Fatphobia: What It Is and How to Resist It "CANCELLED"

CANCELLED

This Spring we are offering 3 trainings on Fatphobia.  These 2 hour trainings are independent of each other, and participants can register for as many sessions as they choose. While each training can stand alone, the content builds throughout the month to offer participants a deeper understanding to identify fatphobia and its intersections and understand its impacts and how to dismantle it. Participants can earn up to 6 hours of Ethics Continuing Education. Options to register for any or all of the trainings can be found on the registration page. Those choosing to register for all 3 trainings will receive 20% off the total price.

White Supremacy and Fatphobia: Participants will learn the history and origins of fatphobia in the context of racism and ableism. This session will bust some common diet culture myths, and break down the white supremacist history of the BMI. 

Fatphobia in Healthcare: Participants will learn how anti-fat bias shows up in the present day and creates disparities in healthcare. This session will discuss how weight stigma affects patients and staff in healthcare settings. There will be discussion on how microagressions such as fatphobic documentation and BMI limits for gender affirming surgery can lead to avoidance of medical care. 

Intuitive Eating: This session will focus on intuitive eating as one way to resist fatphobia and other forms of oppression in our spaces. This is not a comprehensive training on intuitive eating, but will introduce the core principles of intuitive eating, as well as some other strategies that providers can use to disrupt anti-fat bias in medical and therapeutic settings.