Six men featured in a new book "A Global Dialogue on Masculinity" discuss how to achieve gender equality: Authors shanti branch, Jed Dimond, Warren Farrell, Jack Kammer, Jeffer Kinoti, Andrew Smiler and John Stoltenberg.

University student Weirong Li is a multi-lingual, multicultural founder of "Raw Culture" for intercultural understanding for third culture kids. https://joinrawculture.com  Born in Hungary to Chinese parents she studies communication in Vienna.

The 30 couples’ featured in "Happy Marriage" emphasized being able to compromise, overcome selfishness, never give up, and structure in couple time. Those with previous marriages felt they learned from them how to have a more satisfying relationship, often with the help of a counselor. Couples learned to stick to their own feelings rather than blame their partner and many learned from a therapist how to communicate more effectively and felt closer and developed trust after working through disagreements. Dr. David Feinstein and his wife Donna Eden think of themselves as opposites in many ways, who conflicted until they developed a technique to resolve their differences, explained in a chapter in Happy Marriages: 30 Global Couples Tell Their Stories.

Therapists Hal and Sidra Stone reported in Partnering that, “Many times in our early years together we both feared our love was dead. It returned even more powerful than before because we had mastered a new experience.” They realized that love alone is not enough to make a marriage work because of the power of our unconscious sub-personalities. They emphasize that “There is nothing more important than realizing we are a group of selves (like an actual person) that regulates our lives. We have to learn who in us is interacting with our partner.”

Rochana Jayasinghe, feminist academic, Sri Lanka, has traveled to many  countries. She is the co-founder of the Zoom discussion group called  Plain Tea Talk Space, is a play writer, and has written about FGM,  abortion, skin color, feminist history, etc.

Babar Ali founded a free school as a boy to teach unschooled low-income  children. His program is Anand Siksha Niketan, Home of Joyful Learning.  Today girls are a majority of the students and most of the teachers are  women. He emphasizes teaching values and with fun, paying attention to  the individual student's development. Donations fund the school without  government aid. He was a TED fellow and has a master's degree in  history.  http://anandasikshaniketan.in

Radio host Donna Seebo interviews Gayle Kimball, author of The Mysteries of Healing: Dialogues with Doctors and Scientists

Gayle Kimball, the author of Calm Parents and Children, is interviewed by Valeria Koopman for FitForJoy.org. They discuss parenting principles such as provide choices, rely on consequences more than lectures, be consistent and offer praise and fun. How kids view adults are explained, based on surveys of over 4,000 young people from 88 countries. Kimball gives an example from Answers to Kids’ Keep Questions in Photos. Her other parenting books:

CD Kids’ Mind Power

50/50 Parenting

Calm Parents and Children: A Guidebook

The Teen Trip: The Complete Resource Guide

How to Survive Your Parents' Divorce

Answers to Kids’ Deep Questions in Photos

Your Mindful Guide to Academic Success: Beat Burnout

Everything You Need to Know to Succeed After College

Climate Girls: Saving Our World

Promundo-US is a global leader in advancing gender equality and  preventing violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women,  girls, and individuals of all gender identities. We believe that working with men and boys to transform harmful gender norms and  unequal power dynamics is a critical part of the solution to achieving  gender equality. For transformative, sustainable change, men and boys  must see themselves as partners in the process. Men and boys also  benefit when harmful norms are challenged. Our research, programs, and advocacy efforts show that exploring  positive models of “what it means to be a man” and promoting healthy,  respectful masculinity leads to improvements in the lives of women and  girls, as well as in men’s own lives, and the lives of individuals of  all gender identities.

1. Where and when were you born?

2. What did you learn from family, school, media, etc. about becoming a man? Why decide to work with boys and men?

3. What led you to a Ph.D. in Developmental Psych? Why are there fewer men in universities except in SSAfrica? Why increasing anxiety and depression in young people? Gender fluidity?

4. What led you to found Promundo in 1997? Now in over 40 countries? Why were you in Rio de Janiro? Speak Portuguese fluently? Consortium with Brazil, US, Congo, Portugal—why those countries?

MenCare 45 countries?

MenEngage

International Men and Gender Equality Survey re violence, fatherhood and gender equality? State of the World’s Fathers. Your experience as a father? Any hope for paid parental leave in the US?

5. What strategies work to get boys and men involved? Cultural differences?

6. Optimistic or pessimistic about equality movement when Jair Bolsonaro said masks are for fairies, Chinese government campaign against sissies, Trump cult, toxic masculinity meme, etc?

Gary Barker questions

1. Where and when were you born?

2. What did you learn from family, school, media, etc. about becoming a man? Why decide to work with boys and men?

3. What led you to a Ph.D. in Developmental Psych? Why are there fewer men in universities except in SSAfrica? Why increasing anxiety and depression in young people? Gender fluidity?

4. What led you to found Promundo in 1997? Now in over 40 countries? Why were you in Rio de Janiro? Speak Portuguese fluently? Consortium with Brazil, US, Congo, Portugal—why those countries?

MenCare 45 countries?

MenEngage

International Men and Gender Equality Survey re violence, fatherhood and gender equality? State of the World’s Fathers. Your experience as a father? Any hope for paid parental leave in the US?

5. What strategies work to get boys and men involved? Cultural differences?

6. Optimistic or pessimistic about equality movement when Jair Bolsonaro said masks are for fairies, Chinese government campaign against sissies, Trump cult, toxic masculinity meme, etc?

7. Men’s movement branches you think are most active or effective? How to get young men involved?

 Executive Director, Sharing Sacred Spaces Inc.

Lecturer in Interfaith Engagement, Yale Divinity School

Interreligious engagement

Vanessa Avery answers these questions:

1.  Where were you born?

3.  Traditionally, Jewish men were encouraged to study the Torah and women to maintain the household and observe religious laws. How do you fit in that tradition?  Your interest in the Book of Esther?

Congregational videos are found at:  https://www.sharingsacredspaces.org/sacred-space-database

For religious diversity in the workplace training:  contact Katy O'Leary at hartfordinternational.edu­