Join SYEDA for a focused 90-minute training designed to help sports and fitness professionals gain a deeper understanding of the connection between eating disorders, body image concerns, and exercise-related behaviours. This session builds confidence in recognising signs of disordered eating, responding sensitively, and guiding individuals toward appropriate support.
Drawing on lived experience and evidence-based practice, this training equips sport and fitness professionals to respond safely, sensitively, and effectively without causing harm and to guide individuals towards appropriate support.
You will learn:
- How disordered eating and related behaviours can present within sport and fitness contexts, including restrictive eating, compulsive exercise, and body image preoccupation.
- How to Recognise the physical and psychological risks associated with these behaviours.
- The importance of early intervention.
- To identify how language and culture within sport and fitness settings can unintentionally reinforce disordered thinking (e.g. “clean eating,” “optimal performance”).
- The importance of using sensitive, non-judgemental communication to approach individuals with care, confidence, and clear professional boundaries.
- How to signpost. individuals appropriately to SYEDA’s services or other professional support.
