Foundations. Compassionate approaches to working with people in higher weight bodies with eating disorders

An On-Demand Short Course for Health Care Practitioners

Standard eating disorder protocols often miss a critical variable: the lived experience of navigating a higher weight body in a weight-stigmatized world. If we don’t actively adjust our usual practices, we risk replicating the very harms our clients are trying to heal from.

This on-demand short course provides the essential contextual understanding, research, and practical frameworks required to deliver truly safe, effective, and weight-inclusive eating disorder care.

Why This Course is Essential for Your Practice

Eating disorders do not discriminate by size, yet treatment models frequently do. To provide ethical, compassionate care, practitioners must look beyond standard symptom reduction and address the systemic biases impacting our clients.

Through an exploration of lived experience feedback, robust evidence, and practical clinical frameworks, this course gently guides you through the nuances of language, weight stigma, and systemic oppression.

Designed to fit into a busy practitioner’s schedule, this course is fully on-demand and broken down into digestible, resource-rich modules featuring video lectures, slide decks, and downloadable client tools.

What is covered in the course:

• Introductory video, overview of course, learning objectives and lived experience reflections. PDF with reflective activities and case study to review throughout content.
• Webinette about Language; how to talk about bodies and why it is important that we consider how we phrase things.
• Review of the Client Centered Framework and how it can assist us in formulation, treatment planning and psychoeducation.
• Webinette reviewing the research base of supporting consumers with higher weight bodies with eating disorders.
• PDFs of key research papers to review and deepen learning.
• Considerations for setting up inclusive clinical spaces.
• Webinette exploring what a weight inclusive approach is, and what it isn’t.
• Webinette ‘What is weight stigma?’
• Client resource (PDF) Weight stigma to support education and client empowerment.

And keep an eye out for the sister On- Demand Short courses coming soon:

(2) Formulation and Psychoeducation. Compassionate approaches to working with people in higher weight bodies with eating disorders.

(3) Practical Tools. Compassionate approaches to working with people in higher weight bodies with eating disorders.