Beyond the Scale

A Mind-Body Approach to Weight and Wellbeing

10 - 6pm

Join Dr. Brendan O’Shea and Dr. Nadine Ferris France for a transformative one-day seminar exploring deeper dimensions of overweight and obesity. Blending medical insight with powerful self-inquiry practices (The Work), an immersive programme addresses not just the physical realities but the emotional narratives we carry about our bodies, health, and self-worth. 

 Utilising interactive medical sessions, guided inquiry, and personal reflection, participants will gain clarity, compassion, and formulate actionable steps for their unique health journey. 

 The Seminar includes up-to-date guidance on expert, evidence-based treatments for overweight, empowering participants to make better decisions regarding medical options available. It will also support participants to identify and question their underlying negative beliefs and judgements about weight, making it an unusual and powerful combination of medicine and the mind.

 Whether you're navigating your own weight challenges or supporting others, this day provides a safe, evidence-based space to reconnect with your body, identify and reframe limiting beliefs, and rediscover the power of choice.

Dr Brendan O’Shea has been a General Practitioner in Co Kildare for over 30 years, providing personal medical care to individuals and their households. He has been extensively involved in both medical education and research in the area of overweight and obesity, successfully completing doctoral research on childhood obesity at Trinity College in 2015. He is Assistant Adjutant Professor at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin, and has previously acted as Chair of the National Clinical Advisory Group of the HSE National Obesity Programme.  

Dr Nadine Ferris France  A regular contributor to Seminars.ie workshops, we are delighted to welcome Nadine back to give this workshop. Nadine is a Certified Facilitator of the Work of Byron Katie and holds a PhD on internal stigma and shame.  She gives workshops and retreats and facilitates individuals and groups all over the world. She specialises in working with beliefs and thinking that keep us stressed or hold us back from achieving our full potential. With an unusual background in international development Nadine, originally from Dublin, spent 20 years living in the Global South, and continues working with communities on issues of stigma, HIV, gender-based violence and global health.
More about Nadine here: www.nadineferrisfrance.com 

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To know more about them, both Brendan and Nadine have TEDx Talks available: 

The Journey from Self-stigma to Self-worth

Whose death is it anyway ? How we die matters - seven steps to a good death.