Student: Faith

Student: Faith

SESSION 2: Body image, stress management, pressures around body image reframing thinking/social media.

Aim / purpose

The aim and purpose is to educate mothers about how social media can influence and affect perception about body image and cause increase stress.

Provide knowledge about how to reframe thinking about body image and how to use social media that does not increase pressure around body image.

Objectives / outcomes

By the end of this session participants should be able to:

Should be able to recognise the impact of social media has on creating perceptions of the ideal body image type.

Understand that there is no type of body Image.

Establish who to ask for advice to address body image concerns

Use techniques for minimising stress that may rise from a negative perception of our body image influenced by social media through yoga and meditation techniques.

Good purpose and objectives

Resources

Calm music that can be used during the yoga activity thats like relaxing music, mediation.

Adequate floor space in the room to facilitate activity 1 and 2

Whiteboard with whiteboard markers to facilitate activity 1

Table and chairs

Pens, pencils, and paper for participants

Yoga mats for activity 2

Access to CD player or technology to play relaxing music.

Preparation

To get the room/ area ready for the sessions you need to:

I need a welcoming room with chairs and tables where they can sit and take notes during the lecture/session with facilitator.

Enough floor space so all participants can be active together in the yoga exercises.

Facilitator tips

Having awareness about the mothers feelings of anxiety to open up

Ensure that the room appear to be a safe space and environment for the mothers to share their thoughts and feelings.

Have good interpersonal skills that conveys empathy and understanding to the mothers.

Knowledge about body image issues mothers experience

Understand the role of mindfulness to help cope with stress

References

Calm music:

Meditation Music Relax Mind Body, Positive Energy Music, Relaxing Music, Slow Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qbZ7a75Oc

Education

The butterfly foundation,2022 retrieved from https://butterfly.org.au/body-image/boosting-body-image/

Preston-Shoot, M. (2007). Effective groupwork (2nd ed.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave

Macmillan.

Session outline

Session Outline Time required Resources required

Welcome the group.

Acknowledgment of Country.

Recap previous session and provide an overview for session five Continuing bonds and meaning making.

Purpose:

Welcome all participants and encourage them to sit around in a circle and engage in conversation till everyone arrives (Preston-Shoot, 2007).

Acknowledgment of Country read.

Recap what was covered in last weeks session.

Icebreaker to assist participants be grounded and present

Something simple can work like

Say your name and the ages of your children (this inof can be referred to when speaking about the impact on childbirth on our bodies)

Recap first session, check in about homework daily bean app ask if the group is ready to move on to next session

Ask if participants have any questions or comments that they would like to share with the group since last weeks session.

Provide an outline of what todays session will cover:

Activity One - Stress for Success body image?

Activity Two Straw Activity Body image?

Activity Three - Consider the Consequences Body image?

Acknowledge that some of the content in todays session may be difficult and confronting and that they are free to leave the room at any time and go to their safe place.

Inform participants that todays session will be structured differently from the previous sessions in that it will be entirely narrative driven.

Ask participants what they understand about the concepts continuing bonds and meaning making. Not sure how this relates to body image

Encourage participants to discuss briefly with the person next to them what they think of these concepts and how this relates to their situation.

Inform participants that todays session will be informed by the continuing exercises and meaning-making concepts.

Circle of chairs

Participant workbook

First aid kit

Talking stick

Acknowledgment of Country on PowerPoint if they dont know it.

Activity One Stress for Success

Purpose: what is the purpose and how does it relate to body image>?

Ask participants to stand and form circles of about five to eight people. Give each group one stress ball to begin. Have the first person throw a ball to someone else and remember who they threw it to since they will be asked to remember and continue the same pattern. If there is only one group, you can be part of the group, but if there is more than one, make sure you are not in the mix, since you will need to move around between groups. Each person throws the ball to someone who has not yet had the ball. The last person sends it back to the original person who keeps the ball rolling a little faster then next time. (Do not have them throw to the same person twice until all members have gotten it first.) Once they have the pattern down, introduce another ballthen another and then another. Balls drop, roll, etc., but urge them to pick them up and continue. With five or six balls going at a time, it becomes quite a circus with a lot of laughing!

Facilitators note:

This activity may be conducted inside or outside. If possible, allow participants to decide where they would like to conduct the activity, if weather permits.

Ask participants to spread out around the room as this activity is highly personal.

Participants may like to stay where they are seated, choose to sit on the floor or sit at a table.

Note again that if the activity becomes too difficult or confronting they are free to leave the room and go to their safe place. Activity Two- Straw Activity

Purpose: : what is the purpose and how does it relate to body image?

Take a straw and place it horizontally on the table. Now hold both the ends firmly and start twisting them in such a manner that they overlap each other and form an air bubble at the center. Now ask a volunteer to step forward and burst the straw air bubble with a thumb or finger (as if hitting the stricker on the carrom board). The bubble with burst and will create a lot of noise.

Facilitator Note:

This is not an exhaustive list, if participants think of others that are suitable for the environment and the equipment is available, they should be encouraged to try that approach.

Again, inform participants that if the activity becomes too difficult or confronting they are free to leave the room and go to their safe place.

Throughout the activity check in with each participant to ensure that they are ok.

Bring everyone back to the circle after 20 minutes with the expressive art they have created.

Ask participants to go around the room and state what narrative approach they used and why. 20 mins. Stickers

Carrom board

Activity Three - Consider the Consequences

Purpose: : what is the purpose and how does it relate to body image?

One interesting thing about stress is that in 90% of cases there isnt anything to stress you up, but the very thought gives stress. And its all cooked up stories in our own minds.

Facilitator Note:

Ask participants to think about something that gives them stress.

Ask them to think about various consequences and reactions that might take place.

They keep thinking about the same for approximately 5 minutes.

You may give them directions to intensify the thought.

All of a sudden SAY Stop thinking.

Ask them how do they feel.

Ask- has anything of that yet happened?

When will the break be?

What about the wrapping up the session

Is there any homework? 10 mins Circle of chairs

Participant workbook

Papers and pens

Emotion paper showing the type of moods.

I liked the purpose and aims but I dont think the content meets that purpose, it seems to be just three activities which would be quite exhausting and disjointed for the participants and Im not seeing how they relate to body image. The exercises are quite generic around stress management rather than specific to the aims and objectives

I would prefer a powerpoint presentation giving information about body image, social media ect (I think there is so much information about this tiopic and this session could be extremely informative and thought provoking)

Then perhaps an exercise and/discussion.

Perhaps making a collage together cutting out images in magazines or something !

I think this is an important topic and on that needs to be considered more