Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Adam Grant, Ph.D.

Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jan 7 2014

Love, No Matter What: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon, Ph.D.

Best-selling author; professor of clinical psychology, Columbia University Medical Center; former president of PEN America.

Dec 4 2013

Renewing Our Sense of Calling: Cultivating Inner Strength in Ourselves and Our Children

Linda Lantieri, MA

Senior Program Advisor, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Teachers College

Nov 20 2013

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D

Author and Science Journalist

Nov 19 2013

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Daniel Siegel, M.D.

Clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA

Nov 12 2013
Grand Rounds Presentation

Minding the Teenage Brain: Adolescence as a Period of Opportunity and Vulnerability for Mental Health

Daniel Siegel, M.D.

Clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA

Nov 12 2013
Educator Event

Educating the Adolescent Mind: The Landscape of the Teenage Brain

Daniel Siegel, M.D.

Clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA

Nov 12 2013
Educator Event

Promoting Moral Development In Schools

Richard Weissbourd, Ed.D

Senior Lecturer in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Oct 24 2013

Raising Happy, High Achieving – and Moral – Kids

Richard Weissbourd, Ed.D

Senior Lecturer in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Oct 24 2013