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2-Day 2nd Annual Body Image Summit: Empowering Clients to Defy Diet Culture and Reclaim Embodiment - Webcast

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2-Day 2nd Annual Body Image Summit: Empowering Clients to Defy Diet Culture and Reclaim Embodiment

2-Day 2nd Annual Body Image Summit: Empowering Clients to Defy Diet Culture and Reclaim Embodiment
When:
Monday, December 4, 2023 - Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Keynote: How to Talk About Bodies with Boundaries in Mind

Join best-selling author, Nedra Glover Tawwab, to explore how the words we choose can profoundly impact how others feel about themselves. This training will guide you on how to speak to others about their bodies, whether it’s a client, friend or family member. We will cover the importance of using respectful language and setting boundaries. Discover if you are contributing to unhealthy norms about how we think about bodies. Our words have power, and we can use them to build each other up.
The Body Trust Framework: Dismantle Anti-fat Bias to Create Healthy and Liberation with the Body

There is an epidemic of anti-fat bias in the healthcare community. In this session, Dana Sturtevant, MD, RD and Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC, co-founders of the Center for Body Trust, will lead you through a weight-inclusive and destigmatizing approach to size in clinical practice. Engage in self-inquiry as a clinician to challenge biases and unpack misconceptions, and walk away with clinical interventions that shift the focus from ‘body as a project’ to a healing-centered perspective.
This Body Never Meant to Cause Harm: The Essential Role of Body Forgiveness and Embodiment in Shifting Negative Body Image

To heal body image concerns, we must help our clients shift from criticism and hatred toward internal forgiveness, self-compassion, and a return to embodied living. In this session, Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti, an eating disorders specialist, will give you tools to help clients mourn the negative ways they’ve treated their bodies, along with honoring and allowing for the suffering that may continue to be felt living in a body that they and/or the world wish was different.
Positive Body Image for Teens and Adults: What Clinicians Need to Know

Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS is excited to offer her experience and knowledge on the topic of "Positive Body Image for Teens: What Clinicians Need to Know," for The Body Image Summit. She will inform and educate attendees about the variables that influence how their teen clients feel about their bodies. She will provide interventions to improve body image. And participants will learn about the impact of social media on body image and how to help their clients become critical viewers of the media.
Therapy with Higher Weight Clients: How to Provide Affirming and Welcoming Care

Given that weight stigma is everywhere and often deeply internalized, many therapists are not aware of how they may be stigmatizing and oppressing their higher-weight clients. In this session, Rachel Milner, PsyD, CED-S, CBTP®, and fat activist will teach you how to work with higher-weight clients in a supportive and affirming way that does not perpetuate anti-fat bias. You’ll develop a deeper understanding of how to create a space that is truly welcoming and affirming of higher-weight clients.
The Pursuit of Muscularity: Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Dysmorphia

Body image and disordered eating are often centered as women’s concerns. In this session, Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS-S, founder of DUDE Mental Health, shows you what you need to know about muscle dysmorphia, a well-masked but debilitating expression of body image concerns frequently occurring in men. You’ll learn how to differentiate this potentially life-threatening condition from the non-pathological pursuit of fitness and health and what to do to get your clients on a path to healing.
Body Grief: Essential Practices for Clients Struggling with Body Image Issues

Have your clients – or you – ever felt hopeless in your body image healing work? Many therapists’ efforts to get their clients to arrive at body acceptance are premature because body image issues cannot be healed without first addressing body grief. In this session, Brianna Compos, LPC, body image coach and educator, will show you the hurdles keeping your clients from fully grieving and give you the keys you need to move your clients into body acceptance.

There are 2 reasons for that:
  • You are treating your body image like a journey. Positive body image is not a destination you can arrive at
  • You are trying to skip right to body acceptance. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. You need to go through the body hatred and usually this process requires you to grief
I define Body Grief as the distress caused by the perceived loss associated with body change. This expansive definition allows for many examples of body grief including age, hormonal, chronic illness and weight.

In this course, you will:
  • Explore + define grief and how it impacts your body image
  • How to help your clients (and yourself) shift their thinking about body image healing
  • Learn the hurdles keeping your clients stuck in grief
  • Highlight the three things you need to help move your clients from body grief to body acceptance
The Perfect Storm of Diet Culture, Weight Stigma and Psychological Distress: How the Body Gets Burdened with Emotional Conflicts

Our cultures’ obsession with thinness and the relentless pressure to lose weight often leads to clients’ misconceptions about happiness and success. In this session, Judith Matz, LCSW, an expert in emotional eating, will show you the profound impact of diet culture and weight stigma, which transform emotional struggles into body shame. You’ll learn how to help clients tackle underlying psychological conflicts that strain their connection to their bodies and get the tools you need to guide clients to reclaim comfort in their own skin.
"Body as Billboard" to "Body as Home": Making Body Image Changes Stick

Reshaping body narratives in the context of the powerful influences of weight stigma, diet culture, family mythology, and trauma can feel impossible. In this session, Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II, binge eating disorder expert, will show you cutting-edge, trauma-informed interventions to promote resilient body acceptance and guide you through how to create space for processing body shame and mistrust.
Appearing Healthy: Orthorexia and Body Image

How health is too healthy? When your clients are making "good" food choices, that’s good … right? In this session, Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-C, will show you how to recognize when your clients’ care for their bodies actually becomes harmful. You’ll learn about how to spot orthorexia, a condition characterized by preoccupation with healthy eating, and how to intervene before your client develops additional eating disorders and body image issues
Myths and Misdiagnosis: What Clinicians Need to Know to Address Body Image and Disordered Eating in Marginalized Clients

Dangerous assumptions surrounding body image issues and eating disorders can lead to misguided screenings, misdiagnoses, and inadequate support, particularly for marginalized individuals. In this session, Dr. Marcella Raimondo, an eating disorder expert, will share eye-opening insights to challenge pervasive misconceptions surrounding susceptibility to body image and eating disorders. You’ll get new tools for creating more equitable, affirmative treatment.
Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating: Talking with Gender Expansive Clients about Body Image

Disordered eating is an epidemic in the LGBTQ community and gender dysphoria can feel like a hopeless diagnosis. Clients may find themselves in a cyclical trap of changing their body and losing themselves in a fixation around food and/or exercise. In this session, we will integrate gender identity, body image, and parts work to help clients navigate life in their bodies.
Keynote: How to Talk About Bodies with Boundaries in Mind

  1. Identify common boundary issues relevant to bodies and appearance.
  2. Conduct a boundaries assessment.
  3. Utilize at least two interventions focused on improving clients’ boundaries.
The Body Trust Framework: Dismantle Anti-fat Bias to Create Healthy and Liberation with the Body

  1. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors that undermine embodiment and body trust.
  2. Explore the essential components that constitute the "narrative arc" of a Body Trust approach for achieving healing and self-acceptance.
  3. Apply actionable insights and strategies to enhance the practice of size inclusivity within your clinical setting.
This Body Never Meant to Cause Harm: The Essential Role of Body Forgiveness and Embodiment in Shifting Negative Body Image

  1. Assess clients’ stage of body forgiveness to inform selection of treatment interventions.
  2. Utilize at least one intervention focused on encouraging clients’ body-oriented self-care.
  3. Apply knowledge of body neutrality to clinical practice as evidenced by use of at least one embodiment-focused intervention.
Positive Body Image for Teens and Adults: What Clinicians Need to Know

  1. At the end of the course, the learner will be able to define body image, explain why body image dissatisfaction is a risk factor, and communicate the variables that influence how people feel about their bodies.
  2. After the presentation the learner will be able to utilize the "24 Hour Body Checking Inventory," and the use of "Micro Goals to Improve Body Image."
  3. At the end of this course, the learner will be able to show that they can arm their clients with tools to resiliently combat negative body image messages in the media.
Therapy with Higher Weight Clients: How to Provide Affirming and Welcoming Care

  1. Communicate the harm of anti-fat bias/weight stigma.
  2. Describe three ways to make a space more welcoming for higher weight clients.
  3. Identify internalized weight stigma and strategies for addressing it.
The Pursuit of Muscularity: Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Dysmorphia

  1. Identify appropriate screening tool for males with muscle dysmorphia and muscularity-oriented eating disorder pathology.
  2. Assess the risks of treatment without proper medical oversight for clients using performance-enhancing drugs and substances.
  3. Apply at least one prevention strategy for males who are more likely to develop muscle dysmorphia and muscularity-oriented eating disorder pathology.
The Perfect Storm of Diet Culture, Weight Stigma and Psychological Distress: How the Body Gets Burdened with Emotional Conflicts

  1. Evaluate the relationship between diet culture and internalized weight stigma.
  2. Identify clients’ use of negative body thoughts to express core psychological issues.
  3. Apply at least three strategies to help clients move from body shame to body positivity.
"Body as Billboard" to "Body as Home": Making Body Image Changes Stick

  1. Assess body image distress to inform choice of interventions.
  2. Utilize at least two strategies to increase body-related self-compassion
  3. Design an action plan to help clients protect a healthy body image
Appearing Healthy: Orthorexia and Body Image

  1. Conduct an assessment for orthorexia in clients.
  2. Evaluate when to support clients’ health-focused eating goals without increasing risk for eating disordered behavior.
  3. Apply the tri-phasic model for treating eating disorders.
Myths and Misdiagnosis: What Clinicians Need to Know to Address Body Image and Disordered Eating in Marginalized Clients

  1. Evaluate at least two research-practice gaps with regard to eating disorders.
  2. Utilize at least one technique to reduce internalized bias.
  3. Design a social justice framework for eating disorders treatment
Why Body Image and Eating Disorders are Social Justice Issues: No Room for Neutral

  1. Identify and describe the roles which providers’ own racial consciousness play in their work with clients (across all racial groups).
  2. Analyze critically the impact of racial trauma and systemic racism on body image issues in clients with eating disorders.
  3. Generate two ways in which providers can actively engage as authentic allies and advocates to improve their work and ground it in social justice approaches.
Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating: Talking with Gender Expansive Clients about Body Image

  1. Integrate prior knowledge of disordered eating treatment with a gender-affirming approach to client care in order to improve client engagement and treatment outcomes.
  2. Role play conversations with clients on gender dysphoria and eating disorders.
  3. Utilize parts work with gender identity, gender dysphoria, and eating disorders to improve clinical outcomes.
Keynote: How to Talk About Bodies with Boundaries in Mind

  • Common boundaries issues in body conversations
  • Boundaries for how we describe our bodies and other people’s bodies
  • Assess and treat common boundary issues
  • Become a boundary-centered practitioner that empowers clients to be assertive even when it’s hard
  • Develop skills that support and make space for emotional challenges of disappointing others
  • Avoid allowing clients to present with the same issues with no clear resolutions
  • Scripts to address gray areas in communication
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
The Body Trust Framework: Dismantle Anti-fat Bias to Create Healthy and Liberation with the Body

  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Exploring the Struggle with Feeling at Home in Your Body
  • Understanding Embodiment and Its Disruptions
    • Viewing Embodiment through a Social Justice Lens
      • Embracing Social Systems and Power Dynamics
      • Weight Bias and Discrimination
    • The Cycle of Socialization
    • Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment
  • The Body Trust Framework
    • The Narrative Arc of Body Trust Work
      • The Rupture
      • The Reckoning
      • The Reclamation
      • Strengthening Our Connection to Body Trust
  • Our Healing Journey as Care Providers
    • Recognizing Our Training Rooted in the Dominant Weight Paradigm
    • Overcoming Challenges in Our Own Healing
    • Sharing Our Personal Body Stories
    • Practical Recommendations
  • Questions and Answers (Q&A)
This Body Never Meant to Cause Harm: The Essential Role of Body Forgiveness and Embodiment in Shifting Negative Body Image

  • Body hatred – how it develops, and how and why to shift it
  • Top tips for guiding your clients to a new relationship with their bodies
  • Shift grief into grieving
  • Action-oriented self-care toward one’s body
  • Move clients’ self-criticism into self-compassion and forgiveness
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
Positive Body Image for Teens and Adults: What Clinicians Need to Know

Defining body image and the variables that influence how people feel about their body
  • Body image is the perception we have of our body, and the way we feel about it
  • Body image is contextual, and it is often on a continuum
  • There are many variables that influence the way we feel about our body, some are; culture, media, evolution, gender, peers, and developmental phase of life
Give clients tools for improving their body image
  • A common "target behavior" in body image dissatisfaction is "Body Checking." Taking an inventory of body checking increases awareness, giving clients more of a choice to change their thoughts/feelings/behaviors
  • Science has informed us that the more calibrated a goal is, the better the outcome. Clients will learn how to use "Micro-Goals to Improve Body Image"
Become critical viewers of the media
  • It’s not realistic to avoid toxic diet culture because it’s everywhere. Teaching clients to become critical viewers of media is more realistic, and a great way to build resilience against the messages coming in
  • Encourage clients to diversify their feed to include other body types – when people are exposed to images featuring a wide range of body sizes, it’s been shown that their preferences for body size shift to be more inclusive
Therapy with Higher Weight Clients: How to Provide Affirming and Welcoming Care

Recommending/Supporting weight loss is harmful
  • Understand why it’s harmful
  • Challenge beliefs about weight loss attempts
  • But what if my client wants to lose weight?
Create a space that lets higher weight clients feel welcome
  • Consider furniture
  • How is your office decorated?
Pursuing weight loss is harmful for providers too
  • Internalized weight stigma impacts providers too
  • Provides live in the same culture that teaches us to dislike our bodies
  • how to address your internalized weight stigma
The Pursuit of Muscularity: Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Dysmorphia

  • Muscle Dysmorphia and Muscularity-Oriented Eating Disorder Pathology
  • Definitions and demographics
  • Key indicators that your client might be struggling with body image
  • Assessment strategies
  • Treatment goals and risks of treatment without proper medical oversight for those using performance-enhancing drugs or substances
  • Prevention measures – gender diverse body image education, anti-bullying, and more
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
The Perfect Storm of Diet Culture, Weight Stigma and Psychological Distress: How the Body Gets Burdened with Emotional Conflicts

Diet Culture and Internalized Weight Stigma
  • Definition of diet culture
  • How body shame regarding weight is learned
  • Understanding the role of the diet cycle in perpetuating body dissatisfaction
  • The impact of weight stigma
The Intersection of Emotional Issues and Body Shame
  • How the body gets burdened with psychological struggles
  • Clinical examples of the translation of emotional issues to body shame
  • Helping clients unburden their bodies by naming and "unhooking" their core psychological issues
Helping Clients Feel More at Home in Their Bodies
  • Clinician’s attitudes toward body size
  • Debunking myths about weight and health
  • Implementing attuned eating
  • In depth clinical example to illustrate the process of helping clients make peace with food and feel more at home in their bodies
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
"Body as Billboard" to "Body as Home": Making Body Image Changes Stick

Identify the Damage: Diet Culture and Body Shame
  • Teach clients to be critical consumers of health information
  • Weight Stigma Trauma: Help clients tell their story
  • Body Trauma: identify how the past impacts current body narratives
Build a Resilient Body Image
  • Help clients create a unique "manual" for recognizing somatic cues
  • Help clients separate from old body shame narratives
Making Changes Stick while diet culture persists
  • Identify the barriers to change
  • Apply strategies to help clients challenge internalized weight stigma and external messaging
  • Build a healing community
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
Appearing Healthy: Orthorexia and Body Image

  • Orthorexia – why preoccupation with healthy eating can be unhealthy
  • Warning signs to watch for
  • Top questions and assessment tools to uncover disordered eating, including EDE-Q
  • Tri-phasic model of eating disorder treatment
  • The importance of the treatment team approach
  • Ethical and practice issues: determine level of care, health goals versus disordered behavior, the role of the DSM
  • Case study
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
Myths and Misdiagnosis: What Clinicians Need to Know to Address Body Image and Disordered Eating in Marginalized Clients

  • Eating Disorders and Social Justice – eating disorders in marginalized communities
  • Internalized bias/assumptions and how they impact diagnosis and treatment
  • Case vignettes demonstrating misdiagnosis and its consequences
  • Techniques to reduce internalized bias in therapist and client
  • Strategies to advocate for change and promote social justice in practice
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
Why Body Image and Eating Disorders are Social Justice Issues: No Room for Neutral

Eating Disorders and Body Image in Marginalized Communities
  • Racism and Discrimination as Risk factors for ED
  • ED in People of Color
  • Underutilization and Mistrust of Treatment
  • Understanding the effects of Racial Trauma on eating disorders
Systemic Racism and Eating Disorder Conceptualization and Treatment
  • Barriers to care
  • Individualistic Treatment is exclusionary and inadequate for many groups
  • False Presumption of universality of therapeutic principles
  • Microaggressions in Treatment
  • Barriers to Racial safety in treatment
Cannot solve systemic and institutionalized problem with neutrality
  • Clinical neutrality antithetical to antiracist work
  • Onus of change is on those directly affected by racism not the systems that benefit and perpetuate racism
We must go beyond "Thinness" if we are to consider non-white bodies
  • Body shame manifests differently for people from different cultures
  • Multiple body images and identities
  • Intersectionality
  • Colorism
Authentic Allyship
  • Authentic vs. Performative Allyship
  • Importance and Value of Diversity and Inclusivity
  • Allyship as action, not identity
  • Understanding Our Own Privilege and Bias
  • Social Justice framework for clinical work
Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating: Talking with Gender Expansive Clients about Body Image

Disordered Eating Treatment With Gender Expansive Clients
  • Conceptual model for integrative treatment of gender dysphoria and disordered eating
  • Limitations of research and potential risks
  • Key concepts and terminology
    • Gender expression, identity, attribution, presentation
  • Gender dysphoria
    • Types of gender dysphoria
    • Expression of gender dysphoria
Gender Dysphoria & Eating Disorders in the Gender Expansive Population
  • Frequency of eating disorders
  • Potential client symptoms of disordered eating/compulsive exercise
  • Deconstructing body image in the queer community
    • Gender attribution and presentation
    • Passing privilege
    • Androgeny ideal
    • Trans media representation
  • Potential roles of disordered eating in a gendered society
  • Examining your eating disorder treatment for cisgender, heteronormative bias
Integration of Gender Identity into Disordered Eating Treatment
  • Trauma in the queer community
  • Reframing gender dysphoria as a coping mechanism
  • Parts work for gender dysphoria and trauma
  • Utilizing gender dysphoria as a strength
  • Skills for client conversations
  • Gender euphoria
Keynote: How to Talk About Bodies with Boundaries in Mind

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
The Body Trust Framework: Dismantle Anti-fat Bias to Create Healthy and Liberation with the Body

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
This Body Never Meant to Cause Harm: The Essential Role of Body Forgiveness and Embodiment in Shifting Negative Body Image

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Positive Body Image for Teens and Adults: What Clinicians Need to Know

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Therapy with Higher Weight Clients: How to Provide Affirming and Welcoming Care

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
The Pursuit of Muscularity: Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Dysmorphia

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Body Grief: Essential Practices for Clients Struggling with Body Image Issues

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
The Perfect Storm of Diet Culture, Weight Stigma and Psychological Distress: How the Body Gets Burdened with Emotional Conflicts

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
"Body as Billboard" to "Body as Home": Making Body Image Changes Stick

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Appearing Healthy: Orthorexia and Body Image

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Myths and Misdiagnosis: What Clinicians Need to Know to Address Body Image and Disordered Eating in Marginalized Clients

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Why Body Image and Eating Disorders are Social Justice Issues: No Room for Neutral

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers
Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating: Talking with Gender Expansive Clients about Body Image

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Social Workers

MULTIPLE PRESENTERS

Breakdown for Continuing Education Credits by Event
[+] [-] Keynote: How to Talk About Bodies with Boundaries in Mind
[+] [-] The Body Trust Framework: Dismantle Anti-fat Bias to Create Healing and Liberation with the Body
[+] [-] This Body Never Meant to Cause Harm: The Essential Role of Body Forgiveness and Embodiment in Shifting Negative Body Image
[+] [-] Positive Body Image for Teens and Adults: What Clinicians Need to Know
[+] [-] Therapy with Higher Weight Clients: How to Provide Affirming and Welcoming Care
[+] [-] The Pursuit of Muscularity: Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Dysmorphia
[+] [-] Body Grief: Essential Practices for Clients Struggling with Body Image Issues
[+] [-] The Perfect Storm of Diet Culture, Weight Stigma and Psychological Distress: How the Body Gets Burdened with Emotional Conflicts
[+] [-] “Body as Billboard” to “Body as Home”: Making Body Image Changes Stick
[+] [-] Appearing Healthy: Orthorexia and Body Image
[+] [-] Myths and Misdiagnosis: What Clinicians Need to Know to Address Body Image and Disordered Eating in Marginalized Clients
[+] [-] Why Body Image and Eating Disorders are Social Justice Issues: No Room for Neutral
[+] [-] Gender Dysphoria and Disordered Eating: Talking with Gender Expansive Clients about Body Image
[+] [-] You Have the Right to Remain Fat: A Decolonial Approach to Body
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