Our Summer Training Institute 2026 occurs online this June 26 – 27, 2026. We hope you can attend individually or in groups from your schools and communities. To learn more and to register, please visit: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2026/.  As always, the Training is innovative, practical, strategic, and inspiring. The Trainings will be recorded, thus available for three weeks beyond the days of the Training. If the weekend does not work for …

Our Gurian Summer Training Institute will take place virtually on June 27 – 28. This will be our 28th Summer Training Institute on how boys and girls learn and grow differently, and the theory and strategies that allow for each child’s potential to be realized in classrooms and beyond. We do this event virtually so that schools and organizations can participate in small cohorts and large groups, including full …

The What Boys Need As Males Conference was last weekend. Thank you all for making it such a big success! This was, and still is, truly a global conversation. We have had more than 2,000 people worldwide register for the Conference. Countless more will watch the sessions on You Tube. Our deep thanks to all of our speakers who delivered powerful content and thus have helped us move the …

In two recent conferences on boys’ mental health, political confusion around “gender,” “masculinity,” and “social construction” took up a lot of time. At one conference, talking about the male brain was considered “boring” despite that the male brain is where male mental health resides. At another conference a speaker told the group that using the word “male” was ineffective in politics and media because advocates for women and trans …