Hold on to your nuts, Elders.
by Terry Jones To launch an elder journey can means for many taking a big risk. The risks include: having confidence in your wisdom, cutting back on travel and play to allow time to serve, celebrating your long life rather than whining about it, trusting that embracing elderhood is not the same as admitting you are an impotent old man, facing the bias toward the aging, doing the personal healing necessary to allow us to be in...
Exciting News from Central America
Those of us in the U.S. who have been following the unfolding story of The MKP Costa Rica Initiative received some great news this week. The MKP men there are on the verge of holding their very first New Warrior Training Adventure! The weekend will be November 30-December 2, 2012. The Costa Rica Initiative has successfully held PIT weekends in the past and sent men to NWTAs in the United States. Now they will be able to offer this...
Homme-Training – Psychologies Magazine – France
Nearly fifty thousand men have passed through the doors leading them into a powerful once-in-a-lifetime experience that we call The New Warrior Training Adventure. Sometimes our familiarity with ‘the weekend’ can lead us to forget just how unique and world rocking this event is for those who have never experienced it. We at the ManKind Project Journal are happy to see an article in “Psychologies”, a magazine...
Declared Elders of the ManKind Project
From Terry Jones The men over fifty in the ManKind Project are our elders. But, do we accept them as elders or do we expect them first to declare? We define a declared elder as an elder who has self chosen to serve by declaring himself an elder of and in his community. Many MKP men expect an elder to declare himself. Have you considered, however, what the status of an elder is in your view if he has not declared? More, do you have any...
New Warrior Wisdom for Surviving the Snow – WWLP News 22
by Boysen Hodgson Frank Grindrod, a New Warrior from Western Massachusetts, part of the New England Community and a Member of one of the two longest running men’s groups in New England (the Special Boys) was featured in a spot on a local TV station WWLP 22 News with information on what to have and what to do if you’re stranded in your car this winter. Frank has been working with children and adults for a number of years...
Leaving it Better – MKP San Diego
A common saying during any ManKind Project event is “Let’s leave it better than we found it.” This applies not only to the sites across the world that we rent for our trainings, but also the relationships between MKP men and the communities and people we meet. Often there will be 60-70 men on hand for a ManKind Project training event, and their impact will be noticed by local store clerks and restaurant owners, who...
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