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Ideas@TheWillows Speaker Series

Learning in Action!

Ideas@TheWillows is a collaborative community generating and exchanging ideas to enhance the knowledge of parents, extend the vision of educators, engage life-long learners, enlighten our community, and enrich the classroom experience.

Our speaker events, workshops, film screenings, panels, partnerships, blogs, and mentoring opportunities are intentionally designed to continue the education and empower the growth of great minds. We open our events to all of Los Angeles and beyond to share wisdom and build partnerships with our larger community. Our events open to all extend our mission to build bridges culturally and educationally by seeking ways to partner with our neighbors and engage locally and globally.

Welcome to The Willows Community!

What Keeps Parents Up at Night? Facing our Fears Head-On

Tuesday, October 3 @ 12 PM (Virtual)

Lisa Damour book cover speaking to The Willows Community School

Special Lunchtime Zoom Session (Zoom link sent the week prior to the event)
 
Dr. Lisa Damour, Clinical Psychologist, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Emotional lives of Teenagers, New York Times Columnist and CBS-TV News Contributor.

Dr. Damour offers strategies for parents to manage their emotions - and their children’s emotions - effectively.

My child . . . 
    won’t have friends.
    won’t discover their "thing."
    will make an offensive mistake.
    will take scary risks.
    will harm another child.
    will hurt themselves.
 
“Mental Health is not about feeling good. It’s about having the feelings that fit their context and being able to manage those emotions effectively.” – Dr. Damour
 
For more information visit: www.drlisadamour.com

RSVP HERE

This is So Awkward: A Conversation About How Puberty Has Changed

Thursday, October 26 @ 7 PM

Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett at The Willows

Talk followed by Q & A and Book Signing

Cara Natterson, MD, Pediatrician, Podcast Host, New York Times Bestselling Author & Vanessa Kroll Bennett, Puberty Expert, Podcaster, and Author.

These authors of the essential handbook about modern puberty, reframe this universal stage of life that has more than doubled in length, lasts nearly a decade, and happens with a smart phone in hand. Covering the science of puberty, they will offer data-driven guidance for parents of tweens and teens showing the shift in the physical, social, and emotional transformations of puberty over the past several decades. And, how to talk about all of it with your kids!

For more information, please visit: www.orderofmagnitude.co/our-people

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AWE


Thursday, November 16 @ 7 PM

Dacher Keltner talking at The Willows, a school in Los Angeles

Talk followed by Q & A and Book Signing

Dacher Keltner, Psychologist, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center, University of California at Berkeley, and author of AWE, The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your life and The Power Paradox.

Dr. Keltner will speak on AWE and how it transforms life and learning and how appreciating awe in our everyday life leads us to appreciate what is most humane in our human nature. He writes, “Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world . . . What most commonly led people around the world to feel awe? Nature? Spiritual practice? Listening to music? In fact, it was other people’s courage, kindness, strength, or overcoming.”

For more information, please visit: https://www.dacherkeltner.com/.

RSVP HERE
 

Supporting Kids


Wednesday, December 13 @ 12 PM (Virtual)

Lisa Damour book cover speaking to The Willows Community School

Special Lunchtime Zoom Session (Zoom link sent the week prior to the event)
 
Dr. Lisa Damour, Clinical Psychologist, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Emotional lives of Teenagers, New York Times Columnist and CBS-TV News Contributor.
 
Dr. Damour discusses the mental health crisis impacting tweens and teens and offers strategies for parents to embrace adolescent emotions.
 
“Mental Health is not about feeling good. It’s about having the feelings that fit their context and being able to manage those emotions effectively.” – Dr. Damour
 
For more information visit: www.drlisadamour.com

RSVP HERE

 

 

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Thursday, February 8 @ 7 PM

Ilyon Woo at The Willows, Speaker Series, private school Los Angeles

Talk followed by Q & A and Book Signing

Ilyon Woo, New York Times Bestselling Author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom and contributor to The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal.

Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and The New York Times, and she has received support for her research from the Whiting Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.

For more information, please visit: https://ilyonwoo.com/

 

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Dr. Lisa Damour Speaks to parents in the gym at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles