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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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
Co-founder, Mindstrong Health, and founder, Humanest Care. Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2002-2015.
CEO and co-founder, Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual
Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities
Designer, author, and educator at the d.school at Stanford University
Founder and CEO of Design for Emergence
Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
Founder of Fugees Family, Inc.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Tony-nominated producer, and author of the bestseller Dear America.
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
Nurse and bestselling author
Physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at New York University
The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively
Professor of psychology, George Mason University, and bestselling author
Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author
Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise
Pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
The Power of the Downstate: Recharge Your Life Using Your Body’s Own Restorative Systems
Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Lab
Professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego and the director of the Human Experience and Awareness Lab (HeaLab)
Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving
Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
Founder and CEO of ConantLeadership
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything
Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author
New York Times bestselling author
The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
Faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project and Security and Global Health Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Five-time New York Times bestselling author