Centring Clients in Binge Eating Disorder Care (ANZAED Workshops)

Australia & New Zealand Academy For Eating Disorders (ANZAED)

About this event

With the theme of Centring Clients in Binge Eating Disorder Care: Exploring respect, nuance, and common ground, the online 2026 ANZAED Autumn Workshop Series will explore current research, draw on lived experience, clinical, and academic expertise, and offer opportunities to collaborate to generate ways in which we can deliver safe, client-centred interventions for people experiencing BED, especially in areas where the evidence base is still emerging. 

It will open with international keynote presenter, Chevese Turner. Chevese brings lived experience and is an internationally recognised activist, advocate, speaker, policy influencer, and movement-builder. She founded the Binge Eating Disorders Association in 2008 (now part of the National Eating Disorders Association), and her tireless advocacy contributed to BED being recognised as a stand-alone diagnosis in the DSM-5 in 2013. Following the keynote, the foundational session will explore BED, including the diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, role of dieting and restriction, current evidence for treatment, medical complications, and neurobiology, setting the scene for the following two weeks of sessions and workshops. The program includes sessions exploring the topical issue of medically assisted weight loss, BED and sleep, BED and ADHD, and BED in young people. It also offers skills-based workshops on Schema Therapy, DBT, and CBT for BED. 

Across the program, you will explore nuance, relational approaches, evidence-based interventions, and profession-specific experiences and perspectives. The series will conclude with a case-based panel discussion to integrate the knowledge and insights gathered over the two weeks.