As a boy, I learned to interact in the world through engaging my father. He was my liaison outside the home. I learned how to play, work, gather information about the natural world, its rules, laws, conflicts, competition. I learned how to build, create, value and appraise the overwhelming experiences that lay outside the relative …
While we have come far in the last 50 years … tremendous technological growth, global diversity awareness, economic growth for 2nd and 3rd world nations … the American workplace still remains a bastion of the old patriarchal values. And nowhere is this more evident than in the political arena. Patriarchy is not about gender. It …
The Sacred Masculine Energy is the vertical axis … the sun and sky, thunderclouds, lightning. It is active, presence, direct, light, initiating, boundaried, separateness, the sword, the cock. The Sacred Feminine Energy is the horizontal axis … Mother Earth, flora, fauna, oceans, …
It is a cosmic law that the only constant is change. We see changes in everything everyday, we marvel at the way life continually unfolds its splendor and horror. Order births chaos births order, ad infinitum. We see ourselves change over time … bodies, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, political opinions, economic situations, relationships. Time changes us …
Hey Man … are you still trying to figure out who you are, and what you’re doing here? Do the traditional markers of male success leave you feeling not good enough, hungry, and wanting? Do you wake in the middle of the night with a deep ache in your chest? Welcome to the inner life of ‘middle …
This video talks about how important it is for Mature Men to admire, encourage, and Mentor Younger Men. An age-old tradition from the Ancients, they knew the importance of mentoring the young into maturity.
The King archetype is the aspect of the Sacred Masculine that blesses the other, that sees, values, and acknowledges another’s human beingness.
Accountability: I take full responsibility for my life and my actions, intentional and otherwise. And I am responsive to the impact and consequences of those actions, intended or otherwise.
On our men’s warrior trainings, we have a process called “guts”. It is an opportunity for a man to drop down deep below his ego, and to claim a bit of truth about who he is, no matter how painful that might be. It takes “guts” to do this work.
Men come into circles not for social reasons … men come into circles because something isn’t working in their lives and they do not know how to create meaningful and sustainable change.
