Save the Date!
SPEAK presents award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Wallace at San Francisco Day School at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
Save the date for a talk from award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Wallace, whose latest book, Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic - and What We Can Do About It, is a parental guide to help kids know that they matter.
Jennifer Wallace took a hard look at the rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide that we are facing today. She concluded that mattering is shockingly absent from our society - from individual households, schools, workplaces, and entire communities.
She broke open the floodgates with her Wall Street Journal article, “The Power of Mattering” at Work. With the Great Resignation on one hand and the rise in mental health challenges on the other, Wallace’s insights have endeared her to many. The incessant and relentless desire to matter drives individuals into spiraling cycles to prove they are “enough” while thirsting for achievement and approval.
Consequently, Wallace co-founded the Mattering Movement with a tangible sense of urgency. The goal of the Mattering Movement is to help people of all ages to learn the skills and tools to enact meaningful social change by identifying genuine needs, big or small.
Registration for this event opens in September!
April 22, 2025 Event:
Lynn Lyons, The Anxiety Audit: What Parents Need to Know (and Do!) About Worry, Anxiety and Depression
Lynn Lyons is the co-host of the popular podcast Flusterclux and author/co-author of The Anxiety Audit and Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents
April 22, 2025 at Marin Country Day School
From Stress to Screentime, from Freak-Outs to Friendships: What Parents Need to Know (and DO!) about Worry, Anxiety and Depression
Current news about young people and mental health has created warranted concern, but the information can be overwhelming and hard to sort through. Parents need dependable strategies to help their children manage their anxiety, moods, and social pressures, including social media and screens. The ability to help guide our children requires – more than ever – an ability to recognize and address one’s own emotional management as we practice and model better skills to meet life’s challenges.
Based on current research and 35 years of clinical experience, Lynn Lyons will talk about the common traps adults fall into, the role of smart phones and social media, and key adjustments needed to manage the current surge of anxiety and depression in our kids and ourselves. Includes preventative measures!
About Lynn Lyons
Lynn Lyons is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire. She has been in private practice 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children.
Lynn travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought after expert, appearing in the New York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, Today Show and other media outlets. Lynn is a featured expert in the 2023 documentary Anxious Nation.
With a special interest in breaking the generational cycle of worry in families, Lynn is the author/coauthor of several books and articles on anxiety, including Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, and the companion book for kids, Playing with Anxiety: Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids. Her latest book for adults and teenagers, The Anxiety Audit was released October ’22.
Lynn is the co-host of the popular podcast Flusterclux.
Live Happier: Understanding and Cultivating the Power of Self-Compassion
On March 22, 2022, from 7:00pm-8:15pm, SPEAK will host acclaimed psychologist, author, and speaker Dr. Kristin Neff as she explains how and why acts of self-compassion correlate with strength, resilience and motivation. Dr. Neff has authored the books: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review, among others, and her TEDx talk has been viewed over 1.7 million times. To pre-order any of her books, specially signed for SPEAK audience members, please click here. Signed copies are limited to the first 100 books reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
We hope you can join us - Register Here.
