✔ Live Parent Workshop – A 90-minute, hands-on session designed to help parents spark sensitive, confident, and age-appropriate conversations with their kids about food, feelings, and body image.
✔ Live Parent Workshop – A 90-minute, hands-on session designed to help parents spark sensitive, confident, and age-appropriate conversations with their kids about food, feelings, and body image.

Beyond Body Talk Workshop

$1,250.00

IN AN AGE OF PRESSURE, PERFORMANCE & PERFECTIONISM LEARN PRACTICAL STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN YOUR CHILD’S RESILIENCE AND TRUST TO RECOGNIZE EARLY SIGNS OF MENTAL HEALTH CONCERN BEFORE IT BECOMES A CRISIS.

✔ THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR PARENT GROUPS* of up to 24

  • HELP parents spark sensitive yet confident conversations with family members, and age-appropriate conversations with their kids (pre-puberty or during adolescence).

  • EXPERIENCE an interactive 90-minute workshop, hands-on and intentionally held in-person, with engaging elements of role play, ending with an optional 90-day take-home package for ongoing active practice. (Take-home package includes 90-days of support materials delivered digitally as a follow-up for successful parenting practice.)

WE BELIEVE EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION IS POSSIBLE. IT STARTS ONE SCHOOL COMMUNITY AT A TIME.

  • COST PER HOUSEHOLD - Consult your PAC for workshop subsidization to reduce the cost of your ‘per household’ investment in this family health and prevention education movement.

✔ PLAN YOUR GROUP WORKSHOP TODAY

  • Ensure your PAC or parenting community gains access to this sensitive and significant conversation at a time when childhood disordered eating — and eating disorders — are on the rise in British Columbia.

    Spots are limited per month. Location TBD by PAC host or group organizer.

✔ Developed by – Our expert panel with backgrounds in Psychology, Education and Parenting — in consultation with Youth (19+), and those with lived experience.

✔ Facilitated by – Child and youth mental health advocate, former crisis and suicide hotline volunteer, former Brownies leader, person with lived experience of childhood (binge-eating disorder), adolescent (atypical anorexia), and adult eating disorders (postpartum and post-amateur bodybuilding relapses), founding board member — and mother of a prospering, healthy and wise teenager — Penny Greening.

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*GROUP SIZE - To ensure an intimate, supportive learning environment, we recommend an ideal group size of 20-24 attendees per session.

A NOTE ON SENSITIVITY - Therapy can be transformative, yet the going rate for family-based therapy today is typically $150–$250 per hour. While this workshop isn’t meant to replace counselling or offset anyone’s employee benefits plan, its purpose is to educate and empower parents around the emerging realities of child mental health — helping families address concerns early, and avoid “suffering in silence”. (This is a trauma-and-neurodivergent-informed workshop.)

IN AN AGE OF PRESSURE, PERFORMANCE & PERFECTIONISM LEARN PRACTICAL STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN YOUR CHILD’S RESILIENCE AND TRUST TO RECOGNIZE EARLY SIGNS OF MENTAL HEALTH CONCERN BEFORE IT BECOMES A CRISIS.

✔ THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR PARENT GROUPS* of up to 24

  • HELP parents spark sensitive yet confident conversations with family members, and age-appropriate conversations with their kids (pre-puberty or during adolescence).

  • EXPERIENCE an interactive 90-minute workshop, hands-on and intentionally held in-person, with engaging elements of role play, ending with an optional 90-day take-home package for ongoing active practice. (Take-home package includes 90-days of support materials delivered digitally as a follow-up for successful parenting practice.)

WE BELIEVE EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION IS POSSIBLE. IT STARTS ONE SCHOOL COMMUNITY AT A TIME.

  • COST PER HOUSEHOLD - Consult your PAC for workshop subsidization to reduce the cost of your ‘per household’ investment in this family health and prevention education movement.

✔ PLAN YOUR GROUP WORKSHOP TODAY

  • Ensure your PAC or parenting community gains access to this sensitive and significant conversation at a time when childhood disordered eating — and eating disorders — are on the rise in British Columbia.

    Spots are limited per month. Location TBD by PAC host or group organizer.

✔ Developed by – Our expert panel with backgrounds in Psychology, Education and Parenting — in consultation with Youth (19+), and those with lived experience.

✔ Facilitated by – Child and youth mental health advocate, former crisis and suicide hotline volunteer, former Brownies leader, person with lived experience of childhood (binge-eating disorder), adolescent (atypical anorexia), and adult eating disorders (postpartum and post-amateur bodybuilding relapses), founding board member — and mother of a prospering, healthy and wise teenager — Penny Greening.

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*GROUP SIZE - To ensure an intimate, supportive learning environment, we recommend an ideal group size of 20-24 attendees per session.

A NOTE ON SENSITIVITY - Therapy can be transformative, yet the going rate for family-based therapy today is typically $150–$250 per hour. While this workshop isn’t meant to replace counselling or offset anyone’s employee benefits plan, its purpose is to educate and empower parents around the emerging realities of child mental health — helping families address concerns early, and avoid “suffering in silence”. (This is a trauma-and-neurodivergent-informed workshop.)

By age 11, nearly half of Canadian children report being teased about their appearance. Some girls even said they feared “being fat” more than cancer, nuclear war, or losing their parents.**

Meanwhile, most kids who are silently struggling with an eating disorder don’t look sick. By the time the issue reaches healthcare, we’ve already missed several windows of opportunity to intervene earlier.

As parents, guardians, and educators, we are the first line of support. Reframe Voices Society, a BC non-profit, was founded with a mission to change the conversation on eating disorders through education and awareness. Let us help you reframe the conversation—for them.

Did you know?

  • Children as young as 5 years old have already expressed concerns about their weight.

  • By age 8, some children have already been diagnosed with an eating disorder.

  • In BC, treatment waitlists can stretch up to a year.

  • Even with treatment, experts suggest that full recovery can take up to 7 years.

**Sources:

- D. Mogensun and L. Yiu, Understanding Eating Disorders in BC Schools: A Guide of Trauma-Informed Practices for School Professionals (Kelowna: Kelty Eating Disorders Resource Centre, 2016.)

- National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC), “Beyond Images,” accessed August 2025.