海角社区

Sponsored by the 海角社区 Gender Resource Center, the symposium is free and open to the public in the Pond Student Union Wood and Little Wood River Rooms on the second floor. Registration is required for the event.

The event features renowned researchers and lectures with expertise in different types of body-image related topics. The sessions will offer continuing education credits with certificates at a cost of $35 for the day, or  $10 for per session.  The link to register for CE鈥檚: .

RSVPs are requested for attendance to the luncheon and to the keynote address.

Slager, the keyote speaker,  bills herself an actor, comedian, speaker, dancer, writer and teacher.

鈥淓ach and every one of us has a gift, a calling, a unique purpose that speaks to us in hopes that one day we will hear this whispering voice and not only begin to honor what we are truly capable of, but remember who we have always been,鈥� Slager said. 鈥溾� can help you find this voice, I can help you free yourself.鈥�

The schedule for the symposium is as follows:

鈥� 8 a.m. 鈥� 鈥淎ging and Body Image,鈥� Cindy Seiger, 海角社区 associate professor of physical therapy.

鈥� 9 a.m. 鈥� 鈥淪omatic Movement and Mindfulness,鈥� Molly Jorgensen, 海角社区 adjunct faculty.

鈥� 10 a.m. 鈥�  鈥淓ating Disorders Explained,鈥� Lauren Flores, marriage and family therapist, Center for Change. 

鈥� 11a.m. 鈥� 鈥淏ody Stories: Discovering Connections through Movement, Awareness, and Expression,鈥� Kathleen Diehl, 海角社区 assistant professor and director of dance.

鈥� noon 鈥� Lunch (provided,  but please RSVP)

鈥� 1 p.m. 鈥� 鈥淧ositive Body Image and You (Part 1),鈥� Janette Olsen, 海角社区 associate professor, Department of Community and Public Health.

鈥� 2 p.m. 鈥� 鈥淏ody Image and Resilience (Part 2),鈥� Janette Olsen, 海角社区 associate professor, Department of Community and Public Health.

鈥� 3 p.m. 鈥� 鈥淓mbodying Intersectional Approaches and Practices on Positive Body Image,鈥� Christian D. Chan, 海角社区 assistant professor of counseling, Olivia T. Ngadjui, 海角社区 doctoral student in counselor education and counseling; and Camille D. Frank, 海角社区 doctoral student in counselor education and counseling.

鈥� 5:30 p.m. 鈥� Keynote presentation 鈥淟ove Wild 鈥� Embracing the Wild within鈥� by actress and comedian Kirby Slager.

Registration is required for the event and for more information about this symposium, please contact Stephanie Richardson at 208-282-3590 or richstep@isu.edu.