Women’s Body Initiative - looking for participants!
Posted by Laura on 23 May 2025
Women’s Body Initiative – June 2013
Hello! Are you an adult female? Are you available for four evenings in June? Do you want to support the development and creation of an evidence-based programme for women to establish a positive body image? Please get in touch – we need you!
The Women’s Body Initiative is a programme, based on research, showing that when women are able to discuss the pressures to meet certain appearance ideals and generate strategies for managing such pressures, they feel better about their bodies.
Research conducted with university women has demonstrated this is one of the best approaches to improving body satisfaction, as shown with our own Succeed Body Image Programme (SBIP). This type of approach has also been shown to lower eating problems and negative emotions. But this isn’t just a problem for university aged women, which is why we are adapting the programme for other women at different stages in their lifespan.
This June, we’ll be running an ‘acceptability study’ to see if we’re going in the right direction. Generally, acceptability studies aim to provide a ‘proof of concept’ that the intervention will be accepted in its current mode by users (i.e., women) and stakeholders. They can assess therapeutic elements, language and presentation of intervention content, timing of sessions and questionnaires, content and formatting of questionnaires, manuals and worksheets.
Details:
WHEN: Monday evenings from June 10th 2013
four one-hour sessions, over four consecutive weeks
WHERE: Succeed offices in South Kensington, London
WHO: women aged 18-80+
groups of 6-8 participants
If you would like to take part, please contact Karine Berthou at [email protected]
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More details on the programme:
The Women’s Body Initiative is a cognitive dissonance-based body image program for adult women, there is no upper age limit. The Women’s Body Initiative consists of a series of verbal, written, and behavioral exercises that require participants to critique the ultra-thin perpetually-young ideal standard of female beauty promoted in western culture. This approach to improving body image and preventing eating disorders was originally developed by Dr. Eric Stice and his colleagues. Cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957) occurs when there is a discrepancy between ones’ beliefs and one’s actions. This inconsistency creates psychological distress, which typically is reduced by changing one’s beliefs to be consistent with one’s actions.
