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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Raising UnSelfies: How to Raise Compassionate, Courageous Kids
Educational consultant, motivational speaker, and award-winning author of 24 books
She Said: A Conversation with Megan Twohey
Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times
The Great Juggling Act: Balancing Life as a Parent
Time-management and productivity specialist, and author of Organizing from the Inside Out, Never Check Email in the Morning, SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life, and the brand-new Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Grown & Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington
Co-Founders, Grown and Flown
Fair Play: A System for Domestic Rebalance
Author, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live), and Founder, Philanthropy Advising Group.
The Water Dancer: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates
National Book Award-winning author of We Were Eight Years in Power, Between the World and Me, and The Water Dancer.
Grand Rounds: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine.