Educational Materials
The Body Positive's educational materials were created with the philosophy that the best way to reach people is through the voices of their peers. With this in mind, our documentaries predominantly feature speakers in the same age range as the intended audience. The DVDs introduce both youth and adults to the Be Body Positive Health® Model competencies. The curriculum for ages 5-9 and 9-12 provide students with an opportunity to deepen the discussion of the issues.Note: Curriculum for the BodyTalk DVD for Teens is underway, as is an extended, comprehensive curricula for all age groups. Contact Connie Sobczak if you are interested in being informed when the new curricula is completed. It will be useful for working with youth in a variety of settings, including classrooms, afterschool programs, and youth groups.
DVD'S
BodyTalk for Teens DVD (ages 12-19)
This BodyTalk DVD for ages 12-19 is a "by teens for teens" project created by the daughter of The Body Positive's co-founder. Carmen grew up with The Body Positive, and created the DVD to share the messages that allowed her to grow up with confidence and self-love. The DVD features students and medical professionals challenging the messages society promotes about weight, health, and beauty that cause so many young people to hate their bodies. The speakers share what they do to love their bodies, and how they have developed positive, sustainable eating and exercise habits.
Running time: 25 minutes
Price: $89.95 + s/h (8.75% sales tax added for CA residents)
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BodyTalk: It's a New Language (ages 9-12)
This BodyTalk DVD focuses on age-specific body image issues for adolescents, including puberty, dieting, teasing, and trying to fit in. In this documentary, children of diverse backgrounds and body sizes share their struggles and triumphs as they find their way through confusing social messages about their bodies and growing up.
Running time: 20 minutes
Price: $89.95 + s/h (8.75% sales tax added for CA residents)
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BodyTalk: My Special Body (ages 5-9)
This BodyTalk DVD teaches children ages 5-9 that health can come at any size, to listen to their bodies when they are eating, and to move because it feels good. In this documentary, children of diverse backgrounds and body types talk about the negative impact of being teased because of how they look, solutions for coping with these situations, the benefits of eating a wide variety of foods, listening to their bodies' hunger and fullness signals, and why exercise is fun as well as healthy for growing bodies.
Running time: 20 minutes
Price: $89.95 + s/h (8.75% sales tax added for CA residents)
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Discover your Healthy Weight DVD
If you've spent time trying out new diets and exercise programs with unsatisfying results, then you've learned what so many women know: dieting does not work for the majority of people in producing long term results. Struggles with weight and self-image exhaust your productivity and enjoyment of life.
In Discover your Healthy Weight, medical professionals explain how dieting ultimately leads to weight gain and increased health problems. Women share their stories of self-doubt and unhealthy behaviors and how they learned to trust and love their bodies.
Find out how you can sustain a healthy lifestyle and improve your quality of life with this informative and inspirational DVD that has transformed the lives of women across the country. This DVD makes a great gift for your friends. It is an excellent teaching tool for women's health or women's studies classes, and highly useful for medical and mental health professionals.
Running time: 26 minutes
Price: $19.95 + s/h (8.75% sales tax added for CA residents)
Grand Festival Award Winner, Berkeley Video + Film Festival, 2009
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CURRICULA
BodyTalk Curriculum
This compelling, standards-based curriculum integrates self-inquiry and creative projects to help students make positive choices related to their bodies, eating, and exercise. Each curriculum described below includes two lessons and a journal-writing component.
Note: The age-appropriate BodyTalk DVD must be purchased in order to use each curriculum. The lessons are based on the material presented in the DVDs.
BodyTalk Curriculum: Ages 9-12
Lessons in this curriculum help students define body image as part of their self-esteem, examine stereotyping, and obtain skills to resist teasing and feeling ashamed of their bodies. Please remember the BodyTalk DVD for ages 9-12 is needed to use this curriculum.
Price: $26.95 + s/h (8.75% sales tax added for CA residents)
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BodyTalk Curriculum: Ages 5-9
The central element of this curriculum is to promote students' love for themselves and their bodies by increasing awareness of the diversity of human shapes and sizes. Lessons focus on the natural diversity of body types and getting students to see positive aspects of their own bodies. Includes the CD soundtrack from the BodyTalk DVD. Please remember the BodyTalk DVD for ages 5-9 is needed to use this curriculum.
Price: $26.95 + s/h (8.75% sales tax added for CA residents)
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