We are proud to announce that Michael Gurian will provide two powerful and leading edge keynotes for the Summer Training Institute, one on Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys and Girls and the other on Poverty, Trauma, and Learning. While our virtual event will transpire mainly live via zoom over the June 26 – 27, 2021 weekend, the keynotes and the whole Summer Institute will be available to registrants through July 3, 2021. This allows your schools and teams to utilize the training on weekdays, as needed. We will also certify new trainers on Monday morning.
You can register as an individual on the website, https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2021/, or bring groups of five or more at a discount by contacting gail@gurianinstitute.com.
Here is more on Dr. Gurian’s keynotes, and comments from previous participants in our tele-summits and institutes.
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 safe, effective electronics and technology standards for various stages of child development.
Michael’s presentation will include PET, SPECT, and MRI scans that display brain differences, and he will bring the latest research in both of his newest nonfiction books, Saving Our Sons (2017) and The Minds of Girls (2018), focusing on educating, raising, and counseling boys, and educating, raising, and counseling girls.
Michael will also lead two working lunch discussions. The books that underlie these discussions are Saving Our Sons and The Stone Boys (2019) 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 school communities.
A note from Michael Gurian: “While we are all human and thus we experience many similarities with one another, fifty years of brain research also show us implicit and explicit differences in the various ways boys and girls experience life and education. Though these differences appear on a spectrum, contrary to what some people argue, difference is not a bad thing. The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke has a beautiful line, ‘What locks itself into sameness has congealed.” Dynamism lies much more in diversity than we might realize. For human institutions such a family and school systems to succeed with all children and the whole child, they must succeed first and foremost with boys and girls.”
Dr. Gurian’s Second keynote focuses on poverty- and trauma-informed classrooms, with a powerful eye towards empathy and resilience-building. Michael will help teachers, counselors, parents and others to develop trauma sensitive classrooms and environments across the socioeconomic and school spectrum. He will discuss the impact trauma has on the brains of children at various ages, and boys and girls specifically, including hidden trauma in the last year of the pandemic crisis, nutrition issues, sleeplessness, food allergies, and endocrine disruptors that constitute cellular and brain trauma. Participants will learn practical strategies for building strong relationships and attachments with traumatized children, as well as those raised in poverty.
Michael will also tell a bit of his own story. 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 trauma. We hope you will read The Stone Boys ahead of time for a deep dive into boys’ potential trauma-responses in particular.
Here is what participants have said about our past Training Institutes.
“I especially like the Gurian approach to STEM–it is brain-based in a way I have not seen anywhere else. I’ll take it back into our STEM school with confidence.”
“This training is for everyone–administrators, teachers, leaders, parents, and our kids themselves. Eye-opening, and so practical!”
“The brain-based approach to trauma-informed teaching adds a powerful layer to trauma training. This gender-brain perspective is the missing piece. Thank you!”
“The sessions were diverse and the presenters kept us focused not only on scientific theory but especially on Strategies! This was so important, so powerful for me.”
“I think of myself as ‘zoomed out’ these days, but Michael Gurian, Eva Dwight, and the whole GI team really know how to translate the material to the online format. The Tele-Summit worked very well.”
“I am becoming a Gurian Certified Trainer so that I can keep bringing this information to my school and our parent body. This weekend prepared me very well to keep the work going!”
“I came as a parent first and mental health counselor second, but I ended up learning a lot in both categories. I now believe this Gurian theory and strategies can change our counseling systems for the better, and I have a lot to take home with me.”
“The Gurian Institute consistently provides some of the best professional development I experience, and I have been teaching more than 25 years!”
“Understanding our birth – five kiddos from a gender brain perspective is mind shifting and so important. As an early childhood administrator, I leave this training with new tools in my toolbox and a priceless understanding.”
To learn more about our Summer Institute and to register, please click: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2021/.
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