We are delighted to offer you and your teams an array of possibilities for participation in this June’s Summer Training Institute.   This is our annual training, networking, and strategy-driven educational event for anyone working with boys and girls.  Michael Gurian’s keynotes will add a focus on resilience-building through the lens’ of boys and girls’ developing minds and emotions, especially as they are evolving in and through the Covid era.

On https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2022/, you can learn more about the Virtual event and register.  We have group discounts available.  We hope you will bring teams from near and far to this year’s training so that environments in your part of the world can affect systemic change.   Here’s more about Michael Gurian’s keynotes and the conference.

Keynote, June 25, The Future Has Found Us: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys and Girls in Our “Post-Covid” World.

We are living already in our future–one of intense digital and tech use among our children, especially necessitated by pandemic response but ongoing as we come out of the pandemic.  Our future definitions of sex and gender are also being negotiated now, in social media, academe, and our schools.  The future has found us.

In this dynamic keynote presentation, Dr. Gurian will explore how the minds of boys and girls learn and grow, including brain differences that impact K – 12 education, early childhood, and social emotional development throughout the lifespan.  He will provide insight into best teaching, parenting, counseling, and mentoring practices for both girls and boys and reveal safe, effective electronics and technology standards for various stages of child development in a “heightened digital use” Post-Covid world.

Michael’s presentation will include PET, SPECT, and MRI scans that display sexual dimorphism (male/female brain differences) as he focuses on educating, raising, and counseling boys, and educating, raising, and counseling girls, as well as all children throughout the sex and gender spectrum.  The sciences of sex and gender are race and gender inclusive already, if we know how to look at them and utilize them.

Michael will lead two working lunch discussions, as well.  The books that underlie these discussions are Saving Our Sons and The Stone Boys for Saturday and The Minds of Girls for Sunday.  We hope you will read these books ahead of time.  In these working lunches, we will study and strategize regarding violence/suicide prevention, and mental and emotional health in our schools, families, and communities.

Second Keynote, June 25. Building Resilience in Children: Gender-Specific, Poverty-Sensitive, and Trauma-Informed Strategies for Helping Boys and Girls Thrive

Dr. Gurian’s Second keynote focuses on children’s resilience-building in school, at home, and in our communities.  Michael will help us look at our role in resilience-building and provide strategies for developing trauma-informed, poverty-sensitive classrooms and environments.   Participants will learn how to build strong relationships and attachments with traumatized boys and girls, as well as those raised in poverty, and how to provide resilience-building for all children.

Michael will also tell a bit of his own story, both of trauma and resilience-development.  A product of early childhood trauma, he scores a 7 out of 10 on the Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACE survey.  The publication of his newest book, The Stone Boys, made public some of his own childhood trauma.  We hope you will read The Stone Boys ahead of time for a deep dive into boys’ potential trauma-responses in particular.  Resilience-building is a crucial part of child success and this keynote explores it with brain science as a focus.

Thank You Greater Phoenix Urban League!

With sponsorship from the Greater Phoenix Urban League, we are proud to once again provide an Early Childhood Track this year that runs concurrent with our K – 12 track.   Many thanks to Natalie Alvarez, Marion Hill, and everyone at Greater Phoenix Urban League, Head Start of Phoenix, and Booker T. Washington School who make this possible.  All keynotes at the Summer Institute will cover children from birth to college age, then the two separate workshop tracks will focus on their age groups.

To register and learn more, please visit:  On https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2022/.  Thank you.