Training

Our Training Program is dedicated to reforming the system of eating disorder care to be inclusive of and centered around the experiences of trans, intersex, disabled, fat, and BIPOC communities. Our trainings were developed by and in consultation with members of these communities. We adapt our content to the needs and demographic of each group of attendees.

Eating Disorder Informed.

Open to all organizations, learn how to create body neutral spaces for your community.

Redefines Health.

Identifies racist, ableist, fatphobic, cisnormative roots in our beauty standards, fitness culture, and “health”. Read more below or email general@safelyconnected.org!

Addresses gendered body ideals.

Training Topics

  • This workshop will address and deconstruct the oppressive content around eating disorders provided in most clinical and academic settings, and provide guidance and information highlighting how certain concepts exclude underrepresented populations, and pressure people with eating disorders, disordered eating and body image issues into false ideals and notions of recovery.

    This workshop creates an opportunity to center the human suffering, through a trauma-informed lens, and give clients the tools to understand and take control of their recovery. It also gives light to the problematic concepts and stereotypes rooted in eating disorder content that have systematically excluded and pathlogized disabled, trans, intersex, BIPOC, 2SLGBQA+, and fat communities.

  • This workshop will address and deconstruct the oppressive content around “health” provided in most clinical and academic settings, and provide guidance and information highlighting how certain concepts exclude underrepresented populations.

    This workshop creates an opportunity for providers to question and understand how to best use the systems and pressures in place to center the client’s needs and use trauma informed approaches.

    It also gives light to the problematic concepts and stereotypes rooted in healthcare that have systematically excluded and pathlogized disabled, trans, intersex, BIPOC, 2SLGBQA+, and fat communities.

  • Safely Connected offers specific training on affirming and trauma informed peer support for eating disorders. This includes but is not limited to:

    • One - on - one support,

    • Support Groups,

    • Promotional and Communications Content,

    • Events Promotion.

  • Harmful and oppressive notions and views of bodies affect all areas of our life, and society. This training provides organizations with the tools to unpack and address the normalized behaviors and thoughts folks have around what a “healthy” body looks like, the preconceptions one may have about one’s gender, health, habits, eating, and behaviors before addressing them, and the systemic factors that perpetuate them.

  • This workshop caters specifically to the requesters domain of healthcare. It will be give an introduction to trauma informed care, alongside a deconstruction and redefinition of coping mechanisms, while centering the experiences of marginalized communities in healthcare. It includes Eating Disorder Harm Reduction, and an introduction to anti-carceral care and resources.

  • The ways in which corporations, cafeterias, and any actor in the food industry discuss and advertise food can easily encourage diet culture and disordered eating behaviors, and eating disorder thoughts. Our training would go over the many ways in which current advertising and conversations of food do this, and how to break those down, and steer away from them, promoting healthier relationships with food and bodies.

  • Advertisements, portrayals, training programs and the general environment of athletic facilities and teams tend to promote a lot of eating disorder behaviors, and a misconstrued version of what health is. Our training would give recommendations on how to promote the same messages, but in a way that doesn’t encourage all of the above.

  • This workshop provides insight, language, and information on the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities to professionals with different backgrounds. The workshop also addresses different microaggressions and kinds of discrimination these communities face every day and in healthcare settings.

  • This workshop goes over trans affirming care, language, and tools. It provides an overview of the variety of barriers transgender communities face in healthcare. It also gives actionable treatment and eating disorder care approaches to put into place for providers.

  • All organizations working in the North American context are affected by the diet industry, fitness industry, medicalized food and weight stigma, as well as the structural effects of racism, transphobia, intersex erasure, colonialism, and ableism.

    We are happy to tailor our training to new organizations we may not have trained before. Let us know if you'd like us to tell you more about our topics and focus.

Costs

All pricing is listed in CAD.

For Non-Profits

- 0 - 10 attendees: $1000,

- 10 - 100 attendees: $1200.

For For-Profits

  • - 0 - 10 attendees: $1500,

  • - 10 - 100 attendees: $1700.

*Costs based on amount of facilitators needed, if there are 100+ attendees the organization will define the amount on a case-by-case basis.

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