Building Body Confidence at Home: A FREE Workshop for Caregivers with Zoë Bisbing
Honoring your child’s body, brain, and emotions to build trust and resilience from within.
Saturday, September 20th
UAA, Beatrice McDonald Hall, 2400 W Campus Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508
This event is also being offered virtually.
8 AM - 2:30 PM AKST
What if your greatest parenting tool isn’t a strategy, but the way you see your child? In this workshop, caregivers are invited to slow down and meet their children with deeper clarity, compassion, and unconditional acceptance. Together, we’ll explore how honoring your child’s body, brain, and emotions can strengthen resilience, build emotional safety, and nurture body trust from the inside out. You’ll gain practical tools to support your child’s well-being, especially if their needs fall outside the “typical,” and begin to unlearn harmful cultural messages around bodies, behavior, and belonging.
Light breakfast, coffee, and full lunch provided with in-person registrations.
This workshop is being offered at no cost. If this event is meaningful to you, please consider making a donation to support AKEDA's mission and year-round work to help prevent eating disorders.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE THE WORKSHOP WITH
Learn how to nurture resilience, emotional safety, and body trust by seeing and accepting your child’s body, brain, and emotions with unconditional regard.
Explore how redefining health through a body-trusting, shame-free lens can help caregivers combat weight stigma, release fatphobia, and support lasting well-being for families of all sizes.
Discover ways to support your child’s developing body trust through responsive, shame-free feeding that balances guidance with autonomy and helps you recognize early signs of struggle.
Practical tools to protect and advocate for your child’s body trust by creating safe environments, setting boundaries, and modeling everyday activism that aligns with your values.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Getting to Know—and Unconditionally Accept—the Child Before You (Inside and Out)
Reimagining Health for Families of All Sizes
Supporting Body Trust at the Table
Living the Work: How to Protect Kids’ Body Trust in the Real World
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Zoë Bisbing, MSW, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist, speaker, and educator specializing in body image
healing and eating disorder prevention. She is the founding director of Body-Positive Therapy NYC and has
been in clinical practice since 2009, working with children, adolescents, and adults across the disordered
eating spectrum. Zoë began her career on the eating disorders inpatient unit at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Payne Whitney Westchester, where she supported individuals and families navigating severe
presentations of anorexia, bulimia, and co-occurring psychiatric conditions. These early experiences
deepened her understanding of the complexity of eating disorders—and the systemic barriers many people
face when their suffering doesn’t meet narrow medical criteria for care.
In addition to her clinical work, Zoë is the creator of Body-Positive Home, an educational and healing platform through which she offers workshops and guidance to parents, professionals, and students on building body image resilience and body respect for the next generation. Zoë is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. She holds a Master of Social Work from New York University, a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, and certification in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) from the Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. She has also completed advanced training in Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) through the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford.
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