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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;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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