Navigating Transitions and Eating Disorders on Campus: A Webinar
While the pandemic shifted the world into a state of transition, it continues to have a unique impact on the lives of university students. This conversation with Jessie’s Legacy will delve into experiences of transition, and the variety of experiences that brings up in relation to food, body image, and coping with uncertainty. We aim to give participants a common language around eating disorders and disordered eating, explore the impact of the pandemic on university students with and without eating disorders, and how to build capacity in responding to and supporting students. With an emphasis on dialogue and connection, we will look at answering:
- How did this time impact your own relationship with your body?
- How do you think it might have been for someone who is first experiencing struggle versus for someone who was already struggling?
- What does it look like when someone is struggling and how do you offer them support?
- What are some of the challenges and barriers experienced on campus?
This talk will provide space for folks of all experience and knowledge levels to engage in conversation around creating awareness, community, and support on campus for students struggling with disordered eating and eating disorders.
About Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses
Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses (HM|HC) is a province-wide community of practice, learning and working together to promote mental wellness and healthier relationships with substances within BC post-secondary institutions. This campus-based initiative engages students, service staff, faculty and administrators in a collaborative and innovative endeavor to build capacity and sustained mechanisms to advance well-being. HM|HC attempts to draw on sound theory and broad research as well as local experience and insight to enhance campus culture and shape environments conducive to all members thriving. Equipping them individually and collectively to contribute to the wellness of communities they now and will belong to is a vital part of the post-secondary educational mandate to develop productive citizens and leaders. HM|HC endorses and promotes implementation of the Okanagan Charter for Health Promoting Universities and Colleges. Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division and Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research together provide a Support Team for this community of practice.
Watch our recorded Zoom webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/pETADdDszzSgSYoxcUmnorIHMXYw-0f_a1bme2fbH1XHEhSle_hyIiZT4hrSdFNp.umqCOwGrmDnwnA5C?startTime=1643832149000
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