Family Service Center (FSC)

Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation
2025-04-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 7:00 PM, Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation, a FAN webinar featuring Doug Bolton, Ph.D. in conversation with Lisa Damour, Ph.D. (FAN ’19, ’20, ’21, ’23).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/BoltonFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of Untethered to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Over the past decade, children’s mental health challenges have reached epidemic levels—stress, anxiety, childhood depression, and suicide are at unprecedented high rates. Amid high-stakes pressure for kids to succeed, parents and teachers have never needed a road map to healthy child development more urgently. And as clinical psychologist and educator Doug Bolton, Ph.D. explains in Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation, his eye-opening and powerful new book, underlying our modern-day stresses is an even more pervasive problem: We’re relying on practices that are not in line with what science tells us about how to truly motivate children and help them thrive.
As Bolton persuasively argues, we need to step away from parenting and teaching based on controlling our children with incentives and punishments—they focus on short-term compliance at the cost of health development. Instead, creating healthy and strongly bonded communities for our children, both in our own families and in our schools, is key to their emotional well-being, and their success in life. Untethered offers tools to help us create these communities so our kids develop healthy attachments and learn emotional regulation, helping them feel more connected, less anxious, more included, less shamed, and more securely grounded. The power of communities is not only that they enhance our wellness—they buffer us from the impact of trauma and can be a guiding force in helping kids develop resilience.
Bolton will be in conversation with Lisa Damour, Ph.D. (FAN ’19, ’20, ’21, ’23), the author of three New York Times best sellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers, which have been translated into twenty-three languages. She co-hosts the Ask Lisa podcast, works in collaboration with UNICEF, and is recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association. Damour authored the monthly Adolescence column for The New York Times, is a regular contributor to CBS News, and created Untangling 10to20, a digital library of premium content to support teens and those who care for them.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Wilmette Mental Health Fair
2025-04-05 14:30 - 16:30 | First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette, 600 9th St, Wilmette, IL, 60091
Join FSC, FSC’s Co-Executive Director Dr. Renee Dominguez, and community partner organizations at First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette for this important event. Leave with tangible steps toward positive mental health. All are welcome!
There will be an expert panel discussion moderated by Dr. Dominguez: “Navigating the Anxious Generation: How We Can Empower Our Kids.” You will also have the chance to learn more about local agencies and community partners before and after the panel.
When: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 2:30pm – 4:30pm (expert panel from 3:00pm – 4:00pm)
Where: First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette, 600 9th St, Wilmette
Register: Registration encouraged but not required, scan the QR code above or click here to register.
We hope to see you there!

Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change Olga Khazan
2025-03-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Monday, March 17, 2025, 7:00 PM CT, Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change, a FAN webinar featuring Olga Khazan in conversation with Maria Konnikova.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/KhazanFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Me, But Better from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Khazan that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In recent years, Olga Khazan had been spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving relationship and her dream job, her neurotic personality often left her snatching dissatisfaction from the jaws of happiness. While her overachieving had always been a professional asset, Khazan lately felt like her brittle disposition could shatter under the weight of just one more thing—but could she really change her entire personality?
Research shows that you can alter your personality traits by behaving in ways that align with the kind of person you’d like to be—a process that can make you happier, healthier, and more successful. In Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change, Khazan embarks on an experiment to see whether it’s possible to go from dwelling in dread to “radiating joy.” For one year, she reluctantly clicked “yes” on a bucket list of new experiences—from meditation to improv to sailing—that forced her to at least act happy. With a skeptic’s eye, Khazan brings you on her journey through the science of personality, presenting evidence-backed techniques to help you change your mind for the better. Sharply witty and deeply fascinating, Me, But Better offers a probing inquiry into what it means to live a fulfilling life, and how you can keep diving into change, no matter how uncomfortable it feels.
Khazan is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of the 2020 book Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World. She has also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and other publications.
Khazan will be in conversation with Maria Konnikova, the author, most recently, of The Biggest Bluff, a New York Times bestseller, and the bestsellers The Confidence Game and Mastermind. She is the cohost, along with Nate Silver, of the weekly podcast Risky Business. While researching The Biggest Bluff, Konnikova became an international poker champion, a World Series of Poker Bracelet Winner, an ambassador for PokerStars Team Pro, and the winner of over $1,000,000 in tournament earnings.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

PANEL: Healthy Kids Social Media Habits for Families: Raising Kids in a Connected World
2025-03-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Women’s Club of Wilmette, 930 Greenleaf Ave, Wilmette, 60091, United States
Join the Woman’s Club of Wilmette for a lively and informative discussion about how we can help our kids navigate social media in a healthy way!
Doors open at 5:30
Register here: registration link

Shift: Managing Your Emotions -- So They Don't Manage You Ethan Kross, Ph.D. (2 of 2)
2025-03-11 19:00 - 20:00 | North Shore Country Day School, 310 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, 60093, United States
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 7:00 PM, Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You, in conversation with Heidi Stevens, North Shore Country Day Auditorium, 310 Green Bay Rd., Winnetka, IL 60093
No registration required.
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Shift at the event while supplies last.
Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being “good” or “bad,” emotions are information. When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices.
But how do we make our emotions work for us rather than against us? Acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross, Ph.D. has devoted his scientific career to answering this question. In his new bestselling book Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You, he dispels common myths—for instance, that avoidance is always toxic or that we should always strive to live in the moment—and provides a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don’t take over our lives.
Shift weaves groundbreaking research with riveting stories of people struggling and succeeding to manage their emotions—from a mother whose fear prompted her to make a spur-of-the-moment decision that would save her daughter’s life mid-flight to a nuclear code-carrying Navy SEAL who learned how to embrace both joy and pain during a hellish training activity. Kross spotlights a wide array of tools that we already have access to—in our bodies and minds, our relationships with other people, and the cultures and physical spaces we inhabit—and shows us how to harness them to be healthier and more successful.
Kross is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan and professor in its top ranked psychology department and Ross School of Business. His book Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness It was an international bestseller.
Kross will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, and creative director for Parent Nation, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining Parent Nation, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years, where she wrote a daily column called Balancing Act. She was awarded the Anne Keegan Award for Distinguished Journalism in 2018. Stevens maintains a nationally syndicated column once a week.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded but not live streamed and will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Shift: Managing Your Emotions -- So They Don't Manage You Ethan Kross, Ph.D. (1 of 2)
2025-03-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7:00 PM, Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You, a FAN webinar featuring Ethan Kross, Ph.D. in conversation with Daniel Pink (FAN ’18, ‘22).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/KPFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Shift to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being “good” or “bad,” emotions are information. When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices.
But how do we make our emotions work for us rather than against us? Acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross, Ph.D. has devoted his scientific career to answering this question. In his new bestselling book Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You, he dispels common myths—for instance, that avoidance is always toxic or that we should always strive to live in the moment—and provides a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don’t take over our lives.
Shift weaves groundbreaking research with riveting stories of people struggling and succeeding to manage their emotions—from a mother whose fear prompted her to make a spur-of-the-moment decision that would save her daughter’s life mid-flight to a nuclear code-carrying Navy SEAL who learned how to embrace both joy and pain during a hellish training activity. Kross spotlights a wide array of tools that we already have access to—in our bodies and minds, our relationships with other people, and the cultures and physical spaces we inhabit—and shows us how to harness them to be healthier and more successful.
Kross is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan and professor in its top ranked psychology department and Ross School of Business. His book Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness It was an international bestseller.
Kross will be in conversation with Daniel Pink (FAN ’18, ’22), the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several provocative, bestselling books about business, work, creativity, and behavior, including The Power of Regret, When, To Sell Is Human, Drive, and A Whole New Mind.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
2025-03-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7:00 PM, 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life, a FAN webinar featuring Adam Chandler in conversation with Kathy Gilsinan.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ChandlerFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of 99% Perspiration from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Chandler and Gilsinan that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison’s most famous quote, has been drilled into the minds of generations of Americans. A straightforward iteration of the idea that innovation, discovery, and ingenuity are the result of drive and grit above all, it has also come to represent much darker myths: that hard work always leads to success and that achievement is the product of individuals and not communities. In this model, those who come out on top are there because they earned it, and everyone else needs to buckle down, glove up, and, maybe one day, they’ll get there too.
As the wealth gap widens, communities crumble, and Americans work more for less, journalist Adam Chandler raises the question: What happens when perspiration isn’t enough? To answer it in his new book 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life, Chandler crisscrosses the country interviewing mayors, teachers, generals, pastors, construction workers, and entrepreneurs, to reveal just how untenable relying on “perspiration” as a strategy has truly become. He also delves into America’s past to reveal how our government, education system, and culture at large have woven the idea of meritocracy deep into the fabric of American society and how some of history’s most famous so-called bootstrappers really built their wealth. From George Washington to Seattle, Washington, Jay Gatsby to Bill Gates, 99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go.
Chandler is the author of Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom and a recurring guest on The History Channel’s The Food That Built America. A former staff writer at The Atlantic, Chandler’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WIRED, and elsewhere.
Chandler will be in conversation with Kathy Gilsinan, author of The Helpers: Profiles from the Front Lines of the Pandemic, and a senior editor at Puck News. Previously she covered the Midwest for Politico Magazine and was a senior editor and staff writer at The Atlantic, where she ran the international coverage before covering foreign policy and national security herself.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others Adam Galinsky, Ph.D.
2025-03-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Monday, March 3, 2025, 7:00 PM, Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others, a FAN webinar featuring Adam Galinsky, Ph.D. in conversation with Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/AGFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Inspire from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Galinsky and Edmondson that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Social psychologist and leadership expert Adam Galinsky, Ph.D. has spent three decades building a method for determining when we are inspiring versus infuriating, and where various leaders—presidents, CEOs, coaches, teachers, parents, and a wealth of others—currently land on that spectrum. In his new book Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others, Galinsky shows how inspiring leaders can fill us with a wellspring of hope and possibility as they guide us to become better versions of ourselves. In contrast, infuriating leaders disappoint and annoy, fueling seething cauldrons of rage. But both types of leaders are deeply connected—together, they represent a universal continuum that is rooted in the very architecture of the human brain. This means that inspiring leaders aren’t born—instead, we can inspire or infuriate in any given moment through our behavior, words, or presence.
Whether you’re a leader, a member of a team, a spouse, or a parent, this engaging and rigorous exploration unpacks the science of inspiration. Through compelling stories, fascinating research, and practical tips for addressing the common dilemmas we face daily, Inspire reveals how all of us, regardless of status or circumstance, can be more inspiring more often.
Galinsky is the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School and has published more than 200 scientific articles on leadership, negotiations, diversity, and ethics. He is an Executive/Associate Producer on two documentaries short-listed for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.
Galinsky will be in conversation with Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D., the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.
2025-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Monday, February 24, 2025, 12:00 PM CT, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, a FAN webinar featuring Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. in conversation with Oliver Burkeman (FAN ’24).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SapolskyFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Determined from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Sapolsky that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
One of our great behavioral scientists, Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., the bestselling author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, mounts a devastating scientific and philosophical case against free will—an argument with profound consequences.
Behave, Sapolsky’s now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp exactly how nature and nurture create the physics and chemistry that cause all human behavior, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. In his latest book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self who tells our biology what to do.
Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about consciousness—the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky takes out all the major arguments for free will, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos theory and quantum physics. But as Sapolsky acknowledges, it’s sometimes impossible to uncouple from our zeal to judge people, including ourselves. Determined applies this new understanding to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality, and living well together. Most of all, Sapolsky argues that while accepting the reality about free will is monumentally difficult, it will make for a much more humane world.
Sapolsky will be in conversation with Oliver Burkeman (FAN ’24), New York Times bestselling author of Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts; Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

2025 Trivia Night!
2025-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Max & Benny’s, 461 Waukegan Rd, Northbrook, IL, 60062, United States
Don’t miss trivia at Max & Benny’s on February 20th 2025, FSC’s 2nd Trivia Night! Register now here: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/FSCTriviaNight2025

See pictures from last year’s event here: 2024 FSC Trivia Night Photo Album

The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
2025-02-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 7:00 PM, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, a FAN webinar featuring Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D. in conversation with Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LICSW.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MFO25FANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Grieving Body from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by O’Connor and Jarvis that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak to the psychological and emotional ramifications of loss and sorrow, we often overlook its impact on our physical bodies. Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D. specializes in the study of grief, and in her new book The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing she shares vital scientific research, revealing imperative new insights on its profound physiological impact. As she did in The Grieving Brain: How We Learn from Love and Loss, O’Connor combines illuminating studies and personal stories to explore the toll loss takes on our cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems and the larger implications for our long-term well-being. The Grieving Brain addresses questions about the effects of bereavement, including information about: What happens in our bodies when we’re grieving? How do our coping behaviors affect our physical health? What is the cognitive impact of grief? Why are we more prone to illness during times of enormous stress?
O’Connor is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, investigating the effects of grief on the brain and the body. O’Connor holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
O’Connor will be in conversation with Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LICSW, a psychotherapist, author, podcast host (Grief is My Side Hustle), two-time TEDx speaker, educator, corporate consultant, and soughtafter keynote speaker specializing in trauma and grief and loss.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

John Lewis: A Life David Greenberg, Ph.D.
2025-02-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 7:00 PM, John Lewis: A Life, a FAN webinar featuring David Greenberg, Ph.D. in conversation with David Blight, Ph.D. (FAN ’19).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/DGFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of John Lewis: A Life to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
In John Lewis: A Life, award-winning historian and journalist David Greenberg, Ph.D., professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, presents new details in the life of a man who lived with courage and conviction, and who resisted hating those who hated him.
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, John Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped make into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died.
Greenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life from his youth as a precocious bookworm who sought education and freedom in the Jim Crow era, through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the littleknown story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress.”
Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg’s biography captures and conveys the power of Lewis’s surpassing courage and faith in nonviolence while also revealing him to be far more politically skilled, pragmatic, and canny than commonly thought.
Greenberg will be in conversation with renowned historian David Blight, Ph.D. (FAN ’19), Sterling Professor of History and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
2025-02-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Monday, February 10, 2025, 7:00 PM, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, a FAN webinar featuring Nicholas Carr in conversation with Christine Rosen, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CarrFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Superbloom to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Nicholas Carr’s new book Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.
A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how “digital crowding” erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds and distort our perceptions, and how advances in AI are further blurring the already hazy line between fantasy and reality. Even as Carr shows how tech companies and their tools of connection have failed us, he forces us to confront inconvenient truths about our own nature. The human psyche, it turns out, is profoundly ill-suited to the “superbloom” of information that technology has unleashed.
Carr is the author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and four other acclaimed books. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Carr will be in conversation with Christine Rosen, Ph.D., a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and culture, and feminism. Concurrently she is a columnist for Commentary magazine and one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She is also a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory position at the New Atlantis.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 7:00 PM, Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain, a FAN webinar featuring Jorge Cham, Ph.D. and Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CGFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Out of Your Mind from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cham and Godwin that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Why do you love? Why do you lie? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How much of it have we decoded, and how much of it remains an impenetrable mystery?
Join best-selling author and online cartoonist Jorge Cham, Ph.D. and neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D. on a deep dive into the fascinating world of the human brain. In their new book, Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain, they will explore questions such as: What is consciousness? Where is you in the brain? And do we have free will? All while illuminating everything we know (and DON’T know) about one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Think of it as conversation, ammunition for your next cocktail party, or a quick fascinating read while you’re in the bathroom (don’t worry, the chapters aren’t that long). Centered around questions we all ask ourselves at some point but don’t usually have answers to, Out of Your Mind is an illustrated book about the brain that isn’t too brainy. Playful, accessible, and deeply insightful, it’s the one brain book that’s truly accessible and suitable for all brains.
Cham is the Daytime Emmy-nominated and best-selling cartoonist creator of the popular online comic strip “Piled Higher and Deeper.” He is the co-creator, executive producer, and creative director of Elinor Wonders Why, one of the highest-rated animated shows on PBS Kids, and the co-author of two popular science books: the best-selling and award-winning We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe and Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe, as well as the children’s book Oliver’s Great Big Universe.
Godwin is a neuroscientist, educator, and academic leader who is a professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience and served as graduate dean at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. His research centers on the cellular basis of abnormal brain rhythms, including active projects on calcium channel function, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids
2025-01-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 7:00-8:00 PM, The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids, a FAN webinar featuring Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. and Georgie Wisen-Vincent, LMFT in conversation with Carly Andrews.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/BWVFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of The Way of Play to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Most parents understand that free, unstructured playtime is great for children’s development. What they may not know is that playful interaction with parents is also a powerful way for kids to cultivate healthy emotional development and resilience. Kids often want their parents to play with them, but many parents don’t know how to play or see it only as an (often boring) way to kill time.
Playing with your kids doesn’t have to mean enrolling in countless parent-and-me classes or getting on all fours and making toy car sounds; the little daily moments together can make the most impact. In The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids, world-renowned pediatric therapists and play experts Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. and Georgie Wisen-Vincent, LMFT offer simple, playful techniques that harness this caregiving magic in only a few minutes each day.
Full of science-backed research, real-life stories, and charming line illustrations to bring this novel advice to life, The Way of Play will help you nurture your kids and encourage them to become calm listeners, cooperative problem solvers, and respectful communicators. Just as important, it will help your whole family have more fun together and build stronger relationships.
Bryson is the founder and CEO of The Center for Connection, a multidisciplinary clinical practice in Southern California. She is the co-author (with Dan Siegel, MD, FAN ‘13) of four books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. Wisen-Vincent is a nationally recognized play therapy expert and co-founder (with Bryson) and head of faculty for The Play Strong Institute, a continuing education and training organization for professionals and parents.
Bryson and Wisen-Vincent will be in conversation with Carly Andrews, executive director of The Alliance for Early Childhood, a nonprofit organization devoted to nurturing the healthy development of young children by equipping early childhood educators, parents, and families with resources, education, and support.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause Naomi Watts
2025-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 7:00-8:30 PM, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause, a FAN webinar featuring Naomi Watts in conversation with Heidi Stevens.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/NWattsFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Dare I Say It to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
PROGRAM NOTE: This is a 90-minute event that will include 30 minutes of Watts answering attendee questions.
Acclaimed and beloved actress Naomi Watts, whose work includes starring roles in Mulholland Drive, 21 Grams, The Impossible, and FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans, felt unprepared, uneducated, and ashamed when, at the age of thirty-six, she began experiencing symptoms that she would learn were the start of her entering perimenopause. Even though every woman grows older and will experience menopause, these topics remain taboo, especially in Hollywood and within the entertainment industry.
Feeling confused, alone, and unsupported about this stage of her life, Watts was determined to do better for herself and for other women and began boldly using her platform to normalize conversations about this natural process. In 2022, she founded Stripes Beauty to help generations of women prepare for and navigate their midlife transition.
Blending funny and poignant stories from Watts and her friends with advice from doctors, hormone experts, and nutritionists, and a foreword by bestselling women’s health author, Mary Claire Haver, MD, Watts’s new book, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause, takes the secrecy, shame, and anxiety out of experiencing menopause and aging. With chapters devoted to the different symptoms of menopause, Watts shares the most up-to-date research in how to manage and tackle these and other physical and emotional challenges women encounter when they age.
Watts will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, and creative director for Parent Nation, an initiative of the TMW Center.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground Kurt Gray, Ph.D.
2025-01-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Thursday, January 23, 2025, 7:00 PM, Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground, a FAN webinar featuring Kurt Gray, Ph.D. in conversation with Paul Bloom, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/GrayFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Outraged from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Gray that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
It’s easy to assume that liberals and conservatives have radically different moral foundations. In his new book Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground, Kurt Gray, Ph.D. showcases the latest science to demonstrate that we all have the same moral mind—that everyone’s moral judgments stem from feeling threatened or vulnerable to harm.
We all care about protecting ourselves and the vulnerable. Conflict arises, however, when we have different perceptions of harm. We get outraged when we disagree about who the “real” victim is, whether we’re talking about political issues, fights with our in-laws, or arguments on the playground.
In this fascinating and insightful tour of our moral minds, Gray, a professor in psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, tackles popular myths that prevent us from understanding ourselves and those around us. While it is commonly believed that our ancestors were apex predators, Gray argues that for most of our evolutionary history, humans were more hunted than hunter. This explains why our minds are hard-wired to perceive threats and provides surprising insights on the scientific origins of our values and beliefs. Though we might think ourselves driven by objective reasoning, Gray unveils new research that finds our moral judgments are based on gut feelings rather than rational thought and presents a compelling reminder that we are more alike than we might think.
Drawing on groundbreaking research, Gray provides a captivating new explanation for our moral outrage and unpacks how to best bridge divides. If you want to understand the morals of the “other side,” ask yourself a simple question—what harms do they see?
Gray will be in conversation with Paul Bloom (FAN ’23), Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. He is the author of seven books, including his latest Psych: The Story of the Human Mind.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

You’re Not Alone - Discussion on Supporting Family Members’ Mental Health
2025-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL, 60043
You’re Not Alone
Discussion on Supporting Family Members’ Mental Health with Authors Meg Kissinger and Tripp Friedler, Moderated by FSC Co-Executive Director Renee Dominguez, PhD
Tuesday, January 21, 7:00PM
Kenilworth Union Church Sanctuary
211 Kenilworth Avenue
Kenilworth IL 60069 | 847-251-4272
Street Parking
Supporting a loved one’s mental health issues can feel isolating and overwhelming, from the practical challenges of finding support to the constant fear for a loved one’s physical well-being. Authors Meg Kissinger and Tripp Friedler understand this battle first-hand, having lost beloved family members to suicide in journeys they have bravely shared in powerful memoirs. Please join members of your community as Meg and Tripp share their experiences and offer their perspectives on finding help and gathering a community of support. The discussion will be moderated by Renee Dominguez, PhD, clinical psychologist and executive director of Family Service Center.
This powerful session will take place Tuesday, January 21 at 7 pm in the sanctuary at Kenilworth Union Church. The one-hour presentation will be followed by fellowship and the opportunity to learn about local agencies that provide mental health support.
Meg’s memoir is titled While You Were Out, and Tripp’s is The Tunnel. The Book Stall will be on hand to sell copies after the discussion, which the authors will be happy to inscribe if desired.
Registration Link: https://kuc.org/blog/youre-not-alone/

The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better
2025-01-16 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, January 16, 2025, 7:00 PM, The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better, a FAN webinar featuring Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, Ph.D. in conversation with Charles Duhigg.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/AWFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Disengaged Teen from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Anderson and Winthrop that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Adolescents are hardwired to explore and grow, and learning is mainly how they do this. But a shocking majority of teens are disengaged from school, simultaneously bored and overwhelmed. This is feeding an alarming teen mental health crisis. As kids get older and more independent, parents often feel powerless to help. But fear not, there are evidence-backed strategies to guide them from disengagement to drive, in and out of school.
For the past five years, award-winning journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution’s global education expert Rebecca Winthrop, Ph.D. have been investigating why so many children lose their love of learning in adolescence. Based on extensive original research, including surveys of over 60,000 students, 25,000 parents and 6,000 teachers; as well as in-depth interviews with 100 students over years, their new book, The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better offers four modes of learning that students use to navigate through the shifting academic demands and social dynamics of middle and high school, shaping the internal narratives about their skills, potential, and identity: Resister, Passenger, Achiever, and Explorer. Understanding your child’s learning modes is vital for nurturing their ability to become Explorers. Anderson and Winthrop outline simple yet counterintuitive parenting strategies for connecting with your child, tailoring your listening and communication styles to their needs, igniting their curiosity, and building self-awareness and emotional regulation.
Anderson and Winthrop will be in conversation with Charles Duhigg (FAN ’24), Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers Supercommunicators and The Power of Habit.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Microaggressions in Medicine Lauren Freeman, Ph.D. and Heather Stewart, Ph.D.
2025-01-14 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 7:00 PM, Microaggressions in Medicine, a FAN webinar featuring Lauren Freeman, Ph.D. and Heather Stewart, Ph.D. in conversation with Yolonda Wilson, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/FSFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Microaggressions in Medicine from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by the three panelists that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In a world that too often marginalizes people based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, body size, or disability, medicine can often be no different. Far from “doing no harm,” it treats some patients unfairly, leading to detrimental effects. Microaggressions in medicine are not rare, but frequent in the healthcare experiences of marginalized patients. Recognizing this can help patients better understand and make sense of their experiences.
Bioethicists Lauren Freeman, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at University of Louisville, and Heather Stewart, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University, argue that building such an awareness can also help current and future healthcare professionals recognize the serious and enduring consequences that microaggressions have on their patients. In their new book, Microaggressions in Medicine, Freeman and Stewart offer practical strategies for healthcare professionals to reduce microaggressions in their practices. Guided by diverse patient testimonies and case studies, the book focuses on the harms that such patients face. It amplifies their voices, stories, and experiences, which have too-often been excluded from mainstream bioethical, medical, and popular discussions.
The harms of microaggressions are anything but micro. Healthcare professionals have a moral obligation to prevent them as much as possible. Health equity can be achieved, but only through first recognizing the harm caused by microaggressions in medical contexts. Shining a light on microaggressions in medicine and offering concrete ways for health professionals to avoid them in the future will make a positive difference in the lives of marginalized patients as they interact with medical institutions and practitioners. All patients deserve high quality, patient-centered care but healthcare professionals must change their practices to achieve such equity.
Freeman and Stewart will be in conversation with Yolonda Wilson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University. Wilson does research in bioethics, social and political philosophy, race theory, and feminist philosophy.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions Michael Norton, Ph.D.
2024-12-04 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions, a FAN webinar featuring Michael Norton, Ph.D. in conversation with Sam Sommers, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/NortonFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT with BOGO: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Ritual Effect from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Norton and Sommers that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page.
Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (like brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about these actions—when we focus on the precise way they are performed—they can instead become rituals. Shifting from a “habitual” mindset to a “ritual” mindset can convert ordinary acts from black and white to Technicolor.
Think about the way you savor a certain beverage, the care you take with a particular outfit that gets worn only on special occasions, the unique way that your family gathers around the table during holidays, or the secret language you enjoy with your significant other. To some, these behaviors may seem quirky, but because rituals matter so deeply to us on a personal level, they give our lives purpose and meaning. For his new book, The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions, Michael Norton, Ph.D. (FAN ’16), the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, draws on a decade of original research to show that rituals play a role in healing communities experiencing a great loss, marking life’s major transitions, driving a stadium of sports fans to ecstasy, and helping us rise to challenges and realize opportunities.
Norton’s research focuses on behavioral economics and well-being, with particular attention given to
happiness and spending, income inequality, and the IKEA effect. He is the co-author of Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending, and his “How to Buy Happiness” TED Talk has been viewed over 4 million times.
Norton will be in conversation with award-winning social psychologist Sam Sommers, Ph.D., Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology and director of the Racial Equity and Diversity Lab at Tufts University.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature Alan Lightman, Ph.D.
2024-12-03 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature, a FAN webinar featuring Alan Lightman, Ph.D. in conversation with Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/LightmanFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Miraculous from the Material from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Lightman that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Nature is capable of extraordinary phenomena. Standing in awe of those phenomena, we experience a feeling of connection to the cosmos. For acclaimed physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, Ph.D., just as remarkable is that all of what we see around us—soap bubbles, scarlet ibises, shooting stars—are made of the same material stuff and obey the same rules and laws. This is what Lightman calls “spiritual materialism,” the belief that we can embrace spiritual experiences without letting go of our scientific worldview.
Pairing 36 beautiful, full-color photos evoking some of nature’s most awe-inspiring phenomena with accessible and lyrical personal essays, The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature explores the fascinating science underlying the natural world. Why do rainbows make an arc? Why does a particular waterfall at Yosemite National Park sometimes glow like it’s on fire? How does a hummingbird fly? The world has so many things to marvel at—and the science is just as fascinating.
Lightman’s imagination travels from the world of atoms and molecules to the animal kingdom, from places like Ha Long Bay, Vietnam and the Grand Canyon out to the solar system and beyond, illuminating the majesty of the cosmos and the remarkable science behind it. The Miraculous from the Material is a stunning, soaring ode to the beauty and wonder around us.
Lightman will be in conversation with Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. (FAN ’16, ’23), professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, and faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. His research focuses the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as power, social class, and inequality. Keltner is the author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence, as well as the bestseller Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and The Compassionate Instinct. His latest book is 2023’s Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm DeMar DeRozan
2024-11-19 19:00 | Zoom
NEW DATE! Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 7:00 PM, Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm, a FAN webinar featuring DeMar DeRozan in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib (FAN ’21, ‘24).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/DeRozanFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Above the Noise to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
“As men, and especially Black men, we don’t talk about our mental health enough. We struggle to admit when things aren’t okay, even when it’s obvious to everybody around us. I’ve seen how toxic that can become. I’ve experienced it myself, keeping everything under wraps until your head and heart are full of fire and rage.” – DeMar DeRozan
DeMar DeRozan, six-time NBA All-Star, has been called a “basketball savant” (ESPN) and “the best closer in the NBA” (GQ)—but when he went public with his depression, it sparked a conversation that reached far beyond the court. By breaking the stigma of speaking out, he added a new, seldom-heard voice to the mental health dialogue: a successful Black male athlete, openly naming his pain and advocating for others to do the same.
Now it’s time to tell the full story. Born and raised in Compton, DeRozan was no stranger to hardship—living in poverty, losing friends to gang violence. In worn-out school gyms and community centers, fueled by hunger and a desire to prove himself, he started to rise, but doubts followed. In Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm, DeRozan opens up about his proudest triumphs and the times he felt so weighed down he couldn’t get out of bed. He reflects on what it took to make a name for himself in a new country after getting drafted by the Toronto Raptors, the pressure of playing with veteran athletes as a twenty-year-old rookie, and the pain of losing role models.
From a scared, angry kid to a confident father of five, DeRozan traces his journey to basketball stardom and the forces that honed him into the player—and the slowly healing person—he is today. It will encourage anyone who has ever felt alone in their struggles and inspire people to rise above the noise and speak their truth.
DeRozan will be in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib (FAN ’21, ’24), New York Times bestselling poet, essayist, cultural critic, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow. FAN hosted Abdurraqib in 2021 in support of his award-winning book A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, and also for his most recent book, 2024’s There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child's Mental Health Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH
2024-11-18 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, November 18, 2024, 7:00 PM, You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health, a FAN webinar featuring Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH in conversation with Tramaine Presley, Psy.D., LCPC, LMHC.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CrawfordFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Drs. Crawford and Presley that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
A growing number of children and teens in the U.S. are struggling with mental health conditions, but parents, teachers, and other caregivers are often at a loss when concerns arise for their own child. Are your preschooler’s constant tantrums typical for their age, or an indication of a developmental difficulty? Is puberty or depression to blame for your pre-teen’s challenging behavior? Is my child in the wrong school, or being influenced by the wrong friends? Am I a bad parent or teacher, or am I overreacting? What exactly should I do?
In You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health, child psychiatrist and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) associate medical director Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH provides a comprehensive, compassionate, and practical resource for anyone concerned about a child’s mental health. Drawing on her own clinical experience and guidance from leading experts, Dr. Crawford provides a lens through which to understand the many complex factors affecting children’s mental health. Analyzing young people from preschool to high school, she shares insights into how mental health conditions may manifest at different ages, what kind of interventions may be necessary, and what to do to help kids thrive. Throughout, the book channels the collective wisdom of the NAMI community. Parents, caregivers, and young people themselves share personal stories about their paths to recovery, ensuring readers know that they are not alone.
Dr. Crawford will be in conversation with Tramaine Presley, Psy.D., LCPC, LMHC, the director of Child, Adolescent, and Family Services at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. Presley has worked with children, adults, and families across a variety of clinical settings: private practice, community mental health, residential, schools, college campus, and hospitals.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Thrive Together: Community Mental Health Fair
2024-11-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Glenview Park Center, 2400 Chestnut Ave., Glenview, 60026, United States
Connect with local organizations and advocates to discover mental health services in our area. Don’t miss this chance to learn about, engage with, and support mental health in our community. Drop in.
In partnership with the Family Service Center, Glenview School Districts 225 & 34, Debra Gelfand Children’s Foundation, and the Glenview Park District.

A Conversation with Author Meg Kissinger and FSC's Renee Dominguez, PhD
2024-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Glenview Park Center, 2400 Chestnut Ave., Glenview, 60026, United States
A discussion between author Meg Kissinger and Renee Dominguez, PhD, Co-Executive Director of the Family Service Center, about the book While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. Book sale and signing following the program. Books provided by The Book Stall, Winnetka.
To register for this event, call 847.729.7500 or visit glenviewpl.org/register.

[FAN] Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation Tom McGrath
2024-11-12 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 7:00 PM, Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation, a FAN webinar featuring Tom McGrath in conversation with Rachel Slade.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/McGrathFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Triumph of the Yuppies from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by McGrath and Slade that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Brimming with lively and nostalgic details, award-winning journalist and author Tom McGrath’s new book Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation charts Boomers’ transformation from hippy idealists in the late 1960s to careerists in the early 1980s, and details how marketers, the media, and politicians pivoted to appeal to this influential new group. Yuppie values had an undeniable impact on the worlds of fashion, food, and fitness, as well as affecting the broader culture— from gentrification and an obsession with career success to an indulgent materialism. Most significantly, the me-first mindset typical of Yuppieness helped create the largest income inequality in a century.
By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the elite, uber-educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—had become a cultural punchline, but amidst their preoccupation with money, work, and the latest status symbols, came a serious redefinition of American culture that continues to have profound ramifications decades later.
McGrath was the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine, as well as chief content officer of Metro Corp., the parent company of Philadelphia and Boston between 2010 and 2020. Under his leadership, the magazines won more than fifty awards for editorial excellence. He is also the author of the newsletter Common Ground, which explores issues related to politics, culture, and the economy.
McGrath will be in conversation with Rachel Slade, the former executive editor of Boston magazine. She is the author of two books: the award-winning Into the Raging Sea, about the sinking of the container ship El Faro; and 2024’s Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the USA (and How It Got That Way). Slade’s editing and writing have won national awards in civic journalism, reporting, reader service, and criticism. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the fall of 2024.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Rebecca Nagle
2024-11-11 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, November 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, a FAN webinar featuring Rebecca Nagle in conversation with Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Ph.D. (Lumbee).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/NagleFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of By the Fire We Carry from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Nagle and Brayboy that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In July 2020, nearly 200 years after the lands of Eastern Oklahoma were promised to Native Americans, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma reaffirmed the reservation of the Muscogee Nation, resulting in the largest restoration of tribal land in our nation’s history. This history-changing case started in a surprising place: a small-town murder and the decades-long death penalty appeal of the convicted man. In By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, Rebecca Nagle, an award-winning reporter and citizen of Cherokee Nation, uses the case as a springboard for the larger story of the long fight for tribal sovereignty in Eastern Oklahoma. Her in-depth reportage becomes personal as Nagle uncovers the complicated role her own forebears played in the removal of her tribe from their ancestral lands. She delves into the whitewashed story of “The Trail of Tears” that forcibly removed 80,000 Indigenous peoples living east of the Mississippi and sent them into exile. It is a story of greed, corruption, and lawlessness, as well as historic acts of Indigenous resistance.
Nagle’s original podcast about the case, This Land, topped the podcast charts, reaching number two on iTunes with millions of downloads, and won a Webby Award for best Documentary Series. Nagle was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize and nominated for a Peabody for her reporting and writing. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, USA Today, Teen Vogue, and the Huffington Post.
Nagle will be in conversation with Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Ph.D. (Lumbee), dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy. A member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Brayboy’s research focuses on intersecting knowledge systems that illuminate the ways that institutional structures simultaneously hinder and enable the success of underserved students, staff, and faculty. His research also explores the ways that culture and cultural practices mediate and support Indigenous student learning, community self-determination, and tribal nation building.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim
2024-11-01 19:00 | Zoom
Friday, November 1, 2024, 7:00 PM, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me, a FAN webinar featuring Glory Edim in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/EdimFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Gather Me to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni Morrison, Beloved
For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back.
Edim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older, she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, Edim found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison’s alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.
Edim’s new book, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me, is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.
Edim will be in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore, an award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It) Lindsey Cormack, Ph.D.
2024-10-30 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 7:00 PM, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It), a FAN webinar featuring Lindsey Cormack, Ph.D. in conversation with Heidi Stevens.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CormackFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of How to Raise a Citizen from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cormack and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page.
The numbers don’t lie. American civic knowledge is alarmingly low, and many people dread talking about politics—often choosing to avoid the subject altogether. Studies continue to reveal how little Americans know about their government. Young voters are the least likely to be registered to vote, and the least likely to turn out. Civics instruction receives the lowest number of K-12 classroom hours out of any subject, and it shows – AP US Government & Politics has one of the lowest average scores each year out of all AP classes offered in high schools. But Lindsey Cormack, Ph.D., associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology, argues that all is not lost for the next generation of Americans.
In her new book, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It), Cormack shows how engaging with children about our political system at a young age can help to better prepare them to engage with and understand politics and be catalysts for change. She argues that we all bear a little responsibility for our children’s lack of understanding about these subjects; our political system is a complicated one to understand, our society has an aversion to talking about politics, and our schools are stretched.
Cormack will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, Director of External Affairs for the University of
Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, and creative director for Parent Nation, an
initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years,
where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated
column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
