This training helps
professionals working with boys, youth and adult males:
*Develop new implementation strategies
*Adapt therapeutic environments to meet
specific needs
*Understand brain, attachment &
age-related biochemical changes
*Adapt existing programs to implement
innovations of nature-based theory
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To learn more about this
training, or bring it to your organization, contact Kathy Stevens, Executive Director,
at kathy@thegitd.com or call 877-382-7653.
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FROM MICHAEL GURIAN:
In the early 1990s, I discovered that most
professionals were leaving college and graduate school programs without
having been trained in the minds of boys and men. Surprisingly,
in the middle of the first decade of a new millennium, this is still
the case! Boys and men are struggling in social and behavioral areas,
but wisdom and innovation about their inner lives is not consistently
available to professionals working with them. When it is available, it
is often too scant. As a result, too many
professionals lack a strong base for male-focused programming, and too
many boys and men are being under-served or, in worst cases, lost.
The intention of this Gurian Institute program
is to help fill this gap—and go even farther! In
this training, you’ll increase your understanding of boys and men. You’ll delve deeply into both male biology and
male culture. You’ll leave this training
with clear implementation strategies for dealing with boys and men in
your programs, practices and organizations. You’ll
see PET and SPECT scans of how the brains of boys and men work. You’ll explore male culture from the inside
out.
This training hopes to challenge your
personal and social frameworks wherever they need challenge, and
support them wherever they need more support. My
colleagues and I hope that, as a result of this experience, you’ll
become more effective, personally and professionally.
We also hope you’ll leave this training
understanding boys and men in a way you never have before.
And of course—we hope you’ll enjoy yourself. Boys and men are a challenge, but they can
also be some of the most passionate, interesting, and rewarding people
to work with.
