Creating a Body Bright School Culture
Audience: All school staff
Session Length: 1 hour
Format: Face to face and Virtual
Size: 120
This guided session for school personnel focuses on creating a positive, inclusive school environment to support children’s body image.
Designed for all staff, it explores how by challenging some of the strong cultural beliefs around eating, weight and health we can better support children, ourselves and the people around us. Staff are guided through 6 practical strategies to support being Body Bright in the whole school community.
Key themes
- Understanding body image and latest prevalence statistics in children and young people
- The continuum of attitudes and behaviours leading to body dissatisfaction, disordered eating and eating disorders
- Three key cultural shifts to support being Body Bright
- Six steps to creating a Body Bright school culture.
- Encouraging Body Bright language
- Reviewing existing learning activities and resources – are they Body Bright?
- Applying a Body Bright lens to school policies
- Responding in Body Bright ways to student concerns
- Being a Body Bright role model
- Becoming an informed Body Bright community
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Looking for a program to support your primary school?
Butterfly Body Bright is an evidence-based body image program for primary schools using a whole-school approach. Developed for Foundation to Year 6 children, it creates positive relationships with eating and exercise. This flexible program includes curriculum-aligned lessons, staff training, tips for school culture, and other resources.
