Freed Collab

3- Day Workshop Series on Nutrition and Mental Health

Who: Freed is a non-profit organization that intends to encourage conversations about eating disorders in India and provide support to individuals and families affected by them.

What: This workshop series was conducted online as part of Freed's 8-month-long fellowship program catering to students pursuing a Master's in Psychology. This was my second collaboration with the team, after our first collaboration in 2022.

I planned, curated, designed and facilitated a 3-day online workshop series on Nutrition and Mental Health, with a special focus on Eating Disorders in the last session.

Dates: 22 May 2023, 29 May 2023 and 05 June 2023

Day 1

The role and relationship between Nutrition and Mental Health
Body Image
The Myth of the Perfect Body
What is Holistic Health, and why is it the need of the hour

Day 2

Emotional Marketing Tool employed by the Food Industry
How the Diet and Weight Loss Industry make profits at the cost of people's lives
Relationship with food and our bodies, and the link between the two
How to learn to rebuild our relationship with food
Learning to eat intuitively
Using body wisdom and ancient food traditions to cultivate the art of eating right

Day 3

Discussing the Nutritional Management Approaches to each kind of Eating Disorder
Exploring the two emerging research fields of Nutritional Psychiatry and Nutritional Psychology

Workbook for the attendees

Was curated for use by the participants during the sessions - it included quizzes, worksheets, reflective answering and assessments.

Toolkit for the attendees

This helpful toolkit was created for the participants to guide them in their professional practice as Psychologists.

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