Register Now: Parenting Beyond Belief Seminar

Registration is now open for the Harvard Beyond Belief Seminar & 2008 “Harvard Humanist of the Year” Lincoln Lecture!

Each year the Humanist Chaplaincy presents a “Harvard Humanist of the Year” award to a special lecturer. (Click here for last year’s historic Lincoln Lecture.) This year’s recipient is Dale McGowan, Ph.D., editor and co-author of Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, the first comprehensive resources for nonreligious parents. (Download flyer here.)

On Sat. Dec. 6 at 11 am in the Fong Auditorium of Boylston Hall in Harvard Yard, Dale will give a lecture on “Parenting Beyond Belief” followed by a lunch for seminar registrants, then a 4 hour intensive seminar: a great opportunity to meet like-minded young families!

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Over nine million parents in the U.S. are raising children without religion. The Parenting Beyond Belief Seminar offers encouragement and practical solutions for secular parenting in a religious world. Based on the freethinking philosophy of the book Newsweekcalled “a compelling read,” the seminar empowers secular parents to raise ethical, caring, confident kids without religion.

Participants learn effective ways to encourage religious literacy without indoctrination; help kids interact productively with a religious world; help kids develop active moral reasoning; weigh church-state issues in the public sphere; address sensitive issues with religious relatives using the principles of nonviolent communication; help children develop a healthy understanding of death and a joyful love of life; build a family atmosphere of fearless questioning and boundless wonder; and much more.

The Harvard Parenting Beyond Belief Seminar (register here) is sponsored by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and Charlie's Playhouse: Games and Toys Inspired by Darwin.