A conversation with Bill Kauth
Bill Kauth
Bill Kauth is a co-founder of the ManKind Project. He helped develop the New Warrior Training Adventure, the Inner King training and the Warrior Monk training. He is the author of A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men’s Support Groups. To mark the upcoming 25th Anniversary of The Mankind Project, the 2003 interview below is reprinted from the New Warrior Journal, forerunner of the Mankind Project Journal. The interviewer was Stuart Rothgiesser of Vancouver.
MKP International agrees on restructuring
Images of change…
Representatives from the international regions of MKP vote in a caucus during the annual meeting.
MKPI Executive Direct Carl Greisser (center) receives blessing from project leaders at Glen Ivy.
MKP co-founder Bill Kauth makes a comment during lively discussions about the restructuring.
The ManKind Project’s 25/25 Anniversary in 2010 will be in Louisville, Kentucky
The challenge of changing the world one man at a time began in 1984 when three men — Rich Tosi (a former Marine Corps officer), Bill Kauth (a social worker, therapist, and author), and Ron Hering (a university professor) — created an experiential weekend for men called The New Warrior Training Adventure.
A quarter century later, more than 45,000 men have experienced the New Warrior Training Adventure, giving birth to what once was called the New Warrior Network and today is known as The ManKind Project.
Executive Director Carl Griesser explains changes in MKP’s international structure
To enhance understanding of how The ManKind Project is changing as an international organization, MKP executive director Carl Griesser responded to questions about the structural shifts now planned.
Freed: How is the structure of The ManKind Project changing?
Griesser: There are two main changes in the structure of MKP.
One of them took place last February in downsizing the Project Council from 61 to 29 members. The Council meets once a year to make important decisions about organization policies and to approve our budget.
My big boy’s deepest needs: What I learned about myself as a Boys To Men mentor
By Noë Gold
On the weekend of November 8, 2008, I “went through” again.
What does that mean? you might ask. To the uninitiated, the term is meaningless. What did you go through? Where did you come from that you had to go through something to get there, and what did you find on the other side of whatever it is you went through? And, of course, would you do it again?
ManKind Project leaders plan restructuring of organization at Glen Ivy meeting
by Judah Freed
MKP leaders circle up at Glen Ivy.
In May 2009, about 25 leaders from The ManKind Project worldwide gathered at the Glen Ivy Retreat Center in Corona, California. A similar meeting at Glen Ivy in February had set the agenda for this gathering.
Over the course of four days, these men passed through an intense process of personal and group transformation that culminated in a profound rethinking about how to structure the international operations of MKP.
Report from South Africa: Drawing on personal reserves and the community
by Anthony Eldridge Rogers
In these uncertain times, I find myself sitting in the Western Cape of South Africa. Today in midwinter is cold — not cold by many standards, yet chilly for us. This current drop in temperature mirrors a drop in confidence among men and women about their collective futures. For men working to feed and sustain their families, now is a time for deeply drawing on their personal reserves and community with others, men in particular.
‘New Warrior’ men make good fathers
by Steve Norcross
Once again, the third Sunday in June is Father’s Day. Greeting card publishers, clothing manufacturers, distilleries, and long-distance phone operators are hoping to realize a profit from the once-a-year obligation many feel to honor their dads. I hope my own kids, at least, call and wish me well, tell me that they love me.
I’m put in mind, this time of year, to recall and honor my fathers and grandfathers. I hope to be so honored by my descendents.
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