Learn with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, then continue with Dr. Karen Laing’s Lifestyle Nursing course through INCA.
This is Kitchen 🪷 Monk™’s annual ACLM conference guide. Find the current online opportunity, plan the cost and study time, and explore a focused nursing education pathway afterward. Thank you for being part of a community that keeps learning in service to a healthier, more compassionate world.
🧭 On this page: Online conference · Costs · Credits & deadlines · Benefits · Lifestyle Nursing · Ninja honor · Next conference · Videos
💻 Current online conference: November 8–11, 2026
Lifestyle Medicine 2026 Online offers livestreamed mainstage programming and recordings of keynote and concurrent sessions. The published offer includes one year of recording access; sessions are typically posted within 24 hours. Live programming runs on Eastern Time, three hours ahead of Pacific Time.
Online participants can use conference Q&A, the app, and ACLM Connect to engage with the event. The conference also provides a searchable collection of more than 200 research abstracts. Visit the official agenda to choose sessions that fit your interests.
🤝 A broad learning community
ACLM describes the conference audience as professionals across healthcare and beyond, including nurses, nurse practitioners, health and wellness coaches, allied health professionals, and other disciplines. Nonmember registration is available. Check the official audience information and registration options for your own circumstances.
Here at Kitchen Monk and Flourishing Nursing, our welcome includes clinicians, non-clinicians, students, families, caregivers, and the wider nursing care community. Every person deserves dignity and respectful treatment. Conference participation and credit eligibility follow the organizer’s requirements.
💰 Plan the separate registration costs
| Offering | Published price |
|---|---|
| LM2026 Online: ACLM member | $659 |
| LM2026 Online: nonmember | $959 |
| LM2026 Online: verified active ACLM student member | $99 |
| INCA Lifestyle Nursing: standalone course | $1,295 |
| Conference + course using standard member rate | $1,954 |
| Conference + course using standard nonmember rate | $2,254 |
These combined amounts add two separate registrations. They exclude textbook costs, membership dues, financing charges, optional workshops, and any applicable discounts. Optional three-hour online workshops are advertised at $159 for members and $259 for nonmembers each; they require live attendance and are not recorded. Online conference registration is nonrefundable. Review the official registration rates and policies before paying.
Online registration is scheduled to close November 16, 2026, at 2 p.m. Eastern. Confirm the current closing time and terms on the official LM2026 Online page. 🎟️ #ACLM #LM2026 #LearnTogether
🎓 Nursing contact hours and completion dates
LM2026 advertises up to 49.25 nursing contact hours. INCA’s Lifestyle Nursing course lists 92.5 contact hours. Together, that is a potential 141.75 nursing contact hours for eligible participants who complete the qualifying activities and requirements. Credit acceptance depends on your credential and jurisdiction.
The conference’s published CME/CE/CNE claim deadline is January 29, 2027. One year of recording access does not extend that credit-claim deadline. Other credit types have their own limits and deadlines. See the official accreditation statement.
🌍 Connecting clinical learning and community life
The official ACLM–Blue Zones partnership connects lifestyle medicine with community well-being. Our vision is for nurses, nurse coaches and neighbors to help bring useful learning into everyday life, with compassion and respect for each person’s circumstances. 🌱 #BlueZones #HealthyCommunities #GlobalNursing #NursesLead
🌿 Why explore the conference and Lifestyle Nursing together?
- Explore the wider field. Conference topics span research, clinical applications, behavior change, and community health. Identify the subjects you want to understand more deeply.
- Continue with a nursing focus. INCA’s course connects lifestyle principles with nursing responsibilities and support for everyday behavior change.
- Prepare for practical conversations. Study motivational interviewing, readiness for change, patient education, and habit development.
- Consider a person’s circumstances. Reflect on access, resources, work, culture, support, and other barriers affecting what is realistic.
- Learn across professional roles. Broader perspectives can help you identify useful collaboration and community connections.
- Revisit material on your schedule. Online learning and recordings let you pause, review, and take notes, while reducing travel and lodging needs.
- Keep the conversation going. INCA faculty meetups and course discussions offer opportunities to bring questions into your learning.
- Document continuing education. Keep your participation records and course certificate for your professional development portfolio.
- Reflect on your own well-being. Consider your own rest, nourishment, movement, relationships, and need for support as you learn.
- Develop a manageable next step. Use your learning to explore a clearer patient handout, a team conversation, a community resource list, or an educational activity appropriate to your role.
These are reasons for our recommendation, rather than promises of a particular clinical, career, or financial outcome. Your learning becomes most useful when you apply it thoughtfully within your role.
💚 #LifestyleMedicine #KitchenMonk #WholePersonCare #NurseCoaching #FlourishingNursing
🩺 Continue with Dr. Karen Laing through INCA
Lifestyle Nursing: A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Nurses was created by Dr. Karen Laing and is officially offered through the Integrative Nurse Coach® Academy. Dr. Laing is a newly elected ACLM Director At-Large, an advanced practice nurse, and a board-certified health and wellness nurse coach. Her INCA biography also identifies holistic nursing and nurse coaching board certification.
The published course includes 12 online modules, 92.5 nursing contact hours, and $1,295 standalone tuition. INCA describes 8–12 weeks as a typical completion range, with one year from enrollment to finish certificate requirements. Lifetime access applies to course videos and slide decks. Four faculty meetups must be completed live or through recordings.
Topics include the six lifestyle medicine pillars, lifestyle approaches in diabetes, cardiovascular and obesity care, and bringing learning together through a capstone. Participation includes open-book quizzes, reflection, cases, discussions, and resources. The required Lifestyle Nursing textbook is edited by Gia Merlo and Kathy Berra.
INCA’s specialty-program admissions guidance includes RNs, APRNs, LPNs, LVNs, and CNAs. Ask Admissions about any credentials or circumstances outside the published categories, including international documentation or student status. Nursing contact-hour acceptance varies by credential and jurisdiction.
INCA’s published options include payment in full, a qualifying direct payment plan with an administrative fee, third-party financing, and discounts for eligible military applicants and alumni. Its specialty-course refund window is one business day after registration before accepting the course invitation or accessing materials; approved refunds have processing deductions. Completion, payment, material-use, and other enrollment terms apply.
Read the complete course guide for the 12-module curriculum, faculty credentials, learning format, textbook, credit information, payment options, discounts, and enrollment terms. Confirm details through the official course page, INCA’s policies, and INCA Admissions.
Course completion earns an educational certificate and eligible contact hours. Initial nurse coach board-certification preparation and lifestyle medicine board-examination eligibility follow their own separate requirements.
🎓 #LifestyleNursing #INCA #CNA #LPN #LVN #RN #APRN #NursePractitioners
🥷 Become an Official Flourishing Nurse Ninja™
Flourishing Nursing™ recognizes anyone who completes both their LM2026 Online learning and all INCA Lifestyle Nursing course requirements as an Official Flourishing Nurse Ninja™. We celebrate the effort of every qualifying participant, including the wider nursing care community. Keep your conference participation record and INCA completion documentation.
This is our independent community’s honorary recognition of learning, listening, compassionate service, and helping people flourish. It accompanies your actual professional role and credentials. It does not award nursing licensure, board certification, additional practice authority, or an ACLM or INCA credential. It is not an automatic enrollment or credential-verification service.
The conference component of the pathway described here is LM2026 Online. A future conference announcement does not change these completion criteria. We will identify any future pathway separately.
🥷 Read the full Flourishing Nurse Ninja recognition guide for the two learning requirements and what our community honor means.
📅 Next announced annual conference
ACLM’s official future-conference announcement lists September 26–29, 2027, at Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. Online participation details for 2027 have not yet been confirmed in this guide. We will distinguish these announced event dates from any later confirmation of online registration, prices, recordings and continuing education.
Visit the American College of Lifestyle Medicine for official announcements. This annual hub retains its web address as conference information changes, making it a useful page to bookmark.
🪔 Thank you, Florence Nightingale, and thank you to everyone carrying compassion into the world. Let us keep learning, listening and helping humanity heal and flourish. 🌍 #FlorenceNightingale #CarryTheLight #ConnectAndFlourish #OfficialFlourishingNurseNinja #HelpHumanityFlourish
🎥 Keep learning through official ACLM videos
Browse ACLM’s latest videos · Open the official playlist · Return to the full ACLM guide
Nursed to Flourish. Carry the Light. Protect Life. Help Humanity Flourish. 🪔🌍
Program details reviewed October 19, 2026. Current provider pages govern registration, availability, prices, credits, and completion requirements.
