Body Liberated Nourishment: Reclaiming Food, Culture, and Connection
Nourishment is more than just food—it is deeply intertwined with our histories, identities, and resilience. In times of instability and crisis, ensuring we are properly nourished means we can engage more meaningfully in collective action and better support the well-being of our communities.
In this session, participants will explore the many layers of nourishment through the lens of Body Liberation. Drawing from Indigenous knowledge and ancestral practices, we’ll reflect on our personal food journeys and examine how colonization has shaped the ways we eat, think about our bodies, and relate to cultural food traditions. Together, we’ll explore how reconnecting with cultural foodways can foster deeper self-awareness, community connection, and liberation.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to…
Define body-liberated nourishment and explain how our cultural foodways strengthen identity, belonging, and community resilience.
Describe the impact of colonization on food systems, body image, and cultural eating practices.
Apply a decolonial lens to their relationship with food and explore ways to integrate ancestral traditions into daily life.
Use storytelling to build deeper connections between food, culture, and community.
🗓 Wednesday, June 25, 2025
🕗 8 PM ET
📲 Pay-what-you-can registration + recording access for all registrants!
By registering, you agree to the Embody Lib Terms of Service.
Body-Liberated Futures: A Culminating Collective Dreaming Session
What would it look like to live in a world where all bodies are honored, where the most marginalized are no longer burdened by systemic oppression, and where everyone has what they need to thrive?
In this closing workshop of the Body Lib Basics series, participants are invited to imagine bold, liberated futures rooted in Embody Lib’s vision: a world where all bodies are treated with dignity and have what they need to pursue health and well-being in ways that honor body autonomy, healing justice, and thriving communities.
Through guided reflection, small group dialogue, and collaborative mind-mapping, we will explore how the politicization of bodies has upheld harmful hierarchies—and how we can disrupt these patterns through imagination, intention, and collective action. Together, we will dream beyond what is and begin building toward what’s possible.
Participants will leave with inspiration, clarity, and concrete steps to carry this vision forward in their communities, work, and daily lives.
To honor the vulnerability and intimacy of this experience, this session will not be recorded.
🗓 Wednesday, July 2, 2025
🕗 8 PM ET
📲 FREE
By registering, you agree to the Embody Lib Terms of Service.
Body Liberated Self-Care: Transformative Practice forTimes of Resistance
In a world where mainstream wellness is often disconnected from politics and systemic challenges, how can we reclaim self-care that nourishes and empowers our activism practice?
This session invites participants to explore Body Liberation as a framework for transformative self-care. First, attendees will be guided through mainstream wellness culture's binary and hierarchical nature. Next, through reflection, group discussion, and somatic practice, attendees will gain tools that help reclaim ancestral wisdom and integrate lived experiences into their self-care routines. Participants will leave with a foundational blueprint for creating personalized, sustainable self-care action plans that seamlessly support their activism.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
Analyze socially dominant narratives surrounding health and well-being, identifying how they perpetuate hierarchical and supremacist ideas.
Explore how historical context and theory define how the body is perceived as a site of oppression but also power.
Apply a Body-liberated approach to self-care, incorporating insights from ancestral wisdom, lived experiences, and the interconnected dimensions of well-being.
Create a personalized, sustainable self-care routine that aligns with transformative principles designed to support individual and community care work.
🗓 Wednesday, June 11, 2025
🕗 8 PM ET
📲 Pay-what-you-can registration + recording access for all registrants!
By registering, you agree to the Embody Lib Terms of Service.
Body Liberated Community: Strategies for Building Resilience
In times of uncertainty, whether global or close to home, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or powerless. But even in the most challenging moments, we each hold the ability to make an impact across our communities.
This session invites participants to reconnect with that power by focusing on what they can influence locally. Together, we’ll explore practical strategies for building personal and collective resilience, including community engagement, civic participation, mutual aid, and lessons drawn from the resilience practices of historically marginalized groups. Through reflection and interactive activities, participants will identify their areas of influence, assess their capacity for action, and begin developing personalized plans for contributing to community well-being.
By the end of the learning session, participants will be able to…
Identify at least one actionable strategy to become a more engaged and supportive member of their local community.
Understand the value of mutual aid and how to create or join networks that offer care, connection, and shared support.
Apply insights from historically marginalized communities that have built resilience in the face of systemic challenges to their own personal or collective practices.
🗓 Wednesday, June 4, 2025
🕗 8 PM ET
📲 Pay-what-you-can registration + recording access for all registrants!
By registering, you agree to the Embody Lib Terms of Service.
Beyond Body Positivity: An Introduction to Body Liberation
This session introduces participants to the concept of body liberation and its roots in social movements that challenged mainstream ideals about health, food, and worth. We’ll examine how body liberation builds on, but goes beyond, movements like fat acceptance and body positivity by addressing the systemic and cultural forces that shape how different bodies are treated.
Participants will walk away with a better understanding of how body liberation connects personal empowerment with broader social change, and how they can begin applying these ideas in their daily lives and communities.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to...
Describe the historical development of body liberation, including key movements and milestones from the 1960s to the present.
Differentiate between body liberation, body positivity, and fat acceptance, recognizing their origins and how each has evolved.
Identify meaningful ways to apply body liberation principles in both personal practices and community-based efforts, focusing on addressing systemic and individual barriers.
🗓 Wednesday, May 28, 2025
🕗 8 PM ET
📲 FREE registration + recording access for all registrants!
By registering, you agree to the Embody Lib Terms of Service.
Stratifying Food, Bodies, and Health: The Role of Socially Dominant Narratives in Shaping the Current Health & Nutrition Landscape
Embody Lib is partnering with Weight-Inclusive Dietitians in Canada (WIDIC) to offer this foundational webinar!
During this 60-minute session, participants will be guided through the complex interplay between social identities and how they influence the current nutrition education landscape. Assisted by session facilitator Patrilie Hernandez, participants will be able to examine how socially dominant identities influence the narratives around food, body, and health and how these narratives can perpetuate systemic inequities. Be part of this insightful discussion that challenges conventional narratives and seeks to foster a more equitable and inclusive approach to nutrition education. By understanding the influence of socially dominant identities, we can begin to dismantle barriers and create more just food systems for all.
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Time: 9 AM PT/12 PM ET
Link: https://weightinclusive.ca/events/stratifying-food-bodies-health/
“An Introduction to Culturally Competent Nutrition Education Delivery and Design” (Parts 1 & 2)
During this two-part series, participants will delve into the critical intersection of cultural competence theory and nutrition education delivery, emphasizing the profound impact of cultural beliefs and practices on dietary habits and health outcomes. Participants will engage in activities to assess cultural competency in their nutrition education initiative. Finally, participants will gain a nuanced understanding of cultural competence versus cultural humility in nutrition education design and delivery, thereby enhancing the impact and inclusivity of their practice. Participants will walk away from this session with an action plan that can further promote cultural competence and humility on both a program and institutional level.
The CPE activity application for "An Introduction to Culturally Competent Nutrition Education Delivery & Design" is pending CDR review and approval for 3.0 CPEUs
Part 1 Date and Time
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 from 3:30 - 5 PM ET
Part 2 Date and Time
Tuesday, May 21st , 2024 from 3:30-5 PM ET
Both webinars will be recorded and will be available to registered users for 30 days after the session date.
“Supporting Social-emotional Wellbeing for BIPOC at Work: Building an Organizational Culture of Shared Accountability”(FREE-to-attend)
Calling all socially conscious non-profit professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders committed to justice in their work!
Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 25th at 12 PM ET
The workplace can be a central point for promoting several dimensions of well-being, a crucial component of health, specifically social-emotional well-being. While organizational culture and climate impact every employee, Black, Brown, and Indigenous People of Color are adversely affected when justice and equity are not centered.
In line with this year’s Minority Health Month Theme, “Be the Source for Better Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections,” Embody Lib founder Patrilie will be conversing with Michelle Nicole of Passion and Power, a consulting firm for those who we aim to go beyond ‘diversity’ and create community spaces where Black and other marginalized folks can experience radical equity and safety.
During this lunchtime chat, attendees will hear about what it takes to build an organizational culture of shared accountability, which is often overlooked when planning for and implementing DEIJB initiatives. So bring your brown bag lunch and pull up a chair to this can’t miss conversation!
Learn more here
Embody Lib Webinar: “Weight-Inclusive Food Justice: What the Movement is Missing, How it Holds People of the Global Majority Back, and How to Do Better”
Register for this live webinar* and gain insight into how the food justice movement, rooted in Black liberation, has evolved to promote supremacist thinking and colonialist ideology. You will learn how bodies and food can be used to uphold systems of oppression, including how social identities and their proximity to systemic power shape these beliefs. After expanding on the various pillars of food justice, Patrilie, the session facilitator, will guide session participants through a historical timeline, starting with the emergence of food insecurity in America into the public eye during the Civil Rights movement, ending with specific examples of how weight bias and anti-fatness interfere with working towards inclusive food justice.
Dietitians and Nutrition Professionals can receive 1.5 CEUs for their live attendance.
*Time is listed as Eastern Time. The webinar recording will only be available for those enrolled in the Body Liberation Learning Portal Course. Visit the course webpage to learn more.