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The Weight of the Nation™ Screening to Action: Quickstart Guide 13
This agenda is designed for a group of twenty to hundreds of people. Use this to host
a 2.5–3 hour screening and conversation for a coalition, a leadership summit, or a
community-wide gathering.
The goals of this agenda are to
• Build relationships among participants
• Learn about the obesity epidemic
• Share information about existing community eorts
• Determine community priorities
• Identify action steps
Feel free to use your own language and context when asking questions. The statements
below are only suggestions for how your discussion may ow.
• Welcome everyone and do introductions of key participants
• Briey review goals of the screening and dialogue
• Establish ground rules
• Invite participants to discuss these questions with the person sitting next to them.
• Briey describe what brought you to this meeting.
• Obesity can be a challenging topic to discuss. What makes it hard to talk about
weight and obesity?
• Invite several people to share highlights of their discussion with the whole group.
• Introduce lm
HBO created The Weight of the Nation™ a 4-part documentary to confront America’s
obesity epidemic in order to help us
• Learn more about America’s obesity epidemic.
• Hear what communities around the country are doing to change things.
• Spark ideas for what we can do here.
Screening to Action Large Community Event Agenda
Consider building a “walk and talk”
into the agenda to integrate
physical activity into the meeting.
Welcome 15 min
Please see Facilitator Tips on page
19 for suggested ground rules.
Watch The Weight
of the Nation™: Part 4
20–70 min
Screen chapters 1 & 11 from The Weight of
the Nation™ Part 4: Challenges (18 min).
If you have more than two hours,
consider showing additional
chapters or all of Part 4 (68 min).
Share our experiences
10–15 min