Channeling survival instincts into community value

Today Hans Hageman joins us to discuss the growing crisis facing boys and young men, why “resilience” by itself is no longer enough, and what it really means to become anti-fragile. This is a conversation about what happens when young men grow up without purpose, structure, challenge, or direction, and why so many of the systems that claim to help them are actually failing them. Hans has spent his life working with boys and men in some of the hardest environments imaginable, from East Harlem to maximum security prisons, and he argues that what young men need is not protection … Continue reading →