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 …
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March 29, 2021
We are proud to announce that Dr. Glynetta Fletcher and Marion Hill will provide two powerful and leading edge keynotes for the Summer Training Institute. Dr. Fletcher will speak on The Equity Solution and Marion Hill on The Paternal Nurturance Asset. While our virtual event will transpire mainly live via zoom over the June 26 – 27, 2021 weekend, everything will be available to registrants through July 3, 2021. This …
March 12, 2021
The Center, A Place of Hope, has been a sponsor of our Wonder of Parenting podcast for more than two years. Dr. Gregory Jantz has been a friend of the Gurian Institute for more than a decade, partnering with us to bring Helping Boys Thrive Summits to the Seattle area. He and Michael Gurian also wrote a book together in 2012, Raising Boys by Design. Michael was honored to write …
March 4, 2021
We are proud to announce that our Summer Training Institute is all set for June 26-27, 2021! We hope this is the last time we will need to do either our Winter or Summer Institute via zoom, and yet we have discovered advantages to this format, too. More people from around the world can join, and the keynotes and workshops can be available for your viewing and participation the whole …
February 28, 2021
What is “reality”? It is lived phenomena empirically processed by the brain’s intimate embrace of lived experience. What is “shared reality”? It is the collective embrace of empirical experience and data through the lens of common sense. In Parts I and II of this blog, I used neurobiology and citizen science to help you look at how media/social media bombard and often traumatize adult and children’s brains. If you have …
February 19, 2021
As an expert in child development, I have been vocal for years about my concerns regarding the role of media and social media in adult’s and children’s lives—especially the potentially detrimental effects on all our brains. Please go to www.gurianinstitute.com to read Part I of the series. Part III will be published soon. Because Part II continues where Part I left off, I hope you will read Part I before …
February 5, 2021
Six seemingly disparate elements stimulate this analysis: the assault on Congress at the beginning of January and its connection to election results and an election-fraud movement; the murder of George Floyd last year and the concomitant defund the police movement; the pandemic responses nationwide over the last year that have resulted in school shutdowns; media and social media coverage of gender and sex issues; the Queen’s Gambit series about a …
January 28, 2021
Girls and women are entering STEM fields in large numbers. As a father of two grown daughters, I feel both happiness and relief when I see this sea change. Especially in the S (Science) part of the STEM/STEAM acronym, females have caught up to and are, in some schools, surpassing male participation. For instance, there are now more women entering med school than men, and women are engaging in biology-centered …
September 10, 2020
We are so proud of our speakers and participants in our Winter Institute. Thank you all! Through crazy times and after a crazy year, the Zoom event went smoothly and the more than 200 participants gained knowledge and strategies with which to help their students and children press forward in 2021. Our speakers covered the minds of boys and girls, leading edge science on trauma-response, working with children of color, …
January 23, 2021
The Gurian Institute’s podcast just hit 1,000,000 downloads! We are so proud of our listeners for supporting us. If you haven’t heard it, the podcast is called The Wonder of Parenting: A Brain Science Approach to Parenting. It is specifically for parents, teachers, and others raising children from birth to college age. Tim Wright hosts the podcast and Michael Gurian answers questions from listeners and provides parenting advice. You can …
February 12, 2021
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