Making Peace with the Body: A Depth Psychological Approach for Helpers (March 2022)
Friday, March 11 10-11:330 MST
This workshop is open to everyone, but is specifically useful for helpers and healers who work with womxn and bodies. Even if you do not specifically work with people struggling with eating disorders, it is important to understand the impact and prevalence of normative body discontent (the chronic hatred of the body by womxn in particular) and food stress.
As helpers, it is important practically and ethically to understand the motivations for weight loss, or any body modification efforts, before supporting these attempts due to the deep cultural and psychological roots they often stem from.
This training is a brief overview of normative body discontent and its wider cultural roots. We will also discuss how to work with clients who struggle to relate peacefully with their bodies.
What you can expect to learn and gather:
What is “normative body discontent” and how it shows up in clients (and ourselves)?
Depth psychological approach to working with body discontent and food stress
Impact of fat phobia psychologically
Archetypal and cultural roots of fat phobia including racial histories of oppression vs. discipline
Ways to harm (even if unintentional) and help clients with body discontent