Our four-week groups for practitioners combine
psychoeducational and psychodynamic elements to give
women the tools and insights they will need to begin to
understand, heal, and transform their relationship with
food and their bodies. Exploration, fantasy exercises,
and homework assignments are utilized in each phase of
the educational group to encourage participants to
personalize and internalize the group
experience.
In the first phase of the group, members are introduced
to a
"self atuned"
model of eating that is
anti-diet
and
mindfulness
based. Participants are helped to use the self-attuned
model to eat with their hunger and to stop at fullness,
while examining why they might feel compelled to eat at
times when they are not physically hungry, and/or to
restrict their eating during times when they
are.
This model introduces curiosity and compassion as
alternatives to the punitive and restrictive methods
women typically employ in their efforts to change their
relationships with food and their bodies. Next, the group
focuses on legitimizing all foods and eliminating
dichotomous thinking about food, such as: good and bad,
permitted and forbidden, or healthy and unhealthy food
groups. Finally group members work on body image,
including the meaning of fat and thin and how one's ideas
about one's body function psychologically,
interpersonally, and culturally.
The WTCI Approach
"...These groups are designed to work effectively with
the continuum of problematic eating, from compulsive and
binge eating, to anorexia, bulimia, and chronic
dieting..."
All phases of the group's work are informed by a
psychodynamic perspective and by the conscious and
explicitly articulated awareness that we live in a
culture that encourages women to live in disharmony with
their bodies, and that for most women to live in an
embodied way in this culture requires an active choice to
resist cultural norms.
What to do Next
Advance
registration is required, as under-enrolled groups will
be re-scheduled and group size is limited.
Please
register here
GROUP FOR PRACTITIONERS
March 15, 22, 29, April 5
Fridays, 9:00am-10:30am
Location: Upper West Side
Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW filled