Fat Torah Workshops
Workshops with Rabbi Minna Bromberg provide a unique path for both individuals and organizations to confront anti-fat bias through the wisdom of Jewish texts and tradition. The offerings are divided into two distinct, high-impact categories:
"Every Body Beloved": Focused on personal and communal transformation, this track uses sacred text and reflection to help participants see their own bodies and the bodies around them as divine gifts, building a world of radical acceptance from the ground up.
"Making Space for All Bodies": Designed for organizational leaders and educators, this track offers a practical, actionable framework for auditing spaces, challenging institutional bias, and fulfilling the moral obligation to create genuinely inclusive communities.
Both tracks are available as a Single-Session Workshop for a powerful introduction or as a Three-Part Bundle for deeper, lasting change. All programs are offered on a sliding scale, ensuring that economic barriers do not prevent anyone from accessing this essential work.
1. Every Body Beloved
About the Workshop
This workshop offers a compassionate and spiritually grounded path to building a world that embraces every body. Through a blend of personal narrative, sacred text, and guided reflection, participants will learn to see bodies—our own included—not as problems to be fixed but as divine gifts to be nurtured and cherished.
What You'll Learn
Reframe the Story: Learn to see individual and collective struggles with anti-fat bias as a shared exodus from "the Narrow Places" (Mitzrayim) to collective freedom.
Create Belonging: Discover tools to build communities where everyone belongs by challenging anti-fatness.
Connect with the Jewish tradition: Understand and embody the Jewish principle that every person is created in the image of God, and how this calls us to affirm the inherent worth of fat bodies.
Challenge Systems: Gain a theological framework to resist the idolatry of healthism and diet culture, and learn to find joy in bodies as they are.
Workshop Tiers
Single-Session Workshop
A 90-minute interactive session that introduces the core concepts of body liberation from a Jewish perspective. It covers Yetziat Mitzrayim (the exodus from Narrow Places), the idea of the Divine image, and the practice of seeing ourselves as partners in building a world of radical body acceptance. This serves as a powerful and self-contained experience for personal and communal growth.
Three-Part Bundle: The Journey to Freedom
This workshop series deepens the work, allowing for a more profound and lasting transformation for individuals and communities.
Part 1: The Narrow Place. Focus on identifying and naming the harms of anti-fatness and diet culture, exploring personal and communal stories, and understanding a Jewish view of confronting anti-fat bias.
Part 2: The Divine Image. Dive into the concept of being created in God's image, exploring how it informs radical acceptance and the responsibility of communal care. This session uses Jewish texts as a guide for seeing inherent wholeness in every body.
Part 3: The Promised Land. Work together on how to live and build community in a world that is not yet fully free from anti-fat bias. This session covers making intentional choices, building community, and "broadcasting the miracle of fat" as a form of sacred activism.
2. "Making Space for All Bodies": a Workshop For Organizations & Campuses
This workshop is designed for community leaders, educators, and staff who want to make their institutions more welcoming and physically accessible to people of all sizes. The focus is on implementing institutional change.
About the Workshop
This workshop provides the tools to move beyond platitudes of "all are welcome" to the practical work of making your community truly inclusive for fat people. It offers a framework for understanding anti-fat bias as a moral issue and provides actionable steps to create more equitable and affirming spaces.
What You’ll Learn
Identify anti-fat bias: Learn to recognize both obvious and subtle forms of anti-fatness in physical spaces, language, and community culture.
Understand the theological imperative: Explore how creating inclusive spaces allows us to fulfill the mitzvah (religious obligation) to honor the Divine image in every person.
Implement practical solutions: Gain concrete, implementable strategies for making our physical environments—from seating to summer camps—more accessible.
Shift organizational culture: Begin the long-term work of confronting internal biases and moving from judgment to genuine care for all members of the community.
Workshop Tiers
Single-Session Workshop:
A 90-minute interactive session that introduces the concept of physical and social fat accessibility. It includes a "walk-through" exercise where participants analyze their own spaces and a discussion of key Jewish texts that support the mission of making space for all.
Three-Part Bundle: The Institutional Shift
This comprehensive workshop series is designed to create a lasting institutional change.
Part 1: Understanding the Why. A foundational session exploring the theological imperative for confronting anti-fat bias and why the exclusion of fat people is a moral failure.
Part 2: The On-Ramp to Action. A highly practical session focused on identifying specific institutional barriers. This includes an audit of physical spaces, language used in publications, and communal practices.
Part 3: The Ongoing Commitment. A session dedicated to creating a long-term plan for the organization. This covers handling pushback, training staff, creating an open feedback loop, and establishing the community as a place where every body can truly feel at home.
Sliding Scale
Workshops are offered on a sliding scale to honor economic diversity and make this work as accessible as possible. Please choose the tier that is most aligned with your financial capacity and supports the continued growth of Fat Torah.
Organizational budget under $250K: $500 (3-part bundle $1275)
Organizational budget between $250K-$750K: $1000 (3-part bundle $2550)
Organizational budget between $750K-$1.5 million: $1,500 (3-part bundle $3825)
Organizational budget over $1.5 million: $2,000 (3-part bundle $5100)