Student presentations

We offer a series of engaging and educational presentations (onsite and virtual) to students from year 5 up to and including year 12 and in tertiary settings in .

Presentations are designed to provide practical strategies to support body confidence and empower young people to reach out for help.

Our talks are mapped to the Australian Curriculum and explore a range of age and developmentally appropriate themes, which encompass the risk and protective factors for body dissatisfaction. These include:

• Challenging cultural ideals and unhelpful language around appearance
• Using media and social media positively to inspire body confidence
• Deciphering unhelpful and potentially harmful health-related messaging
• Understanding self-esteem, body esteem and celebrating strengths, uniqueness and diversity
• Managing pressures and combating the inner critic
• Encouraging help seeking for self and others
• Debunking myths around eating disorders (for older and tertiary students)

Presentations run for 60 minutes (45 minutes for virtual) and are designed for mixed gender audiences, but can also be delivered to single sex groups.  We also provide schools with pre and post presentation activities to support further learning.

Our presenters are extensively trained and guided to share real-time examples and personal experiences, while adhering to safe practice guidelines for mental health and eating disorder education.

Student presentations we offer

• Let’s talk being Body Bright (Years 5 and 6)
• Let’s talk body image online (Years 7 and 8)
• Let’s talk appearance ideals and expectations (Years 9 and 10)
• Let’s talk relationships with eating and exercise (Years 8 to 10)
• Let’s talk eating disorder myths (Years 10 to 12)
• Let’s talking eating disorders for tertiary students (Ages 18 – 25)
• Body Kind Leadership Workshop (Years 6 to 8 and 9 to 10 )