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IN PERSON EVENT, #1 OF 2

Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond

Lydia Denworth

Award-winning science journalist, author of Friendship, and co-author of Parent Nation.

Dec 6 2022
IN-PERSON EVENT + LIVE STREAM

Who Gets In and Why: Inside College Admissions

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Andy Borst, Ph.D.

Director of Undergraduate Admissions at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nov 30 2022
IN-PERSON EVENT + LIVE STREAM

Mapping Your College Search: Finding the Right Fit at the Right Price

Ron Lieber

"Your Money" Columnist for The New York Times

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Andrea Mondragón

The Joan Feitler ’49 Co-Director of College Counseling at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago

Nov 29 2022
GRAND ROUNDS!

GRAND ROUNDS: Healing Developmental Trauma: The NeuroAffective Relational Model for Resolving ACEs and C-PTSD

Laurence Heller, Ph.D.

Creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model© (NARM) and senior faculty member at the NARM Training Institute

Brad Kammer, LMFT

Licensed marriage and family therapist and NARM master therapist, consultant, and faculty trainer

Nov 18 2022
ZOOM EVENT

Healing Developmental Trauma

Laurence Heller, Ph.D.

Creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model© (NARM) and senior faculty member at the NARM Training Institute

Brad Kammer, LMFT

Licensed marriage and family therapist and NARM master therapist, consultant, and faculty trainer

Stefanie Klein, LCSW

Licensed clinical social worker and NARM master therapist, consultant, and faculty member

Nov 17 2022
IN-PERSON EVENT

The Art of Talking with Children: Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids

Rebecca Rolland, Ed.D.

Nationally certified speech-language pathologist in the Neurology Department of Boston Children's Hospital.

Nov 4 2022
POSTPONED!

POSTPONED! The Study of Human Life

Joshua Bennett, Ph.D.

Poet, performer, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College

Jesse McCarthy, Ph.D.

Assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

Nov 1 2022
ZOOM EVENT

Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship

Terry Real, MSW, LCSW

Internationally recognized family therapist, speaker, and best-selling author

Alexandra H. Solomon, Ph.D.

Award-winning author, podcast host, professor, and licensed clinical psychologist, The Family Institute at Northwestern University

Oct 27 2022
ZOOM EVENT

Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism

Shanterra McBride, MA

Author, preacher, speaker, teacher, and founder of "Marvelous University"

Rosalind Wiseman

Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer, Cultures of Dignity

Marlon I. Cummings, Ph.D.

Associate professor of educational and organizational leadership at Governors State University

Oct 25 2022
IN-PERSON EVENT + LIVE STREAM

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

New York Times bestselling author, autism activist, and Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University

Oct 20 2022