Family Service Center (FSC)

3rd Annual FSC Pickleball Social
2024-09-20 17:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Glenbrook Paddle Club, 1835 Raymond Dr, Northbrook, IL, 60062, United States
Join us again, or for the first time, on the Pickleball Courts to Rally for Mental Health! The 3rd annual Pickleball Social at Glenbrook Paddle Club will bring out a philanthropic and competitive spirit, along with lots of laughter and a good work out! Come learn if you are new to Pickleball or play for bragging rights and a chance to win the night’s raffle prizes. In the Kitchen Lounge players and spectators can cool down and enjoy a chance to mingle, grab a snack and a beverage before or after their time on the court. Fun, fitness, and philanthropy made for a great night!
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[FAN] Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math Shalinee Sharma
2024-09-16 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, September 16, 2024, 7:00 PM, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, a FAN webinar featuring Shalinee Sharma in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ‘16).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SharmaFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Math Mind from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Sharma 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.
In her new book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, Shalinee Sharma, one of the world’s top experts on math learning, shows how complex problem solving and puzzle solving, abstract and logical thinking, developing fluency with numbers, and cultivating persistence in math are crucial skills for success that can be taught to everyone and how math, far from being a dry, dull exercise, shares common ground with art and creativity. She also debunks the myths that prevent us from learning and enjoying math, with chapters dedicated to the three roadblocks that discourage adults and kids from learning.
Sharma is the CEO and cofounder of Zearn, a nonprofit educational organization behind the top-rated math-learning platform used by one in four elementary-school students and by one million middle-school students nationwide. In addition to her role at Zearn, she serves on the Braven board of directors, is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow, and serves as cochair of the Brown University Advisory Council for the College. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Brown University. A child of refugees, Sharma is passionate about universal access to an excellent education.
Sharma will be in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16), co-founder of Character Lab, the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, founding faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, and author of the international bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[MLB GLENVIEW] Rocktember Fest 2024
2024-09-14 18:00 - 23:00 | MLB Glenview, 1948-D Lehigh Road, Glenview, IL, United States
Support FSC along with other local worthy causes while having fun with the men of Making Lives Better of Glenview.
$80 per ticket…but check out the Pre-sale at $60 per ticket through August 31st!
Tickets Purchased: https://mlbglenview.org/products/rocktemberfest-2024

[FAN] 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People David Yeager, Ph.D.
2024-09-11 19:00 | Lake Forest High School, 1285 N. McKinley Rd, Lake Forest, IL, 60045, United States
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, Lake Forest High School, Raymond Moore Auditorium, 1285 N. McKinley Rd., Lake Forest, IL 60045. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of 10 to 25 at the event, while supplies last.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: www.bit.ly/YeagerLFHS
“David Yeager has spent his career designing experiments that inspire students to aim higher, persist longer, and achieve more. His engaging, data-driven book is filled with practical insights to turn you into a better motivator.” – Adam Grant, Ph.D. (FAN ’14, ’16)
“10 to 25 offers actionable advice and real-life storytelling that’s beautifully written, comprehensive, and filled with warmth.” – Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16)
Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, puberty spurs the brain to crave socially rewarding experiences, such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain, such as humiliation or shame. As a result, young people are subtly reading between the lines of everything we say, trying to interpret the hidden implications of our words to find out if we are disrespecting or honoring them. Surprisingly, this sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. In his first book, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager, Ph.D. (FAN ’16) helps adults develop an ear for the difference between the right and wrong way to respect young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict.
For this event, Yeager will first offer brief remarks and will then be in conversation with Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D., superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois. A proponent of lifelong learning, Dr. Montgomery is also the Lead Superintendent for Cohort and Partner Connections with the School Superintendents Association (AASA), and co-chairs the AASA STEM Leadership Consortium.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will not be recorded or live streamed.

[FAN] 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People David Yeager, Ph.D.
2024-09-09 19:00 | Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Monday, September 9, 2024, 7:00 PM, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave., Door 6, Evanston, IL 60201. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of 10 to 25 at the event, while supplies last.
No registration required.
“David Yeager has spent his career designing experiments that inspire students to aim higher, persist longer, and achieve more. His engaging, data-driven book is filled with practical insights to turn you into a better motivator.” – Adam Grant, Ph.D. (FAN ’14, ’16)
“10 to 25 offers actionable advice and real-life storytelling that’s beautifully written, comprehensive, and filled with warmth.” – Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16)
Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, puberty spurs the brain to crave socially rewarding experiences, such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain, such as humiliation or shame. As a result, young people are subtly reading between the lines of everything we say, trying to interpret the hidden implications of our words to find out if we are disrespecting or honoring them. Surprisingly, this sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. In his first book, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager, Ph.D. (FAN ’16) helps adults develop an ear for the difference between the right and wrong way to respect young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict.
Yeager explains how to adopt what he terms the mentor mindset, which is a leadership style attuned to young people’s need for status and respect. Anyone can adopt the mentor mindset by following a few highly effective and easy-to-learn practices such as validating young people’s perspectives (rather than dismissing them), asking them questions (rather than telling them what to do), being transparent about your beliefs and goals (rather than assuming that they will accurately guess your thoughts), and holding them to high standards (rather than coddling them). Yeager’s pioneering research and interventions have shown these practices reduce a wide variety of behavior problems, including school dropout, unhealthy eating, stress, purposelessness, mental health problems, and more.
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.

Taste of Glenview 2024
2024-09-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Glenview Park Center, 2400 Chestnut Ave., Glenview, 60026, United States
Join Glenview Sunrise Rotary on Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Glenview Park Center!
Offering tastings from an array of local restaurants, you will sample cuisines from around the world for one reasonable price while supporting community activities right here at home. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.
In partnership with Glenview Firefighters Union #4186.
Find more information about Taste of Glenview and Glenview Sunrise Rotary at TasteofGlenview.org or purchase tickets directly at https://betterunite.com/tasteofglenview

[FAN] A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery Lawrence Ingrassia
2024-05-28 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:00 PM, A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery, a FAN webinar featuring Lawrence Ingrassia, in conversation with Joanne Lipman.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/IngrassiaFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of A Fatal Inheritance from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Mr. Ingrassia that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery, Lawrence Ingrassia weaves his moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, delivering an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller. Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. And while highly unusual, his family is not the only one to wonder whether their heartbreak is the result of unbelievable bad luck, or if there might be another explanation.
Through meticulous research and riveting storytelling, Ingrassia takes us from the 1960s—when Frederick Pei Li, MD and Joseph Fraumeni Jr., MD first met, not yet knowing that they would help make a groundbreaking discovery that would affect cancer patients for decades to come—to present day, as Ingrassia and countless others continue to unpack and build upon Li and Fraumeni’s initial discoveries, and to understand what this means for their families.
Ingrassia is an author and award-winning journalist, having worked as a senior editor at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times before retiring from newspapers in 2017. In his decades-long newspaper career, journalists directed by him won five Pulitzer Prizes – for national reporting, explanatory reporting, international reporting, and commentary – as well as Polk, Loeb and other awards.
Ingrassia will be in conversation with Joanne Lipman, a pioneering journalist and the bestselling author of Next! The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work and the No. 1 bestseller That’s What She Said: What Men and Women Need to Know About Working Together. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of USA Today, USA Today Network, Conde Nast Portfolio, and The Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Journal, leading those organizations to six Pulitzer Prizes. She is also an on-air CNBC contributor and Yale University journalism lecturer.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ph.D.
2024-05-23 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 7:00 PM, Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts, a FAN webinar featuring Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ph.D., in conversation with Carol Dweck, Ph.D. (FAN ’11, ‘14).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SGMFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Thinking with Your Hands to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
We all know people who talk with their hands—but do they know what they’re saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us and express thoughts we may not even know we’re thinking.
In Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ph.D., the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate. She shows us, for instance, how the height of our gestures can reveal unconscious bias, or how the shape of a student’s gestures can track their mastery of a new concept—even when they’re still giving wrong answers. She compels us to rethink everything from how we set child development milestones, to what’s admissible in a court of law, to whether Zoom is an adequate substitute for in-person conversation.
Prof. Goldin-Meadow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, received the William James award for lifetime achievement in basic research from the Association for Psychological Society, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Goldin-Meadow will be in conversation with Carol Dweck, Ph.D. (FAN ’11, ’14), the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of psychology. Prof. Dweck is the author of the widely-acclaimed bestseller Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, which has been translated into over 40 languages. Her pioneering research on mindsets has led to important innovations in schools and businesses worldwide, innovations that have increased creativity, productivity, inclusion, and equity.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters Charan Ranganath, Ph.D.
2024-05-21 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 7:00 PM, Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters, a FAN webinar featuring Charan Ranganath, Ph.D., in conversation with Gloria Mark, Ph.D. (FAN ’24)
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/RanganathFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Why We Remember from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Ranganath and Prof. Mark that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath, Ph.D. radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.
As Prof. Ranganath shows, memory is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks, like finding our keys, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What’s more, when we work with the brain’s ability to learn and reinterpret past events, we can heal trauma, shed our biases, learn faster, and grow in self-awareness.
Ranganath is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, he has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling, and studies of patients with memory disorders.
Prof. Ranganath will be in conversation with Gloria Mark, Ph.D. (FAN ’24), Chancellor’s Professor Emerita at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prof. Mark has been a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research since 2012. Her recent book is Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity, named by The Globe and Mail as the #1 Best Business and Management book of 2023, and chosen as the Season 20 selection of the Next Big Idea Book Club.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That's a Good Thing) Sal Khan
2024-05-20 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, May 20, 2024, 7:00 PM, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing), a FAN webinar featuring Sal Khan, in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ‘16).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/KhanFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Brave New Words to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing), Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, and offers a road map for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world.
A pioneer in the field of education technology, Khan examines the ins and outs of these cutting-edge tools and how they will revolutionize the way we learn and teach. For parents concerned about their children’s success, Khan illustrates how AI can personalize learning by adapting to each student’s individual pace and style, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and offering tailored support and feedback to complement traditional classroom instruction. Khan emphasizes that embracing AI in education is not about replacing human interaction but enhancing it with customized and accessible learning tools that encourage creative problem-solving skills and prepare students for an increasingly digital world.
But Brave New Words is not just about technology—it’s about what this technology means for our society, and the practical implications for administrators, guidance counselors, and hiring managers who can harness the power of AI in education and the workplace. Khan also delves into the ethical and social implications of AI and large language models, offering thoughtful insights into how we can use these tools to build a more accessible education system for students around the world.
Khan will be in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16), co-founder of Character Lab, Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, founding faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, and author of the international bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
2024-05-15 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, a FAN webinar featuring Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D., in conversation with Liz Gerber, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SuttonFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Friction Project from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Sutton and Prof. Gerber 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.
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. In The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, co-authors Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D. and Huggy Rao, Ph.D. draw from seven years of hands-on research to teach us how to become “friction fixers.”
The Friction Project unpacks how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. The authors provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their “help pyramid” shows how friction fixers do their work, from reframing friction troubles they can’t fix right now, so they feel less threatening, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams.
Prof. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and Stanford professor (emeritus) who studies, writes, teaches, and speaks about the interplay between people and organizations. He has written more than 200 academic and practical articles and is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books. He is a co-founder of the Stanford d. School, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and Center for Work, Technology and Organization.
Prof. Sutton will be in conversation with Liz Gerber, Ph.D. (FAN ’13, ’16), a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Algebra of Wealth: Achieving Economic Security Scott Galloway
2024-05-13 12:30 | Zoom
Monday, May 13, 2024, 12:30 PM, The Algebra of Wealth: Achieving Economic Security, a FAN webinar featuring Scott Galloway, in conversation with Adam Alter, Ph.D. (FAN ’17, ‘23).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/GallowayFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of The Algebra of Wealth to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Today’s workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink, as our life spans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed no longer applies. It’s time for a new playbook.
In The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security, Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur, lays bare the rules of financial success in today’s economy. In his characteristic unvarnished, no-BS style, he explains what you need to know to better your chances for economic security no matter what.
Galloway has founded nine companies, including Prophet, RedEnvelope, L2, and Section, where he also teaches. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, and Adrift: America in 100 Charts. He has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, University of California/Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Panera Bread, and Ledger. He has won multiple Webby and Best Podcast awards, and his books have been translated into 28 languages. Across his Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy/No Malice newsletter, and his YouTube channel, Galloway reaches millions.
Galloway will be in conversation with Adam Alter, Ph.D. (FAN ’17, ’23), Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Prof. Alter is the author of multiple bestsellers, including Anatomy of a Breakthrough, Irresistible, and Drunk Tank Pink.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World R. Jisung Park, PH.D.
2024-05-08 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 7:00 PM, Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World, a FAN webinar featuring R. Jisung Park, Ph.D., in conversation with Robert Frank, Ph.D. (FAN ’22)
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ParkFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Slow Burn from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Park that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World, R. Jisung Park, Ph.D., an environmental and labor economist at the University of Pennsylvania, encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now.
Drawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics, Prof. Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges, what happens to educational outcomes? Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations: imperceptibly elevated health risks spread across billions of people; pennies off the dollar of productivity; fewer opportunities for upward mobility.
By investigating how the physical phenomenon of climate change interacts with social and economic institutions, Park illustrates how climate change already affects everyone, and may act as an amplifier of inequality. Wealthier households and corporations may adapt quickly, but, without targeted interventions, less advantaged communities may not. Viewing climate change as a slow and unequal burn comes with an important silver lining. It puts dollars and cents behind the case for aggressive emissions cuts and helps identify concrete steps that can be taken to better manage its adverse effects.
Prof. Park received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he was an NSF Fellow, and master’s degrees in Environmental Change and Management (MSc) and Development Economics (MSc) from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He will be in conversation with Robert Frank, Ph.D. (FAN ’22), the H. J. Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Doug Bolton: Unraveling Parenting Myths
2024-05-06 19:00 | Attea Middle School, 2500 Chestnut Avenue,, Glenview, 60026, United States
In Celebration of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day The Debra Gelfand Children’s Foundation Presents:
Doug Bolton, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Director of School Consultation for Formative Psychological Services:
Unraveling Parenting Myths
Sign Up for Childcare and Interpretation at Sign Up for Childcare and Interpretation at d34.news/UnravelingMyths

[FAN] The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations David Montero
2024-05-06 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, May 6, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations, a FAN webinar featuring David Montero, in conversation with Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MonteroFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Mr. Montero and Prof. Dyson that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America’s history of enslavement. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn’t complicit in the horrors of slavery. The truth, however, is that large Northern banks—including well-known institutions like Citibank, Bank of New York, and Bank of America—were critical to the financing of slavery; that they saw their fortunes rise dramatically from their involvement in the business of enslavement; and that white business leaders and their surrounding communities created enormous wealth from the enslavement and abuse of Black bodies.
Most white Southern enslavers were not rich—many were barely making ends meet—with Northern businesses benefitting the most from bondage-based profits. And some of the very Northerners who would be considered pro-Union during the Civil War were in fact anti-abolition, seeing the institution of slavery as being in their best financial interests, and only supporting the Union once they realized doing so would be good for business. It is a myth that the wealth generated from slavery vanished after the war. Rather, it helped finance the industrialization of the country, and became part of the bedrock of the growth of modern corporations, helping to transform America into a global economic behemoth.
In this remarkable book, Montero elegantly and meticulously details rampant Northern investment in slavery. He showcases exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed, calling for corporate reparations as he details contemporary movements to hold companies accountable for past atrocities.
Montero will be in conversation with Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and author of 25 books, including 7 New York Times bestsellers, among them Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

GBN LAX Mental Health
2024-05-04 11:00 | Glenbrook North High School Athletic Field, 2300 Shermer Rd, Northbrook, IL, 60062
Saturday, May 4th 2024 @ GLENBROOK NORTH H.S. ATHLETIC FIELD
BOYS VARSITY LACROSSE GAME @ 11AM
Glenbrook North H.S. vs. Stevenson H.S.
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS CEREMONY
& POMS PERFORMANCE
Participating Organizations:
CATCH: Community Action Together for Children’s Health
Cutting Edge Therapy
Family Service Center
GBN Mental Health Advisory Board
GBN Operation Snowball
Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook
Morgan’s Message
Cheer on the Spartans in Competition
Learn About Mental Health Resources in our Community

[FAN] The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?
2024-04-29 19:00 | Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Monday, April 29, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201. Interviewer: Natalie Y. Moore. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pushed for the successful passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the signature legislation of the Civil Rights Movement. With that victory, Dr. King turned his attention north, where he helped lead the Chicago Freedom Movement, a coalition of organizations that addressed the range of ills connected to residential segregation and economic inequality in Chicago. Though shortlived, the Chicago Freedom Movement is credited with inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act. This event takes stock of Dr. King’s legacy in Chicago and the nation, offering views on how far we’ve come, what work remains, and how best to carry out that work.
For this lively and wide-ranging discussion, FAN is collaborating with the brand-new Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies, led by founding co-directors Tomás R. Jiménez, Ph.D. and Brian Lowery, Ph.D. (FAN ’23). Together, we are honored to welcome two acclaimed leaders as panelists: award-winning author Lerone A. Martin, Ph.D., Professor in Religious Studies and African & African American Studies at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and Vaughn Bryant, executive director of Chicago-based Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), an organization that provides services to heal communities at the highest risk for gun violence. MPI’s core specialties include the Metropolitan Peace Academy, behavioral health, workforce readiness, legal aid, and street outreach supervision.
Moderating the panel will be Natalie Y. Moore, an award-winning journalist covering segregation and inequality for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Her reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence and her work has been broadcast on the BBC and Marketplace, and on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She is the author of The Billboard and The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. 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.

[FAN] We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Ph.D.
2024-04-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practic, 969 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL, 60637
Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:30 PM, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, 969 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637. Interviewer: Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D., LICSW. NOTE: REGISTRATION REQUIRED. CEUs available. Information on registration website. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY to the first 200 attendees, one per household.
REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/GlaudeFANCrown
We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ph.D., one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Dr. Glaude shows how ordinary people have the capacity to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires, rather than outsourcing their needs to leaders who purportedly represent them.
The book begins with Dr. Glaude’s unease with the Obama years. He felt then, and does even more urgently now, that the excitement around the Obama presidency had become a disciplining tool to narrow legitimate forms of Black political dissent. This narrowing continues to undermine the well-being of Black communities. In response, Dr. Glaude guides us away from enthusiastic reliance on elected leaders and full surrender to a belief in unchanging political structures. He weaves anecdotes about his own evolving views on Black politics together with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Sheldon Wolin, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
Dr. Glaude (FAN ’20) is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and the author of several books, including Democracy in Black and the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, winner of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Book Prize.
Dr. Glaude will be in conversation with Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D., LICSW, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master’s Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She has worked in higher education for over 25 years as an administrator and faculty member.

[FAN] Somehow: Thoughts on Love Anne Lamott
2024-04-23 19:00 | Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center, 1100 Laramie Ave., Wilmette, IL, 60091, United States
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 7:00 PM, Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Loyola Academy, McGrath Family Performing Arts Center, 1100 Laramie Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091. Interviewer: Heidi Stevens. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Somehow: Thoughts on Love at the event, while supplies last. No registration required.
In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, beloved bestselling author Anne Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. “Love just won’t be pinned down,” she says. “It is in our very atmosphere” and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love.
In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises.
Lamott is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including Dusk, Night, Dawn; Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels. She is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame.
Lamott 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.

2024 Annual Kaleidoscope Benefit
2024-04-20 19:00 - 22:30 | Fields MINI of Glencoe, 2100 Frontage Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022
FSC’s 3rd Annual Night of Vegas-Styled Fun! Join us at Fields MINI of Glencoe (2100 Frontage Rd, Glencoe) for an evening to remember on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Early Bird Ticket Pricing is available through March 29th!
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Started in 2022, FSC Annual Kaleidoscope Benefits have become a must-attend for those who want to support mental health and have a great time doing so. Great fun, food, conversation, and chances to go home with amazing goodies from lots of your favorite places (thanks to all those generous businesses!). It literally has magic! ✨ See pictures from 2023. See pictures from 2022.
Community participation and the funds raised by this event helps FSC’s amazing clinical staff do so much to address such a great need around mental health. #AllInOnHope
Special thanks to FSC’s growing list of sponsors for their support and helping to make this an incredible night! Learn more about how to become a sponsor.

[FAN] Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child Kelley Coleman
2024-04-18 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7:00 PM, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child, a FAN webinar featuring Kelley Coleman, in conversation with Lindsay Crain.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ColemanFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTERHOURS event hosted by Ms. Coleman that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a baby is born with a birth defect every 4½ minutes. One of those children was Kelley Coleman’s son, born with a rare (and still undiagnosed) genetic syndrome. Feeling equal parts terrified and alone, she soon learned that no one tells parents how to do any of this. In her new book, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential System, Services, and Supports, Coleman, a feature film development executive turned author and passionate advocate for parent caregivers and individuals with disabilities, turns her hard-earned expertise into the much needed “You Are Here” on the map of this unexpected journey.
Presented with empathy and humor, the book gives parents the tools to navigate the complex medical, educational, and social service systems necessary for disabled children to thrive. This is “been there, tried that” insider information about diagnosis, working with your medical team, insurance, school, financial and future planning, disability rights, and advocacy.
Coleman will be in conversation with Lindsay Crain, head of Content and Community at Undivided, an organization with a mission to support and empower parents raising children with disabilities. As the parent of a teenager with cerebral palsy, Crain is driven to build and reinforce systems and practices that create a more inclusive culture. She is currently serving as a Community Representative on the CA State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens Ellen Galinsky
2024-04-16 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens, a FAN webinar featuring Ellen Galinsky, in conversation with Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/GalinskyFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Breakthrough Years from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Ms. Galinsky that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Many assumptions about adolescents are just plain wrong, argues Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute and former chief science officer at the Bezos Family Foundation and one of the foremost child development experts in the world. In The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens, she challenges and debunks the many myths, misunderstandings, and stereotypes about adolescents while weaving research-tested ways to influence them for success during these impressionable and transformative years.
Galinsky, the author of the best-selling Mind in the Making, set out to uncover the best strategies for raising thriving teens by interviewing and studying a nationally representative group of 1,666 adolescents (ages 9 to 19) and their parents, asking “What would you like to tell the adults of America about people your age?” Compelling, informative, and eye-opening, The Breakthrough Years is the culmination of this seven-year study into the adolescent brain and behavior.
Galinsky will be in conversation with Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D., superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois. A proponent of lifelong learning, Dr. Montgomery is also the Lead Superintendent for Cohort and Partner Connections with the School Superintendents Association (AASA), co-chairs the AASA STEM Leadership Consortium.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides Geoffrey L. Cohen, Ph.D.
2024-04-15 19:00 | Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Little Theater, 1 Stevenson Drive, Lincolnshire, IL, 60069
Monday, April 15, 2024, 7:00 PM, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Little Theater, 1 Stevenson Dr., Lincolnshire, IL 60069. Interviewer: LeViis Haney, Ed.D. NOTE: No registration required. Access the event via the Circle Drive.
We live in enormously divisive times. Divisions based on class, politics, race, religion, gender, and nationality are erupting around the globe. The consequences of not having a sense of belonging range from political strife to illness to underperformance at work and in the classroom. Americans have become disconnected from their communities, and about one in five Americans suffers from chronic loneliness, especially young adults. Why is our sense of belonging so undermined? What if there were a set of science-backed techniques for navigating modern social life that could help us overcome our differences, create empathy, and forge lasting connections across divides?
Geoffrey L. Cohen, Ph.D. (FAN ’22), Professor of Psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University, answers these questions and more in his extraordinary 2022 book Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides. As Prof. Cohen explains, often inadvertently, we behave in ways that threaten others’ sense of belonging. Yet small acts that establish connection, brief activities such as reflecting on our core values, and a wealth of practices that he refers to under the general rubric of “situation-crafting” have been shown to lessen polarization in our politics, improve motivation and performance in school and work, combat racism in our communities, enhance health and well-being, and unleash the potential in ourselves and our relationships. The book’s research is essential for managers, educators, parents, administrators, caregivers, and everyone who wants those around them to thrive.
Prof. Cohen will be in conversation with LeViis Haney, Ed.D., the Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. Dr. Haney also teaches principal preparation courses as an adjunct professor at Northeastern Illinois University and Loyola University Chicago, and is a facilitator for the Kaleidoscope Group, a DEI firm based in Chicago.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib
2024-04-11 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, a FAN webinar featuring Hanif Abdurraqib, in conversation with Ross Gay, Ph.D. (FAN ’23).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/HAFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of There’s Always This Year to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension is award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib’s poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent, and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”
There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus – whether it’s basketball, music, or performance — Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.
Abdurraqib (FAN ’21) will be in conversation with Ross Gay, Ph.D. (FAN ’23), the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of (More) Delights, The Book of Delights, and Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Menopause Brain Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D.
2024-04-08 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Menopause Brain, a FAN webinar featuring Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., in conversation with Lisa Genova, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MosconiFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Menopause Brain from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Dr. Mosconi that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia to brain fog. In her new book, The Menopause Brain, leading neuroscientist and women’s brain health specialist Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D. unravels these mysteries by revealing how menopause doesn’t just impact the ovaries—it’s a hormonal show in which the brain takes center stage.
The decline of the hormone estrogen during menopause influences everything from body temperature to mood to memory, potentially paving the way for cognitive decline later in life. To conquer these challenges successfully, Dr. Mosconi brings us the latest approaches—explaining the role of cutting-edge hormone replacement therapies like “designer estrogens,” hormonal contraception, and key lifestyle changes encompassing diet, exercise, self-care, and self-talk. Best of all, Dr. Mosconi dispels the myth that menopause signifies an end, demonstrating that it is a transition. Contrary to popular belief, if we know how to take care of ourselves during menopause, we can emerge with a renewed, enhanced brain—ushering in a meaningful and vibrant new chapter of life.
Dr. Mosconi is an associate professor of neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and the director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The program includes the Women’s Brain Initiative, the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinical Trials Unit. She will be in conversation with Lisa Genova, Ph.D. Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University. She is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including Still Alice and Every Note Played. Genova’s first work of nonfiction, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her TED talks on Alzheimer’s and memory have over 11 million views.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] To Tell the Truth: Race, Identity, and Healing Rachel Jamison Webster
2024-04-04 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:00 PM, To Tell the Truth: Race, Identity, and Healing, a FAN webinar featuring Rachel Jamison Webster, in conversation with Melissa Blount, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/WebsterFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Benjamin Banneker and Us from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Webster and Blount that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Since the sequencing of the genome in 2003, we have known that humans share 99.9 percent of our DNA with all other humans, regardless of skin tone or nationality, indicating that race is not a biological reality as much as a legal and cultural construction. Today, thanks to sites like Ancestry.com and 23 and Me, these facts are getting personal, as Americans discover ancestries that complicate long-held family identities. What should we do when we discover a family secret? And how can our ancestral stories help to illuminate our present moment?
This conversation begins with the premise that telling the truth is essential for healing. Join Rachel Jamison Webster, Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University, as she shares the story of her book, Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family. In 2016, Webster learned about several generations of African American ancestry that had been hidden in her family. This line traced back to the sister of Benjamin Banneker—the first Black man of science. Banneker was a free man living in the Revolutionary era. He helped survey Washington D.C., he compiled and published bestselling almanacs, and he corresponded with Jefferson about the heinous injustice of slavery.
Webster’s journey led her to celebrate Banneker’s brilliance, as well as that of his parents, grandparents, and sisters, and to grapple with the ways that racism had clouded the story of her family and country. She found herself in deep relationship and collaboration with her African American cousins—fellow Banneker descendants who came together to collaborate on the book. Together they celebrated their shared ancestors, and discussed race, history, and identity with unflinching honesty.
Webster will be in conversation with Melissa Blount, Ph.D., an artist, writer, and licensed clinical psychologist practicing her craft in Evanston, IL. Her textile pieces explore notions of Black womanhood, trauma, and white supremacy in America.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Charles Duhigg
2024-04-02 19:00 | New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd.,, Northfield, 60093, United States
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7:00 PM, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, IL 60093. Interviewer: Nicholas Epley, Ph.D. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Supercommunicators at the event, while supplies last. No registration required.
Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, launches yet another New York Times bestseller: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.
Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect.
Supercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences, our values, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves, and others—shape every discussion, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work.
Duhigg is a staff writer at The New Yorker and was previously a reporter at the New York Times where he won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2013. He will be in conversation with Nicholas Epley, Ph.D, the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavior Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other thinking people—to understand why smart people so routinely misunderstand each other. He is the author of Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls Kara Alaimo, Ph.D.
2024-03-20 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 7:00 PM, Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls, a FAN webinar featuring Kara Alaimo, Ph.D., in conversation with Laura Apperson.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/AlaimoFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Over the Influence from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Alaimo and Apperson that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls – And How We Can Take It Back, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo, Ph.D. reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women, girls, and nonbinary people —from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental wellbeing. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought – whether you’re constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you’re likely to get fewer followers if you’re a woman. She demonstrates how fake news is crafted to prey on women’s vulnerabilities. She reveals why so much of the content we find in our feeds is specifically designed to hold us back. And she explains how social media has made the offline world an uglier place for women.
Alaimo offers up brilliant advice for how to get over the influence—how to handle our daughters’ use of social media, use dating apps to find who we’re looking for, use social networks to bolster our careers, and protect ourselves from sextortionists, catfishers, and trolls. She also explains what we need to demand from lawmakers and tech companies to solve these problems.
Alaimo will be in conversation with Laura Apperson, an editor who specializes in innovative nonfiction who is spearheading the new nonfiction program at Alcove Press. Previously, Apperson was an editor at St. Martin’s Press and Rockridge Press.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story Leslie Jamison, Ph.D.
2024-03-18 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, March 18, 2024, 7:00 PM, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, a FAN webinar featuring Leslie Jamison, Ph.D., in conversation with Ashley C. Ford.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/JamisonFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Splinters from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Jamison and Ford that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Leslie Jamison, Ph.D. has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story enters a new realm.
In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.
How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity.
Jamison will be in conversation with Ashley C. Ford, the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter. Ford is the former co-host of the HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio, and the current host of Ben & Jerry’s Into The Mix.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House Jared Cohen
2024-03-11 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, March 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, a FAN webinar featuring Jared Cohen, in conversation with Elise Jordan.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/JCohenFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Life After Power from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cohen that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character of the age.” But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might “[wander] among the people like ghosts.” They were both right. In Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, New York Times bestselling author Jared Cohen tells the stories of seven former presidents, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life.
Thomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment he included on his tombstone, unlike his presidency. John Quincy Adams served in Congress and became a leading abolitionist, passing the torch to Abraham Lincoln. Grover Cleveland was the only president in American history to serve a nonconsecutive term. William Howard Taft became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Herbert Hoover shaped the modern conservative movement, led relief efforts after World War II, reorganized the executive branch, and reconciled John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Jimmy Carter has had the longest postpresidency in American history, advancing humanitarian causes, human rights, and peace. George W. Bush made a clean break from politics, bringing back George Washington’s precedent, and reminding the public that the institution of the presidency is bigger than any person.
Cohen will be in conversation with Elise Jordan, a communication strategist, writer, and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her forthcoming history of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the women who worked for him during World War II will be published by Knopf in 2025.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
