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Venue

The Connaught Hotel. Bournemouth

www.theconnaught.co.uk

Organised by;

Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Eating Disorder Service, Poole, Dorset

An opportunity to improve skills needed in preventing, identifying and treating eating disorders.

Opening plenary by Professor Glenn Waller, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, entitled:

8.30 – 9.30 am Coffee and Registration

9.30 – 11.00 am Introduction followed by

11.00 – 11.30 am Tea/Coffee break

11.30 – 1.00 pm Choice of 4 Workshops

1.00 – 2.00 pm Hot Lunch provided

2.00 – 3.30 pm Choice of 4 Workshops

3.30 – 4.00 pm Tea/coffee break

4.00 – 5.00 pm Discussion, Feedback and closure

Glenn Waller is Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service, Central and North West London NHS Trust, and is visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. His clinical speciality is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for eating disorders. He has published widely in the field (over 200 peer-reviewed papers), and is the lead author of a textbook on CBT for eating disorders.

Please select your choice of workshop for the morning and afternoon sessions. Three of the workshops are repeated to give you the chance to attend your top choices.

Please make 2 selections. There is an attendance limit to each workshop. Early selection ensures you will get your first choice.

Morning workshop choices 11.30 to 1.00 pm:

Afternoon workshop choices 2.00 to 3.30 pm:

Workshop 1 (maximum 15 participants)

How should staff approach and deal with students and gym users who are clearly under-weight and or over-exercising? What messages should they be giving to gym users?

Workshop 2 (maximum 15 participants)

Your chance to feel more confident in knowing what to look for, and questions to ask, when concerns are raised. Also, whom should you involve, and when to be worried.

Workshop 3 (maximum 15 participants)

Stimulating the drive to move forward while resisting getting into battles of wills is one of the greatest challenges when working with people with eating concerns. Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based approach which sits well with this client group.

Workshop 4 – Morning only (maximum 15 participants)

"Working systemically with sufferers, carers and their families"

To relate or not to relate? - that is the question. This workshop explores how systemic approaches can support sufferers, carers and their families in the challenges that they face in establishing open and healthy lines of communication within their relationships.

Workshop 5 – Afternoon only (maximum 15 participants)

Mindfulness and meditation have gained in popularity and credibility due to their pivotal role in DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and the different models of mindfulness-based CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy).

This experiential workshop will demonstrate how mindfulness-based skills can be applied to eating disorder sufferers, both in individual and group settings.