Description
Date and Time: Friday January 23rd 2026
9.30am–4.00pm
Venue: Gateway Centre, Chester St, Shrewsbury SY1 1NB
Cost: £190 (to Dec 22nd) then £220. Lunch included.
This session, which assumes no prior knowledge of the topic, considers what we mean by coloniality and an anti-colonial approach. Together we will deepen our knowledge of why coloniality is relevant to food and nutrition practice and education and how to offer an alternative.
Teaching happens through discussion around participatory activities that learners can then use themselves.
First we will explore how coloniality shows up in apparently neutral nutrition education messages and why this matters. In particular, we will think about the detrimental impact that using the Eat Well guide has on disability justice and racial equity.
We then put this knowledge into practice through two teaching activities suitable for groups. The first activity is a card game on vitamins and minerals that is suitable for ‘healthy eating’ sessions with small to medium sized community groups. (Cards available to buy on the day by donation).
The second activity is suitable for small to large workshops or academic classes spanning ‘healthy eating’ and nutrition, farming/ agroecology, sustainability, food systems transformation, disability justice and more. It demonstrates how to draw on learner’s existing knowledge and interests to surface taken-for-granted – colonial – assumptions in healthy eating messages. Importantly, it then shows how to help people reframe and reconsider existing beliefs.
The interactive teaching style means content is strongly informed by learners, making it suitable to use with groups that come together over a diverse range of interests in food and who may have different backgrounds. The activity models how to be respectful of many knowledge systems while working within a professional scope credentialed through biomedicine, and how to hold space for conflicting views while fostering meaningful learning and healing for all.
By the end of the course learners will likely be more able to:
• Identify what is meant by coloniality
• Understand how an anti-colonial approach is relevant to health justice/equity
• Recognise the characteristics of coloniality and be able to interrupt and replace these with anti-oppressive practices
• Set-up a learning space so it is trauma-aware and disability-inclusive
• Deliver community nutrition education on vitamins and minerals from an anti-colonial perspective
• Facilitate a workshop exploring and challenging coloniality in healthy eating messages
If cost is a barrier please get in touch: I may be able to offer a reduced price for people from marginalised groups.
