course »Body Positivity 101

Date: 5/25/2018, 12:00 pm—4:00 pm
County: Alameda County
Location: Oakland
Sponsor: Seneca Family of Agencies
Phone: 510-654-4004
This training focuses on introducing participants to the concept of Body Positivity, a movement which advocates for the rights of all bodies to be visible and respected. The training seeks to support participants on a personal and professional level by bringing awareness to unconscious bias, fatphobia and body shaming, and the ways that systemic social oppression impacts us. Attendees will have the opportunity to look at how these concepts impact them as individuals and as practitioners, and will be given therapeutic tools and approaches to support clients in improving the relationship with self, using a Body Positive perspectives.