Healing Vets – the Welcome Home Project – 2011update
by Boysen Hodgson In February of 2010, I met Bill McMillan in CA when he won the Ron Hering Mission of service award for his work with his wife, Kim Shelton, on a documentary film called “The Welcome Home Project” featuring Michael Meade and 23 combat veterans and those close to them. Read the original article by Bill McMillan here: http://mankindprojectjournal.org/search/welcome+home The Welcome Home Project is still...
What it means to Sacrifice
by Larry Cotton, ManKind Project New England and Jericho Circle On September 23rd we learned that a Jericho Circle Intensive Weekend could not occur due to a water main break at MCI-Norfolk. Jericho Circle is a not for profit organization that supports men’s circles in several Massachusetts prisons and conducts weekend intensives to help men behind bars find dignity, personal responsibility and connection. Jericho Circles are...
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....
REVEALED: Portraits from Beneath the Surface
TARGET AUDIENCE: Lovers of Photography, Seekers, Artists, People with a desire to refine their spiritual expression. ENERGY EMBODIED: Practical, Exploratory, Challenging. PRIMARY ARCHETYPE: Magician – the desire to transform EMPOWERING INTENT: To reveal a process that a portrait photographer and his subjects engaged in to create “Revealed” – to explore the boundary between portraiture and spirituality....
EVOLVING SYSTEMS: What role do you occupy?
by Jonathan Gilburg – reprinted with permission from Gilburg Leadership Incorporated So my dad, Alan Gilburg, went down to “Occupy Wall Street” last week to “Support those kids.” As he has often done in my life, he got me thinking about what was happening with this Movement. I believe we are witnessing an important shift between an older, dying system and a new, yet to be fully defined system. What brings...
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...
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