#1 Body image | |
Main content | Targets |
 Project introduction | Experience of meaningfulness and motivation |
 Influencing factors on body perception. What promotes and reduces positive body image, and how can we enforce the health promoting factors? | Body image and body acceptance |
 Where does body idealization come from? Why does it conflict with positive body image, and potential health consequences from striving for the idealized body? | Psychoeducation to reduce idealization and internalization of a particular body ideal |
 Fat talk and focus on lifestyle only related to appearance in everyday communication. To what degree do we participate, how does it make us feel, and can we reduce it? | Reduce fat talk and negative body talk |
 Introduction to self-talk and self-esteem in WS#2 | Stimulate motivation for next WS |
#2 Media literacy | |
Main content | Targets |
 Social media perception and use. Empower yourself to choose mood enhancing over mood destructive content | Enhance media literacy |
 Extreme exposure without filter equals need to be critical to sources of information and awareness of retouching | Enhance media literacy |
 The nature of comparison, how to recognize destructive comparison and reduce its presence in everyday life | Reduce amount of comparison |
 Strengthen acceptance and love for individual differences, defining characteristics of ones’ own and among friends. Students write down compliments to a friend and him/herself unrelated to appearance | Improve positive self-talk Improve self-compassion |
 Experiences and benefits of positive self-talk | Improve skills to strengthen self-esteem |
#3 Lifestyle | |
Main content | Targets |
 Benefits on body experience from listening to bodily needs such as physical activity and healthy eating | Improve experience of embodiment |
 Truths and myth about lifestyle products and literature | Improve ability to reject exercise and nutritional myths - health information literacy |
 From aesthetic to functional focus; how can change in focus improve body experience and healthy lifestyle that again benefit well-being? | Change from potential unhealthy focus to healthy focus on the body |
 How may regular exercise and smart nutrition promote positive body image and what are the basic recommendations? | Body experience enhancing attitudes and behaviours |