Our Helping Boys Thrive Tele-Summit is just around the corner.  We hope you can join us.  If your school or community can sign up 5 or more, there is a group discount.  As you’ll see on the website, cost for this summit is quite low because of the generous donations of our sponsors.  Check out www.helpingboysthrive.org to look over the tele-summit and to register.  You can join us on the day of the tele-summit, October 1, and/or view the tele-summit via video for one week afterward, until October 7.

Four dynamic speakers present and interact with you on the tele-summit:  New York Times bestselling author, Michael Gurian; M.A.N.C.A.V.E. founder and director, Marion Hill; Author and Pastor Tim Wright; and Educator and Master Trainer, Eva Dwight.   If you are a professional, you will receive six (6) hours of professional development for the tele-summit.  To learn more about their topics and all the work within the Tele-Summit please go to http://helpingboysthrive.org/helping-boys-thrive-tele-summit/.  You can register directly on the site.   We hope you will join us!

Dr. Michael Gurian is a marriage and family counselor and the New York Times bestselling author of 32 books including: Saving Our Sons: A New Path for Raising Healthy and Resilient Boys; The Wonder of Boys; The Minds of Boys; and Boys and Girls Learn Differently. He is co-founder of The Gurian Institute and a pioneer in the fields of family development and education. His work brings brain-science into homes, schools, churches, corporations, and public policy. Appearing on Today, Good Morning America, Fox News, NPR, the 700 Club, Focus on the Family, and in the New York Times, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek, Michael is credited with sparking the modern boys movement. Michael does a weekly podcast with Tim Wright: “The Wonder of Parenting: A Brain Science Approach to Parenting”.

A youth football coach, mentor, and child advocate, Marion Hill has worked with children of color throughout his professional life.  He currently serves as an administrator for Head Start and serves as a Gurian Certified Trainer with the Greater Phoenix Urban League.  Dynamic, visionary, and deeply committed to giving back, Marion is the founder of M.A.N.C.A.V.E. (Men All Need to be Caring Actively-Engaged, and Encouraged), a fatherhood program designed to encourage fathers/male role models to be actively engaged in their child’s growth and development.  In his keynote, Marion focus specifically on the learning and life-needs of boys of color.  Marion will explore current issues of culture and conflict, including ways that boys of color escalate anger and withdrawal.  As he tells his own powerful story, Marion will utilize anecdotes from his two decades of work in this field, and feature success strategies for helping boys and girls of color in under-resourced neighborhoods and classrooms.  To learn more about Marion, please visit Marion’s Gurian Institute Trainer page.

Pastor Tim Wright is the co-host, along with Michael Gurian, of the weekly international podcast The Wonder of Parenting: A Brain Science Approach to Parenting. He has written several books including his two newest ebooks: Raising Sons in a #MeToo World and Raising Daughters in a #MeToo World. He has co-created with Michael several rites of passage programs for secular and faith-based families. Tim has been a Lutheran Pastor since 1984, currently serving as the pastor of Community of Grace in Peoria (Phoenix) AZ, which he founded in 2005.

Eva Dwight, BA, MEd, ACC, CPDT worked for 12 years as a teacher and 20 years as a junior high counselor in Mesa, AZ. In addition to her work in the schools, Eva is a Certified Positive Discipline Trainer and an Associate Certified Coach. She has facilitated workshops for hundreds of parents over the last decade, teaching strategies for growing connection with their children and helping them experience a more joyful family life. In her private practice, she offers parent coaching and personal coaching for adults and teens. As a Master Trainer for The Gurian Institute, Eva draws on her experience and passion to inspire her audience as she has been inspired, motivating parents, teachers, and other stakeholders to be catalysts for change, so that children who think that they can’t…learn that they can! To learn more about Eva, please visit the Trainer page on https://gurianinstitute.com/

To learn more about the Tele-Summit and to register, please go to http://helpingboysthrive.org/helping-boys-thrive-tele-summit/