Speaking & Trainings
Offerings for Healthcare Professionals & Students
As a healthcare provider or student, you care about your patients and want to do the best for them. You might have heard about Health at Every Size®, or this is the first time you’ve considered weight as a health equity issue. Dive into the research, skills, and knowledge to help you best support your patients, regardless of weight or size.
During a presentation, we’ll discuss the research on weight and health with a critical lens, including the evidence that weight isn’t a disease, but rather a health equity issue, and introduce the principles of weight inclusive care. Check out some of our most popular offerings for healthcare professionals and students:
The Heavy Impact of Weight Bias in Healthcare
Typical length 1-3 hours
This offering focuses on the implicit and explicit weight bias of healthcare professionals, the history of fatphobia in society and medicine, and specific ways to welcome and support people of all sizes.
Weight Science: An Introduction to the Relationship between Health and Weight
Typical length 1-3 hours
In this offering, we dive into weight science with a critical examination of our assumptions about weight and health, and how to center weight inclusive care.
The Heavy Impact of Weight Bias: An Introduction to Weight Science & Weight Bias in Healthcare
Typical length 1.5-4 hours
Combining the topics of the above presentations, this is our most popular offering! We’ll cover the ways weight bias shows up implicitly and explicitly as healthcare professionals, and examine the research on health and weight. We’ll also cover ways to center weight inclusive care and make clinics accessible to larger patients.
The Impacts of Weight-Biased Public Health & Shifting to More Inclusive Programs and Messaging
Typical Length 1-3 hours
Created with Public Health professionals in mind, we’ll discuss the impacts of the ‘War on Ob*sity,’ how weight bias influences research design and interpretation, and how to center eliminating weight bias as a public health initiative.
Offerings for Workplaces and Community Groups
Workplace Wellness | Professional Development | Employee Wellbeing | Justice, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
These offerings are great for organizations that want to design programming that is more inclusive to all bodies and create a workplace environment that reflects those values. You do not need to be a healthcare provider to understand the importance of weight as an equity issue.
From program design to lunch room conversations about food - the way we talk about weight, design office spaces, purchase furniture, write travel policies, or enforce dress codes affects everyone and can determine who is welcome at our organizations and who can’t access our services or employment opportunities. Check out some of our most popular offerings for workplaces and community groups:
Dismantling Weight Bias for a More Inclusive Programs and a Safer Workplace
Typical Length 1-3 hours
In this session, we tailor the content to your organization’s programs and activities to help all employees identify their role in making your workplace welcoming to everyone, regardless of size.
Weight Bias & Stigma: Including Weight and Size in your Advocacy Work
Typical Length 1-2 hours
Created with social justice advocacy organizations in mind, this offering is grounded in intersectional feminism. Larger people are a part of every race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, class, and more. How are you including larger people in your advocacy efforts? This offering will provide the frameworks and information to include weight and size in your advocacy work.
What Every HR Professional Should Know about Weight Inclusive Workplaces
Typical Length 1.5-3 hours
HR Professionals play a key role in dismantling weight bias in the workplace. We’ll discuss some key areas to look out for implicit fatphobia and how to protect employees of all sizes from discrimination.
Liberatory Wellness
2-hour sessions / 5-session series
This offering is a weight-inclusive employee wellness workshop to support overall health and wellbeing using Health at Every Size® and body positive principles. More details including a session breakdown of topics are available on our Workshops page.
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We tailor our trainings to your organization’s needs and culture. Formats include lecture, discussion, and activities. Sessions vary from a one hour introduction to the topic, to in depth day-long or multi-session trainings. Many of our offerings can easily be added to. Common topics to add include applying a weight-inclusive lens to specific diseases, such as Type 2 Diabetes, and creating an accessible and welcoming clinic for larger people.
Our rates vary depending on many factors. We provide a quote is after we’ve received a formal speaking request.
If you'd like to discuss options further, reach out to Ani Janzen, Executive Director & Lead Trainer, via the contact form below. If you are ready for a quote, put in a formal speaking request.