Presentations
If you are interested in hosting an Operation Beautiful speaking event, please contact Caitlin via her personal e-mail: caitlinjboyle@gmail.com
Caitlin Boyle is energetic, informative, and engaging, and she excels at promoting discussion about some of the most pivotal topics facing young women and men today:
- Body Image
- Fat Talk and Negative Self-Talk
- Photoshopping and False Imagery
- The Objectification of Women in Advertising
- Vanity Sizing
- Mixed Messages in Fitness Magazines
- Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
- The Thin Ideal vs. The Healthy Ideal
- A Healthy Balance
“Caitlin has a great way in engaging the audience – the discussions and stories shared were inspiring and heartfelt. Many of the students that attended her workshop commended her enthusiasm and honesty with her experience and mission to end Fat Talk. We are sure to see Operation Beautiful on our campus again!” - Andrea Dudas, Education & Outreach Coordinator, UCF Health Services/Wellness Center
PAST PRESENTATIONS AT UNIVERSITIES / SCHOOLS
- **Pennsylvania College of Technology – Workshop on April 13, 2010
- **University of Central Florida – Workshops on March 24, 2010
- **University of Florida – Workshop on March 17, 2010
- River Centre Clinic (Facility for Eating Disorders Treatment) – Workshop in February 2010
- **University of Central Florida – Presentation on February 24, 2010
- Mississippi State University – Part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week / February 21 – 27, 2010
- University of Texas at El Paso – “Operation Beautiful: From the Inside Out” February 22 and February 25, 2010
- University of North Carolina in Pembroke, NC– Part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week / February 21 – 27, 2010
** Lead by Caitlin Boyle
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excellent!
Hello
I work as an Outreach Worker @ our local women’s shelter. I just saw your video clip on OWN mailing.
I don’t know if you do presentations in Canada? I think this would be a great idea to spread around our community, but think it would be awesome to have a presentation at high schools and possible evening for adults.
Could you let me know if this is a possiblity and how much would you charge for your presentation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call or email me.
Thanks in advance,
Debra Chouinard
Mountain Rose Women’s Shelter
Phone: 403-845-5339
email: debrachouinard@telus.ent
Hi Debra:
If you are interested in hosting an Operation Beautiful speaking event, please contact Kevin MacRae,Vice President of Lordly & Dame at kmacrae@lordly.com or 617-482-3593.
Thanks for your interest!
I appreciate it.
Caitlin
Hi. I would like to know if you could possibly do a presentation at my high school in Corpus Christi. We have recently been named the fattest city in the U.S. and I would like to show the students here that we shouldn’t judge people based on looks but by what’s inside. Also, that there IS other ways to loose weight besides unhealthy diets and eating disorders.
Thanks, Tiffany
Tiffany:
Sure! Have someone at your school (like a principal or guidance counselor) contact: Kevin MacRae,Vice President of Lordly & Dame at kmacrae@lordly.com or 617-482-3593.
Thank YOU
hey i am a youth leader in Corpus Christi and i totally agree with Tiffany. We need to show our girls that real beauty come from within, coems from God.
mandobarrera@gmail.com is my email. hope we can help.
Thank you for being an inspiration
Hey, Come to Colorado sometime. We would love to have you here.
Hey Caitlin,
Just wanted to say that YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! <3
So are you!!!
Hey Caitlin,
I just wanted to thank you for starting Operation Beautiful. I’m an 18 year old college student who weights 210 pounds, and I feel like I should diet and exercise to be thin so I am more accepted. I’m always editing my photos for Facebook or Myspace to make it look like I am thinner. But thanks to Operation Beautiful, I can now see that beauty is not on the outside, but it’s what’s on the inside that truly matters. So thank you for being such an inspiration! It’s really helped me. Keep smiling that beautiful smile.
YOU keep smiling that beautiful smile.
You should present at my school, it’s private and has a uniform that makes many of the girls feel unattractive. We are also very judgmental and I think all the middle school girls deserve to know they and everyone else are beautiful, it’s not enough for just one of us posting Operation Beautiful notes around the building of 3rd grade through 8th graders, not to mention all the boys that can find them and get rid of them, because they think it doesn’t matter. But you, me, and all the girls, women at my school are amazing and beautiful
feel free to tell your guidance counselor or principal about OB!
My school’s pretty much the same way, except it’s Pre K thru 8th grade. I put a few notes in the girls room, and in my friend’s backpack. Start small where the boys can’t tear them down, like library books or girls rooms!
Amanda
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im someone whose really been through a lot in my life, from self injury to eating sidorders and back again. i really just felt like i was untouchable, unlovable, and unbeautiful. i know there are so many people out there that feel like i did, and i think what youve done is really incredible and will make a huge difference. thank you so much for helping myself and others as well see that we really are beautiful.
I know exactly how you feel. Operation beautiful had the same effect on me.
A group of anonymous kids at my middle school posted sticky notes all down the halls and on the lockers. They called themselves the OB Ninjas.
Everyone was amazed and I feel so inspired. I am a Girl Scout about to begin my Gold Award and I would love to do something like this. Does anyone have any ideas?
I love the idea of OB ninjas!!
Sometimes, we’ve had groups make poster boards and stand at traffic corners waving huge Operation Beautiful signs!
I am starting my Gold too, and you know, thats a great idea. i might be able to get my service unit involved and a group of pioneer girlz that our outcast leader started (dont ask, long story) hmmm…
hi i just finished my gold award but i saw this in glamour magazine and loved the idea….let me know what you end up doing because i would love to start a project with this idea
i love the idear of this it makes me think that im not ugly im really beautiful and inside as well i lov loads of people
hello, i was just wondering if Jenna Lucado have ever spoken at one of these
presentations. She is the author of redefining beautiful. It is sucha great book. Also, if there would be a presentation in NY. Thank you! This operation beautiful that you have started has helped and inspired so many girls out there, including me. how we shouldnt let doubt and fear get in the way of our goals and the things we want to do. We are beautiful in our own ways. No
matter what, we have to stay true to ourselves.
Hi Ira:
The presentations are given by the creator of OB and the writer of the book, Caitlin (me!). Jenna Lucado sounds awesome though! At this time, I don’t have any events in NYC scheduled. Sorry
I’m glad to hear it’s helped you so much!
Caitlin
It would be AMAZING if you came to my high school in Illinois!! If you are willing/able to come to Illinois, I think I might talk to my principal about it
of course i would come to your school! thank you for talking to your principal about it!
I was Just thinking insecure before I came across this site, it made me feel a lot better! And now i’m thinking of going around and putting sticky notes up xD
Truly amazing, creative, and BE–U-tiful idea! I’d luv to spread the positives notes to other woman! I’m off to Office Depot to stock up on post-notes…& start spreading the word to all the wonderful beautiful women out there!! This is an awesome idea…I always did make positive verbal comments to women I’d meet in public bathrooms ..@ movies or theater,etc. BUT this makes it more permanent in that it reaches a lot MORE WOMEN!!
at my school our rules are so strict that if you put anything up they start looking for the causer of the vadalism… and we’ve had kids expelled
would they really expell kids if the message was so positive? maybe think about talking to one of your female teachers about making it work. she might be able to make sure you dont get in trouble, and she might even help you put them up!
I am the same Sam as before. They are totally paranoid. Its really weird what they do sometimes. I can talk to maybe two of the teachers, and I know one of them would help me. hm… i have a note to use, and I went to a Superchick concert last night with a postit on my shirt. Everyone was asking me about it, and after the concert Melissa saw it and went nuts. I had at least 20 people wearing postit notes, including a pair of security gaurds who looked hilarious.
I just wanted to say, i love this site!
Everytime i start thinking negative about myself, i turn to this site and i feel a lot better. (:
~God Bless.?
8th graders have body image issues too. at my school, i know a lot of girls who are very self concious of their body image, and even some guys. ive been posting little notes in the bathroom mirrors, and in some classes, but i dont think my efforts are getting anywhere. what im trying to get at is i think it would be really great if my middle school could have a presentation. i live in connecticut, so if u ever come around, i hope u stop in! i would love to start a club or give my own presentation at my school, but since operation beautiful is trademarked, i think i need permission. feel free to email me with thoughts!
thank you so much! <3
Yes! Lots of girls have done this at their schools. Talk to a teacher or guidance counselor about what you need to do to form the club and where you can put the notes (you must have to promise to post them off campus or at a designated spot so the school can make sure everything is nice in the notes, not mean.
Hey Caitlin,
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I’m from England. This site has inspired me and I will definitely start doing this. I was wondering if you could possibly come to England some time, to give one of your talks at my school? It will make some people feel better about themselves.
Thanks, Rosie
Hi, I’ve been called a fat kid my entire life. When i was 14 i developed a eating disorder but still i couldn’t lose enough weight to be happy. Right now I’m 18 and weigh 220. I’ve learned to love myself no matter who tells me i look fat.
Sometime people don’t understand but i think you get that my happiness doesn’t depend on if i fit into the 10 of my best friend or if i eat 2 pieces of cake on birthday, what matters is the happiness i have with my friends and the fact i can except myself.
I just LOVE the idea of posting sicky notes everywere that tell people that they are beautiful and that they don’t need to change them selfs just to make everyone else happy.
Starting in september when I go back to school I
Going to make it my goal to post at least three notes a day for the hole year 365 days because if I can make even just one person smile it will make my day a hole lot better
hey i have never seen these notes but i think it is a great idea im 15 im gonna do this at my school in Alabama to spread the word and i was wondering if it would be ok with you if i started a club at my school about operation beautiful and i think you have a really great cause and that its time to stock up on stickies !!!
Hey, I was just randomly told about this website and I find what you’re doing so inspiring. And I’d love to do something like this at my school since I’m graduating next year. I was just wondering how I’d go about this. There are so many girls out there who need something like this.
Here is a link that I think is PERFECT for this kind of thing! It is by Johnny Diaz, who is a Christian writer. This changed my prespectives after I watched and heard this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8NvU9Ah-uY