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RIPE GROUP THERAPY

ALSO KNOWN AS: Recovery Is Possible For Everyone which has been running for 14 years!

FORMAT: A structured treatment program facilitated by a specialist counsellor, dietitian and recovered mentor

FACILITATOR/S: Sarah Harry and Fiona Sutherland and a recovered mentor

PARTICIPANTS: 6 to 10 per group

DURATION: 2 hours per week | 14 weeks  

COST: $85 per session | $199 for half day initial session

LOCATION: The Swell Centre | 6 Minona Street | Hawthorn Melbourne

START DATES: Feb/March 2020, May/June 2020, September 2020

TIME: Saturday mornings 9-11 generally

BOOKINGS: sarah@bodypositiveaustralia.com.au

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WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM THIS GROUP?​

• A relaxed environment in which you can readily share all of your problems and issues around food and eating with people experiencing similar struggles

• Learn strategies to enhance motivation and how change works to help you recover

• Develop strategies to reduce and delay binge eating and better manage your food and eating behaviours (including mindful and intuitive eating)

• Learn to recognise the links between food, eating and emotions and how to better manage these to prevent binge eating

• Begin to explore and body and self image, and how to enhance it using Self Compassion skills

• Identify and develop support and self care networks and techniques

• Explore a variety of relaxation techniques, mindfulness, breathing techniques and seated mindful yoga practice (5 minutes per week to add to your tool box!) 

• Relapse prevention and developing plans for managing your Eating Disorder when the group finishes

• We use a combination of Evidence Based Practice and our significant facilitating experience to help you progress

 

I'M INTERESTED. WHAT DO I DO NOW?​

• Contact us by phone, SMS or email. If we don’t answer, leave a message, we will get back to you ASAP.

• Next, a chat on the phone (all contact with RIPE is confidential) to see if the group would be right for you and answer any questions you may have.

• Then we make an appointment for a one on one assessment before the group starts.

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WEIGHT LOSS AND DIETING​

• This group’s primary objective is therapy, well-being and health

• Our emphasis is on discovering your most healthy weight using positive eating strategies.

• We do not support dieting as it exacerbates your illness and prolongs recovery

BODY PEACE GROUP

FORMAT: Body Image Group Therapy with Expert Facilitation

FACILITATOR/S: Sarah Harry

PARTICIPANTS: 6-8

DURATION: 8 Weeks

COST: $65 per session | $150 introductory session of 3 hours

LOCATION: The Augustine Centre | Hawthorn

DATES | TIMES: October 2019 next group

CONTACT: sarah@bodypositiveaustralia.com.au

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WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM THIS GROUP?

• A mindfulness, somatic and self-compassion based group with expert facilitation

• An integration of body image work through movement and gentle yoga to “come home” to the body and begin to experience it with comfort (exploring embodiment)

• To begin to move from discomfort in your body to a sense ease though talking therapy and body therapy

• To understand your personal ‘Body History’ and move past it

• To go deeper than other programs in understanding why you feel this way about your body and begin to put new strategies in place to feel better and move towards body acceptance

• Understand why our current "diet culture" supports and encourages body images issues and how to move past this

• Dive into topics like “Self- Compassion” and “Body Shame”

• Become more “Embodied” and become to trust and live fully in your body no matter what your size