Elder Gathering at Retreat Center Center in Indianola, Iowa
Elders come weave your gifts!
The Elder Council and the elders of the Central Plains Community of the
Mankind Project USA offer an opportunity for elder men and women from
across the world (anyone of age 50 or older) in their USA Gathering of
Elders (USAGE) conference to be held October 27 – 30, 2011, at the Wesley
Woods Camp and Retreat Center, just 20 minutes south of the Des Moines
Airport near Indianola, IA.
Stepping Out from the Shadow of the Father
by Rick Belden
I recently had the pleasure of corresponding a bit with Dr. John Ashfield, an Australian author, educator, and psychotherapist. Dr. Ashfield is Director of Education and Clinical Practice for the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies, and is the author of the recently published book Doing Psychotherapy with Men: Practicing Ethical Psychotherapy and Counselling with Men.
In a chapter called “Being Your Own Man” from his previous book, Matters for Men: Staying Healthy and Keeping Life on Track, Dr. Ashfield wrote:
Is Silence Golden?
by Bruce Rosove
I’m at Blue Skies, a music festival that started out 38 years ago as a picnic. It’s a collection of music, holistic workshops and lots of friends.
I’ve been through a catharsis here that I want to share with you.
It’s just to try and work on the good bit of you. – John Lennon
In 1969 a young man snuck into a hotel room and got this interview with John Lennon.
Especially poignant to me … and resonating with the work of the ManKind Project and our circles is a short piece at about 2:00 minutes, where John says, “We’re all violent. We’re all Hitler inside and we’re all Christ inside …”
I’m Sorry, It’s Cancer – an interview with author Chris Frey
by Boysen Hodgson
My Mom died of cancer on September 13, 2003. She had an incredible amount of love and support in her life and access to the best care available at the time. It took she and my step father hundreds of hours to find the right doctors and hospitals, to find the right support services, to learn how to live with happiness, communication and gratitude even when times were very dark. It occurred to me at the time that there really was no handbook for how to create that. Some people seem to succeed, others fail to build the kind of structures that can help them move through. So when Chris Frey sent an email to the ManKind Project Journal, I invited him to have a conversation.
Honing Our Integral Edges
All Quadrants, All Levels
by Boysen Hodgson
In the ManKind Project, we’re voracious integrators. Our trainings and groups are a tightly mixed alchemical combination of exercises, modalities and practices from across the spectrum of personal growth, psychology, spiritual, ritual and physical practices. Men from different traditions and multiple generations have brought their unique gifts to the ManKind Project and our men’s circles, and men show up around them to learn and integrate new ways of thinking and new skills to use in the work that we do.
FIGHT BACK THE DARKNESS – World Suicide Prevention Day
To the men of The ManKind Project, our families, our communities:
The Mental Health Resource Team invites and urges you to participate in World Suicide Prevention Day. On September 10, groups, communities, and organizations all over the world will be meeting and supporting each other in learning about suicide, learning how to prevent it, and learning how to deal with its aftermath.
The Startup Dilemma – Primary Integration Training in Mexico
by Migs Halpern, MKP International Vice Chair
We can only guess, but Mexico must have 15-20 men who have somehow attended the New Warrior Training Adventure, or more … records are sparse, people have moved and have not updated their profiles. Mexico City itself may have 5-10 of these men, the others spread out in cities like Guadalajara, Guanajato, San Miguel de Allende and beyond, similar to Centers like NorCal or The Greater Carolinas. And so Mexico’s New Warrior Brothers find it frustratingly difficult to achieve a critical mass to continue to have IGroups and develop a Center based in Mexico City, especially because there are more than 7 million men in the State of Mexico alone. These men face the same problems and struggles as men in every other global community … and this small band of brothers in Mexico wants to help!
The Wave Theory of Community
by Stephen Simmer
175 years ago, the German psychologist and scientist Gustav Fechner wrote The Little Book on Life after Death, which is still in print. In it, he proposes that, along with our physical body, we each have a larger body. The larger body is made up of all those beings we have influenced in our lives. He says that the larger body is something like the ripples in the pond that continue to move and reverberate long after the pebble has disappeared below the surface. The larger body of Socrates, for example, is made up of all those beings and organizations that continue to be influenced by his way of asking questions. These may include people who don’t even know Socrates’ name.
Game On
by Kip de Moll
A troubling fear in the days before my surgery was that much of this ordeal provided a convenient excuse to avoid the more serious crisis of how to live the rest of my life. As long as surgery loomed and the catheter was an impediment, I could sit here quietly and always plead my health.
How do we get from Need to Mission?
by Stephen Simmer
I offer these as the four steps for the evolution of mission: need, demand, want, and mission.
1. NEED is the child-position: I need love, and no matter what relationship I have, I am reaching out to be loved (or reaching out for peace, justice, whatever value). I feel helpless to get love without someone giving it to me.
The Demise of Guys-a TED talk
Men, who constitute half of humanity, are in deep trouble. Young adult males are becoming increasingly disconnected with our world. They are falling behind women academically, and starting to distance themselves socially from the opposite sex.
In this wonderful TED talk by Philip Zimbardo, the stark statistics are laid out for all to see. Philip then gives his audience the challenge of finding solutions to this grave societal dilemma before it becomes a species survival disaster.
The Butterfly Effect
by Stephen Simmer
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