Cereal Social
A note from Alison Cross, founder of iaedp wnc...
Iaedp is the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals here in WNC. We provide educational opportunities for healthcare professionals who want to know more and be supported in their work with folx that have eating disorders and struggle with disordered eating. Staying connected is an important part of the process of our work, and combining this need with another that we are passionate about gives us positive energy! Won't you join us? You don't need to be an eating disorder professional. If you're in the field, come join us. For a box or two of cereal, you will receive a token for a beverage and we'd love for you to stay and network with new and old friends. Join us as we connect and address food insecurity in our community.
Date And Time
Thurs. August 15th, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Location
7 Clans Brewing
66 Sweeten Creek Rd
Asheville, NC 28803
Art Show: Embodied - The Felt Sense of Recovery
Join us for an experience of gallery pieces crafted by humans for humans, depicting reconnection and coming home to self. It is our ability to reconnect with ourselves while staying in connection with others that allows us to unlearn, remember, and recover. This ability is inside of us. It is ours, and it has always been ours. Join us in remembering and witnessing.
Now taking submissions for pieces. View or download the PDF below for more details and submission guidelines.
Date And Time
Tues Sept 24th - Saturday Oct 5th, 2024
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT Daily
Location
ArtPlay
372 Depot St #44,
Asheville, NC 28801
Considerations for Novel Pharmacologic Agents in Eating Disorder Treatment
Join us for the last of our virtual trainings! Where the folks from Within inform us about something we're all seeing our clients struggle with. Anti-fat attitudes and misconceptions about weight as an indicator of health have fueled the weight loss industry for decades. Various pharmaceutical approaches aiming to address weight-related concerns have been introduced on the market, only to be withdrawn due to limited efficacy and/or concerning adverse effects. The recent emergence of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and gastric inhibitory
polypeptide (GIP) receptor agonists (RAs) has reignited the promise of a panacea for “poor health” and body dissatisfaction, albeit at a cost. During this presentation the historic use of pharmacologic agents use for weight loss will be briefly reviewed. The biopsychosocial implications of GLP-1 and GIP RAs will be discussed, and considerations for practitioners working with individuals experiencing weight stigma, fatphobia, disordered eating and eating disorders will be highlighted. Session attendees will walk away with a full picture of how and why clients might pursue the use of GLP-1 and GIP RAs, the known and unknown implications for such choices, and how to best counsel clients and inform non-eating disorder professionals about these weight loss pharmacological agents.
Date And Time
Friday, September 13, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:30PM EDT
Location
Virtual Event - click the button below for more info or to register
Art Show: A clinician networking event with drinks and lite bites! Hosted by iaedp WNC Chapter.
A clinician networking event with drinks and lite bites! Hosted by iaedp WNC Chapter.
Embodiment: the felt sense and subjective experience of existing inside of a body.
Embodied: the Felt Sense of Recovery will be an experience of gallery pieces crafted by humans for humans, depicting reconnection and coming home to self. It is our ability to reconnect with ourselves while staying in connection with others that allows us to unlearn, remember, and recover. This ability is inside of us. It is ours, and it has always been ours. Join us in remembering and witnessing.
All over the state our clients have submitted their works and response to this call. As an organization comprised of eating disorder professionals, we felt moved to share what we witness daily in our work. Often this talent is hidden or given away for free. This is an opportunity for the voice of our clients to be seen, felt, and witnessed by the community. And they have an opportunity to sell their pieces if desired. All proceeds of these go towards the artist (minus a small fee by ArtPlay).
We'd love for you to come and experience embodiment, the felt sense and subjective experience of existing inside of a body.
The Western North Carolina Chapter of iaedp™ is an organization of eating disorders professionals that provides collaboration, networking, education, and support for eating disorders professionals in Western North Carolina.
We are a Health At Every Size aligned chapter and seek to provide education to providers that ensures people in bodies of all shapes and sizes are treated with inclusion, respect, and evidence-based care.
Date And Time
Sat., October 5th, 2024
10:00AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Location
ArtPlay
372 Depot St #44,
Asheville, NC 28801
Form and Space, an Embodiment Event with Dr. Hillary L. McBride, PhD.
This event is open to the community, not just providers!
This event is about creating the space to step outside of the ways of being a body that are structured, familiar, and prescribed, to tune into our bodily voice, and practice moving in a way that feels authentic, giving unexplored or unexpressed places inside of us form through our movement and words. When what is inside of us moves into the space around us, we can begin to encounter the stillness that lives inside.
The two and a half hours will consist of free movement (ecstatic dance), writing, and group sharing. For those of you new to free-movement, the purpose of this is choice and bodily autonomy while engaging with movement to play, express, and experience your bodily wisdom. You get to choose how you want to move your body. If that means laying down and listening to the music, connecting to your wild self, or waltzing your inner critic back and forth, all of it is just as it should be. This is a space for you to practice moving how you want to move, and then have time to write and verbally integrate the experiences you have. If money is an issue let us know, we would love to find a way for you to come no matter what.
Please bring some water, your journal and a pen, and wear loose clothing to move in with layers to remove as you warm up. We will be moving with shoes off.
We are currently searching for a place to host this event. We WILL be in Asheville, NC and will post the location soon!
Date And Time
Thurs. November 14th, 2024
4:00PM - 6:30 PM EDT
Location
TBD
Appetites and Arousal: Understanding purity culture, (dis)embodiment, eating disorders, and healing
Although purity culture has impacted millions of North Americans since its widespread emergence in the 1990s, the long term effects of these cultural practices is emerging as something worth clinical consideration for a variety of mental health presentations, in particular diagnosis which organize around the body, including eating disorders. Dr. Hillary McBride and Dr. Sandra Noble will be presenting theoretical and research based information on the role of embodiment/disembodiment as mediating links between purity culture and disordered eating (and other mental health presentations), as well as the broader considerations of spiritual trauma. religious abuse, and the institutional and systemic dynamics and experiences which co-exist alongside purity culture. This workshop will include information about purity culture and embodiment, spiritual trauma and religious abuse, and how these relate to eating disorder development and treatment for those who have been a part of purity culture. The workshop will also include strategies and considerations for treatment when working with those who are still within purity culture and its supporting religious context, and those who have left or deidentified from purity culture.
Date And Time
Fri. November 15th, 2024
8:30AM - 5:30 PM EDT
Location
TBD