Fostering safety in body image work: Pragmatic techniques to avoid common pitfalls and support body satisfaction

Synopsis

Drawing on research, practice guidelines, and extensive clinical experience as trainers, supervisors and clinicians, this workshop will explore ways clinicians can work towards fostering a sense of safety for their clients through use of language and terminology, creating safe therapeutic environments, understanding and challenging your own internalised ideas of bodies and shape, knowing ways lived experience can be drawn on to build body satisfaction, and building awareness of understandings and stances that promote body inclusivity.

Drawing on self-reflection, group tasks and the provision of avenues for further learning, this workshop will be thought-provoking, compassionate, interactive and pragmatic so clinicians can walk away and apply these principles to the benefit of their clients.