Learn how to support your clients (and anyone!) in engaging with social media in a safer, more informed way - through becoming informed yourself!

Social media is an ever-changing landscape, and understanding what contributes to risk and protective factors can equip us with the knowledge and confident to have these conversation with athletes in ways that are more impactful. This workshop is designed to elevate the Dietitian or health professional’s skills and understanding about how to better able to support clients to protect themselves, whilst using social media for good.

This workshop is very practical in nature, so please bring your own phone or social media device of choice!

Part 1: changing the algorithm

Hosted by Amanda Bolton and Sarah Egan from Eating Disorders Training Australia, part 1 will introduce you to why social media use can be so fraught, then move into evidence-based strategies you can bring into practice to diversify the algorithm to reduce exposure to potentially harmful content, and boost protective mechanisms.

You will learn:

• what the research says about social media and body image

• the most problematic parts of the most common platforms

• what content is likely to be most harmful for body image and how to influence change to improve this

• how to make and sustain practical changes to influence what is seen to foster body satisfaction

You’ll learn - step by step - HOW to guide your clients to diversify their feed based on other interests and keywords and leave with super practical strategies to take into practice. Bring your phone!

Part 2: Safer social media use

Hosted by Fiona Sutherland, part 2 will move more into how to support people to protect themselves and set effective boundaries when using their own social media accounts and interacting with others online. We will also explorehow to have the very important conversation of “should I engage?” through using a practical reflective framework to support sound, self compassionate decision making.

We will discuss possible situations where images/bodies are being used in other’s social media accounts and how to establish boundaries where consent and privacy are being prioritised. This part of the workshop may be of particular interest to people who are working with higher profile individuals who are representing a company/brand/team/organisation.

Registration fees:

Aus Dietitians AUD $75 (plus GST)

International Dietitians USD $70

BONUS!

Sign up for Safer Socials and get 20% off the Trauma Informed in Sport (June 27th, live online)

DATES AND TIMES (note these are all the same times, in different zones)

PST Mon March 4th 2-4pm

EST Mon March 4th 5-7pm

AEDT Tuesday March 5th at 9am-11am 

I look forward to seeing you at the following time (you can check your timezone here)

Your speakers:

Dr Amanda Bolton is a senior clinical psychologist with 8+ years of experience working with adolescents and their families as well as adults recovering from an eating disorder in both public and private settings. Amanda spent many years working at the Butterfly Eating Disorder Day program as both a clinician and as the senior clinician coordinator of the program (developing the program, group content and treatment focus, working with young people and their families, supervising students and clinicians, providing eating disorders training, delivering treatment and overseeing the smooth running of the program) .

Dr Sarah Egan is a senior clinical psychologist trained in working within a developmental framework across the lifespan and has extensive experience working in CAMHS, Early Psychosis, CATT, the Butterfly Day Eating Disorder Day Program, and now in private practice. She has had extensive experience in training clinicians, eating disorders training, and is an experienced clinical supervisor, assisting clinicians to build confidence and competence in working with teenage and adult clients with eating disorders.  She has strength in helping others understand and make sense of the often-complex work of treating clients with eating disorders and working with systems to motivate change. 

Fiona Sutherland is Director of The Mindful Dietitian and an Accredited Sports Dietitian with over 20 years experience working in high performance sport. She has been active in the education and training space for over 10 years and is a specialist in Eating Disorders, Body Image and trauma informed care.