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Who are we?
Appetite for Change exists to challenge the systems, assumptions, and silences that shape how we understand, talk about, and respond to eating, feeding, body, and care. We centres the needs, realities, and perspectives of people who are often overlooked, excluded, pathologised, or dismissed, such as neurodivergent, queer, trans and gender diverse, chronically ill, disabled, and otherwise marginalised people.
neurodivergent people, trans and queer people, chronically ill and disabled people, people in larger bodies, people navigating poverty and institutional harm, and those surviving racism, trauma, and oppression.
neurodivergent people, disabled and chronically ill people, trans and queer people, people in larger bodies, people navigating trauma, poverty, and systemic harm.
We challenge the narrow, pathologising, and often violent ways that mainstream systems and perspectives approach eating, feeding, “health”, and body, and work instead toward care that is accessible, affirming, empowering, and rooted in justice.
Through our conference, trainings, resources, consultation, and community offerings, Appetite for Change brings together lived and professional expertise to reshape how we understand and support eating and feeding in all their complexity.
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What We Offer
2026 Appetite for Change Conference
Held online in March 2026, this conference is the first of its kind. It will focus on the intersections of eating, feeding, and body, among neurodivergent, queer, trans, gender diverse, chronically ill, disabled, and otherwise marginalised people — whose voices, needs, and experiences have pathologised and dismissed for far too long — and explore vital considerations for truly affirming care.
Training & Professional Development
We provide individual and group supervision, as well as consultation for teams, services, projects, particularly on neurodivergence, gender, queerness, chronic illness, disability, eating and feeding, and/or their intersections. Our approach is reflective and collaborative, focussed on creating safer, more accessible, inclusive, and affirming understandings, approaches, services, options, and spaces.
Professional Consultation & Supervision
We offer webinars, workshops, and tailored trainings — on a wide range of topics — for practitioners, peer workers, services, and organisations wanting to deepen their understanding and shift their practice. These are grounded in research, lived evidence, and evidence-based practice, embedded in affirming, inclusive, anti-ableist, trauma-informed, intersectional, HAES frameworks.
Publications & Podcasts Eps
We discuss eating, body, neurodivergence, chronic illness, disability, gender, queerness, advocacy, and care, in blogs, articles, research papers, podcast eps, and other publications. Combining lived experience, community wisdom, and affirming research, our works challenge dominant narratives, unpack systemic harm, and invite more inclusive, affirming ways of thinking and practicing.
Resources &
Info Library
We maintain a library of free resources. It contains practical tools, guides, downloads, listings, and other information, to support accessibility, advocacy, knowledge, and care. Topics include neurodivergence, chronic illness, queerness, gender, disability, eating and feeding, systemic harm, and various supports / services. We aim to build this resource library in an ongoing way.
Collaborations &
Presentations
We participate in / collaborate on panels, podcasts, conferences, community events, publications, and talks that align with our values and work focus. We bring lived, living, and professional experience (while also recognising that no one speaks for all), and we’re always open to explore working with other individuals, groups, organisations, collectives, and / or events.
Portfolio
Conferences
AusPATH - elaborate
Health in Difference - elaborate
Publications
Butterfly - EDs x GAHT ban
Butterfly - body image LGBTQIA+
AHRC
Other????
ND Woman Pod
Amanda Moses
Bronwyn’s one
Trainings
Organisations
AAPi
Ari Heart trans one
The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
New South Wales Health & Inside Out Institute
Fuel Your Life
Australian Association of Psychologists Inc
Butterfly Foundation
Eating Disorders Victoria
Northern Rivers Eating Disorder Mental Health Practitioner Network
Illawarra Shoalhaven Gender Alliance
RCRP / Anglicare / NEDC
Private practices
Portfolio
Conferences & Speaking Engagements
Amanda Moses
Bronwyn’s one
Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy Conference (2025) – Panellist – Eating, Body Image, and Society: Unpacking Assumptions and Affirming Practice
RCRP Conference (2025) – Keynote Speaker – Neurodivergence, Neuro-Affirming Practice, Neurodivergence & Eating, and Chronic Illness & Eating
The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast (2025) – Podcast Guest – Gender Diversity
Butterfly Foundation Webinar (2024) – Speaker – Kindly Do, Kindly Don’t: How to safely talk about and report on eating disorders and body image
Health in Difference Conference (2024) – Panellist – Supporting Trans and Gender Diverse People with Eating Disorders (world-first panel)
AusPATH Conference (2023) – Workshop Presenter/Facilitator – Supporting Autistic Trans and Gender Diverse People
Organisations
Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi)
Ari Heart trans one
Butterfly Foundation
Eating Disorders Victoria
Illawarra Shoalhaven Gender Alliance
Inside Out Institute
National Eating Disorders Collaboration - Right Care, Right Place
New South Wales Health
Northern Rivers Eating Disorder Mental Health Practitioner Network
Primary Health Networks
Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
Various private practices (details kept private, to maintain privacy)
Publications
Note: clicking on the publication name will open a new tab/page containing that publication
Article – How How Society’s Harmful Appearance Ideals Can Impact Queer Identity
Op-ed piece discussing why LGBTQIA+ people experience disproportionately high rates of body dissatisfaction and appearance-related discrimination, and why systemic change and government action are urgently needed
Published by the Butterfly Foundation in May 2025 on IDAHOBIT, in response to their Cost of Appearance Ideals report (2025)
Author: Lumen Gorrie (MPsych[Clin]), BPsych[Hons])
Joint submission lodged to the Australian Human Rights Commission (May 2024)
Authors: Kai Schweizer (BA, MSexol), Lumen Gorrie (MPsych[Clin], BPsych[Hons]), Hayden Moon (BA[Hons]), Majella Jones (BNut, BDiet, APD)
Article – Banning Puberty Blockers Will Worsen the Eating Disorder Crisis Amongst Trans Youth
Written in response to UK National Health Service’s decision to ban trans youth from accessing puberty blockers, published by the Butterfly Foundation (2024)
Authors: Kai Schweizer (BA, MSexol) & Lumen Gorrie (MPsych[Clin], BPsych[Hons]) AHRC
Trainings & Professional Development
All trainings, webinars, and professional development events listed below are ones created and delivered/facilitated by me
Accessibility in the workplace / at tattoo studios, etc
ADHD & Autism 101
Chronic Illness Crash Course
Chronic Illness, Neurodivergence, and Eating
Eating Disorders, Differences, and Difficulties
Gender-Affirming Practice and Care
Gender Diversity and Eating: Supporting Trans & Gender Diverse People with Eating Disorders, Differences, and Difficulties
Intersections of Neurodivergence, Gender Diversity, Chronic Illness, and Eating
Learning to Live Differently
Neurodivergence and Eating: Supporting Neurodivergent People with Eating Disorders, Differences, and Difficulties
Neurodivergence and Neuro-Affirming Practice
WPATH Assessment
Making your workplace safer, more trauma-informed, accessible, inclusive, affirming, and accommodating (for self and for others)
Should I list them in category e.g. Neurodivergence, Eating, CI, Disability, Gender, Queerness, Accessibility & Inclusion
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