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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250220T200000
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T190000
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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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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
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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:20260423T141043
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250116T190000
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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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CREATED:20241121T214443Z
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241119T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm DeMar DeRozan
DESCRIPTION:NEW DATE! Tuesday\, November 19\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm\, a FAN webinar featuring DeMar DeRozan in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib (FAN ’21\, ‘24). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/DeRozanFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Above the Noise to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“As men\, and especially Black men\, we don’t talk about our mental health enough. We struggle to admit when things aren’t okay\, even when it’s obvious to everybody around us. I’ve seen how toxic that can become. I’ve experienced it myself\, keeping everything under wraps until your head and heart are full of fire and rage.” – DeMar DeRozan \nDeMar DeRozan\, six-time NBA All-Star\, has been called a “basketball savant” (ESPN) and “the best closer in the NBA” (GQ)—but when he went public with his depression\, it sparked a conversation that reached far beyond the court. By breaking the stigma of speaking out\, he added a new\, seldom-heard voice to the mental health dialogue: a successful Black male athlete\, openly naming his pain and advocating for others to do the same. \nNow it’s time to tell the full story. Born and raised in Compton\, DeRozan was no stranger to hardship—living in poverty\, losing friends to gang violence. In worn-out school gyms and community centers\, fueled by hunger and a desire to prove himself\, he started to rise\, but doubts followed. In Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm\, DeRozan opens up about his proudest triumphs and the times he felt so weighed down he couldn’t get out of bed. He reflects on what it took to make a name for himself in a new country after getting drafted by the Toronto Raptors\, the pressure of playing with veteran athletes as a twenty-year-old rookie\, and the pain of losing role models. \nFrom a scared\, angry kid to a confident father of five\, DeRozan traces his journey to basketball stardom and the forces that honed him into the player—and the slowly healing person—he is today. It will encourage anyone who has ever felt alone in their struggles and inspire people to rise above the noise and speak their truth. \nDeRozan will be in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib (FAN ’21\, ’24)\, New York Times bestselling poet\, essayist\, cultural critic\, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow. FAN hosted Abdurraqib in 2021 in support of his award-winning book A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance\, and also for his most recent book\, 2024’s There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. \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/fan-above-the-noise-my-story-of-chasing-calm-demar-derozan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child's Mental Health Christine M. Crawford\, MD\, MPH
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 18\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health\, a FAN webinar featuring Christine M. Crawford\, MD\, MPH in conversation with Tramaine Presley\, Psy.D.\, LCPC\, LMHC. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/CrawfordFANWebinar \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Drs. Crawford and Presley that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nA growing number of children and teens in the U.S. are struggling with mental health conditions\, but parents\, teachers\, and other caregivers are often at a loss when concerns arise for their own child. Are your preschooler’s constant tantrums typical for their age\, or an indication of a developmental difficulty? Is puberty or depression to blame for your pre-teen’s challenging behavior? Is my child in the wrong school\, or being influenced by the wrong friends? Am I a bad parent or teacher\, or am I overreacting? What exactly should I do? \nIn You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health\, child psychiatrist and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) associate medical director Christine M. Crawford\, MD\, MPH provides a comprehensive\, compassionate\, and practical resource for anyone concerned about a child’s mental health. Drawing on her own clinical experience and guidance from leading experts\, Dr. Crawford provides a lens through which to understand the many complex factors affecting children’s mental health. Analyzing young people from preschool to high school\, she shares insights into how mental health conditions may manifest at different ages\, what kind of interventions may be necessary\, and what to do to help kids thrive. Throughout\, the book channels the collective wisdom of the NAMI community. Parents\, caregivers\, and young people themselves share personal stories about their paths to recovery\, ensuring readers know that they are not alone. \nDr. Crawford will be in conversation with Tramaine Presley\, Psy.D.\, LCPC\, LMHC\, the director of Child\, Adolescent\, and Family Services at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. Presley has worked with children\, adults\, and families across a variety of clinical settings: private practice\, community mental health\, residential\, schools\, college campus\, and hospitals. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/fan-you-are-not-alone-for-parents-and-caregivers-the-nami-guide-to-navigating-your-childs-mental-health-christine-m-crawford-md-mph/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241116T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241116T160000
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SUMMARY:Thrive Together: Community Mental Health Fair
DESCRIPTION:Connect with local organizations and advocates to discover mental health services in our area. Don’t miss this chance to learn about\, engage with\, and support mental health in our community. Drop in. \nIn partnership with the Family Service Center\, Glenview School Districts 225 & 34\, Debra Gelfand Children’s Foundation\, and the Glenview Park District.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/thrive-together-community-mental-health-fair/
LOCATION:Glenview Park Center\, 2400 Chestnut Ave.\, Glenview\, 60026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T141043
CREATED:20241029T163321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T164406Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Author Meg Kissinger and FSC's Renee Dominguez\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:A discussion between author Meg Kissinger and Renee Dominguez\, PhD\, Co-Executive Director of the Family Service Center\, about the book While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. Book sale and signing following the program. Books provided by The Book Stall\, Winnetka. \nTo register for this event\, call 847.729.7500 or visit glenviewpl.org/register.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/a-conversation-with-author-meg-kissinger-and-fscs-renee-dominguez-phd/
LOCATION:Glenview Park Center\, 2400 Chestnut Ave.\, Glenview\, 60026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241112T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T141043
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Triumph of the Yuppies: America\, the Eighties\, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation Tom McGrath
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 12\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Triumph of the Yuppies: America\, the Eighties\, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation\, a FAN webinar featuring Tom McGrath in conversation with Rachel Slade. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/McGrathFANWebinar \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Triumph of the Yuppies from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by McGrath and Slade that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nBrimming with lively and nostalgic details\, award-winning journalist and author Tom McGrath’s new book Triumph of the Yuppies: America\, the Eighties\, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation charts Boomers’ transformation from hippy idealists in the late 1960s to careerists in the early 1980s\, and details how marketers\, the media\, and politicians pivoted to appeal to this influential new group. Yuppie values had an undeniable impact on the worlds of fashion\, food\, and fitness\, as well as affecting the broader culture— from gentrification and an obsession with career success to an indulgent materialism. Most significantly\, the me-first mindset typical of Yuppieness helped create the largest income inequality in a century. \nBy the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s\, Yuppies—the elite\, uber-educated faction of the Baby Boom generation—had become a cultural punchline\, but amidst their preoccupation with money\, work\, and the latest status symbols\, came a serious redefinition of American culture that continues to have profound ramifications decades later. \nMcGrath was the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine\, as well as chief content officer of Metro Corp.\, the parent company of Philadelphia and Boston between 2010 and 2020. Under his leadership\, the magazines won more than fifty awards for editorial excellence. He is also the author of the newsletter Common Ground\, which explores issues related to politics\, culture\, and the economy. \nMcGrath will be in conversation with Rachel Slade\, the former executive editor of Boston magazine. She is the author of two books: the award-winning Into the Raging Sea\, about the sinking of the container ship El Faro; and 2024’s Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the USA (and How It Got That Way). Slade’s editing and writing have won national awards in civic journalism\, reporting\, reader service\, and criticism. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the fall of 2024. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/fan-triumph-of-the-yuppies-america-the-eighties-and-the-creation-of-an-unequal-nation-tom-mcgrath/
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:20241111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241111T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T141043
CREATED:20241028T192810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241028T192810Z
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SUMMARY:[FAN] By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Rebecca Nagle
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 11\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land\, a FAN webinar featuring Rebecca Nagle in conversation with Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy\, Ph.D. (Lumbee). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/NagleFANWebinar \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of By the Fire We Carry from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Nagle and Brayboy that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nIn July 2020\, nearly 200 years after the lands of Eastern Oklahoma were promised to Native Americans\, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma reaffirmed the reservation of the Muscogee Nation\, resulting in the largest restoration of tribal land in our nation’s history. This history-changing case started in a surprising place: a small-town murder and the decades-long death penalty appeal of the convicted man. In By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land\, Rebecca Nagle\, an award-winning reporter and citizen of Cherokee Nation\, uses the case as a springboard for the larger story of the long fight for tribal sovereignty in Eastern Oklahoma. Her in-depth reportage becomes personal as Nagle uncovers the complicated role her own forebears played in the removal of her tribe from their ancestral lands. She delves into the whitewashed story of “The Trail of Tears” that forcibly removed 80\,000 Indigenous peoples living east of the Mississippi and sent them into exile. It is a story of greed\, corruption\, and lawlessness\, as well as historic acts of Indigenous resistance. \nNagle’s original podcast about the case\, This Land\, topped the podcast charts\, reaching number two on iTunes with millions of downloads\, and won a Webby Award for best Documentary Series. Nagle was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize and nominated for a Peabody for her reporting and writing. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, USA Today\, Teen Vogue\, and the Huffington Post. \nNagle will be in conversation with Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy\, Ph.D. (Lumbee)\, dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy. A member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association\, Brayboy’s research focuses on intersecting knowledge systems that illuminate the ways that institutional structures simultaneously hinder and enable the success of underserved students\, staff\, and faculty. His research also explores the ways that culture and cultural practices mediate and support Indigenous student learning\, community self-determination\, and tribal nation building. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/fan-by-the-fire-we-carry-the-generations-long-fight-for-justice-on-native-land-rebecca-nagle/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 1\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me\, a FAN webinar featuring Glory Edim in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/EdimFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Gather Me to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me\, man. The pieces I am\, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni Morrison\, Beloved \nFor Glory Edim\, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim\, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents\, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty\, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back. \nEdim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child\, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape\, a safe space\, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community\, and as she grew older\, she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could\, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane\, Edim found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni\, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou\, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison\, while attending Morrison’s alma mater\, Howard University; Audre Lorde\, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak\, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers\, to trust her feelings when her father remarried\, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories. \nEdim’s new book\, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me\, is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery. \nEdim will be in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore\, an award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/fan-gather-me-a-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me-glory-edim/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241030T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It) Lindsey Cormack\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 30\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It)\, a FAN webinar featuring Lindsey Cormack\, Ph.D. in conversation with Heidi Stevens.  \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/CormackFANWebinar \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of How to Raise a Citizen from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cormack and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page. \nThe numbers don’t lie. American civic knowledge is alarmingly low\, and many people dread talking about politics—often choosing to avoid the subject altogether. Studies continue to reveal how little Americans know about their government. Young voters are the least likely to be registered to vote\, and the least likely to turn out. Civics instruction receives the lowest number of K-12 classroom hours out of any subject\, and it shows – AP US Government & Politics has one of the lowest average scores each year out of all AP classes offered in high schools. But Lindsey Cormack\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology\, argues that all is not lost for the next generation of Americans. \nIn her new book\, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It)\, Cormack shows how engaging with children about our political system at a young age can help to better prepare them to engage with and understand politics and be catalysts for change. She argues that we all bear a little responsibility for our children’s lack of understanding about these subjects; our political system is a complicated one to understand\, our society has an aversion to talking about politics\, and our schools are stretched. \nCormack will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens\, Director of External Affairs for the University of\nChicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health\, and creative director for Parent Nation\, an\ninitiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW\, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years\,\nwhere she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated\ncolumn. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/fan-how-to-raise-a-citizen-and-why-its-up-to-you-to-do-it-lindsey-cormack-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World Allison Pugh\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 23\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World\, Latin School of Chicago\, Wrigley Theatre\, 59 W. North Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL 60610. \nNo registration required. Book sale and signing at the event. \n“Digital systems are rapidly replacing human beings because\, we are told\, they are more efficient and less biased. The Last Human Job offers a refreshingly novel criticism of this logic\, spotlighting the vital connective tissue created by human interaction that machines cannot possibly replicate.” – Dorothy Roberts\, Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology\, University of Pennsylvania \nWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories\, the future of work has never been more uncertain\, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World explores the human connections that underlie our work\, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving. \nDrawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from physicians\, teachers\, and coaches to chaplains\, therapists\, caregivers\, and hairdressers—Allison Pugh\, Ph.D. develops the concept of “connective labor\,” a kind of work that relies on empathy\, the spontaneity of human contact\, and a mutual recognition of each other’s humanity. The threats to connective labor are not only those posed by advances in AI or apps; Pugh demonstrates how profit-driven campaigns imposing industrial logic shrink the time for workers to connect\, enforce new priorities of data and metrics\, and introduce standardized practices that hinder our ability to truly see each other. She concludes with profiles of organizations where connective labor thrives\, offering practical steps for building a social architecture that works. \nVividly illustrating how connective labor enriches the lives of individuals and binds our communities together\, The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize\, value\, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world. \nPugh\, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University\, will be in conversation with Nick Hatzis\, MD\, a board-certified general and child and adolescent psychiatrist and medical director of Meridian Psychiatric Partners’ Child & Adolescent Division. \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/fan-the-last-human-job-the-work-of-connecting-in-a-disconnected-world-allison-pugh-ph-d/
LOCATION:Latin School of Chicago\, 59 W. North Blvd\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241021T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Polostan: An Evening with Neal Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 21\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Polostan: An Evening with Neal Stephenson\, The Book Stall\, 811 Elm St.\, Winnetka\, IL 60093. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Polostan at the event. SPACE IS LIMITED — REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://bit.ly/StephensonFANEvent \nThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of thirteen previous critically acclaimed works of fiction\, including Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon\, Neal Stephenson delivers the first part of an epic new historical trilogy that illuminates the origins of the Atomic Age with Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light. Centered around an extraordinarily intrepid\, resourceful\, and lively protagonist with roots in both America and Russia\, the novel spans two continents and many of the seminal events of the early twentieth century as Stephenson weaves a spellbinding tale of social and economic upheaval\, revolution\, espionage\, invention\, sport\, and romance. \nAs The Atlantic has recently observed\, “Perhaps no writer has been more clairvoyant about our current technological age than Neal Stephenson. His novels coined the term metaverse\, laid the conceptual groundwork for cryptocurrency\, and imagined a geoengineered planet. And nearly three decades before the release of ChatGPT\, he presaged the current AI revolution.” \nStephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock\, Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell\, Seveneves\, Reamde\, Anathem\, The System of the World\, The Confusion\, Quicksilver\, Cryptonomicon\, The Diamond Age\, Snow Crash\, and Zodiac\, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He is also the coauthor\, with Nicole Galland\, of The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. His works of speculative fiction have been variously categorized as science fiction\, historical fiction\, maximalism\, cyberpunk\, and postcyberpunk. In his fiction\, he explores fields such as mathematics\, cryptography\, philosophy\, currency\, and the history of science. \nBorn in Fort Meade\, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum)\, Stephenson comes from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs “propeller heads.” He holds a degree in geography and physics from Boston University\, where he spent a great deal of time on the university mainframe. \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/fan-polostan-an-evening-with-neal-stephenson/
LOCATION:The Book Stall\, 811 Elm St.\, Winnetka\, IL\, 60093
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T141043
CREATED:20240925T165332Z
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ... An Evening with Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 18\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now: An Evening with Jason Reynolds\, Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave.\, Door 6\, Evanston\, IL 60201. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Twenty-Four Seconds from Now at the event\, while supplies last. No registration required. \n“Reynolds astounds in a sweetly hilarious story of two Black teens preparing to take a huge first step in their relationship. In frank stream-of-consciousness prose\, Reynolds rewinds the teens’ heartfelt romance to showcase its development in reverse: 24 hours before\, Neon was avoiding his homework by scrolling through videos he’d recorded of his classmates. And 24 days earlier\, Neon was strolling the neighborhood with Gammy and the family dog\, Denzel Jeremy Washington. As events roll backward\, Neon has conversations with numerous richly wrought supporting characters\, including his effervescent musician friend Dodie and his open and loving sister Nat\, all of whom regale Neon with their thoughts on sex and love (with varying degrees of embarrassment and enlightenment for Neon). Sex-positive messaging encourages vulnerability in personal exploration as well as open conversations about bodily autonomy and consent. Authentically tapping into the way teens think\, Reynolds delivers a mighty exaltation to Black love in this moving story of one boy’s growth and the community that fosters it.” – Publishers Weekly Starred Review \nFAN is thrilled to host #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds in celebration of his first YA romance\, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now … A LOVE Story. The book has received high praise in advance of publication for its “tender\, sweet\, wholesome” story that shows a “refreshingly different side to male sexuality.” \nReynolds will do a dramatic recitation of the first chapter of the book from memory and then have an in-depth discussion with the audience. Afterwards\, he will pose for pictures with audience members. \nReynolds is a Newbery Award Honoree\, a Printz Award Honoree\, a two-time National Book Award finalist\, a Kirkus Award winner\, a Carnegie Medal winner\, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner\, an NAACP Image Award Winner\, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He’s also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely)\, When I Was the Greatest\, The Boy in the Black Suit\, Stamped\, As Brave as You\, For Every One\, the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\, Look Both Ways\, Ain’t Burned All the Bright\, and Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. \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/fan-twenty-four-seconds-from-now-an-evening-with-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Leaders as Futurists: Cultivating Civic Imagination for a Dynamic World Lisa Kay Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 17\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Leaders as Futurists: Cultivating Civic Imagination for a Dynamic World\, a FAN webinar featuring Lisa Kay Solomon in conversation with Liz Gerber\, Ph.D. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/LKSolomonFANWebinar \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Webinar attendees are invited to join a free “Ask Me Anything” AFTERHOURS event hosted by Solomon and Gerber that will start immediately after the webinar. This is an excellent opportunity for leaders looking for guidance on how to infuse futures thinking and civic imagination into community events and strategic conversations. The registration link for this After-Hours event will be posted in chat several times during the main webinar. \nIn today’s politically charged climate\, we are inundated with a pervasive narrative of division\, discord\, and polarization. Yet many Americans long for a more positive\, unified future\, and are willing to do the work necessary to make it a reality. Leaders in schools\, organizations\, and corporations are uniquely positioned to inspire hope\, encourage action\, and actively shape the civic landscape we want for ourselves\, our children\, and future generations. \nJoin a FAN special session on harnessing the power of “futures thinking” and civic imagination with Lisa Kay Solomon\, Futurist in Residence at Stanford University’s d.school. Drawing from her bestselling book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversation that Accelerate Change\, popular classes like “Inventing the Future\,” and award-winning civic initiatives such as The Futures Happening and The Team’s civic tailgating program for student athletes\, Solomon will share creative strategies to foster imaginative\, joyful\, and resilient cultures in our schools\, communities\, and families. \nSolomon will explore what we can learn about shaping our future from unexpected sources – from Sesame Street’s Elmo to the powerful fandom movements of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift\, and sports legends from the WNBA and USA Olympians. She will also share her new Futures Happening playbook designed to help school and community leaders transform current challenges into flexible opportunities for civic innovation and community building. \nSolomon 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. \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/fan-leaders-as-futurists-cultivating-civic-imagination-for-a-dynamic-world-lisa-kay-solomon/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T133000
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SUMMARY:2024 Chrysalis Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of Community and Those Who are Transforming Mental Health!\nJoin us for our third annual luncheon to honor those who are making great impacts on mental health efforts in our area. For the last two years\, we have come together to honor and celebrate the collective\, collaborative\, and critical work that is happening in our communities each day to provide needed tools\, resources\, and counseling access for the many who have been affected by the cumulative mental stressors of these past several years. We will proudly recognize The Papanicholas Family as our 2025 Heart of the Family Honoree. \nTickets can be purchased here: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/ChrysalisLuncheonRegistration2024 \n 
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/2024-chrysalis-luncheon/
LOCATION:Valley Lo Club\, 2200 Tanglewood Dr.\, Glenview\, IL\, 60025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,FSC Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T141043
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SUMMARY:Cook County United Against Hate and The Glenview Public Library: Waking In Oak Creek
DESCRIPTION:Cook County United Against Hate and The Glenview Public Library are sponsoring a screening and discussion of the documentary Waking In Oak Creek on October 15th.  \n“As the Sikh community in Oak Creek\, Wisconsin prepares for Sunday prayers\, a deadly hate attack shatters their lives\, but not their resilience.” \nAll are welcome. \nWaking in Oak Creek Documentary  \nTuesday\, October 15\, 7:00-8:30 pm.  \nGlenview Library\, 1930 Glenview Road.  \nRSVP- tinyurl.com/WakinginOakCreekGPL
URL:https://familyservicecenter.org/calendar/cook-county-united-against-hate-and-the-glenview-public-library-waking-in-oak-creek/
LOCATION:Glenview Public Library\, 1930 Glenview Road\, Glenview\, IL\, 60025
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241009T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T141043
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 9\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future\, a FAN webinar featuring Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley in conversation with Liz Gerber\, Ph.D. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/CCSDFANWebinar \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Assembling Tomorrow from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Carter\, Doorley\, and Gerber that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nWe live in an era of runaway design where the possibilities of new technologies—like generative AI and synthetic biology—are near limitless\, but so are the perils. Even the most well-intentioned and transformative innovations can go haywire\, jeopardizing our work and our world. In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future\, a provocative and deeply hopeful new manifesto\, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley\, the Academic and Creative Directors at the Stanford d.school\, pair speculative fiction with practical guidance to show how to build a world worth living in rather than one that tears us apart. \nAssembling Tomorrow grapples with the future of technology\, ecology\, biology\, work\, politics\, food\, parenting\, interpersonal relationships\, and more. From the effects of social media to the uncertainty of AI and the consequences of climate change\, the outcomes of our creations ripple across our lives\, and we are now at a critical moment where we must consider: What does a thriving future look like? How could we design it thoughtfully and creatively if we were tasked with doing so? The book is poised to redefine the discourse on design and innovation\, offering a roadmap for creating a future that we can all proudly inhabit. \nAssembling Tomorrow is the highly anticipated capstone for a 12-book series on design from Stanford’s d.school. Over the past few years\, FAN has hosted events in support of d.school books Creative Acts for Curious People\, You Need a Manifesto and Design for Belonging. \nTo be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings\, Meditations for Mortals will be a source of solace and inspiration\, and an aid to a saner\, freer\, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times\, it is rich in truths we have never needed more. \nCo-authors Carter\, a designer\, geoscientist\, and the academic director at the d.school\, and Doorley\, a writer\, designer\, and the creative director at the d.school\, 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. \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/fan-assembling-tomorrow-a-guide-to-designing-a-thriving-future/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241007T190000
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SUMMARY:[FAN] Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts Oliver Burkeman
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 7\, 2024\, 7:00 PM\, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts\, a FAN webinar featuring Oliver Burkeman in conversation with Daniel Pink (FAN ’18\, ’22). \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/BurkemanFANWebinar \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away hundreds of copies of Meditations for Mortals to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“I follow Oliver Burkeman’s personal\, literary\, and journalistic adventures into wisdom with admiration and exhilaration. Now he brings us a ‘retreat of the mind’ in a very special book. We should all read this\, preferably in the company of others―for the sake of our aching world as well as the state of our souls.” — Krista Tippett (FAN ’16) \nAddressing the fundamental questions about how to live\, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts offers a powerful new way to act on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time\, the lure of distraction\, the impossibility of doing anything perfectly. \nHow can we embrace our nonnegotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there’s always too much to do? How do we shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can “get on top of everything”? Reflecting on quotations drawn from philosophy\, religion\, literature\, psychology\, and self-help\, Burkeman\, the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals\, explores a combination of practical tools and daily shifts in perspective. The result is a life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice―and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully. \nTo be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings\, Meditations for Mortals will be a source of solace and inspiration\, and an aid to a saner\, freer\, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times\, it is rich in truths we have never needed more. \nBurkeman 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/fan-meditations-for-mortals-four-weeks-to-embrace-your-limitations-and-make-time-for-what-counts-oliver-burkeman/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event
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