Arne Rubinstein

Dr Arne Rubinstein is a former GP, a part-time ER doctor and more recently CEO of The Australian Rites of Passage Institute. He is an expert on adolescent development and Rites of Passage. The programs and seminars he helped to create have now been attended by over 20,000 people in Australia and overseas. They are designed to support families during the potentially difficult adolescent years and to help teens successfully make the transition from boys to young men and girls to young women.
His new book, The Making of Men, is a practical handbook for parents of boys and the culmination of years of experience in working with troubled teens.
Dr Rubinstein has worked with teenagers since graduating from the International Institute for Youth Leaders in Jerusalem in 1982. He worked as a General Practitioner for 15 years specialising in Adolescent Health and Emergency Medicine. From 1995-98, he developed an innovative drug prevention program for High Schools based on improving personal self-esteem.
Dr Rubinstein was the CEO and co-founder of the Pathways Foundation, a unique organisation that creates contemporary rites of passage for adolescent boys and girls and that has run in eight locations nationally. (See www.pathwaysfoundation.com.au.)
He lives on a spectacular 140 acre bush property in the Byron Shir which he has transformed into a camping and leadership training facility. Teenagers and their parents come from around Australia and overseas to participate in the workshops run there and the purpose built training facility has been created to increase facilitator numbers so that this life changing work can expand.
Arne has 2 sons, Jarrah and Jaden aged 21 and 23 and continues to mentor nearly a dozen young men including a Sri Lankan who he put through construction and design school after his family was devastated by the 2004 Tsunami. He then helped them to build a small hotel on the beach which is frequented by surfers and other tourists to the area and supports the entire extended family.
Arne is a passionate surfer, yogi and jazz pianist.

Recognition for Dr Rubinstein’s work:
• 2007: Finalist in the Australian Non Profit CEO of the Year Awards
• 2007: Winner of the Social Ventures Australia "Tipping Point Award"
• 2008: Winner of the inaugural Social Ventures Australia scholarship to attend Harvard Business School’s ‘Strategic Management of Non Profit Organisations for CEOs’
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