At a school where forums on life after college often focus solely on work, a Women's Initiative Project panel yesterday dealt with incorporating a healthy family life into the mix.

Around 25 people attended the panel discussion, "How to Do It All: A Look at Life after Harvard." The panelists, Julianne Bacsik , Jane E. Regan, Vincent J. Tompkins and Tamara E. Rogers '74 discussed how they balance a work life and a family life.

"We started this panel because no one's mentioning family at Harvard," said Karen E. Avery '87, assistant dean of the College and director of the project.

Avery said project leaders attempted to make the panel more diverse than in previous years. This year's panel included a single mother, a married man and two married women.

Bacsik, an anesthesiologist at the Boston Children's Hospital, recalled an incident when her daughter fell sick while she was working at the hospital on the night before her husband presented his graduate school thesis.

She said that after her family got through this incident, she knew they could do anything.

The sole male of the group, Assistant Dean of the Faculty Vincent J. Tompkins, described how he and his wife shared the responsibility of raising their two daughters.

"Men are coming to realize that just being work-oriented isn't healthy," he said.

Jane E. Regan, an associate professor of religion at Boston College and a single mother of two, said she wanted to show people how to find the balance between work and family, and most importantly, to help people define what "all" means for them.