UNDER PRESSURE – Confronting Stress and Anxiety in Girls
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About this event
Lisa Damour will share critical steps that adults can take to shield daughters from the pressures to which our culture subjects girls.
She brings refreshing clarity and research-based practical fixes to the complicated set of stressors that girls experience—at school, online, with peers, and at home—and models how to be an ally instead of an adversary. She will demonstrate that it’s possible to normalize pressure and use it to build strength and confidence. Damour’s common-sense suggestions will provide concrete solutions in helping our daughters overcome their high levels of stress and anxiety.
Lisa Damour is a psychologist, New York Times columnist and CBS News contributor. She is also the author of two New York Times best-selling books, Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls and Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood. Damour graduated from Yale University and received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. She and her husband are the proud parents of two daughters.
Common Ground and Sacred Heart School will be hosting a holiday donation drive at this event! The Siena Youth Center of the St. Francis Center is hoping you can please bring one of the items from their wish list below:
(1) Non-fiction & Fiction Books in Spanish
(2) School Supplies Grade 3- 12
(3) Sports Equipment
Organizer Common Ground Speaker Series
Organizer of UNDER PRESSURE – Confronting Stress and Anxiety in Girls
The Common Ground Speaker Series is a parent education consortium on the San Francisco Peninsula. Each year we present a slate of cutting-edge speakers, topics and special events designed to inform, engage and inspire our school communities.
Common Ground began with eight member schools in 2002. Today, we represent more than 15,000 families at 44 schools, stretching from Hillsborough to San Jose. Our events take place at a variety of venues on the Peninsula and showcase the most current thoughts on education, health and parenting.
Common Ground is led by representatives from each member school. Together, we work to provide a forum for parents and educators to learn, strategize and develop a sense of shared community.
We invite you to join us this season to explore innovative ways to keep our families, schools and communities strong in the 21st century.
All Common Ground events are free to the parents, faculty and staff of our member schools. Faculty and educators from non-member schools are also admitted free of charge. Guests from non-member schools and the general community are welcome to attend for a $20 fee at the door.
