Need a speaker for your event or workplace?
I have some exciting news I’d like to share with you. I’m shifting my business to do more writing and speaking in order to reach more people with the messages of meditation, recovery from disordered eating, and imbuing your life with gentleness, compassion, and love.
Here’s a glimpse of some of my speaking topics:
Eat to Love/Love to Eat
Explaining mindfulness and intuitive eating in ways that seem both familiar and new, Jenna transforms the mundane act of nourishment into a meditation and brings these concepts from idea into practice. Appropriate for all audiences, including recovery groups.
Befriending Your Body: Aging with Grit and Gratitude
Jenna teaches us to love ourselves even when we don’t like our reflection. She acknowledges the challenges of aging in a youth-obsessed society, telling the deeper truths that aging reveals, while keeping it relatable and upbeat. Befriending Your Body is essential for women’s groups as well as professionals working with an aging population.
Discovering Polyvagal Theory: Concepts and Applications for Nutrition Professionals
Jenna has applied the concepts and practices of polyvagal theory to the nutrition field – both for the clinicians themselves and the people they support. In this workshop – that can be either a 1-hour talk or a 3-hour workshop – attendees are introduced to the three basic elements of PVT: hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation; learn to identify the various nervous system states of regulation and dysregulation; notice the triggers that put them into dysregulation; and develop a catalog of resources to bring them back into regulation. Participants leave with an expanded sense of self-awareness and practical tools to use in day-to-day practice and life.
Well, This Is Awkward: Approaching Difficult Conversations with Authenticity, Honesty, and Heart
In this talk, Jenna weaves together the approaches of mindful non-violent communication, somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, and radically compassionate presence. Participants will learn how to stay simultaneously calm and authentic, honest and compassionate, intentional and empathetic. You might never enjoy difficult conversations, but after this workshop you will feel capable and confident having them.
The Ultimate Practice Is Gentleness: Meditation for Staying Sane and Skillful in a Dysregulating World
Much of what we have learned about meditation is misleading or oversimplified. Meditation is not just about being calm and happy; it’s also essential to helping us navigate difficult emotions and times in our lives. In this talk, Jenna provides the necessary background on meditation to understand its basic philosophy and view as well as its practical applications. Participants will learn and practice a specific meditation technique and gain the necessary skills to bring that practice into their everyday lives for the long term.
From Emotional Eating to Intuitive Eating
Emotional eating is a complex, multifaceted, and misunderstood issue. In this talk – which can be a 1-hour event or a 3-hour interactive pre-conference workshop – Jenna offers you a deeper understanding of the many contributors to emotional eating including cultural, biological, and emotional factors. Participants will learn how to decode emotional eating; understand what is happening in their bodies, hearts, and minds in real time; and create a personalized menu of options to meet their needs with mindfulness, precision, and compassion. Ultimately they will view emotional eating as an important form of communication from their “inner teacher.”
In addition to these topics, I’m always happy to customize a talk for your specific needs. So, if you would like me to come speak at your workplace, organization, annual meeting, or some other event, I’d love to hear from you. I am currently booking for 2025 and looking for more opportunities to get the word out. You can learn more about me and my speaking here, grab my press kit here, and reach out to me directly here: jenna@jennahollenstein.com.