Staff Professional Development

Butterfly offers professional development through face-to-face and online webinars across Australia for educators and professionals. Our programs focus on risk and protective factors for body dissatisfaction and eating disorders, empowering professionals to support and promote positive body image in young people.

Our programs will help you to:

Implement awareness and prevention strategies
Provide basic early intervention support
Inform you of appropriate referral support for students experiencing body image concerns and eating disorders

Training can be delivered as part of a staff development day, or as a twilight session and are suitable for staff who want to strengthen existing curriculum programs, or to increase their understanding and ability to respond to at risk students. Themes covered in our programs include:

The spectrum of behaviours from healthy, unhealthy to disordered
The importance of healthy body-esteem and knowledge of modifiable risk and protective factors
How to foster a positive body image environment through education, awareness and policy
Identification of people at risk of an eating disorder
Early Intervention and referral support
Supporting students with eating disorders

For primary schools

Creating a Body Bright School Culture

Butterfly facilitated professional development workshop for all staff, focusing on building a positive school culture around body image in primary schools

Creating a Body Bright School Culture

Body Bright Staff Training

4 hours self-paced eLearning on supporting primary aged children's body image. Only available with school registration to the program.

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“We found the presentation engaging and very helpful. Please pass on our thanks. Many staff have walked by my office saying how excellent the session was and that Suzie was knowledgeable and gave them many practical strategies” -School Counsellor