Wise Traditions 2012 – Nutrition and Behavior

WISE TRADITIONS 2012
Thirteenth International Conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation
Santa Clara, California

NUTRITION AND BEHAVIOR
Friday, November 9 – Saturday, November 10 – Sunday, November 11
Plus special activities Thursday, November 8 and Monday, November 12

Thursday:  Chapter Leader Meeting and Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund FundRAISER Dinner

Click here for details.

Early Bird Special

SAVE up to $50 if you register by October 15!

Register securely online at: https://www.ptfassociates.com/secure/wisetraditions/2012Registration.htm

or call 304-724-3006.

OUR SCHEDULE OFFERS A VARIETY OF TRACKS EACH DAY

We are hosting over 40 speakers to provide 45 different talks and the movie American Meat and one banquet plus other delicious meals.  The only challenge is deciding which talk to attend.

FRIDAY – Five tracks plus evening activities:

• Nourishing Traditional Diets by Sally Fallon Morell
• Nutrition and Behavoir by Julia Ross
• Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell-McBride
• Science of Farming
• Cooking Track
• Treating Diabetes
• Farm and Food Activism
• History of Magnetism
• Film:  American Meat

SATURDAY – Three tracks plus evening activities:

• Nutrition and Behavior
• Wellness Track
• Farming Track
• Banquet with keynote address by Andrea Malmberg, Allan Savory Institute

SUNDAY – Five tracks:

• The Frontiers of Science
• Nutrion and Behavior
• Native Ways
• Wise Entrepreneurs
• Nutrition

MONDAY – All day activities for additional fees:

• Farm Tour
• Posture and Movement with Ester Gokhale and Kim Thompson
• Nutrition Topics with Stephanie Seneff
• Seven Days of Dinner with Jessica Prentice

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PLUS Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund FundRAISER Dinner
Thursday, November 8

Start the conference on a festive note! Join your friends at the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense FundRAISER event – Food, Fun and Festivities.  The event includes a reception with cook-off entries, three-course dinner, inspiring speakers, music and dancing. Early bird tickets are $75 adult/$45 child before October 15, 2012. Purchase your tickets on the conference registration form. Space is limited.

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Register securely online at: https://www.ptfassociates.com/secure/wisetraditions/2012Registration.htm

or call 304-724-3006.

LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION

Hilton Santa Clara Hotel

4949 Great America Parkway

Santa Clara, CA, 95054

One block from the conference location, the Santa Clara Convention Center.

408-330-0001 #1 for new reservations

The Conference Code is WESTON for the group rate of $149 a day plus tax.

Please contact Paul Frank (304)-724-3006 if you have any questions or issues with making hotel reservations.

ROOM SHARE/RIDE SHARE
Access our online bulletin board at: https://www.ptfassociates.com/secure/wisetraditions/forum/default.asp.

CHILDCARE
The Wise Traditions Conference is pleased to provide a children’s program for this year’s meeting. $210 for Friday – Sunday, includes Friday lunch, Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch or $100 per child with no meals. Children 3 – 12 who are potty trained are welcome to Wise Traditions 2012 as long as they are enrolled in our children’s program. For the sake of other conference attendees, we ask that parents refrain from bringing children to the conference sessions.

For children’s meals you may select GF and/or CF.

Also note: A special room has been set aside for mothers of infants who want to attend the conference. There will be a live audio feed from one of the sessions to that room throughout the day’s events. There will be no child care provided for infants and children under age 3.

CONFERENCE FOOD
As always, the conference will feature delicious traditional foods. Participants requiring gluten-free or casein-free meals will be served in a separate buffet with the exception of the Saturday banquet which is GF/CF with items containing gluten and/or casein served on the side. If you wish to have this option, please select the GF and/or CF option on your registration form.

INTERESTED IN DONATING/BARTERING FOOD ITEMS?

Phone our office at (304) 724-3006 or email paul@ptfassociates.com.

FUNDRAISER BREAKFASTS

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund provides hot and cold breakfast menu options at the FundRAISER breakfast held at the convention center.  Note: Breakfasts item are additional, and are not included in the conference fee. All items provided on an ala-carte basis and include organic soaked oatmeal with a fixin’s bar, pastured hard-boiled eggs, biscuits and sausage gravy, whole fruit and many other delicious items. All proceeds benefit the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.

EXHIBITING AND SPONSOR INFORMATION
For information about exhibiting or becoming a sponsor or exhibiting, please visit http://www.westonaprice.org/2012-conference/2012-conference-exhibitors, or contact Paul Frank at PTF Associates at (304) 724-3006 or pfrank@ptfassociates.com.

For those interested in exhibiting food and/or drink, please be sure to review the 2012 Food and Beverage Guidelines http://www.westonaprice.org/images/conf/foodexhibitordonorguidelines.pdf

Space for sponsor and exhibiting is limited; early registration is encouraged!

INTERESTED IN DONATING ITEMS FOR OUR SILENT AUCTION?

Contact us at (304) 724-3006 or email registrar@ptfassociates.com.

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS

are available for RN and LAc for $65.  Nutritionists and RD need only $5 certificate of attendance. For further information, click here.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

visit http://www.westonaprice.org/2012-conference/2012-conference

or call (304) 724-3006.