Price

£175 includes lunches, tea breaks and all materials for the weekend

Dates

Saturday 9th October 2010

9.30am - 7.30pm

Find out why nothing you try ever works and discover how to stop overeating for good and feel in control around food - to eat just the way you want to. Join Beyond Chocolate founders and authors, Sophie & Audrey Boss for a powerful, life changing day. Throughout the day, Sophie and Audrey will be supporting you to explore your overeating patterns from every conceivable angle with the usual "hands-on" Beyond Chocolate approach - which means you experience everything first hand.

At the end of the day, you will have

• An understanding of the function that overeating plays in your life and how to start making changes
• An array of strategies and tools to put into action to manage overeating
• Answers to your questions about overeating: how to make sure Beyond Chocolate fits into your life and not the other way round
• Ideas on how to support yourself through making those changes
• Access to a community of women who are also taking control of their overeating, who speak the same language and where it's OK to talk about anything

What topics are covered?

Before we start looking at how to stop overeating, we'll be looking at what it is. Overeating is an all-encompassing term which describes a myriad of different experiences. We'll be asking you to think about what the term 'overeating' means to you and WHY you overeat. We all know that overeating is not usually about the food.

It's about emotions and habits, situations and beliefs and much, much more. We don't overeat because we're greedy or lazy or weak or useless, we overeat because it helps us, because it's what we know, because it is the way we deal with lots of things (or don't deal with lots of things), we overeat because it works! Once we really know why we do it, not just why we think we do it, or why we tell ourselves we do it, then we are one step closer to knowing how to stop!

We'll then be guiding you to discover HOW you overeat. We all have our own very particular ways of overeating, and recognising and becoming familiar with exactly how we overeat provides crucial information which we can use to stop doing it.

Then we'll be showing you how identifying WHAT you overeat, and discovering how to have a guilt-free relationship with all foods will transform the way you eat completely.

We'll be giving you time and providing opportunities for you to play (yes play, really) with the idea of not overeating. To imagine what it would be like, and then to deal with all the resistance, rebellion, fears and justifications that come up whenever we contemplate changing behaviours of a life-time.

We'll encourage you to look at all the reasons why shouldn't stop overeating and how to manage when it feels like you just can't and you're fighting a losing battle.

At every step of the weekend, we'll be ensuring that you are making choices that work for you. We won't be pushing or hounding you into committing to make changes. We know that real, lasting change only comes when you decide you are ready for it.

Finally, we will be giving you loads of tools and strategies to take ACTION once you leave the workshop and go back to 'real life'. We know that after awareness, action is the only way to actually change behaviour.

What’s included?

• Scrumptious lunch
• Tea & coffee breaks
• All materials
• 1 year’s membership (access to memebrs’ only forum + monthly telephone Masterclass)

Location & Travel

Columbia Hotel
95-99 Lancaster Gate
London W2 3NS
020 7402 0021
Nearest tube: Lancaster Gate (Central Line)
Buses: 15, 46, 94, 148, 390, 436

Testimonials

From the Overeating Weekend Workshop:

"For the first time in 20 years I believe I can begin to deal with my overeating. I'm taking away skills that I know will help me every day in the future" Abby S.

"It was a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant weekend! I have been overeating for years but not been able/willing to stop. I genuinely feel I now have the tools and desire to change" Liz Sheppard

"It is insightful and rewarding and the best 2 days you can spend in the company of like minded, intelligent women" MJC

"An invaluable and unique experience" Kate

"It gets to the real nitty-gritty of what you want to deal with, the stuff that's so hard to deal with on your own" Claire

"Nothing else deals with the issues of why we overeat, or the how or looks at the bits we lose when we give it up. The workshop provides real tools, information and insights which I think will actually work!" Jill McP

"What better way to look at these deep rooted issues than to do it in such a great, supportive atmosphere with Sophie and Audrey who have been there and a group of friendly ladies who are going through it with you." Nicky B

"This workshop was exactly what I was looking for to help me to deal with my overeating - I never thought anything would be as important as my first Beyond Chocolate one day workshop but this feels like it will have just as much significance. The weekend was carefully broken down into manageable 'chunks' which offered a balance of moments of insight alongside practical suggestions and do-able next steps. The strategies and support offered mean I now have a clear plan to overcome my overeating - and no doubts that I can do it! Another stroke of pure Beyond Chocolate brilliantness!' Hannah

"Everyone was made to feel important, no matter how, what and why they overeat. The content was spot on and I now have some tools, techniques and insight that will help me get there. A big thank you!" A.B.