If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of people around the world living with a disability like mental illness, finding relief can be crucial. Your work or your career might sometimes amplify symptoms like stress, sleeplessness, or a lack of focus. You may have found some relief when working from home, but finding tools to reduce stress and encourage relaxation can be very useful, alleviating tension and improving day-to-day …

The National Fatherhood Initiative is the largest program we know of supporting fathers and through fathers, children, wives, partners, and families.  Few issues in society today are as important as the father’s role in child development. We are pleased to welcome Christopher Brown, President of the NFI, to our pages today.  He has provided this guest blog on Fathering and a new strategies-focused program for supporting fathers and families.   …

Tim Wright has written on this blog before, and often about a crucial subject:  Rites of Passage and Coming of Age programs.   Now Tim has penned his own Coming of Age novel, an absorbing and powerful rite of passage adventure involving young Toby Baxter.  This children’s/young adult novel is actually a great read for us adults, too.  I gulped it down in two sittings. Today’s blog post features Tim’s new …

I begin this fourth essay in our Resilience series with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words from Self-Reliance. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.  Accept the place that divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events…we must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny, not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, …

This week we feature a guest blog by Sean Kullman, Director of the Global Initiative for Boys and Men, that analyzes the work the Gurian Institute has been doing in schools and communities over the last 25 years.  Thank you, Sean, for this analysis! In his blog post, Sean mentions our Summer Institute next week.  To learn more and to register, please click:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2022/.  Now, here is Sean’s blog post. …

Tim Wright is a bridge builder between secular and faith communities, and a powerful teacher who will speak at our Summer Institute in June.   Today’s newsletter features a guest blog from Tim. To learn more about our Summer Institute and to register, please visit the Event page on www.gurianinstitute.com.  You can register as an individual on the website or send groups to the event by emailing gail@gurianinstitute.com. From Michael Gurian:  …

  We hope you will join us for our Summer Institute. The boy crisis–and thus a national safety crisis–will get discussed at this Zoom Training event as we all work together to protect our children–and to understand why they do what they do. Because I have been interviewed a great deal over the last two weeks about the shootings, I have been working to give a realistic picture of what …