A Book Launch & Conversation with Maria Sirois, Psy.D. at Real Art Ways
Book Launch & Conversation with Dr. Maria Sirois
Real Art Ways • 56 Arbor St, Hartford, CT 06106
April 26, 2025 • 4 pm – 6 pm
Free Event
Real Art Ways, in partnership with the Hartford Public Library, presents a book launch and conversation celebrating the publication of The Generous Exchange by Dr. Maria Sirois. The book was published on March 23. The event will be held on Saturday, April 26, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford, CT 06106.
The Generous Exchange
In a series of insightful and intimate essays, Maria Sirois explores how our ability to appreciate beauty, goodness and excellence can elevate and inspire our days, stimulating us to cultivate health in ourselves and in the natural world around us. Lyrically weaving together story and science, Dr. Sirois offers practical guidance on how to participate in a generous exchange of goodness and nourishment, providing pathways through the thickets of banality, pain, or darkness that may at times surround us. The Generous Exchange is a work of hope, grounded in the pragmatic consideration of the restoration possible for ourselves, for those living around us, and those yet to come.
PROGRAM
4:00 PM: Interview with the author
4:30 PM: Interactive activity
4:45 PM: Audience Q&A and Closing Comments
5:15 – 6:00 PM: Book Signing
Books will be available for purchase on the day of the event. Concessions will be available to purchase beverages, popcorn, and snacks.
This event is FREE to the public. Guests should register here to attend the in-person event.
Maria Sirois
Maria Sirois, Psy.D. has spent more than three decades in the board rooms of business, bedsides of the dying and everywhere in between to do one thing: offer the data, stories, tools and perspectives that enable us to cultivate resilience, health, wisdom and a greater capacity to lead ourselves and others well, no matter the strain or suffering of the moment.
As a resilience expert, positive psychologist and international consultant, she is known for her authenticity, wisdom and compassion.
She is the author of three books: The Generous Exchange: How Attention to Beauty, Goodness and Excellence Restores Us and Our World, A Short Course in Happiness After Loss and Every Day Counts.
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