Boys Become Men, male mentorship and rites of passage in the 21st century

July 13, 201912:00 pm12:50 pm
We have a problem in America. 1 in 3 children, ages 8-18 are growing up without any grownups to look to. This is the mentoring gap and it affects over 18 million kids here in the states. Jordan would like to share his experience as a boy and the expectations and assumptions of manhood that he held. His work with Journeymen, focuses around teaching boys emotional intelligence and modeling authenticity and vulnerability as men. The goal is to discuss the issues of fatherlessness, a narrow definition of masculinity, and emotional illiteracy in boys and to explore some solutions to this. There
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