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Fourteen talks, one dissident lens

Every session is tailored to your audience. Durations and depth adjust to the room, whether that's a lecture hall, a staff meeting, or a two-part clinician training.

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Four interconnected streams of work, from colonial history and body image to clinical practice and creative labor. Tap a cluster to jump to its talks.

Settler Colonialism
4 talks
Settler Colonialism & Trauma
Indigenous Roots of Harm Reduction
Maíz & Belonging
Memory Knot in the Throat
Settler Colonialism
Body Image
2 talks
The Colonial Body Project
Mesoamerican Matriarchal Teachings
Body Image
For Providers
5 talks
Harm Reduction 101
Weight Loss & Harm Reduction
Live Q&A With Glo
Beyond Burnout Rage Room
Emergency Harm Reduction
For Providers
For Creators
3 talks
Plan Your Business Year
Matriarchal Cosmology for Business
Become Unignorable
For Creators and Entrepreneurs
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Settler Colonialism

Keynotes that trace how colonialism and land dispossession show up generations later as eating disorders and body shame.

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talks
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Most popularIntroductory–Medium

Unsettling Histories: Settler Colonialism, Trauma & Eating Disorders

The most-requested keynote.

Challenges the assumption that eating disorders center white, middle-class experience. Traces colonialism's legacy through military conquest and health disparities, and shows how land dispossession still surfaces generations later in the body and at the table.

Ideal audience
Mental health pros, activists, students of psych/soc/history, people in recovery
Duration
60–180 min
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Most popularIntroductory–Medium

The Indigenous Roots of Harm Reduction

Harm reduction as ancestral technology, not a modern intervention.

Recovers the indigenous lineage of harm reduction: practices of care and community survival that existed long before clinical frameworks gave them a name. Shows how colonial disruption severed this knowledge, and how reclaiming it strengthens today's work in eating disorders and substance use.

Ideal audience
Community health workers, social workers, students, organizers
Duration
60–90 min
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Introductory–Medium

Maíz Is The Umbilical Portal To Our Indigeneity: Healing Our Relationship With Food and Belonging

A return to maíz as kin, nourishment, and memory.

Explores maíz as a living connection to ancestry and belonging, not just a crop reduced to a diet trend. Examines how displacement severed that relationship, and how restoring it opens a path toward healing disordered eating.

Ideal audience
Universities, community groups, Chicanx/Latinx student orgs, healing circles
Duration
60–90 min
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Medium–Advanced

EDs & Settler Colonialism: Releasing The Memory Knot in Our Throats

Where historical trauma lives in the body.

Examines how land dispossession, language loss, and forced assimilation under settler colonialism create the conditions for eating disorders. Offers frameworks for recognizing historical trauma in clinical and community settings, and for supporting its release without causing more harm.

Ideal audience
Mental health professionals, grad students, activists, people in recovery
Duration
60–120 min
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Body Image

Talks that reframe body image through Indigenous wisdom and goddess teachings, read against an anti-racist critique of the field.

2
talks
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Advanced

The Colonial Body Project: Diet Culture, Christianity, Gender & White Supremacy

Two-part advanced training. Co-hosted with Hilda Franco MS.

Session 1 — Eating Disorders and Dieting: The New Religion. Session 2 — Womanhood, Shame, and Christian Patriarchy. Equips professionals to navigate the systemic forces shaping body image and disordered eating.

Ideal audience
Mental health providers, advanced students, activists
Duration
2 parts × 60–75 min
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Most popularIntroductory–Medium

Reconnecting to Indigenous Wisdom: Matriarchal Teachings of Mayahuel, Tlazolteotl, and Coyolxauhqui for Authentic Eating Disorder Support

Where Mesoamerican goddesses meet eating disorder recovery.

Puts Indigenous wisdom in direct conversation with conventional eating disorder treatment. Examines how Eurocentric methodologies came to dominate recovery spaces and sideline Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. Explores the teachings of Mayahuel, Tlazolteotl, and Coyolxauhqui as a route back to matriarchal knowledge, and toward eating disorder support that actually accounts for culture and ancestry.

Ideal audience
Mental health professionals, students, people in recovery, Indigenous / Chicanx / Latinx communities, healers
Duration
60–90 min
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For Providers

Clinical trainings and professional development for mental health providers and the educators and nonprofit staff working alongside them.

5
talks
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Medium–Advanced

Eating Disorder Harm Reduction 101: Radical Compassion

Where full-recovery models fall short.

Applies the core principles of harm reduction, autonomy, non-judgment, and goals people can actually reach, to eating disorders. Covers why EDHR is a BIPOC practice, and how it supports people the standard paradigms miss.

Ideal audience
Mental health professionals, students
Duration
60–90 min
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VirtualMedium–Advanced

Weight Loss & Harm Reduction: Working With Clients Who Want Weight Loss

For the paradox providers actually face.

How to support clients who want weight loss while still holding a body liberation framework. Covers how to navigate competing frameworks and offer informed guidance across dieting, medication, and surgery.

Ideal audience
Dietitians, nutritionists, public health & medical providers
Duration
90 min
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Virtual

Live Q&A With Glo V.

A dedicated hour with your team.

An interactive session built around your team's real questions: harm reduction, peer-based support, historical trauma, and whatever else comes up in your work with the people you serve.

Ideal audience
Private practices, non-profits, staff meetings
Duration
60 min
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Medium

Beyond Burnout: Rage Room for Professionals Over Their Industry’s Complicity and Silence

A container for the anger professionals are told to suppress.

Creates a facilitated space for professionals to name their rage at industry complicity and institutional silence. Combines political analysis with embodied release, moving people out of cynicism and back toward something they can act on.

Ideal audience
Mental health providers, educators, nonprofit staff, activists
Duration
60–90 min
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Medium–Advanced

Hold Up! Eating Disorders Don’t Pause in Times of Crisis: Emergency Harm Reduction During Medical and Political Collapse

Crisis-responsive ED care when systems fail.

Addresses how eating disorders intensify during medical and political crises, and increasingly, environmental ones. Offers emergency harm reduction strategies for when treatment centers close and insurance fails, and communities have to care for each other without either.

Ideal audience
Frontline workers, mutual aid organizers, clinicians, community caregivers
Duration
60–90 min
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For Creators and Entrepreneurs

Workshops for small business owners and creatives building work outside hustle culture.

3
talks
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Introductory

Plan Your Business Year

A practical, seasonal roadmap for small business owners.

A hands-on planning session for mapping your business year around capacity and the seasons, not just deadlines. Covers goal-setting, project sequencing, and rest rhythms, building toward a calendar that holds ambition and sustainability together.

Ideal audience
Entrepreneurs, small business owners, creatives, freelancers
Duration
90 min–half day
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Introductory–Medium

Using Mexican Indigenous Matriarchal Cosmology to Plan For Your Small Business

Build a business calendar rooted in ancestral wisdom.

Applies Mexican indigenous matriarchal cosmology, the cycles of the moon, maíz, and the cardinal directions, to business planning. Offers an alternative to hustle culture, one that aligns entrepreneurship with natural cycles, community accountability, and spiritual integrity.

Ideal audience
BIPOC entrepreneurs, healers, artists, small business owners
Duration
90 min–2 hours
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Introductory–Medium

Become Unignorable: Develop the Creative Process Behind Your Best Original Work (Even Your Haters Have to Cite You)

A creative process workshop for dissident thinkers.

Teaches the creative process behind original, citation-worthy work. Covers developing a distinct voice, turning lived experience into theory, and building the intellectual courage to publish work so grounded in truth that even critics have to engage with it.

Ideal audience
Writers, educators, artists, organizers, content creators
Duration
90 min–half day
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Praise from small business owners and creatives

Feedback from folks who booked Glo's entrepreneurship and creative process trainings.

Sign up for everything Glo offers. Seriously. If you know you want to do things differently, and are looking for someone with the courage to tell the truth, the integrity to deliver well, and the creativity to adapt to the moment, Glo's workshops are a next great step. Workshops are affordably priced for small business owners, and worth every single cent and then some.
Lindsey Horvatich
Owner, Clinical Supervisor, Salvia Healing Collective
I had a powerful experience with Nalgona Positivity Pride. I had a 1:1 with Glo and also attended her workshop, and something in me just clicked back into place. I felt my connection with my roots again. I felt my ancestors reminding me of my calling and reminding me to trust the transformation process. She helped me remember that I am not alone in this work, that I was meant for this journey and that I've been preparing for these times. Her courage, her wisdom, her fierce strength, it was everything I needed to witness and be held by right now. She created a space where I could breathe, reconnect, and feel guided again, not just in my business transitions but in all the areas of my life that are shifting. I'm so grateful for her. I highly, highly recommend.
Angie Pulido-Banner, PhD
Licensed Psychologist and Somatic Trauma Healer
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Eating Disorders 101 DSM Diagnosis and Beyond

A foundation with a critical edge

Covers DSM criteria for anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder — then goes beyond the framework to examine the cultural, social, and psychological dimensions the manual leaves out.

Ideal audience
Psych / social work students, mental health professionals
Duration
60–90 min
Level
Medium–Advanced
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Can You Be a Social Justice Therapist at $200 a Session

A Political Spine Realignment Through Frantz Fanon

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The Three Sisters Framework An Indigenous Ecosystem Model For Eating Disorder Care

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Regressed Bodies The Return of Thinness and Weight Loss Under Authoritarian Rule

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The Grotesquetization of Fat Black and Brown Bodies and the Construction of White Thin Femininity Across Time

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Indigenizing Body Image Through Pre-Hispanic Terracotta Sculptures From Mexico and Central America

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Gloria Anzaldúa For the Burned Out and Rejected

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Gil Scott-Heron Teachings for the Burned Out Creative

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