Nov 21, 2024
Here’s your chance to meet bestselling author Ethan Kross who reveals how to harness the positive power of your constant inner voice in his national bestselling book, Chatter. He will talk with guest host Dana Black about how to use your typically critical inner voice to instead combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen your relationships with others. He’ll also talk about his upcoming book, Shift, that focuses on how to manage your emotions.
Dr. Kross is an award-winning psychologist and the director of University of Michigan’s Emotion and Self Control laboratory. In his book Chatter, Ethan talks about the constant, silent conversations we all have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research with real-world case studies - from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy - Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk - what he calls “chatter” - can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.
But the good news, he says, is that we’re already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden in plain sight - in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces.
Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.
Chatter is a national bestseller and named as one of the best new books of the year by the The Washington Post, BBC, USA Today, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, PopSugarKirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews.
Ethan Kross, PhD, is one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.
Doors open at 6 pm with live music, a cash bar, and delicious cookies. The event begins at 7 and includes a 15-minute Q and A and author signing.
Performances
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 7:00pmNamed Sponsor: Herman Triezenberg and Elizabeth Mostrom "Body and Mind" Author Conversations
Sustaining Sponsor: The Green Brick Foundation
Season Sponsor: NorthGuard Technology Group and Golden Fowler Home Furnishings
Arts Benefactor: Ward and Mary Bevans Gillett
Grantors: Michigan Arts and Culture Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
Media Sponsors: Traverse City Record-Eagle, Interlochen Public Radio, Up North Media, Midwest Broadcasting, Northern Express
Supporting Sponsors: Image 360, Horizon Books, Amical, Cambria Suites
Official Airport: Cherry Capital Airport