This report documents the development and learnings from the Community Healing Circles, part of Centric Lab’s wider Obesity Health Justice programme. It describes how the approach emerged, how the sessions were designed and facilitated, and what themes and insights arose from them. Drawing on participant feedback as well as facilitator reflections, it captures the early impact of this work and considers how the model can inform future community-led approaches to obesity health justice.

The words we choose influence how people experience care, how funding is directed, and whether people feel safe to seek support. While there are arguments for describing obesity as a disease, we have found that the term “condition” better supports our focus on inclusion and health justice.

This document provides an overview of how the pamphlet has been disseminated to date, and summarises the key themes emerging from feedback from the community.

This second report builds on last year’s pilot on micro-healing grants. One year on, we returned to the same participants — B, R, and L — to understand what had changed and/or evolved.