Paul Cumbo (paulcumbo.substack.com) is one of our keynoters at the What Boys Need As Males Conference on Zoom in January. To learn more about Paul and the other speakers and to register, click here: https://helpingboysthrive.org/what-boys-need-as-males-conference/. The Conference is free but it is important to register so that you can participate. This week we wanted to feature a conversation between Paul and Steve Hadaway, Academic Dean at Riverside Preparatory Academy in …
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October 16, 2025
Our What Boys Need As Males Conference is honored to feature a luminary in brain science and male/female development, Dr. Daniel Amen. Dr. Amen has appeared on PBS multiple times and also on nearly all major national and international media. Today’s newsletter features his topic and biography. The Conference is free but you need to register to participate. Registration is easy. Please go to https://helpingboysthrive.org/what-boys-need-as-males-conference/. On that site you can …
October 11, 2025
Our What Boys Need As Males Conference will feature luminaries and practitioners in the field of male development. Dr. John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is one of those speakers in both categories. Today’s newsletter features his topic and biography. The Conference is free but you need to register to participate. Registration is easy. Please go to https://helpingboysthrive.org/what-boys-need-as-males-conference/. On that site you can learn …
October 3, 2025
Introducing you to the Sponsors of the January What Boys Need As Males Conference is a great way to deepen the vision of the Conference for you. The sponsors have been working in the field of male development for more than thirty five years. To register for our free conference, please visit www.helpingboysthrive.org. Dr. Paul Golding, Dr. Bonnie Ellinger, Dr. Michael Gurian, and Gail Reid-Gurian, via the Santa Fe …
September 28, 2025
We are proud to announce a new Conference on Zoom: What Boys Need As Males: A Global Conversation on Raising Boys into Men in the 21st Century. This conference is sponsored by the Santa Fe Boys Fund and the Gurian Foundation. Today’s blog post introduces you to the conference which will be on Zoom from January 23 – 26, 2026. Attendance is free, but please register via the website …
September 19, 2025
Our newsletter today is by Tim Wright, host of the Wonder of Parenting podcast with Michael Gurian (wonderofparenting.com), author of timwrightbooks.substack.com, and author of the Toby Baxter young adult book series. Tim will speak at our What Boys Need As Males Conference in January 2026 (www.helpingboysthrive.org). On their podcast, Tim and Michael are often asked about good screen time rules for kids. Today, Tim offers insights into the question from …
September 12, 2025
Earlier in the year, we proudly announced that Army and Navy Academy (ANA) in Carlsbad, CA had become a Gurian Center for Educational Excellence. ANA has continued its work with the Gurian Institute (GI) this summer and fall and GI has completed an Independent Study of the school to be published soon. Michael Gurian will be speaking to educators and parents at ANA on September 19 and 20. To …
September 5, 2025
Paul Cumbo has been a high school teacher for more than two decades. He also runs The Camino Institute, and he has authored Wilderness Therapy, his latest non-fiction work, A Path to Manhood, and other acclaimed books. Paul has been studying social media use, especially among young adults, for a long time. We are delighted to publish his blog post from paulcumbo.substack.com as the subject of today’s newsletter. It is a powerful and very useful …
August 27, 2025
Therapist Tom Golden has written extensively on social issues over the last many decades. This week we share with you his Substack article on offending, taking things too personally, resilience, and many other important themes all packed into one powerful article. To learn more about Tom’s work, check out Swallowing the Snake, an important book about working through grief and loss, acclaimed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. You might also like his …
August 14, 2025
Tim Wright, a retired pastor and author of many books including the Toby Baxter series of Young Adult novels, is also the host of the Gurian Institute’s Wonder of Parenting: A Brain Science Approach to Parenting Podcast. The podcast has recently made two of the top parenting podcasts lists. In today’s guest blog post, Tim discusses an important issue then is joined by Michael Gurian and Daniel Parlato, a Master …
August 1, 2025
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