This course is part of the student pathway for eating disorders, a joint venture between Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), the NHS Eating Disorders Service in Manchester and The University of Manchester.
It is for those who struggle with unhelpful eating patterns, which can include restricting, bingeing, purging, compensation with over-exercise – or any combination of these. It is a psycho-educational programme to better understand these vicious cycles and actively change them.
The overall purpose of the group is to help you recognise triggers for your unhelpful eating patterns and support you in changing them, to learn better coping strategies for difficult thoughts and feelings and encourage you to build these skills by practising them more regularly.
This course helps you to develop problem-solving skills to address and sensitivity to your body’s signals, aided by an introduction to mindfulness. It provides a supportive environment for discussing numerous issues that come up when you are in the process of making changes.
This term the course will be over 5 weeks and it is important that you commit to these 5 weeks and attend all sessions as each class builds on the preceding one.
If you are interested in attending and if you are already seeing a counsellor or wellbeing or mental health advisor, please ask them about the referral to the course. If you have not used the Counselling, Mental Health and Wellbeing Service before, please make an appointment.
Date: Tuesdays, 7 November to 5 December 2023
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Place: Courses are currently being delivered virtually using Zoom.
Booking: To attend this course you need to be referred by the service, please email [email protected]