Our flagship program helps members create a healthy, joyful, and abundant food life by building cooking confidence, teaching the foundations of flavor, and promoting deeper personal connections through food.
Come meet us in the kitchen!
50% of the US population is pre-diabetic or diabetic, and one-third of premature deaths can be attributed to the American diet. A shift to healthy eating is the most powerful tool we have to reduce the onset of obesity-related diseases. Monj drives positive outcomes utilizing the strengths of behavior change science to forever improve the way people eat, cook, and connect.
Monj’s engaging curriculum is based on leading behavior change science to drive intrinsic motivation. With Monj, participants can increase their overall wellness with a convenient food and lifestyle program. We are a partner on the journey to sustained weight-loss and chronic care management.
Monj also delivers the CDC’s Diabetes Prevention Program digitally with partner Livongo to patients around the country.
The unique Monj “learn-by-doing” curriculum promotes positive and sustained behavior change based on the science of Self Determination Theory.
Monj guides participants to joyfully build new skills and insights—benefitting from long term positive behavior change through our curriculum centered on developing autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
People don’t eat nutrition, they eat food! While participants are guided through our lessons—the blueprints for building healthy eating skills—they learn through our proprietary flavor framework that a focus on plant-based goodness brings big flavors, satiation, and abundance—AND nutrition (shhh!)
Our cooking lessons provide hands on, skill-based learnings that are templates for participants to create amazing meals. These “blueprints” are how we “hack cooking school” and set participants free to create meals on their own.
With up to two-thirds of our eating done outside of the home, skills for navigating restaurant menus, deli counters, and social events are essential. Our Power Ups provide ways to “hack the menu” for big flavor and big nutrition.
Significant change can be daunting for even the most well-intentioned. We focus on “micro behaviors” to ensure participants achieve the small wins that an add up to major accomplishments over time.
Participants are guided to achieve milestones, or goals, as they advance through the engaging science based behavior change curriculum. The focus is on building skills and insights that last a lifetime, and we don’t miss the chance to acknowledge and track incremental success along the way.
Be Social
Mealtime has always held a special significance in human culture. This act of sharing food with others is a primal, pro-social act that helps us feel closer to one another. The importance of shared food experience needs to be woven into any approach for nutritional behavior change that hopes to be effective—and it’s often left out.
Monj puts social connection at the core of our solution. Participants collaborate through Team Ups, the Monj version of a challenge, explore new ways to make eating in the office more social through our missions, and get family and friends together in the kitchen together to share the cooking experience.
Being social brings fun to eating, but it also uses the social network to support success.