The Body Project Training

A world-leading evidence-based programme proven to prevent eating disorders and promote body acceptance.

Welcome to The Body Project.

Are you looking for an evidence-based, cost-effective and sustainable way to…

Promote body acceptance?

  • Address one of the biggest mental health issues for young people today

  • Help people feel respect and acceptance for their bodies

  • Challenge the social pressures that are promoting low body confidence

Prevent eating disorders?

  • Stop rising rates of eating disorders in your community

  • Reduce overwhelm on health services

  • Be at the forefront of prevention and early intervention efforts

Work with leading experts?

  • Gain access to world-leading eating disorder prevention researchers

  • Have the latest science on prevention for girls, women, boys, men, LGBTQIA+ people at your fingertips

The good news?

Preventing eating disorders and promoting body acceptance is possible with The Body Project.

We’re on a mission

to improve the lives of young people by making evidence-based eating disorder prevention and body acceptance interventions widely accessible throughout the UK with our Body Project programme.

Want to join us?

EVERYBODY can train your team in The Body Project

A world-renowned empirically supported programme

Why The Body Project?

Studies show The Body Project can prevent the onset of eating disorders and reduce body dissatisfaction and other risk factors¹⁻².

  • In just 2-days of training from EVERYBODY, your staff can be ready to deliver The Body Project in your community.

  • We use a train-the-trainer format to ensure sustainable and scalable delivery.

  • No other eating disorders prevention programme is supported by such rigorous testing by independent scientists as The Body Project.

Evidence suggests for every 100 young women who take part in The Body Project, 8 cases of eating disorders can be prevented.²

About The Body Project

An evidence-based cognitive dissonance intervention, The Body Project is delivered to small groups of adolescents and young adults who self-identify as having body image concerns and/or the desire to learn about body acceptance. 

During the intervention, participants challenge appearance ideals through group discussions, written activities, role plays and behavioural challenges.

Studies show that The Body Project can be successfully delivered by trained community providers³.

No other eating disorders prevention and body acceptance programme is supported by such rigorous testing by independent scientists as The Body Project.

Training Packages

In just 2-days of on-site training from EVERYBODY, your staff can be ready to deliver The Body Project in your community.

We use a Train-the-Trainer model to ensure sustainable and scalable delivery.

We offer three training packages to suit different needs and budgets. All of our packages include:

  • On-site training in The Body Project for delivery to adolescent girls and young women (14-25 years).

  • Access to an online resource hub (participant recruitment materials, key journal articles, manuals and workbooks).

  • Email updates as new research and science emerges on dissonance-based eating disorders prevention and body acceptance techniques.

Our Packages

Body Project Training Package Features
Basic

MOST POPULAR

Standard
Comprehensive
On-site Facilitator & Trainer Training
On-site Facilitator & Trainer Training
Online Follow-up Group Supervision
Online Follow-up Group Supervision
Online Booster Training: Boys & Men
Online Booster Training: Boys & Men
Online Booster Training: LGBTQIA+
Online Booster Training: LGBTQIA+
Admin Support
Admin Support
Dissemination & Implementation Support
Dissemination & Implementation Support
Monitoring & Evaluation Support
Monitoring & Evaluation Support

Why train with EVERYBODY?

Skilled Master Trainers

All our Master Trainers have post-graduate qualifications in psychology or a related field. They have extensive experience in delivering and/or researching body image and eating disorder prevention interventions and are committed to evidence-based practice.

Our Master Trainers have been trained in The Body Project by EVERYBODY Founder Professor Phillippa Diedrichs, PhD, a world-renowned eating disorder prevention and body image expert and Professor of Psychology at the Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England.

Work with world-leading eating disorder prevention and body image experts

Professor Diedrichs is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders . In addition to being on the editorial board for Body Image, she has published over 70 papers and book chapters on body image and eating disorders. The evidence-based programmes that Professor Diedrichs has co-created and evaluated have been delivered to over 80 million young people in partnership with global youth organisations and business, including Unilever, UNICEF, and NHS England.

Phillippa was trained in The Body Project by its creators Dr Eric Stice (Stanford University) and Dr Carolyn Becker (Trinity University). Over the past decade, she has delivered numerous Body Project trainings throughout the UK, Europe and Australia. She has also conducted and published randomised controlled trials on the effectiveness of The Body Project and dissonance-based interventions in the UK and internationally.

Community stakeholders and internationally regarded eating disorder prevention researchers and psychologists, including Dr Emily Matheson, Dr Tiffany Brown (Auburn University), Dr Anna Ciao (Western Washington University) and Dr Glen Jankowski (Leeds Beckett University), have also contributed to the development of our group supervision protocols and booster trainings for boys, men and LGBTQIA+ communities.

The Body Project has been used by community health services, schools, universities, businesses and charities.

It’s been delivered to over 4.5 million people in over 136 countries.

  • Dr Carolyn Becker, PhD

    “Phillippa and the team at EVERYBODY are the go-to experts for Body Project training in the UK. Their in depth knowledge and experience of effectively training, evaluating and supporting implementation of The Body Project across sectors in the region is unmatched.

    If you’re looking for a time-efficient, cost-effective and evidence-based way to prevent eating disorders and promote body acceptance in your community, this is your opportunity to work with the best in field.”

    Co-creator of The Body Project

    Professor of Psychology, Trinity University

    Past President, Academy for Eating Disorders

  • Dr Dasha Nicholls, MD

    “Investing in prevention is crucial to reducing the devastating impact that eating disorders can have on the lives of those affected and their loved ones.

    The Body Project training delivered by EVERYBODY offers a scalable evidence-based solution to prevention in the UK led by leading body image and eating disorder experts.”

    National Specialist Advisor on Eating Disorders, NHS England

    Clinical Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Imperial College London

    Past President, Academy for Eating Disorders

  • Sam Clark-Stone, FRSA

    “Deciding to commission Body Project Training was an important step forward for Gloucestershire. It’s evidence-based, cost-effective and allows us to mobilise members of our community to deliver effective eating disorder prevention programming outside of the clinical environment.

    Like most health services, we’ve struggled to keep up with the demand for eating disorder treatment and support. Investing in prevention and early intervention in the community at a local level is imperative to turning this around.

    The training was brief, engaging and professional. It inspired my colleagues and I strongly recommend it.”

    Lead Clinician

    Eating Disorders Service

    Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust

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References

¹Becker, C.B. & Stice, E. (2017). From Efficacy to Effectiveness to Broad Implementation: Evolution of the Body Project. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(8), 767–782. doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000204

²Stice, E., Onipede, Z.A., & Marti, C.N. (2021). A meta-analytic review of trials that tested whether eating disorder prevention programs prevent eating disorder onset. Clinical Psychology Review, 87, doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102046

³Stice, E., Marti, C.N., Shaw, H., & Rohde, P. (2021). Meta-analytic review of dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Intervention, participant, and facilitator features that predict larger effects. Clinical Psychology Review, 70, 91-107, doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2019.04.004

⁴Ciao, A., Duvall, A., Pascual, S., & Kendall, A.L. (2023). Expert peer facilitation of the EVERYbody Project: A randomized-controlled evaluation of a diversity-focused, dissonance-based, universal body image program for college students. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 56, 372-383, doi.org/10.1002/eat.23852

Brown, T.A. & Keel, P.K. (2015). A randomized controlled trial of a peer co-led dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program for gay men. Behavior Research & Therapy, 74, 1-10, doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2015.08.008