News

The theme for the May 2013 newsletter is recovery and revolution! This issue includes updates on the work that Isis has been doing including social action projects and recovery orientated workshops. Read the inspirational stories and poetry by the determined women who are achieving recovery.

Brisbane Metro Interagency Forum invites you to attend

"Working with Children and Young People With Eating Issues" \

When: March 7th

Time: Registration 8-9am, Presentations 9-12:30pm

Where: Royal Childrens Hospital, Herston Rd

ANZAED together with EDOS, the Butterfly Foundation & FEAST are running a series of workshops and a conference in Brisbane in from 22-25 May 2013. These practical events address treatment from an interpersonal perspective and are presented by leading Australian & international experts.

What feelings are you wanting to feel most of the time? What kind of life do you want to design and create? How would you like to experience your life every day?

This 8 week Affirm Your Worth program is designed to guide you towards what it means to fall in Love with YOU and to operate from that space of;

Self-Love, Self-Esteem & Self-Awareness.

For the Summer 2012/13 ANZAED Newsletter Isis contributed our thoughts on the importance of peer mentoring in recovering from issues around eating.

Please read our contributon and let others know of the great work we are doing.

Best evidence treatment for eating disorders now shows that the close involvement of families and carers in the care of their loved ones can be invaluable. However, the journey can be confusing, challenging and difficult to navigate.

Who is this workshop suitable for?
 Parents and adult family of a loved one with an
eating disorder
 Clinicians (especially students) who want to
gain insight into working effectively with carers

Advanced Training Workshop
for Family Based Training
By Daniel Le Grange
Thursday 23 May 2013 at
Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital

A Skills Based Training for Health Professionals Working in the Inpatient Setting

Do you have issues around eating?
Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive Eating or something similar?
Are you looking for support and are interested in meeting other women with similar experiences?

Isis is running an 18 week group this year.  Group is an opportunity to meet in a safe and supported therapeutic environment to explore what the eating issue means to you; to explore shared themes, underlying issues and alternative ways of coping.

The ANZAED conference 2012 provided an opportunity for a special interest group to meet relating to Mentoring programs that involve people with a lived experience of recovery supporting those in early recovery. Isis- the Eating Issues Centre Inc. a community based feminist organisation in Queensland hosted this meeting to consult with stakeholders about existing mentoring and hospital visiting programs and to share information about the Isis- Volunteer Mentor Program which recently received a small amount of local government funding to run a series of capacity building and training workshops in Brisbane. Representatives from Eating Disorder services across Australia as well as Carolyn Costin from Monte Nido program in the United Stated shared resources and experiences and opened up dialogues about risk management and the value of training mentors and developing peer recovery orientated capacity building programs. Isis is currently seeking partners and funding to further develop and research peer mentoring for people with Eating Issues.

New media guideline, Reporting and Portrayal of Eating Disorders provides practical advice for journalists, editors and other media professionals to guide best-practice reporting and portrayal of eating disorders. It is also helpful for anyone who might be guiding media professionals who are writing a story about eating disorders.

Join the Body Image Revolution and help us raise funds to prevent eating issues!

Together we can create a culture of body acceptance, where “yoyo” dieting and body criticism is a thing of the past and diversity acceptance and self-love is the norm.

Please consider donating online to our Love Your Body Day Appeal is http://www.givenow.com.au/isis

Isis warmly welcomes you to our annual AGM & Garden Party on  November 1st!

Come along to the Isis space from 6pm to 8pm as we celebrate our years achievenments and look to the future.

New Access Pathways for Child Youth Mental Health have been endorsed in Queensland.  Please see attached document.

Please see attached the updated Access Pathways enorsed by Qld Health

Brisbane 3 September 2012

A study by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) students and Women’s Health Queensland Wide Inc (Women’s Health), replicating the 2010 research by Elizabeth Reid Boyd and Jessica Moncrieff-Boyd, has found that most women’s fashion magazines are not adhering to the voluntary Industry Code of Conduct on Body Image.

Isis the Eating Issues Centre, based in West End Brisbane, welcomes renewed focus on improving body esteem and healing body hatred and eating issues.

As part of (BIEDAW) 1-8th September 2012, Isis the Eating Issues Centre Coordinator Amanda Dearden, in collaboration with Eating Disorder experts and specialist services and the Eating Disorders Network Queensland, have launched the Medical Eating Disorders Network (MEDnet) as a response to a recent state-wide survey that identified increased GP’s training and support to provide early intervention and improved medical management of Eating Disorders was a state-wide priority.

At the event launch last night week, 35 GPs networked with community workers, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and specialty eating disorder services, heard the voice of consumers with a lived experience of eating disorders and recovery and engaged with an expert panel in learning about recognition, referral and ongoing care and medical managment for people with eating issues.

Isis Coordinator Amanda Dearden Copresents at the ANZAED National  conference in Adelaide 24th August 2012

Feminist therapy approaches to eating disorders: Four decades on, still going strong.