BodyKind Leadership Workshop
Audience: Years 6 – 8 (12 – 14 year olds) and Years 9 – 10
Session Length: 3hrs
Group Size: 40
The BodyKind Leadership Workshop is an interactive and engaging workshop for students in upper primary and secondary that educates and supports young people to champion positive messages that are BodyKind in their class, school or community. It can be run within one school or across a group of schools.
The BodyKind Leadership workshop has been developed to provide young people with opportunities to discuss and explore issues around appearance pressure for young people and to plan and lead an initiative in their own school/communities to support being BodyKind amogst their peers.
Students of all genders and those who may be passionate about this topic (not just student leaders) are encouraged to participate in this workshop.
Please note this is not designed as an intervention for students at risk of body dissatisfaction.
Key themes
In this session young people will explore:
- Influences on body image friends, family, media, and the impact of appearance teasing.
- The role of body comparisons and stereotypes.
- What a BodyKind leader is and can do and the importance of positive role modelling.
- Ideas for student-led activities and develop a Take Action Plan for implementation within their school.
