Exploring the Noble Man with Celebration of Being
Category: Men and Initiation, Men and Relationship, Reviews, Syndicated
by Eivind Skjellum
This last month has been intense. I have done some sort of workshop every weekend. Powerful experiences each and every one of them. I finally have some downtime to integrate and feel what has happened. So far, it’s a bit of a blur. Though I feel clear that a lot has shifted inside of me. After all, participants at each of these four workshops have communicated something akin to “life-changing” and I did friggin’ four of them. Oh lord.
The terror of young men
by Eivind Skjellum
About a week prior to the Oslo terror on July 22, I was in a part of town I rarely visit. I was en-route to an exciting adventure at IKEA and was waiting for the bus that would complete my journey. As I was scanning the features of the recently erected mosque there, I noticed two young ethnic Norwegians walking towards me. They didn’t look particularly tough. Though they spoke “tough”. One of them was clearly afraid. I saw it in his eyes; they were wide and beamed with terror.
Tiny Boxes Prompt: A Reflection on Tony Porter’s Presentation at TEDWomen
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The messages and beliefs that we take-in during the course of our lives can place us into unhealthy boxes that enforce ways of being that are destructive to ourselves and to others. Tony Porter, in his recent presentation at TEDWomen, “A Call to Men,” talked about his “man box” and called on parents to teach their sons:
Men living with heart
by Daniel Doty
A few months ago, I was talking to a close friend about my work with men and its implications for society. The conversation became heated, and she made the following assertion: “Masculinity is slippery.”
What she meant is that due to societal and historical implications, we now must tiptoe around the topic of masculinity. She meant that being a man has become too complex, too undefined, and too inseparable from a negative historical inflection.
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