The Council is a strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years.
The Council Facilitator Training - VIDEO! Thank you to the Maskwacis Justice Society for producing this video of the Cotati training in June!
Featured Activity Guide
for Teen Boys: Journey of the Great Warrior Empowering Minority and Disenfranchised Youth
18 Sessions including 8 Nature Sessions
Ages 13 – 18. $199 Journey of the Great Warrior recognizes the assets and barriers of marginalized youth. Using creative challenges, personal narratives, and the restorative environment of nature, it respectfully explores both effective and limiting survival strategies – such as addictions and aggression – and builds upon individual, collective and cultural assets to re-ignite young men’s healthy development and full potential. Recommended Prerequisite: Living a Legacy Activity Guide
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Are you an adult who cares about boys? Are you wondering how to encourage boys and young men to:act safely show respect in their relationships develop a healthy perspective see other’s points of view use good judgment and find their goals and dreams and go for them?
You will find The Council meets a core developmental need in boys for positive relationships. In this healthy and structured environment, boys and young men gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build their capacities to find their innate value and create good lives, individually and collectively!
“If we really want to rescue boys, protect boys, promote boyhood then our task must be to find ways to reveal and challenge this ideology of masculinity, this facile boys-will-be-boys model and to erode boys sense of entitlement. Because the reality is that this ideology is the problem for both girls and boys.
"The question, to my mind, is not whether or not we’re hard-wired, but rather which hard-wiring elements do we choose to honor and which we choose to challenge.”
- Michael Kimmel
Complete Set of Curricula
The Complete Set now includes our new guide: Journey of the Great Warrior! The set also comes with the Facilitator Manual and all three original Activity Guides —
fully developed male-responsive curricula to engage, challenge, celebrate, develop, and unite boys. Read more
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A $685 Value.Price: $599
Just Looking for The Council Manual? $99
This manual outlines the facilitator skills and tools needed to implement the strengths-based Council program within their organizational settings and is a potent tool that is full of practical, useful information presented in our workshop. Read more
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In The Council, boys and young men will:
Experience belonging and connection with adults and peers
Discover the principles they want to live by
Recognize others’ perspectives and experiences
Develop empathic skills
Participate in fun and stimulating activities
Find motivation and courage to act on their principles
Desire to act with self-respect
Find respect for girls and women, and for all those that theyperceive as vulnerable
Embrace the power within themselves and within their bonds as a community
Learn to be allies with one another and within all of their relationships
Find restored hope, belief, and skills to live a good life
act safely 
