Body Image: The Missing Piece of Body Healing
Your hosts: Marci Evans (Marci RD) & Fiona Sutherland (The Mindful Dietitian)
After highly successful live workshops in the USA and UK through 2018. Marci and Fi bring this workshop to Australia, specifically designed for Dietitians and health professionals working with clients and communities who present with body image concerns.
If you are looking to enhance your nutrition counseling skills and confidence when working with eating disorders, chronic dieting, and any health or other condition or experiences which impacts how someone feels about their body, this is definitely the training you’ve been waiting for.
As clinicians, we know that body dissatisfaction and constantly driving for body changes harms people, and keeps them stuck in the merry-go-round of body-hating hell. Even well-intentioned and highly trained clinicians can do harm if they’re not sure what to do, and we too can be drawn into people’s body distress and find ourselves backed into a corner. We also know that diet culture, Dr Google and the latest round of “wellness experts” can be noisy, and very seductive.
In this workshop you can expect to:
Develop a strong working knowledge based on the most up-to-date research related to body image: including assessments, definitions, neuroscience, and effective interventions.
Develop a deeper understand of concepts and experiences such as weight bias, weight stigma, fat phobia and internalised fat phobia, and the roles they play in both perpetuating and potential healing of body image.
Integrate the “Model for Body Image Healing” as a conceptual framework used to understand, process, and transform your client’s body image experience.
Learn the language of negative body image and increase confidence in having clear conversations with people who experience a poor relationship with their body.
Learn how to navigate those tricky conversations about bodies while staying calm and centered yourself – we know it’s not always easy!
Build confidence in staying on track, even if you feel under pressure
Increase understanding, confidence and skilfulness in the multitude of specific strategies for body image healing.
Connect with other like-minded colleagues as we navigate the care for those who are struggling with their body image
Workshop Payment Options:
We understand that 2020 might be a significant PD year for many people and as such, we want to make the June 2020 Workshops most manageable.
Full payment AUD $325 + GST
Payment Plan available with deposit ($125) to confirm your place + 2 x payments (2 x $100 + GST) invoiced on March 30th + April 27th 2020
Please contact me directly if you are from marginalised communities/groups and I am open to discussing options to support your attendance.
About your hosts:
Marci Evans
Marci is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor, certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Certified ACSM personal trainer. In addition to her group private practice and three adjunct teaching positions, Marci launched an online eating disorders training for dietitians in 2015 and co-directs a specialized eating disorder internship at Simmons College.
Marci volunteers for a number of national eating disorder organizations including the iaedp certification committee and is serving as an eating disorder resource professional for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She has spoken locally and nationally at numerous conferences and media outlets.
She loves social media so tweet her @marciRD, follow her on Facebook and Instagram, and check out her blog at www.marciRD.com.
Fiona Sutherland
Fiona is the Director of The Mindful Dietitian and has 20 years experience working with people who experience body image concerns. She is one of Australia’s leading educators and trainers in the field of eating behaviour, counselling skills, body image and eating disorders. Fiona is also a yoga teacher with a specific interest in embodied and social justice-oriented approaches to body image healing. She is a committed Health At Every Size (R) and weight -inclusive clinician.
Fiona is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) and can found on Instagram @themindfuldietitian and Facebook
