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November 29, 2022

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

The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, […]
November 29, 2022

FAN – Who Gets In and Why: Inside College Admissions

Award-winning journalist Jeff Selingo spent parts of 2018 and 2019 embedded at three different universities to get an inside look at the admissions process: University of Washington, Davidson […]
November 1, 2022

FAN – Mapping Your College Search: Finding the Right Fit and the Right Price

FAN is excited to present two of the nation’s top experts on the college search process together on stage for a conversation that will cover all […]
November 1, 2022

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

In their ground-breaking and best-selling new book, The Practical Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma, Laurence Heller Ph.D.  and Brad Kammer, LMFT present a practical guide to the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), one of […]
November 1, 2022

FAN – Healing Developmental Trauma

In their ground-breaking and best-selling new book, The Practical Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma,  Laurence Heller Ph.D. and Brad Kammer, LMFT present a practical guide to the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), one of […]
November 1, 2022

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

With her recent book The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids, Rebecca Rolland, Ed.D., a Harvard faculty member […]
October 25, 2022

FAN – The Study of Human Life

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS.  WE WILL EMAIL YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH THE RESCHEDULED DATE   In The Study of Human Life, poet, […]
October 11, 2022

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

Not much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humanness—and there’s also not much that’s more important. At a time […]
October 11, 2022

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

For anyone who wants to have better, more productive discussions about race, Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism is an empowering […]
October 4, 2022

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

Visual thinkers see images in their mind’s eye – they include everyone from the photorealist-inclined “object visualizers” with a knack for design and problem solving, to […]
October 4, 2022

FAN- The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now

The pandemic has touched almost every aspect of our lives. Some of the most lasting harm was visited on children. The childcare system in America collapsed, […]
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