BODY ACCEPTANCE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS:

“A life-changing experience, truly.”

- student Alex P.

SPEECHES:

BODY ACCEPTANCE: The Key to a Free and Full Life

This talk opens students' eyes to the messages the world sends that their bodies are things to be fixed. Through the sharing of Kate's story, audience members are able to examine their own relationships with their bodies. Kate offers tools to prevent disordered eating & body hatred and to shift that hatred to self- love & body acceptance.

LEARNING OUTCOME: Identify the false messaging fed to us by society from a young age; protect yourself from this toxic messaging going forward; learn the origins of diet culture and fatphobia and how harmful they are; gain a sense of hope that changing your relationship with your body is possible.

2.) SELF-LOVE AS A LAUNCHING PAD
Self-love is not some unimportant luxury for the select few, but rather an acquired skill that serves as a means to exponentially launch your quality of life and enhance the lives of those around you.
LEARNING OUTCOME: Understand the benefits of self-love and learn effective methods to attain it, even if you've spent decades drowning in self- hate.;

WORKSHOPS:

1.) BODY ACCEPTANCE FOR STUDENTS

This workshop goes further in depth about the origins of diet culture and the danger of absorbing the messages it sends . Students will have the opportunity to discuss their own thoughts and feelings around their bodies, and they will be given the chance to apply neurologically proven techniques to help them embrace new thoughts with ease.

LEARNING OUTCOME: Learn effective, thought work tools to track and CHANGE habitual toxic thoughts; watch as these tools carry over into other areas of your life and lead to greater freedom, confidence, and energy.

2.) BODY DIVERSITY FOR CREATIVES (For Theatre and Dance Students)

In this workshop, we’ll explore how the fatphobic diet culture we grew up in has affected our ability to work efficiently as story-tellers.

After an (optional) screening of her hilarious and moving solo show, I’M TOO FAT FOR THIS SHOW, Kate will discuss the importance of understanding the messages we receive about diet culture and fatphobia, and she’ll provide proven, useful tools to question our thoughts given what we know about their origins.

We'll uncover the origins of our meanest thoughts, and we examine the consequential meaning we have assigned not only to our own bodies, but also to the bodies of others we collaborate with in our quest to tell stories.

LEARNING OUTCOME: Learn effective, actionable thought-work techniques that will allow you to change the way you speak to yourself and the way you feel in your body. As these improve, so will your ability to thrive in all areas of your life - most pertinently, how well you are able to tell the stories you wish to tell.

BIOGRAPHY

Kate Huffman is an award-winning actor & playwright and a certified body confidence and wellness coach. She helps people who struggle with diet, exercise, and body hatred to rewire their brains towards self-acceptance so they can channel their time, energy, and money into living in greater alignment with their life purpose. 

Her world-toured one woman show, I'M TOO FAT FOR THIS SHOW, tells her story of twenty years of anorexia, eating disorders, OCD, chronic pain, and body dysmorphia. It was the sharing of her story that sent her on her mission to help others who struggle with the unnecessary oppression of body hatred.

After digging deep into her own thoughts and beliefs, facing the terrifying steps to embrace real change, she experienced healing like she would never have expected. She went on to earn certifications from The Body Positive and The Institute for Body Confidence Coaching before developing workshops and courses and working one-on-one with people.

Her work in film, TV, and theatre (Fresh Off the Boat, Castle, Rutherford Falls) has won her an LA Weekly Theatre Award, Encore Producers Award, Indy Fringe Award, and several LADCC and Valley Theatre Award nominations.

She was a series regular in the Emmy-nominated series The New 30, for which she was also nominated for an Indie Series Award.

She’s written, performed, and directed sketch comedy at UCB, Second City, iO Chicago, and countless other venues. On stage, she has worked at the Geffen Playhouse, was a long-time member of the Elephant Theatre company,  and is currently a member of The Road Theatre Company.

Kate hails from Indianapolis, Indiana, was salutatorian of Cathedral High School, and earned her B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Miami where she graduated magna cum laude.