Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
Browse our past events by year or topic — you can download previous flyers here, too.
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You Marvelous, Multipart You: An Introduction to Internal Family Systems
Creator of the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model and author of five books
Licensed therapist and founder of Black Therapists Rock
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers (Event 2 of 2)
Psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers (Event 1 of 2)
Psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host
Sink: A Coming-of-Age Memoir
Award-winning author of the coming-of-age memoir "Sink"
Poet, author, and executive director of Kundiman
Understanding and Treating School Anxiety and Refusal
Director of the Young Adult Mood and Anxiety Program at Compass Health Center/Northbrook
Director of the Child Mood and Anxiety Program at Compass Health Center
Associate director of child programming at Compass Health Center/Northbrook
Gun Safety in Our Communities
Founder, Moms Demand Action
State Chapter Co-Leader for Moms Demand Action in Illinois and a Fellow with the Everytown Survivor Network
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
A Place Called Home: A Memoir of Deprivation and Hope
Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon and Author
Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Faculty Director of the Greater Good Science Center, and bestselling author
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet and Bittersweet
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
Associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego
Professor of psychology, George Mason University, and bestselling author