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Join the Wellbeing Think Tank for our Q4 Educational Intensive.
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Date and time
Thursday, October 19 · 11:45am – 1pm PDT
Location
Online
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About this event
- 1 hour 15 minutes
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Join the Wellbeing Think Tank for our Quarterly Educational Intensive series. A recording of this event will be provided to all registrants.
Many workplace wellness programs have been handed down, year after year, without a close look at the research on effectiveness and unintended consequences. The evolution of wellbeing programming has encompassed so many more whole person options but weight loss is still a major focus. What does research say about weight loss? Is BMI a valid measurement? Where does body image and self-esteem fit into programming? Explore these questions and walk away with fresh ideas and data to support your wellness endeavors.
- Understand research on dieting and weight cycling to avoid programming that perpetuates failed interventions.
- Learn the history of BMI and its harmful limitations.
- Encourage healthy behaviors without supporting diet culture.
- Support diversity, inclusion, and positive body image for improved outcomes.
We are able to provide this content thanks to our generous sponsors, Canopy, Urban Balance, OWLS, Providence Health Plans, and HHP Cultures. If desired, during registration you can make a 100% donation to our charity partner Playworks, which helps kids to stay active and build valuable life skills through play.
Questions? Please email [email protected].
Q4 Educational Intensive – Taking Weight Out of Wellness: Prioritizing People Over Numbers
Featured Speaker:
Heather Sayers Lehman, MS, NBC-HWC, CIEC, CWP
Heather Sayers Lehman is a certified intuitive eating counselor, wellbeing speaker and weight-inclusive wellness strategist. Heather currently operates Overcoming U – Cultivating Employee Well-Being. Overcoming U provides health and well-being courses for employee wellness programs. The courses focus on building skillsets and changing mindsets to create and maintain healthy habits.
She founded the Alliance for Weight-Inclusive Health (AWIH). AWIH’s mission is to educate health and wellness professionals about improving weight-inclusive care, body image, and health sustaining behavior adoption as well as decreasing weight stigma, eating disorders, and wellness myths/misinformation.
Heather is also host of the podcast, The Air We Breathe: Stories of Diet Culture. She talks to both experts and non-experts about how diet culture has personally impacted them as well as ways they’re moving towards freedom (in large or small ways). The goal of the podcast is to help people feel less alone in their struggles with weight and worthiness.
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