CFF30 Webinar
Building Connection,
One Table at a Time
Anne Fishel, Ph.D.
At the webinar supported by the Center for Families 30th anniversary, Dr. Anne Fishel, Director and Co-Founder, explored the transformative impact of family meals and taught attendees how and why to harness the benefits of family dinners.
The Family Dinner Project is a nonprofit program dedicated to helping families through food, fun and conversation about things that matter.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anne Fishel, PhD is a family therapist, clinical psychologist, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fishel is the executive director and co-founder of The Family Dinner Project, a non-profit initiative, based at Massachusetts General Hospital, that helps families on-line and in communities to have better and more frequent family dinners. She is also the Director of the Family and Couple Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, MA. She lectures widely at academic conferences and to parent and teacher groups. She is the author of Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun, and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids and the co-author of Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook.