Eating and weight through the shame lens

Eating and Weight Through the Shame Lens

Nourish | Workshop 05

Friday 12 March 2027 · 10.00am–1.00pm | £65 individual workshop launch price

Run by eating and weight specialist Mandy Atkinson, TSTA-(P), psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor.

Shame may be both deeply present and incredibly difficult to name and narrate in work involving food, eating, body and weight. This workshop considers shame as a relational, painful experience that can emerge in the room, remain hidden, and be evoked through how a therapist's interventions are received. It invites careful attention to pace, sensitivity, and the evocative and emergent — at times almost unspeakable — nature of shame. We will consider the therapeutic relationship and the environment that may make beginning a narrative about difficult experiences more possible.

• Explore how shame may be hidden, communicated indirectly or enacted within the therapeutic relationship.