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- Men, Masculinity and Mentoring - the ManKind Project - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from ManKind ProjectTwenty-eight men stood before the audience. One by one they came forward to speak about the experiences they’d had over the past week. Before they had shared the past weekend together they had been strangers to one another. Now as their friends and families listened they spoke their “truth.” The ...
Views: 2305 - Men's "Warrior Weekend" What's that About? - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from ManKind ProjectI have just returned from a men's training weekend. Okay, I think it's true to say that these weekends have come in for a lot of misinformed rumors and a good bit of nervous mockery in recent years -- particularly amongst those who might have reason to fear them the most. I'll tell you upfront ...
Views: 2232 - THE BANDAGED PLACES: Confessions of a Recovering Intellectual - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from ManKind ProjectFor many years I counted myself amongst those who reject the notion of art as a potential source of healing. I saw both the practice and the appreciation of it as a largely formal and intellectual exercise—a game of the mind: a game capable of infinite richness, perhaps, but nonetheless a game. ...
Views: 2607 - Self Care for Men - 30 Things you could do today - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from ManKind ProjectMost men are woefully ignorant or simply uneducated about taking care of themselves. WHY is it so important? Because how you take care of you directly creates the platform, the ground from which you impact your whole world. Here's a list of 30 possible ways that you could start taking care of ...
Views: 12268 - Searching For A Lost Rite On The Manhood Path - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from ManKind ProjectArticle reprinted with permission from the Ashland Daily Tidings in Ashland, Oregon (2003) Until recent centuries, men were initiated into manhood by older men who stamped them with their life mission, a sense of service to the community, respect for women and the earth, an appreciation of ...
Views: 2472 - An Interview with Bill Kauth - Co-Founder of the ManKind Project - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from ManKind ProjectBill Kauth is a co-founder of the New Warrior Training Adventure of the ManKind Project (www.mkp.org), the Inner King training and the Warrior Monk training (www.warriormonk.org); and the author of "A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men's Support Groups" (1992, St. Martin's Press, still ...
Views: 2212 - Fostering Generosity - Lessons for Men - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from ManKind ProjectIn what ways has your life been blessed by the generosity of those who have cared for you? In what other ways has your life been stunted by the lack of generosity of those who should have cared for you? What parts of your nature and your behavior are generous? What shadows (things you deny, ...
Views: 2007(1 vote) - An Interview with Robert Moore - Facing the Dragon - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from ManKind Project"Facing The Dragon – Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity", published by Chiron Publications was published in 2003. Dr. Moore was interviewed for the New Warrior Journal (a publication of the ManKind Project). Moore began his career as a Freudian analyst. He is both lyrical and ...
Views: 5781 - Getting Your Bearings Post-Lay Off - by Submitted on May 01, 2009 from ManKind ProjectTwenty-seven years ago my father was the general manager of a regional wholesale musical instrument company he’d worked for for twenty years. In his early 40s, with his two oldest in college, he was “let go.” The company was relocating to New York State and my father, refusing to uproot, was ...
Views: 1339(2 votes) - Male Depression: One Man's Story - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2008 from ManKind ProjectDepression struck me with tragic suddenness. “Move your stuff”! demanded my wife. She pointed at the journals, papers, and books piled high beside the chair where I worked while we watched TV together. Angry and deeply hurt by her rejection of my feeble attempt at togetherness, I ...
Views: 7170 - Rites of Passage - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2008 from ManKind ProjectAfter reading Robert Bly's IRON JOHN in the early '90s, I wondered if our American society contained any meaningful rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. I started my search at about the same time I began my career as a Personal Coach because I knew that if we could identify a meaningful ...
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