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SUMMARY:ROCKTEMBER⚡FEST
DESCRIPTION:A Charity Music Event\nLive Music | Food & Drinks | Raffles | Live Auction\nClassic Rock Covers on stage at 6:30pm\nFood & Drinks provided by Oak \nBenefiting FSC & other local awesome agencies and programs! \n$85/Ticket (PRESALE $65/TICKET THROUGH 8/31)\nScan the QR on the flyer to register. \n 
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/roctember%e2%9a%a1fest/
LOCATION:MLB Glenview\, 1948-D Lehigh Road\, Glenview\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event
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SUMMARY:Screenagers Under the Influence
DESCRIPTION:FREE MOVIE SCREENING + Panel Discussion to Follow.\nA must-see for parents\, caregivers\, and youth ages 12+.\nAddressing vaping\, drugs & alcohol in the Digital Age. \n6:30pm Doors Open | 6:45pm Movie | 8pm Panelist Discussion \nPopcorn & Goodie Bags for all Guests! \nScan QR code in flyer to register! \n 
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/screenagers-under-the-influence-2/
LOCATION:Wilmette Theatre\, 1122 Central Ave.\, Wilmette\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parenting,Substance Abuse
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250903T200000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Dream School: Finding the College That's Right for You
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 3\, 2025\, 7:00 PM CT\, Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You\, a FAN webinar featuring Jeff Selingo (FAN ’20\, ’21\, ‘22)\, in conversation with Frank Bruni (FAN ’15). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/Selingo25FANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of Dream School to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nAttending college has long been a rite of passage for millions of teens and a bedrock of the American dream. But that well-worn path has lately taken a wrong turn\, denying admission even to super-achievers and putting intolerable stress on family finances. Now\, in Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You\, Jeff Selingo (FAN ’20\, ’21\, ’22) shifts the spotlight from how colleges pick students to how students can better pick colleges. \nWith test-optional policies and grade inflation leveling the playing field for applicants\, getting into prestigious schools has become a kind of lottery. “Plan A” may work out\, but increasingly it isn’t—so Selingo urges families to ditch the “Top 25 or bust” mindset and look beyond the usual suspects. Hidden-gem schools with incredible value and rich opportunities are waiting to be discovered. \nBacked by unparalleled research—and an eye-opening survey of more than 3\,000 parents—Dream School reveals what really matters in a college: strong job prospects after graduation\, hands-on learning experiences\, and a sense of belonging. To help students find their perfect match\, Selingo highlights 75 accessible and affordable colleges that will satisfy those priorities. \nOrganized into three easy-to-digest sections\, Dream School explains why elite college degrees turn out to matter less than you think\, why many parents and students are choosing value over prestige\, and how to make sure the degree really pays off. \nSelingo is a New York Times bestselling author of three books on education and the job market. For more than twenty-five years\, his in-depth reporting and storytelling have provided practical insight about the future of higher education and the workforce to university leaders\, corporate executives\, as well as students and parents. \nSelingo will be in conversation with prominent New York Times journalist Frank Bruni (FAN ’15)\, author of Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be\, about the college admissions mania; The Beauty of Dusk; and most recently\, The Age of Grievance. He is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University\, teaching media-oriented classes in the Sanford School of Public Policy. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/dream-school-finding-the-college-thats-right-for-you/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250709T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250709T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250527T202904Z
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SUMMARY:2025 FSC Neon Golf Scramble
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2025 FSC Neon Golf Scramble! \nWhen: July 9\, 2025\nWhere: Wilmette Golf Club\, Wilmette IL (3900 Fairway Dr\, Wilmette\, IL 60091) \nTickets include grab-and-go lunch and one (1) beverage cart ticket per player. \nCheck-in starts: 10:00am\nLong-Putt Contest: 10:45am\nShotgun Start: 12:00pm\nRaffle Closes: 3:00pm \nGrab your foursome\, or register yourself and we will assign you to a team.\nParticipants will check-in at 10am and be ready for a shotgun start at noon\, where they will enjoy a golf team scramble\, plus exciting contests and games. \nGet tickets for our raffle for a chance to win amazing prizes. Long-putt contest and mulligans are also available. \nTogether\, we will drive change\, promote mental wellness\, and create a brighter future for those who use our services. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to swing for a cause! Neon attire encouraged! \nSponsorships available here! Or reach out to sponsors@familyservicecenter.com \n 
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/2025-fsc-neon-golf-scramble/
LOCATION:Wilmette Golf Club\, 3900 Fairway Dr\, Wilmette\, IL\, 60091
CATEGORIES:Community Event,FSC Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T190000
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SUMMARY:No Shame on U: Cover My Mental Health: Overcoming Insurance Obstacles for Care
DESCRIPTION:Cover My Mental Health: Overcoming Insurance Obstacles for Care \nMay 1\, 2025 \n7pm CT \nVia – ZOOM \nHas your insurance ever denied mental health treatment deemed necessary by a professional? Been told your medication isn’t covered\, even though you rely on it? If you’re tired of fighting insurance battles alone\, this talk is for you. Cover My Mental Health\, a nonprofit organization\, provides no-cost resources to help individuals and families effectively advocate for the care they deserve. This presentation will introduce practical strategies for challenging insurance denials and overcoming obstacles to treatment. Led by Joe Feldman\, founder of Cover My Mental Health and a parent who successfully fought for his children’s mental health care\, this session will equip you with the tools to push back against insurer roadblocks and secure the coverage you need. \nPresented by: \nJoe Feldman\, MBA\nFounder and Director\, Cover My Mental Health \nFREE and VIRTUAL! \nRegister HERE!
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/no-shame-on-u-cover-my-mental-health-overcoming-insurance-obstacles-for-care/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250426T223000
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SUMMARY:Viva FSC! - 2025 Spring Benefit!
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a night in Vegas at Viva FSC! on Saturday\, April 26th 2025! Early bird pricing goes through 3/29. \n \nLearn more and register here | See photos from last year’s event here
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/save-the-date-2025-spring-benefit/
LOCATION:Fields Lexus\, 2000 Waukegan Road\, Glenview\, IL\, 60025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,FSC Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250416T130000
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SUMMARY:What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change Emily Falk\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 16\, 2025\, 12:00 PM CT\, What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change\, a FAN webinar featuring Emily Falk\, Ph.D. in conversation with Ethan Kross\, Ph.D. (FAN ’25). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/FalkFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of What We Value to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nWith so many competing priorities pulling us in different directions every day―family\, friends\, work\, our health―it can feel difficult to make decisions that are aligned with what we care about most. Especially in the moment\, we often default to the immediate demand\, the path of least resistance\, the worn old habit we wanted to change. In What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change\, pioneering scholar Emily Falk\, Ph.D. reveals how we can transform our relationship with the daily decisions that define our lives―opening pathways to make more purposeful\, fulfilling choices; more successfully change our behavior; and influence others to see differently―by thinking like neuroscientists. \nDrawing on her own award-winning research\, Falk introduces readers to a new paradigm for understanding why we\, and those around us\, do what we do. This is the value calculation: the often-subconscious mechanism by which the brain computes our everyday choices. Falk shows that we can learn to work more strategically with the value calculation―whether we want to embrace new activities and behaviors\, connect more meaningfully with others\, or become more effective leaders in our organizations and communities. Falk demonstrates how we can change what we think just by changing what we think about; get less defensive by connecting with our core values; and seed innovation by seeking out different perspectives. \nFalk is an award-winning Professor of Communication\, Psychology\, Marketing\, and Operations\, Informatics\, and Decisions (OID) at the University of Pennsylvania; Vice Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication; Director of the Communication Neuroscience Lab; and Director of the Climate Communication Division of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. She is an expert in the science of behavior change. Her research uses tools from psychology\, neuroscience\, and communication to examine what makes messages persuasive\, why and how ideas spread\, and what makes people effective communicators. \nFalk will be in conversation with Ethan Kross\, Ph.D. (FAN ’25)\, Professor\, Management & Organizations\, Ross School of Business\, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab\, University of Michigan. He is the author of the international bestseller Chatter and the new bestselling book Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/what-we-value-the-neuroscience-of-choice-change-emily-falk-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T200000
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SUMMARY:Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 9\, 2025\, 7:00 PM\, Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life\, a FAN webinar featuring Maggie Smith (FAN ’20\, ’23) in conversation with Glory Edim (FAN ’24). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/Smith25FANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of Dear Writer to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nNew York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith (FAN ’20\, ’23) believes creativity is our birthright as human beings. Yes\, all of us—no matter our age or profession. Creativity improves our mental health\, our adaptability\, and our communication skills. In Smith’s new book\, Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life\, she offers\, “anything that applies to writing also applies to life. Problem-solving is a creative act. Conversations are creative. Parenting is creative. Falling in love\, leaving your job\, changing your mind—all creative acts. Creativity isn’t just about making art. Making your life is the ultimate creative act.” \nDrawing lessons from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling\, craft-focused Substack newsletter\, For Dear Life\, Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention\, wonder\, vision\, play\, surprise\, vulnerability\, restlessness\, tenacity\, connection\, and hope. Each element is explored through short\, inspiring essays\, followed by generative writing prompts that readers can use to kickstart their own creativity. For example\, the section on tenacity tackles how to turn off one’s inner critic\, take rejection in stride\, and stay inspired through creative blocks. Dear Writer provides tools that artists and readers of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them across genres and into all areas of life. \nSmith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful\, Keep Moving\, Goldenrod\, Good Bones\, and other books. She has been widely published\, appearing in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The Nation\, the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, The Best American Poetry\, and more. \nSmith will be in conversation with Glory Edim (FAN ’24)\, is an award-winning literary tastemaker\, entrepreneur\, and advocate for diverse voices in literature. Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl\, an online platform and book club dedicated to celebrating the works of Black women authors and creating a supportive online community for readers\, and author of Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/dear-writer-pep-talks-practical-advice-for-the-creative-life/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250408T200000
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SUMMARY:Untethered: Creating Connected Families\, Schools\, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation
DESCRIPTION: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). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/BoltonFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of Untethered to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nOver 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. \nAs 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. \nBolton 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/untethered-creating-connected-families-schools-and-communities-to-raise-a-resilient-generation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250405T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250405T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
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SUMMARY:Wilmette Mental Health Fair
DESCRIPTION: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! \nThere 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. \nWhen: Saturday\, April 5th\, 2025 2:30pm – 4:30pm (expert panel from 3:00pm – 4:00pm)\nWhere: First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette\, 600 9th St\, Wilmette\nRegister: Registration encouraged but not required\, scan the QR code above or click here to register. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/wilmette-mental-health-fair/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette\, 600 9th St\, Wilmette\, IL\, 60091
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250317T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250318T213722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T213722Z
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SUMMARY:Me\, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change Olga Khazan
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/KhazanFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nIn 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? \nResearch 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. \nKhazan 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. \nKhazan 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/me-but-better-the-science-and-promise-of-personality-change-olga-khazan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250313T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250313T190000
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CREATED:20250225T230538Z
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SUMMARY:PANEL: Healthy Kids Social Media Habits for Families: Raising Kids in a Connected World
DESCRIPTION: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!\nDoors open at 5:30 \nRegister here: registration link
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/panel-healthy-kids-social-media-habits-for-families-raising-kids-in-a-connected-world/
LOCATION:Women’s Club of Wilmette\, 930 Greenleaf Ave\, Wilmette\, 60091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250311T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250226T201445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T201445Z
UID:10716-1741719600-1741723200@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:Shift: Managing Your Emotions -- So They Don't Manage You Ethan Kross\, Ph.D. (2 of 2)
DESCRIPTION: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 \nNo registration required. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Shift at the event while supplies last. \nWhether 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. \nBut 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. \nShift 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. \nKross 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. \nKross 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. \nThis 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.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/shift-managing-your-emotions-so-they-dont-manage-you-ethan-kross-ph-d-2-of-2/
LOCATION:North Shore Country Day School\, 310 Green Bay Rd\, Winnetka\, 60093\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250306T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250226T200956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T200956Z
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SUMMARY:Shift: Managing Your Emotions -- So They Don't Manage You Ethan Kross\, Ph.D. (1 of 2)
DESCRIPTION: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). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/KPFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Shift to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nWhether 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. \nBut 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. \nShift 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. \nKross 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. \nKross 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/shift-managing-your-emotions-so-they-dont-manage-you-ethan-kross-ph-d-1-of-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250226T195014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T195014Z
UID:10708-1741201200-1741204800@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/ChandlerFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \n“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. \nAs 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. \nChandler 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. \nChandler 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/99-perspiration-a-new-working-history-of-the-american-way-of-life/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250226T194050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T194050Z
UID:10705-1741028400-1741032000@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others Adam Galinsky\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/AGFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nSocial 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. \nWhether 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. \nGalinsky 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. \nGalinsky 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/inspire-the-universal-path-for-leading-yourself-and-others-adam-galinsky-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250224T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250218T200414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T200414Z
UID:10669-1740398400-1740402000@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will Robert Sapolsky\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/SapolskyFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nOne 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. \nBehave\, 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. \nDetermined 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. \nSapolsky 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/determined-a-science-of-life-without-free-will-robert-sapolsky-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20240903T215243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T171158Z
UID:10086-1740078000-1740085200@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:2025 Trivia Night!
DESCRIPTION: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 \n  \nSee pictures from last year’s event here: 2024 FSC Trivia Night Photo Album
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/2025-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Max & Benny’s\, 461 Waukegan Rd\, Northbrook\, IL\, 60062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Family Service Center":MAILTO:info@familyservicecenter.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250211T224144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T224144Z
UID:10650-1740078000-1740081600@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/MFO25FANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nCoping 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? \nO’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. \nO’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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/the-grieving-body-how-the-stress-of-loss-can-be-an-opportunity-for-healing/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250219T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250211T223413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T223413Z
UID:10647-1739991600-1739995200@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:John Lewis: A Life David Greenberg\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/DGFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of John Lewis: A Life to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nIn 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. \nBorn 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. \nGreenberg’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.” \nThoroughly 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. \nGreenberg 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/john-lewis-a-life-david-greenberg-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250129T201120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T201120Z
UID:10626-1739214000-1739217600@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/CarrFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Superbloom to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nFrom 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. \nA 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. \nCarr 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. \nCarr 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/superbloom-how-technologies-of-connection-tear-us-apart/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="FAN%3A Family Action Network":MAILTO:info@familyactionnetwork.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250129T195536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T195536Z
UID:10623-1738782000-1738785600@familyservicecenter.org
SUMMARY:Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/CGFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nWhy 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? \nJoin 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. \nCham 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. \nGodwin 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/out-of-your-mind-the-biggest-mysteries-of-the-human-brain/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250130T200000
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SUMMARY:The Way of Play: Using Little Moments of Big Connection to Raise Calm and Confident Kids
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/BWVFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of The Way of Play to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nMost 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. \nPlaying 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. \nFull 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. \nBryson 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. \nBryson 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/the-way-of-play-using-little-moments-of-big-connection-to-raise-calm-and-confident-kids/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T203000
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SUMMARY:Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause Naomi Watts
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/NWattsFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Dare I Say It to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nPROGRAM NOTE: This is a 90-minute event that will include 30 minutes of Watts answering attendee questions. \nAcclaimed 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. \nFeeling 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. \nBlending 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. \nWatts 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/dare-i-say-it-everything-i-wish-id-known-about-menopause-naomi-watts/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250123T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250122T204621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T204621Z
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SUMMARY:Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground Kurt Gray\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/GrayFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nIt’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. \nWe 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. \nIn 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. \nDrawing 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? \nGray 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/outraged-why-we-fight-about-morality-and-politics-and-how-to-find-common-ground-kurt-gray-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
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SUMMARY:You’re Not Alone - Discussion on Supporting Family Members’ Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:You’re Not Alone \nDiscussion on Supporting Family Members’ Mental Health with Authors Meg Kissinger and Tripp Friedler\, Moderated by FSC Co-Executive Director Renee Dominguez\, PhD \nTuesday\, January 21\, 7:00PM \nKenilworth Union Church Sanctuary\n211 Kenilworth Avenue\nKenilworth IL 60069 | 847-251-4272 \nStreet Parking \nSupporting 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. \nThis 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. \nMeg’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. \nRegistration Link:  https://kuc.org/blog/youre-not-alone/
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/youre-not-alone-discussion-on-supporting-family-members-mental-health/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Union Church\, 211 Kenilworth Avenue\, Kenilworth\, IL\, 60043
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20250109T230116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T230127Z
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SUMMARY:The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better\, Feel Better\, and Live Better
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/AWFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nAdolescents 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. \nFor 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. \nAnderson 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/the-disengaged-teen-helping-kids-learn-better-feel-better-and-live-better/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250114T190000
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SUMMARY:Microaggressions in Medicine Lauren Freeman\, Ph.D. and Heather Stewart\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/FSFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nIn 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. \nBioethicists 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. \nThe 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. \nFreeman 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/microaggressions-in-medicine-lauren-freeman-ph-d-and-heather-stewart-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241204T190000
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SUMMARY:The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual\, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions Michael Norton\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/NortonFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nOur 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. \nThink 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. \nNorton’s research focuses on behavioral economics and well-being\, with particular attention given to\nhappiness 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. \nNorton 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/the-ritual-effect-from-habit-to-ritual-harness-the-surprising-power-of-everyday-actions-michael-norton-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241203T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T060351
CREATED:20241121T213537Z
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SUMMARY:The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature Alan Lightman\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/LightmanFANWebinar \nBONUS 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. \nNature 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. \nPairing 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. \nLightman’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. \nLightman 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. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/the-miraculous-from-the-material-understanding-the-wonders-of-nature-alan-lightman-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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