New Warrior Training Adventure for Fall 2004

The New Warrior Training Adventure is an invitation to step forward and look in the mirror. What do you see? Are you the leader that you are looking for? Are you living on the edge of your life? What stands between you and taking action in your world? What is the risk for you to take full responsibility for your life, for living it from the inside out? Do you have the courage to face your own fears and insecurities and discover the tremendous power and beauty that lies within you? Are you willing to step into the fullness of who you really are? Are you willing to discover the real joy and terror of being a man? If so, this training may be for you.

We do not recommend this training for every man. To participate in this training, you must be highly committed to your life, and ready to take a hard look at yourself, your deepest fears, your wounds from the past, and the specific ways your life is not working for you. We choose to work only with men who are ready and willing to do this initiatory work with us.

The ManKind Project® (MKP) is a nonprofit educational and training organization for men. More than 30,000 men in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland have participated in the New Warrior Training AdventureTM sponsored by the MKP. Another 3,000 men worldwide will complete the training in 2004.

MKP serves as the umbrella organization for 38 interdependent Centers worldwide, which conduct more than one hundred NWTAs and scores of more advanced trainings each year.

The ManKind Project is a progressive men's organization striving to be increasingly inclusive and affirming of cultural differences, especially with respect to color, class, sexual orientation, faith, age, ability, ethnicity, and nationality.

Below are dates for the New Warrior Training Adventure from September to November 2004:

Sept. 10-12 NWTA
Ohio, Australia, Greater Washington D.C., Montreal, Northern California, Philadelphia, South Africa, Houston, Colorado

Sept. 17-19 NWTA
Kansas City, UK, Pacific Northwest, Windsor/Detroit.

Sept. 24-26 NWTA
New Mexico

Oct. 1-3 NWTA
New Jersey, Chicago, San Diego, St. Louis, Canada West, Upstate New York

Oct. 8-10 NWTA
Kentucky, Memphis

Oct. 15-17 NWTA
Arizona, Indiana, Sioux City, NYC Metro

Oct. 22-24 NWTA
Canada West, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Paris (France)

Oct. 29-31 NWTA
Australia

Nov. 5-7 NWTA
Chicago, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New England

Nov. 12-14 NWTA
Northern California, Atlanta

Nov. 19-21 NWTA
Pacific Northwest, Colorado, Germany

The text of this announcement is taken from www.mkp.org. For more information on upcoming trainings, visit the MKP Web site.

Comments

[Dan]

For those in the Chicago area interested in this, there's a meeting about it on September 14 at the Gerber/Hart Library, 7-9pm. I'm not involved with it myself, but two of my friends are.

[Terry]

Ihave been a teacher of meditation for 36 years. I am a gay man but not out to the organization which I work for. I would like to meet other gay men who are interested in spirituality and have some support for my spiritual life style as well as be able to communicate about issues which concern me as a gay man. Terry

[Richard Mehl]

Gay men should be aware that there are groups that use tricky, bullying tactics to recruit and convert you to their organization/ideology. There are plenty of cult-like groups on the fringes of "personal growth" and spirituality. In my opinion, New Warrior Training is one to be very careful of. Please see my warning at
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/3254/rm.htm

[Joe Perez]

Hi Richard,

Your warning, which by your own admission stems from no personal experience with the organization you criticize, is rather flimsy. Your distrust of ALL organizations aiming to "transform consciousness" is yours and stems from your own baggage, having nothing to do with MKP so far as I can tell. Good luck with life.

Joe