As many of you know, Sketch Appeal is grounded in lived experience of creative empowerment and recovery from disordered eating. As an area of mental health that is widely misunderstood, to mark Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2024, we wanted to create an opportunity for authentic stories and lived experiences to be shared - as well as explore the positive systemic changes that bring hope for the future.
This will be an informal, open conversation that we hope will help to broaden understanding of how eating disorders manifest and in who, and ultimately to communicate a message of hope to those who are currently affected by them.
There will be 4 panelists: Dulcie Ball and Lee HD from Sketch Appeal + Katherine Lazenby and Sarah Mann from the East London NHS Foundation Trust.
We will discuss:
Our personal experiences of disordered eating, clinical treatment (if sought) and recovery
Non-clinical and creative approaches and aids to recovery
How can we create change in the system, and hope for the future - with a focus on creativity, service co-design and the importance of lived experience
NB: The conversation will take place live on Zoom - sign up below if you’d like to join and listen live. We’ll be recording the audio and releasing it as a one-off edition of our podcast, for those who can’t join live but are interested in hearing what is said.
Register below to receive the link to join us live.