“Warrior” Movie Review
by Kelly Cresap Here’s an idea for MKP Men: Watch the movie “Warrior” with your I-group, and begin discussion afterwards with this question: What would you do if Tommy Riordan stepped up to do some work in your circle? He’s a bruising hulk of a man who once ripped the door off a tank. His preferred face-to-face mode involves pulverizing a man in the first half-minute of a mixed-martial-art bout. Even more intimidating than his...
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 …” So much of the time, it’s our natural reaction to the violence and suffering...
Three Reasons Why Shame is Your Friend
OK, this one may be a big surprise for many of you, but here it is, Shame can be your Friend. Learn how this is so in my article over at LifeHack
New Play “Tickets to Manhood” July 14-30, 2011 NYC
SHOW: Tickets to Manhood by James Scruggs WHEN: July 14 – July 30 WHERE: Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002 HOW MUCH: $15 in advance, $18 at the door. WHY: a Play about Rites of Passage, Initiation, and Masculinity in the 21st Century. From the Editor: I will be representing the ManKind Project for a talk-back panel discussion after the July 23 performance of Tickets to Manhood. I saw an early reading of this play...
If You Want to Change – Go Deep
by Owen Marcus I, like the rest of us, would much rather do the minimum than work hard. Why do more than you need to? Well, there are times when our mental solutions don’t work. In this post on my blog I write about how the mantra of our groups is – “Take the man deeper” produces a level of change unattainable from any mental technique I have ever seen. We are trained to be smart, to come up with solutions to problems. We compete to...
My Life with Iron Man
By Rick Belden A few months ago, I received an invitation from Eivind Figenschau Skjellum (who just completed the New Warrior Training Adventure in the UK in June, 2011) at Masculinity-Movies.com to write a guest review for the 2008 movie Iron Man. I was pleased and very honored to accept. You can read my review of the movie on his site. But there’s more to my relationship with Iron Man than a movie review. Much more. Iron Man...
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