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 …

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 …

Dr. Gregory Jantz, who spoke at our Summer Institute this year, wrote Raising Boys By Design, with Michael Gurian, sponsored the Wonder of Parenting Podcast, and, with his wife LaFon, was a close friend of Michael and Gail Gurian, has just passed away from an accident with his car.  We are deeply saddened by his loss. To point to his life-wisdom and to his legacy, we are publishing his most …

Welcome to our Summer Newsletters.  Today we hope you to enjoy the wisdom of a friend of the Gurian Institute, and a very wise parenting expert, Jennifer Fink, who writes the Building Boys Bulletin on Substack – https://buildingboys.substack.com/.  Her original post is here:  https://buildingboys.substack.com/p/my-summer-success-equation. While we at GI continue to caution every parent about letting kids have inordinate screen time  (and Jennifer agrees), still, Jennifer’s comments on gaming and future …

There is still time!  Our Summer Institute is Virtual this weekend, June 21 – 22.  The Pre-Service workshops and bonus keynotes are already available to registrants.  Register now and you’ll get two and a half weeks, until July 6, to explore the content.  To learn more and register visit:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2025/. To bring groups of 5 of more, contact Dakota Hoyt at info@gurianinstitute.com.  To become a Certified Gurian Trainer at …

Our Summer Institute happens on Zoom next Weekend, June 21 – 22, but the Pre-Service workshops and bonus keynotes are available to registrants starting this Monday, June 16, 2024.  This gives you a week to get all of that knowledge before the start of the Training Weekend. To take advantage of the Pre-Service recordings and the whole Summer Training Institute, visit:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2025/.   You can register on the website all the way …

Our Virtual Summer Training Institute is later this month!   Rob Kodama and young women he has coached over the last decades will provide a unique workshop. To join this workshop, learn more about our Summer Training Institute, and to register, click here:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2025/. Because each keynote and workshop is recorded, registrants can watch the pre-service workshops before the event, and watch all keynote and workshop recordings after, as well.  For …