Many teens are falling short of achieving their true potential because the adults have no useful road map to guide their children to navigate the information technology highway.
It’s not our fault as parents that we live in a culture which neglects to educate us how to efficiently steer our family through the distractions of digital dominance, social media, and consumer commercialism.
This workshop will give you practical tools to overcome these obstacles so that your teen can become more responsible for his or her own well-being. By learning how to effectively communicate to teens in a biological (not psychological) language that they can understand, you’ll be able to skillfully use your authority, influence and love, whether your teen is anxious or depressed, an extrovert or introvert, over-empowered or under-driven, over-confident or unwilling, entitled or indifferent, high energy or low energy.
Dr. Mark Schillinger, DC has been called “the teen whisperer” because of his ability to help teens discover their inner wisdom while also showing parents how to best use their values in order to maximize their authority and influence. Dr. Mark is the founder of the non-profit, Young Mens Ultimate Weekend. He’s also the creator of the parenting method, The RIGHT Way for Family Unity®, which helps parents enjoy more caring and cooperative relationships with their teens.
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home.
After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.” —Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America
This discussion will be facilitated by SURJ Marin (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
SURJ Marin is part of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice with passion and accountability.
You can find more information about SURJ here: www.surjmarin.org
Racial Justice Book Club – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
This discussion will be facilitated by members of SURJ Marin (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
Bryan Stevenson recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinkmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
SURJ Marin is part of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice with passion and accountability.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society–and in ourselves.
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it–and then dismantle it.”
Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America–but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
In this book, Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.
This discussion will be facilitated by SURJ Marin (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
SURJ Marin is part of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice with passion and
accountability. You can find more information about SURJ here: www.surjmarin.org
Marin County is a graveyard of ships. Its steep rock-bound shores, treacherous currents, and frequent fogs have been the doom of hundreds of ships for over four hundred years. In his newest book, Shipwrecks of Marin, local historian Brian K. Crawford has done extensive research fleshing out the details of famous wrecks from contemporary accounts, and identifying more than a hundred wrecks not documented elsewhere. Many of these are disasters within San Francisco Bay.
Many of these tales are full of danger and heroism, of pathos and high adventure. Terrified passengers cling to overturned steamers or clutch at rocks in the pounding seas. Seamen clamber up cliffs to escape certain destruction. One captain runs two ferries aground and sinks a yacht all in one day. The vessels range from Spanish treasure galleons to garbage scows, clipper ships to floating dry docks.
If you love ships and the sea or tales of danger and adventure, or if you just want to know more about the many wrecks that dot our coasts, you will find this book endlessly entertaining.
In this illustrated lecture, Crawford tells the stories of seven of the most significant wrecks on our coasts.
Books will be available for purchase and signed by the author.
This book talk is brought to you by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Libraries.
Friends Books will participate in the citywide Spring Sidewalk Sale in downtown San Rafael on Saturday, April 13 from 10 am to 4 pm.
A plethora of books on gardening tips, design, plant selection and care will be shown on our sunny patio in front of the shop. ( If it rains, the display will be inside.)
All garden books will be at special prices that day.
Friends Books is located at 1016 C Street, between 4th and 5th, next to the C Street garage – free parking all day!
Join us for snacks, games, a queer book talk, an “Ask a Queer Adult” panel and more! Meet cool people and find out about local resources for LGBTQ+ youth.
This program is for teens (middle and high school) and young adults. No registration required.
Poetry can be a gateway to the heights and depths of Being. In this workshop we will work with the poetry of Kabir, Mary Oliver, and Rilke as inspiration for creative expression and reflective meditations that are focused on your personal transformation.
No prior writing experience is necessary.
Please, no laptops, but do bring your own writing supplies: paper or notebook, pencil or pen.
Susanne West is a writer and professor of psychology. She was on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University for 30 years and received the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Susanne is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers. Her first poetry collection, Subterranean Light, will be released in 2018.
Process Art emphasizes the process of making art. It is about the experience children have while they are creating. Children make their own decisions and there is no right or wrong way to explore.
Join us for a series of process art explorations! Wear clothes that are okay to get messy. Each session new materials for exploration will be offered. All ages welcome.
Dr. Mark Schillinger, DC has been called “the teen whisperer” because of his ability to help teens discover their inner wisdom while also showing parents how to best use their values in order to maximize their authority and influence. Dr. Mark is the founder of the non-profit, Young Mens Ultimate Weekend. He’s also the creator of the parenting method, The RIGHT Way for Family Unity®, which helps parents enjoy more caring and cooperative relationships with their teens.
In this illustrated lecture, Crawford tells the stories of seven of the most significant wrecks on our coasts.
Join us for snacks, games, a queer book talk, an “Ask a Queer Adult” panel and more! Meet cool people and find out about local resources for LGBTQ+ youth.
Process Art emphasizes the process of making art. It is about the experience children have while they are creating. Children make their own decisions and there is no right or wrong way to explore.