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Howard Glasser is Founder is the creator of The Nurtured Heart Approach®. He is a voice of greatness for children so that they can ultimately find their own voice of greatness.

Howard’s background is in family treatment, clinical studies and educational leadership. His formal studies along with direct experience with the most intense and challenging children form the basis of the approach he developed. He teaches Nurtured Heart Approach Training Intensives at the Nurtured Heart Institute and has certified well over 5,000 people who in turn carry out this uplifting and transformational work to their worldwide realms of influence, having impacted millions of lives. He has been referred to as one of the most influential persons reducing children’s reliance on psychiatric medications. His work is inspiring a growing number of treatment and educational initiatives worldwide and has been featured on CNN, in Esquire Magazine and more.

Howard is the author of 15 books, including Transforming the Difficult Child, a longstanding bestseller on intense and challenging children. The Nurtured Heart Approach has been researched by Rutgers University, the University of Arizona’s School of Public Health, and New Mexico State University. He currently teaches at University of Arizona’s School of Public Health and their Integrative Medicine Program.

His upcoming book is an unfolding of the Nurtured Heart Approach from the ‘Inside Out’ and his most fun endeavor was being Executive Producer of an award-winning documentary, Mantra – Sounds Into Silence. The Nurtured Heart Approach is the subject of an upcoming documentary by filmmaker Kevin Miller.

“If we dig up the past and do all we can to understand why things went wrong, we’ll know what to do to fix it – and if we don’t go through that process of digging through the past, we’ll never solve the problems of the present.”

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