Presented by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with Compass Health Center, Erika’s Lighthouse, Josselyn Center, the Mindfulness and Behavior Therapies Program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and the Women’s Center at NU. Balancing Acceptance and Change: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Future of Skills Training Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Washington Director, Linehan Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, UW Founder, The Linehan Institute and Behavioral Tech Research, Inc. Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 7:00 PM New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium 7 Happ Rd., Northfield CEUs available: http://bitly.com/fan-linehan-ceu Free and open to the public. INFO: familyactionnetwork.net Annual sponsors: Mammel Foundation Strategic Partners: In-Kind Sponsors: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MARSHA LINEHAN, Ph.D. CONTACT: Lonnie Stonitsch, Executive Director of FAN, [email protected] Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Balancing Acceptance and Change: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Future of Skills Training, 7:00 PM, New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, 60093. CEUs available for licensed professionals: http://bitly.com/fan-linehan-ceu Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a cognitive-behavioral approach that emphasizes the dialectical synthesis of acceptance and change as central to effective treatment. The theory behind the approach is that some people are prone to react in a more intense and out-of-the-ordinary manner toward certain emotional situations, primarily those found in romantic, family, and friend relationships. The core of DBT is skills training in four different modules: mindfulness and distress tolerance (acceptance skills), and interpersonal effectiveness and emotion regulation (change skills). DBT starts from a presumption that people are doing the best they can, and that they must do better, and that they are either lacking skills or are influenced by positive or negative reinforcement within their environment. The demand for DBT skills-based trainings is now spreading beyond clinical settings and into education and corporate environments as well. An individual’s bio-social-emotional competence is a major predictor of life satisfaction -- students and workers who are skilled in managing their emotions, working collaboratively, and tolerating failure and disappointment will find greater personal and professional success. Family Action Network (FAN) is proud to present the developer of DBT, Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Director of the Linehan Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC) at UW, a research consortium that develops, evaluates and disseminates treatments for multi-diagnostic, severely disordered, and suicidal populations. Dr. Linehan is also the founder of The Linehan Institute, a non-profit that helps advance mental health through support for education, research, and compassionate, scientifically-based treatments, and the founder of Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a company that develops innovative online and mobile technologies to disseminate science-based behavioral treatments for mental disorders. This must-see event is an excellent opportunity for clinicians, patients, parents, educators and professionals to learn more. Sponsored by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with Compass Health Center, Erika’s Lighthouse, Josselyn Center, The Mindfulness and Behavior Therapies Program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and the Women’s Center at Northwestern University. FAN is grateful for the support of its 2015-16 annual sponsors Compass Health Center, Erikson Institute, Evanston Township High School D202, Make It Better Foundation, New Trier High School D203, Pathways.org, the Martin & Mary L. Boyer Foundation, the Mammel Foundation, and Tina & Byron Trott; our strategic partners Acclaim Media, Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, Evanston/Skokie D65, Hackstudio, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, the Master of Science in Education Program at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, New Trier Parents’ Association, North Shore Community Bank, Northern Suburban Special Education District (NSSED), ReDefined Fitness, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), and the YWCA Evanston/North Shore; and our in-kind sponsors Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Turing Group. Presented by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with the with partnership in NetworkActionPresentedFamily (FAN),by North Shore Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., North ShoreNorthCountry Day School, America,Inc., of JackandJill ShoreNorthChapter of and the Women’sandthe Northwestern University. at Center O ur Racial MomentOur Racial Truth of Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Author,Suns Other TheWarmth of Pulitzer Prize winner for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief for TheNewTimes York Monday,PMNovember7:00 2015, 16, EvanstonTownship SchoolHighAuditorium 1600DodgeEvanston Ave., Free and open to the public. INFO: familyactionnetwork.net Annualsponsors: MammelFoundation Strategic Partners: Strategic In-Kind Sponsors: In-Kind FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ISABEL WILKERSON CONTACT: Lonnie Stonitsch, Executive Director of FAN, [email protected] Monday, November 16, 2015, Our Racial Moment of Truth, 7:00 PM, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston, 60201. Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson is author of The Warmth of Other Suns, the New York Times bestseller that tells the true story of three people who made the decision of their lives during the Great Migration, a watershed in American history. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and it made national news when President Obama chose the book for summer reading in 2011. In 2012, The New York Times Magazine named The Warmth of Other Suns to its list of the best nonfiction books of all time. Wilkerson spent 15 years working on The Warmth of Other Suns, interviewing more than 1,200 people to tell what she calls one of the greatest underreported stories of the 20th Century. A gifted storyteller, Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal human story of migration and reinvention, and examines what we can glean from the Great Migration to better inform present-day racial issues. In her lectures she expertly explores the need for a modern reconstruction to help reconcile America’s troubled racial past. With the high-profile killings of unarmed African-Americans at the hands of police and civilians, many people are asking just how far have we really come since the days of Jim Crow – and the need for dialogue has never been greater. Wilkerson’s talk will address the persistence of racial injustice as a national challenge and what history can teach us as we work to resolve it. Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting in the history of American journalism. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and has served as professor of journalism at Princeton, Emory, and Boston universities. Her work has garnered seven honorary degrees, most recently from Bates College and Southern Methodist University. She has appeared on national programs such as CBS’s 60 Minutes, PBS’s Charlie Rose, NPR’s Fresh Air, NBC’s Nightly News, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, and others. Sponsored by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with the North Shore Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., North Shore Country Day School, and the Women’s Center at Northwestern University. FAN is grateful for the support of its 2015-16 annual sponsors Compass Health Center, Erikson Institute, Evanston Township High School D202, Make It Better Foundation, New Trier High School D203, Pathways.org, the Martin & Mary L. Boyer Foundation, the Mammel Foundation, and Tina & Byron Trott; our strategic partners Acclaim Media, Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, Evanston/Skokie D65, Hackstudio, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, the Master of Science in Education Program at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, New Trier Parents’ Association, North Shore Community Bank, Northern Suburban Special Education District (NSSED), ReDefined Fitness, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), and the YWCA Evanston/North Shore; and our in-kind sponsors Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Turing Group. Presented by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with the Center for Independent Futures. Different, Not Less: NeuroTribes and the Future of Neurodiversity Steve Silberman Author, NeuroTribes: e Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 7:00 PM New Trier High School, Northeld Campus, Cornog Auditorium 7 Happ Rd., Northeld Free and open to the public. INFO: familyactionnetwork.net Annualsponsors: MammelFoundation Strategic Partners: Strategic In-Kind Sponsors: In-Kind FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: STEVE SILBERMAN CONTACT: Lonnie Stonitsch, Executive