Dear Future Body Positive Movement Leaders,
First off, we thank you for the work you do every day to help your clients have a more peaceful relationship with their bodies.
Whether you have a private practice or work in a treatment, fitness, or medical center, you’re working hard to fight negative body image and the life-threatening consequences it causes. You’re seeing results in some of your clients. Others are letting go of their disordered behaviors, but are hanging onto the edge of recovery by their fingernails.
We invite you to attend one of our upcoming Regional Be Body Positive Facilitator Trainings, where we will not only teach you how to use our Be Body Positive Model’s five core Competencies in your work with clients, but where you will also have the opportunity to attend to your own relationship with your body.
For more than two decades, The Body Positive has been changing lives by helping people embrace their beautifully “flawed” human selves, practice sustainable self-care, and use their freed up energy to live full and purposeful lives.
At our trainings, we will put the simple yet profound curriculum we use to change lives in your hands so you can do the same for your clients—and yourself.
Challenge 1: Helping clients improve their body image after recovering from their eating-disordered behaviors so they can truly see and experience their authentic beauty (including transgendered and non-binary clients who may feel betrayed by their bodies).
Challenge 2: Helping clients understand that they CAN have self-love, when it feels like it’s completely out of reach.
Challenge 3: Getting lost in helping clients and forgetting that attending to your own self-care and body image is key to being a positive role model.
Do you experience any of these challenges? You are not alone. These are just a few of the struggles faced by the professionals who work to combat negative body image and eating problems.
You’re in luck. We are working with partners around the country to arrange Facilitator Trainings in various regions. If you are interested in learning about how to host one, please email Elizabeth Scott at elizabeth@thebodypositive.org.
Join us for a powerful experiential two-day training where you will enhance your professional efficacy, learn to teach our curriculum, and improve your own body image.
This training is offered through Rooted Heart Healthcare and Center for Discovery Tacoma. We have been invited to share this training with The Body Positive community to fill a certain number of spaces.
Connie Sobczak and Elizabeth Scott, LCSW, CEDS-S, founded The Body Positive in 1996 because of their shared passion to create a lively, healing community that offers freedom from suffocating societal messages that keep people in a perpetual struggle with their bodies.
Connie is an author, educator, mentor, and award-winning video producer. Her experience with an eating disorder in her teen years and the death of her sister Stephanie inspired her life’s work to create a world where all people are free to love their bodies.
She co-founded The Body Positive in honor of her sister, and to ensure that her daughter Carmen and other children would grow up in a new world—one where people are free to love their bodies and fully live their lives.
Connie is the author of Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!). She is a leader of the movement to prevent eating problems and improve the self-image of youth and adults by training leaders to bring the Be Body Positive program to their schools and communities. Her passion is watching the light that emerges when people recognize and embrace their magnificent, authentic selves.
Elizabeth has practiced psychotherapy since 1988, specializing in eating disorders treatment. She refined the core Competencies of the Be Body Positive Model to be appropriate for the treatment, as well as the prevention, of eating problems.
Since 1998, Elizabeth has been training students and staff in high school and college to lead Body Positive programs on their campuses. She also trains eating disorders treatment professionals in private practice and inpatient treatment centers to use the Be Body Positive Model and curriculum in the prevention of eating disorders.
Elizabeth is committed to The Body Positive’s work because it brings great meaning to her life when she can help people leave body hatred behind and become free to focus on their precious life purpose.
We passionately believe in our work and its power to change people’s lives forever.
It’s why we’ve been around for more than two decades, and why our Be Body Positive trainings, workshops, and public events have been sponsored by eating disorder treatment centers like Center For Discovery, Reasons, Timberline Knolls, Opal: Food + Body Wisdom, 'Ai Pono, Monte Nido, and The Renfrew Center.
Our trainings get rave reviews, year after year. We believe you’ll be transformed by the experience of working with us.
But we also know our work is not necessarily right for everyone. Some people aren't ready to make the personal commitment to practice what they teach.
So, we are willing to offer you a money back guarantee.
If, after attending the first full day of the Be Body Positive training, you feel that the work isn’t right for you, turn in all of your materials and receive a full refund of your tuition and curriculum license fee.
You have nothing to lose by signing up right now.
Here’s another look at how The Body Positive transforms lives. Take note that the young woman quoted below was in a Body Positive group that was NOT taught by us. College health center clinicians who attended our 2016 training facilitated this group.
We hope you’ll join us at this hosted Be Body Positive Facilitator Training, the only remaining training scheduled in 2019.
With love and gratitude,
