Ethical Care Guidelines & Secondary Uses for GLP-1 Medications
Annual GLP-1 webinar for clinicians, providers & community members
Where are we now? What’s shifting? What do helping professionals need to know?
The landscape of GLP-1 medications continues to evolve at a remarkable speed. More people than ever are being prescribed these medications—for diabetes, for weight loss, and increasingly for a growing list of “secondary uses” that carry both promise and uncertainty.
The landscape of GLP-1 medications continues to evolve at a remarkable speed. More people than ever are being prescribed these medications—for diabetes, for weight loss, and increasingly for a growing list of “secondary uses” that carry both promise and uncertainty.
Clinicians, dietitians, coaches, and community care providers are asking important questions:
• How do we talk about these medications in a way that is ethical, nuanced, and client-centered?
• What claims are supported by evidence, and which ones are being amplified by hype or marketing?
• How do we support people who are navigating complex emotions, histories, and hopes around these medications?
This annual webinar (hosted on 2/6/26) created a space for grounded conversation, updated information, and practical tools that support dignity and autonomy in care.
What We Cover
1. The Current GLP-1 Landscape
A clear overview of where things stand now:
• What’s on the market
• What’s emerging
• How cultural narratives are shaping expectations and concerns
2. Ethical Care Guidelines
Body Trust–centered principles for navigating GLP-1 conversations with:
• Clarity and compassion
• Attention to risk, nuance, and individual context
• Support for autonomy and informed decision-making
3. Secondary Uses: What the Research Shows (and Doesn’t)
A measured look at emerging claims related to secondary uses:
• What current evidence suggests
• What remains inconclusive or contested
• How to recognize gaps, assumptions, and bias
4. Understanding Research & Media Narratives
Tools from Ragen Chastain to help you make sense of rapidly evolving studies and headlines:
• How to assess research design and limitations
• How to identify misleading interpretations
• Key questions to ask when evaluating claims
5. Clinical Scenarios
Case examples to illustrate:
• How complexity shows up in practice
• Ways to balance competing needs, concerns, and histories
• Approaches and language that support client-centered care
6. Q+A
• Listen to questions (and answers) arising from providers’ work, clients, and the realities they’re navigating.
What You Receive
✔ The recording of the full webinar for 30 days
✔ An updated resource list
✔ Ethical Care Guidelines
✔ Recommendations for navigating complex clinical conversations
Who This Webinar Is For
This training is designed for:
- Clinicians
- Dietitians
- Coaches
- Providers working in ED recovery, community care workers, and anyone navigating GLP-1 conversations in professional or personal contexts.
You do not need any prior training in Body Trust.
PURCHASE RECORDED WEBINAR
Ethical Care Guidelines & Secondary Uses for GLP-1 Medications
This webinar offers a steady, values-centered place to make sense of a fast-changing landscape—one rooted in nuance, curiosity, and care.
Purchase Options
Sliding scale pricing. Choose the recording package that fits you.
*The 2025 GLP-1 Webinar Series recordings includes:
Webinar 1: GLP-1 Medications: Expanding the Dialogue Around Risks & Benefits + Webinar 2: Navigating Clinical Conversations about GLP-1 Medications
We believe people should not be turned away for lack of funds. If none of the prices above work for you or you need to set up a payment plan, you may make a request here.
Presenters
Ragen Chastain (she/her), MEd
Speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare. She has brought her signature combination of expertise and humor to audiences from Memorial Sloan Kettering and Massachusetts General Hospital, to Amazon and Google, to Dartmouth, Cal Tech and the Yale School of Medicine. Author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter, co-author of the Health at Every Size Health Sheets, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, podcasts, and documentary film.
Lisa DuBreuil (she/her), LICSW
A fat activist and clinical social worker, and a psychotherapist in Outpatient Psychiatry at Mass General Hospital in Boston — treating people with co-occurring substance use disorders and eating disorders, as well as people with new-onset SUDs and compulsions following weight loss surgery. She leads the Size Diversity Group at Mass General Brigham, a multi-disciplinary group providing education, consultation and support around the impact of weight stigma on health and healthcare. Lisa also has a private practice in Salem, MA, helping people live peacefully in their bodies.
Sirius Bonner (she/her)
A strategist, educator, and consultant with more than two decades of experience working at the intersection of health, bodies, and systems change. She has held senior leadership roles across healthcare and higher education, including Executive Director of INTERSECT and Vice President of Equity and Education at Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette. A longtime collaborator with the Center for Body Trust and co-host of The Body Trust® Podcast, Sirius centers her work on translating research, lived experience, and systems analysis into practical, ethical, patient-centered care.
Hilary Kinavey (she/her)
Co-founder of the Center for Body Trust. Hilary is a therapist, healthcare consultant, facilitator and writer whose 20+ years of work have been a study of what interrupts our sense of wholeness and how we can return to ourselves in a culture that profits from fragmentation. She offers courses and gatherings about grief tending, and provides trainings and consultation for fellow providers and organizations.
Dana Sturtevant (she/her)
Co-founder of the Center for Body Trust. A registered dietitian and motivational interviewing trainer whose work focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty. Since 2002, Dana has traveled the country training helping professionals in communication and engagement strategies that lead to collaborative conversations about change, and is a champion for size-inclusive models of care.
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