The Gurian Institute is honored to join with community organizers in April to bring you two Helping Boys Thrive Summits.  One is an in-person event in Spokane, Washington, April 23, 2022 sponsored by the Kellen Cares Foundation, featuring keynoters Michael Gurian and Tim Wright with workshops by local professionals.   The other is a Tele-Summit on April 29 – 30, sponsored by the Washingon, D.C. based The Boys Initiative, featuring keynoters Marion Hill and Michael Gurian with workshops by the Boys Initiative’s Advisory Board members, including Warren Farrell, Mark Perry, Ali Carr-Chelman and many others.

We hope you will join these powerful events.  Here’s more about each event and the Helping Boys Thrive Initiative.

We began the Helping Boys Thrive® initiative ten years ago as a way to help raise community awareness about boys’ issues and  to bring solutions to cities and regions.   As some events have gone online these last two years, we’ve found the Initiative spreading further to national and international audiences.  Now, people from around the country and around the world can learn and inspire one another to make systemic change on behalf of boys.  Participants in the past ten years of Helping Boys Thrive Summits® have agreed that what we do for boys will also help girls and adults.  We are all in this together!

To learn more about the Kellen Cares Foundation and the Spokane, WA event sponsored by the Foundation, please visit www.kellencares.org and https://kellencares.org/events.  You can register for the event on that site.  If you will be anywhere in the Pacific Northwest on April 23, we hope you’ll come!  The Kellen Cares Foundation is a leading edge non-profit organization promoting and exploring the mental health of boys.  This is their first annual event.

To learn more about Washington, D.C. based The Boys Initiative, please visit www.boysinitiative.org.  This leading edge non-profit organization is committed to exploring issues and trends affecting the well-being and success of boys.  The Boys Initiative provides information and programs to policy makers and sponsors boy-positive programs such as the Tele-Summit on April 29 – 30.  To learn more about the event and to register, please visit:  www.helpingboysthrive.org/boysinitiative/.

More About These Summits

The Helping Boys Thrive Summit® is generally a one – two day event that brings together professionals, parents, educators, and community stakeholders who are raising, educating, and working with boys and young men.  To learn more about the  two events and past and future events, as well as the Helping Boys Thrive Initiative®, please visit www.helpingboysthrive.org.

Here are some comments from previous participants in our Summits:

“Fantastic!  Great presentations, fascinating information on the differences between boys and girls, and how we can better adapt modern education to serve boys and young men better than we do.”

“Wonderful presentations, beneficial, and at times very moving.”

“The presentations hit the core of our desires and dreams for men and boys. I took A LOT of notes.  There is so much value and useful information to take back immediately to our homes and schools.”

“This Summit should be required viewing for everyone working with, raising, and educating boys.  Incredibly valuable!”

“The keynotes and breakouts were easy to understand, they gave information that can be easily applied to work in any field.”

“So interesting and important, it resonated with me as a mom of a son, a teacher, and mental health consultant.”

“I found myself thinking of so many boys at my school and what we can do to better serve them. Loved the brain scans.”

“Loved it! I am seeing boys in a whole different light.  Great information and statistics.”

“Loved the ideas, enjoyed the strategies, practical takeaways, clear concepts to take back to our classrooms tomorrow!”

We hope you will join these events.  To learn more and to register, check out www.kellencares.org/events/ and www.helpingboysthrive.org/boysinitiative/.

Thank you!