About this event
Join us online to explore your thoughts, feelings, difficulties and healing with others who also experience living with an eating disorder and/or body dysmorphia in a peer-led space.
This space aims to be safe, inclusive and supportive.
The session will include a creative activity, relaxation/grounding, and facilitated open spaces to talk with others who can relate, listen, and support one another.
No formal diagnosis is needed to attend, and all bodies are welcome. The group is grounded in its commitment to interrogating anti-fat bias/fatphobia, and prioritises creating a person-centred environment to discuss things that are often excluded in clinical/psychiatric settings, and room is always held for exploring the impacts of societal systems on eating disorders and/or body dysmorphia and more.
Please have basic writing/drawing materials available for the session’s activities. You may also want to use colouring pens or other materials, this is welcome but not essential!
There will be a short break during the session.
Disclaimer:
This is a peer-led support group and not formal/psychological therapy. Whilst we will work together to not share explicitly triggering content, you may find some of what is spoken about difficult, and it is important that you have coping strategies in place.
We will always check out at the end of the session, and further signposting/resources can be shared. However Shani (the workshop's facilitator) is unable to provide any other support outside of this space.
Please be aware that when joining the session you will be expected to honour these specific group boundaries:
- Confidentiality - don’t share what others have said outside of the group
- No numbers - we don’t refer to numbers such as calories/weight/BMI etc within the group as it can be triggering
- No negative use of the word “fat” - we do not engage with fatphobic language
If you have any questions or concerns please do get in touch!
This event is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Accessibility:
Closed captions on Zoom. Please let us know if you have any other accessibility requirements at hello@londonlgbtqcentre.org.