Sunday 17th May & Sunday 24th May 2026 10am – 2pm (online & recorded)
If you work with people, you likely work with body image distress, mental illness including eating disorders, diverse body types and people who have experienced body shame and weight stigma.
In a weight‑centric fitness culture, many eating disorder behaviours are missed, normalised, or even praised as “healthy” and “disciplined.”
This workshop is designed to change that.
Over two Sundays, you’ll learn how to recognise red flags, reduce harm, and create spaces where all bodies—and all relationships with movement—are treated with care and respect.
This workshop is for you are:
- A personal trainer, strength coach, group fitness instructor, Pilates/yoga teacher, or coach in any sport.
- A gym owner/manager who wants your space to be genuinely inclusive and health‑promoting.
- A fitness professional who has wondered:
- “Am I accidentally reinforcing disordered eating?”
- “Why do I have a poor body image?”
- “I’m worried about a client, but I don’t know what my place is.”
- “If I say something, I’m afraid I’ll make things worse or lose my clients.”
- “I want to move away from weight‑loss marketing, but I don’t know what to put in its place.”
Join us for a 2 x 4‑hour live online workshop (with recordings) which will help you (coaches, PTs and gym owners):
- Understand the main types of eating disorders (AN, BN, BED, ARFID, OSFED), why they develop, and who can get them (spoiler: anyone, in any body).
- Know the difference between clinically diagnosed eating disorders and disordered eating—and why both can be serious.
- Recognise warning signs in fitness settings:
- Understand Low Energy Availability & RED‑S in plain language, and why it matters for recreational clients as well as athletes.
- Explore body image and weight stigma in fitness—how messages like “your body is your business card,” “summer body,” and “feel more confident” actually land.
- Learn why “everything in moderation” is not the neutral, helpful phrase it pretends to be, and how it quietly props up diet culture.
- Get clear on your scope of practice around food and nutrition: what’s in, what’s out, and why you do not need to define “healthy eating” for your clients.
- Learn how to design:
- Intake forms that reduce harm and invite honesty.
- Values statements (e.g. no weigh‑ins, no body comments) that back up your ethics.
- Practise having the conversation:
- What to say when you’re worried.
- When and where to say it.
- How to listen and refer without trying to “fix” it yourself.
- Leave with a concrete, personal action plan: specific changes to language, marketing, policies and culture in your own setting.
- Help build a sustainable business for you – no revolving door of clients as they will feel welcomed, heard and understood.
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