1. Portfolio
Fernanda Batistuta de Mesquita
Adress: 151 Beecroft Road #1103 – Toronto – Ontario – Canada M2N 7C4
Phone: (647) 981-1870
E-mail: febatistuta@gmail.com
• EDUCATION
Graduate Certificate (2016) Centennial College – Toronto – Canada
Workplace Wellbeing and Health Promotion
Certificate (2005) Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - IEC – Brazil
Applied Ergonomics for Occupational Health
B. Arch. (1999) Centro Universitário Metodista Izabela Hendrix
Brazil
2. OTHER TRAINING
Pratictioner in
Neuro-Linguistic
Programming
(NLP)
(2012)
Actius Consultoria, Desenvolvimento e Liderança – Brazil 72h
Actius is the first company in Brazil in the field of NLP to receive an
ISO 9001:2008 certificate, granted by an internationally accredited
independent agency and given to companies that reach a level of
excellence in the products and services they offer.
http://www.actius.com.br/site/
Pratictioner in
EFT (Emotional
Freedom
Techniques)
(2012)
EFT Brasil - André Lima Institute – Brazil 80h
Online course with 70 students per class with the most renowned
teacher in Brazil.
http://www.eftbrasil.com.br/
Pratictioner in
Body Reading
(2011)
Núcleo de Leitura Corporal – Brazil 320h
Year-long course with 35 students per class, created by Nereida
Vilela, one of the most important physiotherapists in Belo
Horizonte, Brazil.
http://www.leituracorporal.com.br/
Holistic Coaching
(2016) in course
NESTA Institute – USA (online)
http://www.nestacertified.com/
3. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
When I was a child I had problems with
managing my weight, and by the time I was
fourteen years old I weighed 108kgs. At that
time I moved from my hometown to a big city
to live with my siblings in order to study.
Looking back I can see how profound this
break was for me. When I was eighteen my
mom sent me to a weight-loss spa for one
month and I discovered that I really liked
exercise, I just hadn’t done any until then.
When I was twenty-three years old I had the
help of a doctor who planted an idea in me.
He showed me that the problem was more
about mind and emotions than just food.
4. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
I lost forty-eight kilograms without surgery
and medicine. But unfortunately I didn’t
maintain it for very long. I regained twenty
kilograms, and for the next twenty years or so
I lost and regained those same twenty kilos.
But one day I had a burst of insight and
started to study on my own about the roots of
emotional eating and how to deal with it. I
completed a lot of courses and now I’m forty
years old and I weigh sixty-one kilograms. I
completely changed my life, my habits and my
self-esteem. It was a huge transformation,
inside and outside!
5. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
I studied a lot to try to understand why we gain
weight, so I decided to create a methodology to
help other people who have the same issue. My
experience is important because I know very well
how hard it is to be fat, how difficult it is to be a
target of bullying and prejudice.
Out of all this was born my project called
MetaBody. My objective is to act beyond (“meta”)
the body, but including it. I help people find a new
way to look at and interact with food and physical
activity, taking into account the need to take care
of our health and why we sometimes need to
make some sacrifices. I help people to rediscover
the many pleasures of food, to be themselves, to
take care of their bodies, and more. For me that’s
the meaning of life, to live with intensity and
depth, without fear or judgment.
6. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• CEO and Founder of MetaBody - Consulting
firm specializing in weight loss.
FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/EspacoMetacorpo/?ref=hl
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw3u7wTsaiEiqC6ysMlQSSg
7. Emotional Weight Loss Group – MetaBody
Based on my personal experience, a partner
and I developed a group program to help
people who want to lose weight. Our
approach was to focus on the mental and
emotional questions involved. The structure
consisted of one group meeting and one
personal session per week for eight weeks.
The group meeting lasted about two hours
and consisted of presentations and
dynamics. The subjects discussed were self-
esteem, self-sabotage, how we form habits
and how to break them, among others. The
personal session lasted one hour and used
skills like NPL and EFT. Working on these
projects, I had the chance to provide social
support to individuals and groups.
8. Emotional Weight Loss Group – MetaBody
2013, March to May – 1st Group – 8 people
2013, April to June – 2nd Group – 7 people
9. Emotional Weight Loss Workshop – MetaBody
This dynamic workshop with
presentations, discussion, dance, food
dynamics, self-massage, and other
activities is based on Body Reading´s
dynamics, which I used to study and
practice in Brazil. This kind of experience
helps people to recognize the body, make
contact with their own emotions and
create more self-intimacy and
confidence. These workshops are four
hours long, including time for snacks and
relaxation. By developing these
workshops, I had the chance to explore
my creativity and provide support to
groups through the use of my self-taught
knowledge and skills.
2013, April – Workshop 1 – 8 people
2013, May – Workshop 2 – 5 people
2013, June – Workshop 3 – 5 people
2013, August – Workshop 4 – 8 people
2013, September – Workshop 5 – 7 people
10. Metafit Integral Weight Loss
The most comprehensive
approach that I had the
opportunity to work with
was the Metafit Project.
Three partners - a
nutritionist, a personal
trainer and I - developed
this project, which was
divided into workshops
and a personal program.
We used to call it The
Slimming Tripod.
11. Integral Weight Loss Workshop – Metafit
In this workshop we gave
presentations on bad and good
habits and how to manage
them, health food, exercise
and emotional hunger. It
followed a structure similar to
the MetaBody workshops, with
discussion and dynamics, lots
of information and tips to help
people who care about body
image. We had the support
and incentive of a beauty clinic
and a health food shop.
2013, July – Workshop 1 – 20 people
2013,October – Workshop 2 – 12 people
2014, March – Workshop 3 – 8 people
2014, August – Workshop 4 – 6 people
2014, November – Workshop 5 – 15 people
13. Integral Weight Loss Program – Metafit
In this program, the Metafit team
provided care to individuals
rather than groups. I helped with
emotional and mental aspects,
using my EFT, NPL and Body
Language skills.
2013, July - Individual client #1, Vanisse
Mesquita Melo
2014, March - Individual client #2, Valéria
Versoza
14. Integral Weight Loss Detox – Metafit
For this week-long program
the Metafit team created an
online group in the mobile
application WhatsApp. The
first day we sent instructions
for a detox diet by email.
Every day after that we sent
tips, clarification and
support for the group. I used
to send tips about
breathing, natural
medicines, and emotional
and mental issues.
2014, July – Detox da Copa – 20 people
2014, December – Detox Christmas –50
people
15. Integral Weight Loss Disclosure – Metafit
Short disclosure in a health food
shop, with presentations, dynamics
and tasting in order to promote our
workshops and share our point of
view.
2013, July – Disclosure 1
2013, October – Disclosure 2
2014, March – Disclosure 3
2014, August – Disclosure 4
2014, November – Disclosure 5
16. Body and Soul Experience – MetaBody
and Silvana Garay
Silvana Garay is a Physical
Education and Yoga teacher who
developed with me a two-day
experience covering relaxation
and breathing techniques, and
how these can help with weight
loss. The experience was held in a
more natural environment close
to the city, where people could do
these practices in nature. In this
environment we could more easily
show how contact with nature
helps with connecting to the body
and teach how this is important
for permanent weight loss.
17. Body and Soul Experience – MetaBody
and Silvana Garay
2013, December - Body and Soul Experience 1 –
5 people
2014, May - Body and Soul Experience 2 – 7
people
18. Dance and Body Language Workshop –
MetaBody and Sarah Pardini
Sarah Pardini works with sexuality and
Divine Feminine and we had a
partnership in a dance workshop. It
was just for females, and I had the
opportunity to talk from the Body
Reading point of view about how
female body image, energy and
sexuality impacts weight loss.
2014, September – 16 people
19. Individual Counseling
I have close to 1,000 hours of experience in individual counseling
with a clientele of about 25 people with whom I worked using
mainly EFT and NPL as my favorite tools.
