Context Eating and Food – A Session with a Difference! via Little Hiccups

An online webinar, Friday January 22nd, 10 am – 12 pm

To learn more and sign up, details on the Little Hiccups webpage

Workshop Write Up

What we will be doing: Be part of building our shared knowledge! This workshop is an opportunity to contribute to a growing body of community and professional knowledge about food and eating. By joining in, you’ll be helping us explore experiences, perspectives and ideas that can inform future understanding, practice and research. Come and be part of the research!

This workshop will be a little different from previous sessions. I hope to bring together what we learn to develop formal written work, with the potential for publication in an academic journal. What participants share during the workshop will be captured (with your consent), and everyone will also be invited to complete a short online questionnaire.

You can choose how you contribute. You’ll have the opportunity to share your thoughts with the group or privately with me, whichever feels most comfortable. All contributions will be anonymous. No identifying information will be included in any resulting written work or publications.

If you would like to check out how participant input was used in a prior publication, you can check out ‘Same Food as Self Care’ here on this link.

We often focus on what a young person is eating, but not always where, when, with who, or under what conditions eating feels possible.

Many parents, carers, and professionals will recognise experiences like:

-A young person eating a food in one setting but unable to eat it elsewhere
-Foods only being accepted at certain times or within certain routines
-A child happily eating with one person but not another
-Eating patterns changing completely when expectations or environments shift

These experiences can feel confusing from the outside, especially when the food itself hasn’t changed.

In this talk, I’ll be exploring how eating is shaped by far more than taste alone. We’ll look at the role of routine, predictability, sensory experiences, emotional safety, relationships, and environmental cues in shaping eating experiences for all of us.

The session will also help us in understanding how the wider context around eating can help us offer more supportive, compassionate approaches.

• Course Structure: A structured, collaborative online workshop running from 10:00am – 12:00pm filled with real-world examples, reflection, and shared strategies.
• Who it’s for: Strictly for parents and carers of children with additional needs or disabilities. Please note that this session is not suitable for children and no childcare is available. Grab a cuppa, get comfortable on the sofa, and join us from home!