The terms “masculinity” and “toxic masculinity” are used quite a bit in our culture. Last year a wing of the American Psychological Association produced “Guidelines for Practice with Boys and Men,” equating masculinity with mainly negative characteristics, and guiding therapists to try to remove masculinity from male clients as the best way to make men whole. Michael Gurian and others in the boy’s development field were asked to respond to …
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December 7, 2020
My Visit to the Forge School – a Place of Hope, Adventure, and Growth As I drove up to the Forge School in early November, I saw green meadows out of which mountains rose in a fall setting. On my windshield, sun blazed out of blue space between clouds. Around me were shocks of autumn colors on the trees. Pulling up to the gold and brown school building, stepping out …
December 21, 2020
If you haven’t looked recently at our Products page, we hope you will click https://gurianinstitute.com/products/ and look at the products we offer. One of those is our 4 plus hour Online Course featuring Michael Gurian. You can get more specifics about this course at https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/. The course can be used by whole school teams on Professional Development days. A school superintendent who used it with his staff called it “a …
November 10, 2020
For more than 20 years, the Gurian Institute has been certifying trainers to provide professional development and consulting in schools, organizations, and communities both in the United States and abroad. You can meet some of our trainers on https://gurianinstitute.com/trainers/. Last year, we announced a major new “Trainer in Every School!” initiative, which is about equipping every school with at least one certified trainer in house who can train faculty, staff, …
November 28, 2020
People are signing up from around the world and throughout the country for our Winter Training Institute! We hope you will join them. This even will take place as a Tele-Summit on Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2021 with the recorded sessions available for registrants until January 30. For those people who would like to become Gurian Certified Trainers, there will be an additional training session on Monday morning, January …
November 20, 2020
To publish this blog this week may seem counter-intuitive as Covid cases rise around the country and the world, but please bear with me. I believe, even if you disagree with what I argue here, there is no harm in looking at our present situation through this social-science-based lens, especially as our Covid Response isolates and negatively impacts so many children. “The life of the average American child today …
October 25, 2020
Are you looking for a hands-on, easy-to-use, and exciting professional development experience that fits your budget? Do you work with boys and girls as an educator, counselor, parent, or agency? Have you noticed issues boys and girls were each facing before Covid and now in the Covid era? Do you want immediate practical strategies and solutions at your fingertips, no matter your profession? If your answer to any of these …
January 4, 2021
Our friend and one of the sponsors of our Wonder of Parenting Podcast is the psychologist, Dr. Gregory Jantz. He is author of more than 30 books in psychology and education and co-founder of The Center, A Place of Hope. Dr. Jantz and his team have provided this week’s blog post on a key topic of American life, though many Americans (and world citizens, too) don’t realize how significant the …
October 19, 2020
At our Winter Training Institute, educators and innovators Marion Hill, Josh Nordean, Shirleen Lombard, Joseph Moody, and Amy Coe will provide powerful workshops on crucial topics for educating and raising boys and girls. Have you registered yet for our Winter Tele-Summit? To learn more and to register, please click: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2021/. In these difficult times, doesn’t it feel supportive and inspiring to come to a place of stability and cohesion in …
January 8, 2021
The Gurian Institute is proud to be a consulting partner with the new The Forge School (Forge), a leading edge residential treatment center for boys from 14-17 in Benton, Tennessee. Its 55 acres border rivers and wetlands, making it a perfect location. Forge is a new school but its parent organization, the Calo Division of Embark, is a premier agency in the residential treatment space, and Forge brings that experience …
October 8, 2020
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