Two-hour online eating disorders/disordered eating, body image and weight stigma awareness training

What's covered?
  • Eating disorders and disordered eating awareness and the difference between the two
  • Body image problems
  • Weight stigma, anti-fat biases and appearance-based discrimination
  • Intersecting aspects of identity and the influence on eating and body image issues - class, disability, race, gender etc
  • The impact and barriers for those in minoritized groups
  • How to advocate for awareness and inclusion, and help reduce stigma
  • Supporting someone with eating or body image problems

Overview

This entry level 2-hour online training for professionals offers an understanding of eating disorders and disordered eating, and the difference between the two, as well as looking at the impact of weight stigma, and body image problems.

This is not just your usual eating disorder awareness training! Some can be more of a basic overview of the main eating disorders, with a bit of myth busting (which is still absolutely useful) but I wanted to delve a little deeper, and wider... This training takes a big picture approach to understanding the causes and influences on the development of eating disorders, the impact of current services and waiting lists, and the impact of intersecting aspects of identity, and neurodiversity.

This training is ideal to fit within the scope of diversity and inclusion training, advocating for size and weight inclusion and highlighting awareness of appearance-based discrimination, especially those in minoritized groups who are often left out of eating disorder literature and treatment.

I speak from both lived experience and professional experience, having had a difficult relationship with my body and food in the past, and from working with eating disorder charities for several years in a number of roles. I am now a counsellor in private practice, working with people with eating disorders, disordered eating and those who are impacted by body image issues and weight stigma. You can find out more about my counselling practice here.

Who is it for?
Anyone who may benefit from having a basic understanding of what eating disorders are (and are not!), how body image problems affects peoples lives, and how weight stigma and weight biases impact people too. This may be counsellors, therapists, holistic therapists, teachers, nutritionists, healthcare professionals, and much more. The training can be adapted to fit the needs of your team.

Learning outcomes
  1. Gain a greater understanding of eating disorders, disordered eating and how body image and weight stigma may influence and exacerbate
  2. Understand how wider systems of inequality, discrimination and other aspects of people's identity impact body image and eating problems
  3. Self-reflection on narratives around food and weight
  4. To understand ways of reducing harm on an individual and societal level
  5. Ways to support those struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating and body image problems
  6. Understanding when to refer on and where to, reading and further learning recommendations

Details

This training course is 2-hours, usually with a 5-minute comfort break in the middle, and 10-15 mins at the end for questions (inclusive). This can be held online using your preferred platform if you prefer to host, or I can host on ZOOM. 

I encourage attendees to use the chat box to share, but there is no pressure to do so. Attendee's will be asked to stay on mute throughout, apart from for questions at the end, and they can choose to have their camera's on or off. Comfort of attendee's is very important me, so I'm happy to accommodate your needs. A PDF copy of the slides can be sent before or after to suit.

I am based in Bristol and can consider offering face-to-face training in the local area, please get in touch to enquire.

The above training can be adapted to focus more on one aspect of disordered eating, weight stigma or body image as stand alone topics, to suit your needs. I also have extensive experience in domestic abuse and can offer training on the intersection of disordered eating and domestic abuse. 

For counsellors and psychotherapists, I can adapt to include more therapeutic ways of working with disordered eating and body image, but please not this is not full eating disorder training as more in-depth training is required for this.

If you would like to enquire about this training for your team or organisation, or talk to me about a bespoke training you would like, please get in touch.