: why to detoxify their bodies before conc
Tabletop TUTORS 17: Learn & Teach Drugless, Holistic Health Care
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Who do you turn to for help, when you get sick? Do you turn to allopathic doctors for a “quick fix?” Or do you turn to doctors who practice holistic health care and actively encourage you to participate in your healing process? Chronic health conditions weigh heavily on our global society. We could make huge strides in improving our health by preventing illnesses before they begin. But many people
Tabletop TUTORS 18: Learn & Teach Non-Toxic Laundry + Eco-Friendly Clothing
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Are the clothes you wear hurting the environment, or exploiting others in their manufacturing process? Have you heard about sweatshop conditions overseas (or even in the US!), or factory disasters, and wondered if your clothes are part of the problem? How do you know? How can you research the impact the clothes on your back have?
Tabletop TUTORS 19: Learn & Teach Non-Toxic Home Care + House Cleaning
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Are the products you use to keep your house clean making you and your family ill? Is your cleaning arsenal stocked with poisons that have to be locked away for safekeeping when not in use? Even though conventional cleaners claim to be safe, they are jam-packed with toxic chemicals. In this course, you will learn about alternatives to toxic cleaning chemicals.
Tabletop TUTORS 20: Learn & Teach Non-Toxic Personal Care and Beauty
Colorful Graphics & Quizzes Make it Easy & Fun to Learn about Eco-Intelligent Living!
Have you ever wondered which ingredients are in all your personal care products? Have you heard warnings about toxic ingredients, or wondered what labels like "organic" and "natural" actually mean? Do you know how your cosmetics are made, and whether they are tested on defenseless animals? Are the fragrances you wear and the feminine hygiene products you use safe? In this course, you will answer
