What Does it Mean to be a Man?
We're Redefining Masculinity for the 21st Century.
You made it here. You're probably feeling ready to make a change, shake things up, or continue your growth. Today we all face serious challenges. The ManKind Project helps real, powerful, good men join together and create the structures, institutions and communities that will foster peace, safety and accountability in our societies.
The demands and pressures that men face today require an extraordinary level of courage, authenticity and tenacity. You may be feeling like there is something missing in your life that could make the difference between surviving and thriving in a complex world. You might be ready to take a risk and see what life's like on the other side of the door you've come to.
If you're ready to make a bold choice, that door can be thrown wide open. The ManKind Project presents a training for men called the New Warrior Training Adventure.
- You'll experience a level of energy, a quality of masculinity, a deep sense of safety, joy and laughter, anger and fear, physical challenge, and a connection to life's mystery that we can't explain to you, no matter how hard we try.
- You'll have the opportunity to look with fearless honesty at the life you've created, and make profound choices about what you want to keep, what you want to expand, and what you want to let go of.
- You'll discover your unique connection to manhood, explore a new way of understanding masculinity, and step fully into the man you envision yourself to be.
Missions to Remember
Richard Wiener - ManKind Project Greater Washington DC Community
Personal Mission:
I co-create a world of peace and harmony by promoting reconciliation among both individuals and nations.
Action in the World:
Richard Wiener was born in Germany, and lived for six years under the Nazi regime, experiencing first hand the oppression and violence perpetrated against Jews as the only Jewish child in the the school he attended from 1937-1939. He experienced Crystal Night while his father was in Buchenwald concentration camp, and was part of a small number of children allowed to flee to England in 1939. At age 13, he reached the U.S., and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to his hometown and initiated a process of reconciliation with his former Hitler Youth classmates.
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His mission is to advocate forgiveness and reconciliation as the only viable path to peace, on both the personal and international levels. To this end,He presents a workshop called The Power of Forgiveness at various venues around the country, and speaks to students, church groups and delinquents both here in the US and in Germany, his native country. He has delivered keynote addresses on forgiveness at Berea College, at a World Elders Gathering and at an MKPI Annual Meeting. He has also sponsored the high school and university application of a Costa Rican boy, have been a hospice volunteer and bereavement counselor, and a Laubach Method literacy trainer.
In 2002 Richard Wiener gave a key-note address to a joint meeting of the ManKind Project and Women Within in Evanston, IL. We are making that keynote available to you for free here. Richard's story of hardship begins in NAZI Germany and spans 8 decades of powerful choices leading inevitably to his mission of reconciliation. He is a deeply touching and powerful speaker. Since 2002, Wiener has continued his mission of understanding to diverse groups of people. He serves on the Board of Conflict Solutions International [www.conflictsolution.org/board-advisors] and serves his community in multiple ways. At 80 years of age, Richard Wiener is still a vibrant, engaging and spirited man.
In 2009 Richard Wiener was awarded the Ron Hering Mission of Service Award for the Greater Washington DC ManKind Project Community.
Media to Inspire
The Good Man Project
The Good Men Project is about capturing the modern male narrative. It is about giving men an opportunity to talk candidly about themselves and take ownership of the everyday heroism and everyday failures that men in the 21st century experience. Right now there is a book, a DVD and a growing social network through the Good Men Project website. Within a couple of years, the project hopes to have a number of additional books, movies and TV programs developed or in the works. These stories come from soldiers and immigrants, ex-convicts and photo-journalists, fortune 500 executives, musicians and single dads.
Tom Matlack is one of the cofounders of the Good Men Project. He grew up very close to where the New England ManKind Project community was born, in a western Massachusetts town called Shutesbury. He doesn't talk a lot about it, but he has a deep understanding of the early men's movement, as seen through the eyes of a kid living in the mytho-poetic heart of the northeast United States. He's come a long way. Today his 6th floor corner office looks out on the high end shops and restaurants of downtown Boston's Newbury Street. His life led him here, sometimes consciously and sometimes by accident. He's dedicated the last two years of his life to exploring and creating a 21st century dialogue about men.
Matlock is passionate about getting the word out - and fostering dialogue
The Good Men Project book is an excellent way to open the door to a greater possibility of male connection through truth-telling. This book is not Chicken Soup, it's stew. It's not stories tied in a neat bow with some words of wisdom. These are men's stories; complex, sometimes painful, full of heart. Buy a copy for yourself, buy a copy for a man in your life.
To register today for a New Warrior Training Adventure near you or learn more about the ManKind Project, a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization, call 800.870.4611 or Email Us.
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