What Boys Need As Males Conference:
A Global Conversation on Raising Boys into Men in the 21st Century

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These Keynotes, Interview, and Panel Will Be Available on this Conference Website on January 23 and 26, 2026

Recordings from experts who were not available on the two days of the Live Zoom conference, from overseas, and/or who joined Michael Gurian for interviews will be available on January 23 and January 26. We are honored that so many renowned social thinkers can join this conference in all of these various ways.

Dr. Leonard Sax, Motivating Boys: The Key to Success

Dr. Michael Thompson, interviewed by Michael Gurian, Believing in Our Boys

Maggie Dent (Australia), Mothering Our Boys

Kenny Mammarala-D’Cruz (England, Uganda), What Men Need

Robert Samery (Canada), What It Is To Be Male in A Shifting Cultural Landscape

Tim Wright, Sacred Masculinity, Sacred Manhood, and Faith

Barry Shreiar, What Works for Boys in a Boys’ School 

Panel Discussion, Asian High School Students. What Boys Need as Males in School from Asian Perspectives

Dr Gregory Jantz, The Anxiety Reset

Dr. John Barry (England), What Is Male-Centred Therapy

Paul Cumbo, Excavating Joy: A Crucial Element for Young Men

Lauren Paiva, Helping Our Youngest Boys Thrive

Neil Bierbaum, The Importance of Hope for Young Men

Live Schedule for Our What Boys Need As Males Conference

All Sessions are Listed in U.S. Pacific Time.

Links to all Sessions and all Schedules will be sent to you via email. Please make sure you have provided your best email address (least likely to go to spam) when you register at the bottom of this page.

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Saturday, January 24, 2026 Live Sessions

8:30 – 8:55 The Male Brain and What Boys Need: Setting the Stage with Dr. Michael Gurian

9:00 – 9:55 Keynote, The Boy Crisis and the Fatherhood Advantage, with Dr. Warren Farrell 

10:00 – 10:55 Keynote, Beyond Mars and Venus, with Dr. John Gray

11:00 – 11:55  Keynote, He Is Not A Gladiator, with Dr. Glynetta Fletcher

12:00 – 12:55  Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:55  Keynote, Authentic Fatherhood, with Marion Hill and Edward Casillas

2:00 – 2:55 Keynote, The War Against Boys, with Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers

3:00 – 3:55 Keynote, Pathways of Success for Men, with Dr. David Geary

End of Day 1

Sunday, January 25, 2026 Sessions

8:30 – 8:55 More About the Male Brain with Dr. Daniel Amen, Interviewed by Michael Gurian, Pre-Recorded

9:00 – 9:55 Keynote, Saving Our Sons: Nurturing the Male Brain, with Dr. Michael Gurian

10:00 – 10:55 Keynote, Boys, A Rescue Plan: Solutions for Saving Our Sons, with Sean Kullman

11:00 – 11:55  Keynote, Educating Boys of Color: What We Know Works, with Dr. Daryl Howard

12:00 – 12:55  Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:55  Keynote, An Evolutionary Approach to Boys’ Success, with Dr. Jed Diamond

2:00 – 2:55 Keynote, Strategies for Fathering, Mentoring, and Educating Boys, with Troy Kemp

3:00 – 3:55 Keynote, Waking Women Up to the Boy Crisis, with Lisa Britton

End of Day 2

Logistics for the Recordings

You will be sent an email that includes links by which you can participate in the conference. Please make sure we have your best email address (i.e. one that will not go to your spam folder) for correspondence and access.  You won’t have to miss a single session!  

Schedule is subject to change.

Please send any questions to info@gurianinstitute.com. 

The mental health crisis facing our boys and men, from inordinate suicide and overdose deaths, to increased depression, anxiety, brain disorders, and violence.

How the field of neuroscience is altering what we know about the psychology and education of children in early childhood, K-12, adolescence, college age, and in male adulthood.

The specific needs and issues of boys from birth to adulthood, including analysis of the gender spectrum, with focus on male social-emotional development, healthy masculinity, and male growth to manhood.

The education crisis facing our boys and what is working around the country, and indeed the world, to solve the crisis, including increasing the number of male teachers and the neuroscience-based Boys and Girls Learn Differently® program.

What is needed politically, publicly and legislatively to end the boy crisis whether on our national, state-and-province, and local levels, including community action, fatherhood programs, and mentoring programs that are already bearing fruit.

How the field of counseling psychology needs to shift as soon as possible to better assess and assist male development, especially to include the male brain perspective and respect for males’ innate assets.

The development of new logic models and the increase of already successful strategies for motivation, learning, and behavioral intervention, beginning at birth, and proceeding into emerging adulthood, for boys and men

The important roles of mothers, fathers, and “the village” in boys’ lives including what works best for parenting boys, how to heal the fatherhood and purpose-crises in boys’ development today, what constitutes an at risk male, and how to help him.

How solving boys’ and men’s issues, including the growing boy crisis, is crucial for helping women and girls, too, and how women and girls can get involved in essential practices on behalf of males without losing any political ground.