In challenging the status quo of what it means to be a man, Next Gen Men’s trip participants demonstrate to themselves and to their communities that they not only belong to a culture that values compassion and trust—they are leaders of it.

In this interactive session for camp professionals, we leverage our research and on-the-ground experience to discuss how camp professionals can integrate principles of positive masculinity into the framework of rites of passage to create transformative experiences for masculine-identifying youth.