Working with Body Image and Eating Problems
Course Description:
Self-feeding in accordance with physical hunger and fullness is one of the most fundamental resources for developing an embodied sense of self. Counsellors, mental health workers, nurses, and teachers all have the opportunity to have an impact on clients and students struggling with body-image and eating problems. Working with these problems can open a window into the deepest self…if we know how to listen.
This workshop introduces you to the Anti-deprivation Approach to Intuitive Eating, developed by the Women's Therapy Centre in London (Susie Orbach of Fat is a Feminist Issue) and taught at the Women's Therapy Institute in New York City. You will be taken through the programme to learn intuitive eating and to work on body image issues experientially, and will then be able to apply the basics of this approach in your work with students and clients. It will combine presentation and experiential activities, incorporating:
Part 2: Far from reflecting superficial vanity concerns, eating and body image problems often go hand in hand with childhood experiences of denial, neglect, abuse and trauma, especially for those with intractable eating symptoms. This workshop will present a model that heals the mind/body splits so inherent in these problems and explains a causal relationship among psychosomatic dissociation, eating problems and body shame. This advanced training for counsellors, interns, psychotherapists and psychologists will go into greater detail of the above introduction and apply it to treatment intervention strategies including working with the overlap of trauma.ne into the development of eating and body image disturbances preventively or through treatment. Trainings for volunteers, teachers and health workers (GPs, nurses, etc) will also focus on recognising the signs and risks of eating and body image disturbance and intervening through education and consciousness raising, including learning body image and eating issues self-awareness.
Part 2: The advanced training is for Mental Health Professionals and will include the above as an introduction (and pre-requisite) and then go into detail about treatment and intervention strategies including working with the overlap of trauma.
Register for Part 1
Register for Part 2
Self-feeding in accordance with physical hunger and fullness is one of the most fundamental resources for developing an embodied sense of self. Counsellors, mental health workers, nurses, and teachers all have the opportunity to have an impact on clients and students struggling with body-image and eating problems. Working with these problems can open a window into the deepest self…if we know how to listen.
This workshop introduces you to the Anti-deprivation Approach to Intuitive Eating, developed by the Women's Therapy Centre in London (Susie Orbach of Fat is a Feminist Issue) and taught at the Women's Therapy Institute in New York City. You will be taken through the programme to learn intuitive eating and to work on body image issues experientially, and will then be able to apply the basics of this approach in your work with students and clients. It will combine presentation and experiential activities, incorporating:
- The anti-deprivation approach to intuitive eating
- Ego State Work with Guided Imagery
- Bodily mindfulness
- Media Literacy and Critical Thinking
- Eating Disorders and Obesity
Part 2: Far from reflecting superficial vanity concerns, eating and body image problems often go hand in hand with childhood experiences of denial, neglect, abuse and trauma, especially for those with intractable eating symptoms. This workshop will present a model that heals the mind/body splits so inherent in these problems and explains a causal relationship among psychosomatic dissociation, eating problems and body shame. This advanced training for counsellors, interns, psychotherapists and psychologists will go into greater detail of the above introduction and apply it to treatment intervention strategies including working with the overlap of trauma.ne into the development of eating and body image disturbances preventively or through treatment. Trainings for volunteers, teachers and health workers (GPs, nurses, etc) will also focus on recognising the signs and risks of eating and body image disturbance and intervening through education and consciousness raising, including learning body image and eating issues self-awareness.
Part 2: The advanced training is for Mental Health Professionals and will include the above as an introduction (and pre-requisite) and then go into detail about treatment and intervention strategies including working with the overlap of trauma.
Register for Part 1
Register for Part 2