Course Description

This is an 8-week, first time ever, interactive group learning experience with The GAPS Chef™, Monica Corrado. It is meant to teach you everything you need to know to do the Intro Diet of the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome™) diet with ease and understanding.

  • Always wanted to do Intro, but didn't know how?
  • Wondering how to move from stage to stage on Intro?
  • Want to learn the cooking techniques you need for each stage? 
  • How about the Dairy Introduction Structure? Who needs it? How do you do it?
  • What about die-off? What is it? How do you manage it?

With the right support, you’ll avoid the frustration of trying to figure all of this out for yourself. 

You’ll have access to time-tested GAPS Intro Diet resources.

You’ll build your confidence and ability to do GAPS Intro well.

THIS is your group! It includes:

  • Eight, 90-minute online, interactive live group learning modules
  • Ten hours of live Q & A with The GAPS Chef™ - have your questions answered!
  • An exclusive JumpStart: GAPS support group
  • Resource Lists
  • To Do Lists
  • Homework 
  • Recipes every week, with feedback and troubleshooting!
  • A copy of Monica's 2nd Ed of The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS Diet and GAPS Intro Diet Chart!

Everything you'll need to learn how to successfully cook for the GAPS diet--including the techniques that are specific to the diet: Meat Stock, Lacto-fermentation, Culturing Dairy, and Nuts and Seeds!

You will have the knowledge, tools, and confidence you need to embark on the Intro Diet of the GAPS Diet! Check out Monica's Intro Diet Cohort starting in March on her website: simplybeingwell.com.

Instructor - Group Leader

Monica Corrado

Teaching Chef, Certified GAPS Practitioner

Monica Corrado, MA, CNC, CGP, The GAPS Chef™  is a teaching chef, Certified Nutrition Consultant, and Certified GAPS Practitioner. Monica is passionate about illuminating the connection between food and well-being. She is a dynamic teacher, speaker, consultant, and author who lives to share the tools, knowledge and inspiration to cook nourishing, traditional food. Monica has been teaching food as medicine throughout the US for more than 25 years after many years in sustainable food sourcing and preparation, menu design and management. She is a member of the Honorary Board of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and teaches traditional food cooking in her own Cooking for Well-Being Teacher Training program, which she started in 2012. Monica is a member of Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride's GAPS Training teaching team, lead faculty teaching cooking for the GAPS Diet. She enjoys empowering others by teaching them how to heal a leaky gut through food via the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) protocol and nourishing, traditional food. Monica developed the first cooking classes for the GAPS diet, and has written several books, including her 2nd Edition of The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome™) Diet. In 2024, Monica joined the New Biology Clinic as the Enrichment Specialist for Nutrition as both teacher and practitioner. See www.simplybeingwell.com for more information.

Course Curriculum

    1. Zoom Link for Group Sessions on Tuesday Mornings

    1. Zoom Link for Q & As - Fridays

    1. How to Access the Discussion Board

    1. GAPS Intro Diet Chart download

    2. The Roots of A Tree, yellow book - What is Leaky Gut

    3. Recording of First Group Session Tuesday 09.08.26

    4. Some homework...readings!

    5. First Q&A Recording, Friday 09.11.26

    6. Kitchen Equipment and Supplies

    7. Getting Started Sourcing

    1. Recording of Second Group Session, Tuesday 09.15.26

    2. First Technique: Meat Stock

    3. Vegetables for GAPS Intro Diet

    4. Collagen "Cubes"

    5. Stomach Acid Test

    6. Beet Kvass and Cabbage Tonic: Which, When?

    7. Skin Sensitivity Test Info

    8. Skin Sensitivity Test

    9. Toxicity in Dutch Ovens: some resources

    10. Other Dutch ovens to consider

    11. Recording of Q&A Friday 09.18.26

    1. Recording of Third Group Session, Tuesday, 09.22.26

    2. An Invitation: Recipes for Stage Two!

    3. Stage Two: A Few Stew Recipes

    4. Video: The Three Teas: What, Why, How?

    5. Videos: Die-off

    6. Knowing When to Move from Stage to Stage on Intro

    7. Recording of Q & A from Friday, 09.25.26

    8. Healthy Fish Guide

    9. Resource for Salmon (for fermented fish)

About this course

  • $775.00
  • Meet Every Tuesday for 8 weeks, beginning September 8, 2026 from 9am-10:30am MT
  • Live Q&A for 8 Fridays, beginning September 11, from 8:00am-9:15am MT
  • Group - Get the support of your tribe!