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In the summit, we will explore boys\u2019 physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs. The summit will bring together science-based principles with practical solutions.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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KEYNOTE<\/span>
\nMichael Gurian\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Co-founder of Helping Boys Thrive\u00ae Summits<\/h3>\n

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Michael Gurian is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books published in twenty two languages. The Gurian Institute, which he co-founded, conducts research internationally, launches pilot programs and trains professionals. Co-founder of the national Helping Boys Thrive Initiative, Michael travels to dozens of communities every year to help catalyze social change on behalf of children.In this inspirational, practical, and humorous presentation, renowned educator, marriage and family counselor, and New York Times bestselling author Michael Gurian (THE WONDER OF BOYS) focuses on helping boys thrive in our communities, schools, homes, and emotional life. Participants and audience members will learn a great deal about girls as well, since the lives of boys and girls are completely interwoven in today\u2019s world, and gender develops in all human beings on a broad gender spectrum. Based on more than twenty-five years of science-based research, this keynote will trace the neuro-science of gender and child development, how boys\u2019 minds and hearts learn and grow in particular, how acculturation influences boys and young men, and what best practices professionals can use immediately in their work with boys and men. Michael will present not only the developmental science of male life but proven methods by which to mentor and educate males so that they thrive. Michael has been called \u201cthe people\u2019s philosopher\u201d for his ability to dynamically combine cutting edge science with stories from people\u2019s everyday lives. He was one of the first child advocates to name the developmental crises boys and men face in today\u2019s changing and high-pressure world. This initial activism led to the founding of the Gurian Institute, a science-based organization whose innovations are used worldwide. As he brings this material and experience to life in this keynote, Michael will provide a new logic model for ensuring healthy male development in our Arizona communities. To learn more about Michael\u2019s work, please click\u00a0www.michaelgurian.com<\/a>. To register for the Arizona Helping Boys Thrive Summit, click here.<\/p>\n

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\nTim Wright<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Tim_book<\/a>Tim Wright has been a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since 1984. In 2005 he started Community of Grace, in Peoria, AZ. He\u2019s authored five books, including his most recent\u2013Searching for Tom Sawyer: How Parents and Congregations Can Stop the Exodus of Boys from Church,<\/i>\u00a0and has trained pastors and church leaders throughout the US and around the world. Along with Michael Gurian he co-created the rite of passage program:\u00a0Following Jesus: A Heroic Quest for Boys.\u00a0<\/i>He and his wife, Jan, raised a daughter and a son. They are now happily investing their lives in their 4 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Workshop:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Raising Boys into Men: Rites of Passage<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Since the beginning of time cultures have understood that boys must be strategically trained to be men. \u00a0Called a rite of passage, the process varies from culture to culture but the purpose is the same: to take a boy through challenges, mentoring, adventures, and an ultimate test to begin to forge him into a good man. \u00a0More often than not, without a rite of passage boys grow up to become either passive men or violent men. \u00a0This workshop will look at how we can reclaim rites of passage for our boys in order to reclaim them for heroic manhood.<\/p>\n

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Vance Simms\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Vance<\/a>Vance Simms is Founder \/ Executive Director of Father Matters INC. Mr. Simms is a Certified Life Coach, author, radio host and publisher of the Father Matters Tribune, a monthly electronic publication that reaches thousands of subscribers nationwide. \u00a0Mr. Simms has been acknowledged for his service to the community and dedication to meet the needs of families through increased collaboration and coordination with system partners.<\/p>\n

Vance provides insight to community partners and organizations on how they can successfully engage fathers and create sustainable life changes in men.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 How to out reach specifically to fathers of all kinds
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\n\u2022 Providing topics and resources that are father specific, father friendly and culturally appropriate
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Dakota Hoyt<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"dakota_hoyt<\/a>Dakota Hoyt has been in education for 30 years as a teacher, math\/science specialist, assistant principal, director of professional development, and\u00a0as an educational consultant.Over her career she has experienced that there is no quick fix to complex educational problems.\u00a0 Her approach is to have educational staff focus on what instruction is best for all students to be successful (results).\u00a0 She does this by having the staff identify where they are currently being successful (data), identify the students that are falling through the cracks (data), and analyze possible underlying issues. With this critical information she helps the staff discover \u201cnew\u201d strategies and tools (research) to redesign their best educational practices for all students.Dakota has been associated with the Gurian Institute since 2004 as a Master Trainer and became Executive Director in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0Previously, she was also Gurian Institute Project Director, working with her mentor, Kathy Stevens, on a number of one to three year Gurian Institute training programs in schools and districts.Dakota\u2019s keynotes and training\u00a0work spans Early Head Start through college students and parent groups at the local, national and international level.What educators are saying about Dakota\u2019s training:\u201cThe best thing about this training was the relevancy to\u00a0all\u00a0grades and to\u00a0life\/understanding of the opposite sex!\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u201cExcellent presenter\u2014very engaging and informed\u2014lots of movement and good information and practical examples to use in my classroom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Workshop:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Practical Strategies for Educating\u00a0Boys<\/span><\/h4>\n

This session will give you common sense strategies for engaging boys that can be implemented immediately. \u00a0Most strategies can be adapted to work with boys from early childhood through adolescence at home, school, and in other youth related environments.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Adie Goldberg<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Adie-Goldberg-214x300<\/a>Adie Goldberg, LCSW, M.Ed, has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for more than 25 years. She has worked as a private practice clinician and an embedded social worker in both an OB-GYN practice and a large psychiatric counseling practice. As a professor of graduate and undergraduate social workers at University of British Columbia, Eastern Washington University and Portland State University, she has taught classes in individual, family and group therapy, diagnosis, case management and supervision. In addition to clinical and University teaching, Adie has supervised nurses, social workers completing clinical licensing hours, and therapists receiving advanced couples and family treatment certification at Gonzaga University. As a certified Gurian Institute trainer, Adie has integrated gender-based principles into both her teaching and clinical work, innovating new strategies for counselor effectiveness with both genders. Adie has co-authored two books with Michael Gurian, It\u2019s a Baby Boy! and It\u2019s a Baby Girl! (Jossey-Bass\/John Wiley).<\/p>\n

Workshop:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Working with Boys and Men in Therapeutic Settings<\/span><\/h4>\n

Based on the Gurian nature-based intervention model, this workshop will focus on core therapeutic issues that counselors, school psychologists, social workers and other professionals encounter with males. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their current practice model, identify obstacles they have experienced with males, and apply new, effective strategies for their work with boys and men. Adie integrates theory and practice with self-deprecating humor as she recalls her own 20 plus years of \u201clearning as I went\u201d with males. Participants will leave the workshop ready to institute new strategies, communication techniques, and therapeutic options the next day.<\/p>\n

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Katey McPherson<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Katey<\/a>Katey McPherson is an Assistant Principal in the Gilbert School District and one of the Authors of the Book, Why Teens Fail: What to Fix<\/em>. \u00a0She is a veteran school teacher with experience as a middle school guidance counselor and assistant principal. She is also the founder of the S.H.E. Forum (Sharing Healthy Experiences) forums that began this call to action regarding teens and families. She was motivated to start the forum and start a community dialogue about teen issues when a struggling middle school student brought a knife to her school and attempted to commit suicide. With four daughters of her own, she strives to bring solutions to parents and teens so they can survive and thrive in the challenging age of social networking and digital media. She also launched a bullying prevention program called BE THE ONE. Katey holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Spanish and Secondary Education from Michigan State University and a Master\u2019s Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Arizona State University.<\/p>\n

Workshop:<\/span> Boys and Bullying:\u00a0How To Raise Socially Competent Boys<\/span><\/h4>\n

One of the many challenges that our students face on a daily basis is the challenge of peer pressure, conflict, and resolving these issues in dignified ways at school and beyond the classroom and school walls including social media and the internet. In this workshop, participants will explore a practical approach \u00a0to creating a school culture where dignity is embraced, where social competence is welcomed and upheld, by both students and trusted adults. Specific strategies and interventions to use when relational aggression occurs will be presented.<\/span>
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