CONTEXT FOR GUTS
Our work in the ManKind Project is powerful, very powerful. Some of us, as we move further away in time from our own New Warrior Training Adventure, tend to forget how dramatic “The Hero’s Journey” is for uninitiated men on Saturday afternoon. But what is even more important is how profound, how life changing, doing this work really is. We are giving men the initiation they never got. Turning adults into men,...
CLOAKED IN THE MANTLE OF INITIATION
CLOAKED IN THE MANTLE OF INITIATION The Friday night opening of the weekend lies several days away, stiff before me. And yet by Wednesday night the well-known storm of ancient energies takes up its abode in my body-soul. Thursday at work, my soul whispers “no one is worthy to carry this vessel of energy into the hearts of men.” Finally the blessing of Thursday night staff meeting Circle Up. Soul cleansing. Hearts on fire....
The Four Stages of Shadow
by Steve Simmer I have been writing some things for this list about mission, but haven’t registered any opinions to date about shadow mission, (or, as some prefer, shadow’s mission). I made a stretch with my group two weeks ago to write up some ideas about this. It’s been difficult for me, because some of these ideas may seem obvious. I welcome a response to this. I see four phases in our relationship with shadow....
The Sacred Intimate: a new way of thinking about facilitating men
by Tim Neill I would like to bring in not new words to some, but which may be new in the context of an NWTA, they are Sacred Intimate. While those two words could have different meaning to some men, I would ask all of us to consider for a moment the Sacredness of Intimacy….and how Sacred it is, to be standing with a man as he fights his demons by coming to an NWTA. How Intimate it is, to bear witness to the depth of whatever his work...
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...
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...
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