New Warrior Missions of Service

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Doug has been involved with 12-Step Programs for over 14 years working with and helping other men to come into a greater awareness of themselves. He is a Zen priest and created the Sill Point Zen Center in Random Lake Wisconsin for meditation, retreats and workshops and branches out into the community at large to talk about mindfullnes practice. Doug has been going into The Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution for "Pastoral Visits" with a group of about 10-12 men who have expressed interest in Buddhism and Eastern Religions. Doug was involved with the formation of The Truth Project at the Oshkosh Correctional Institution and it's focus towards branching out to other institutions. He continues to staff Truth weekends as well.

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Inspired by the people who helped him to recover from addiction in 1986, Duncan has turned a devastating family affliction into a compassionate gift for helping individuals and their family members to overcome the effects of addiction for over 20 years. He has worked as a group facilitator at several health care facilities and as a consultant to organizations. For 15 years, Duncan served through the Navy PREVENT Program as a civilian prevention specialist and educator for young enlisted US Navy personnel at military bases and aboard ships in several states and countries. For 2 years, he served as an alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention educator through the Freedom from Chemical Dependency organization in private and international high schools throughout America, Asia, and Europe. Duncan is a co-founder of the Boys-To-Men Central California Coast mentoring organization and Chief Sacred Clown of the Men-To-Boys Mentor Support Circus in Santa Barbara. He is an active life coach. He also saves insects and advocates for animals. Mitakuye Oyasin. Duncan has lovingly served thousands of lives and in the process been blessed with a deep sense of meaning and purpose.

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In keeping with his mission and passion, Earl has written the book Man-Making – Men Helping Boys on Their Journey to Manhood. This is a book that calls men to show up for service in the lives of the boys in their communities. It describes a variety of ways men can step into action, and provides both role models and resources. He maintains the Man-Making website, with resources for men on the topic of mentoring boys. Since 2004, has also been providing men with weekly motivational ideas and mentoring examples on his Man-Making Blog. He currently maintains contact with boys who are or have been incarcerated and over a half-dozen ongoing mentoring relationships with young men. He has staffed three Boys to Men rite of passage weekends, spoken at conferences on the topic of mentoring, and personally sponsors annual men-and-boys events. In 2008 he will hold the “5th Annual Tucson Guys Hike” and the third, almost annual, “Guys Paintball” outing in Minneapolis.

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A recovering corporate citizen, Ed is now serving the world as a Massage Therapist. Through his work in MKP, he has found his path to training and certification in several modalities in body/mind connection, to create healing opportunities daily in his hands-on massage practice. In addition, he volunteers at health events and has also served in a volunteer capacity for AIDS Atlanta, providing caring touch for HIV victims. As a military combat veteran, Ed has also felt called to serve as staff for Vets Journey Home weekends, previously known as the Bamboo Bridge. By learning to love himself first, he has been able to expand that love to all the combat vets in need of healing. Ed is also passionate about the sweat lodges participating in healing ceremonies both inside and outside of MKP. Ed is truly living his mission, especially the part about creating opportunities for others to heal.  

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Edward co-directs a spirituality center that teaches self-empowerment, and principles that transcend religion, politics, race, color of skin, sexual orientation, and other socially limiting beliefs.  He provides a land area for a small group of Native Americans, to hold sacred ceremonies and has been ceremonially adopted by them and is being trained by them in their sacred ceremonies.  Edward provides pro bono counseling to disadvantaged people.  He provides spiritual counseling, care and support to a warrior brother, Gordy Dibler, father of PFC Byron Fouty, as well as PFC Fouty’s siblings.  PFC Fouty, was captured by insurgents during an attack in Iraq on May 12, 2007, and is considered a prisoner of war. 
 
Edward, is the chaplain of the Veterans War Memorial of Lake Orion, MI., and is available for spiritual support to returning veterans of the war in Iraq.  He is chaplain one week each year for a summer camp in Chain Lakes, MI.  He provided pro bono services to the residents of Mississippi and Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina.  Edward traveled at his own expense to Nashville, TN., for training with the Honorable Al Gore, and is a certified presenter of, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which he teaches pro bono throughout Michigan.  The presentations bring about awareness of the current state of the earth as a result of global warming and explains ways that individuals and business’s can mitigate the effects of manmade greenhouse gases.
 
Besides the above mission work in the world, Edward is active in the W/D centre and was largely responsible for starting a new I-Group in his area, which meets at his center. He is I-Group Rep. to the Centre for his I-Group, and has served as MOS.  Recently Edward was elected as Community Servant Leadership Council Chairman, which focuses on developing community leadership in the W/D Centre.
  

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In 2006, my daughter Maddi and I started a charity to serve children in need across the globe.  We began my working to help children in Africa orphaned from AIDS.  I’ve traveled to Kenya the past two summers to be with these kids and learn how best to serve them.  This summer I took my wife and two daughters with me to see things for themselves.  We are all involved in this work together, and as a family, we sponsor two orphans in Kenya, Bramuel and Evangeline, ages 10 and 6.  Kids’ Global Outreach is now expanding our outreach to a disabled orphanage in Zambia.  Our goal is to empower young people in countries where they have plenty to reach out to their brothers and sisters across the globe who have very little."

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Pour son action en tant que Président de l’Association « David et Jonathan » Association d’homosexuels chrétiens (600 membres), dont les buts sont :- d’être un lieu de réflexion sur la possibilité de vivre pleinement et simultanément sa foi chrétienne et son orientation sexuelle, - de lutter pour faire avancer la compréhension et l’acceptation envers les homosexuels,- d’assurer l’accueil et la défense des victimes de l’homophobie, et particulièrement des jeunes.
 
I am President of an Association called “David & Jonathan”; which is an association of Christian gays men and women  (about 600 members).Our aims are:- reflection over our belief that we can fully live at the same time our Christian faith and our sexual orientation- fight the homophobia which is still widely expressed in many churches- welcome the victims of all kinds of homophobia, especially young people who discover their same sex attraction and convince them that they are not blamed by God but that they can be Christian, homosexual ... and even happy.

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Frank’s affiliation with the Ro-nald McDonald House started a few years ago while going through Primary Integration Training and was encouraged to find a Mission of Service. The RMH houses the parents and direct family members of children experiencing long term hospitalization. One project was to provide food and prepare dinner for 60. Frank volunteered to organize the event, create the menu, buy the food, help prepare, serve, and clean up. These quarterly events happened in 2009 and will continue into 2010. At least 6 MKP brothers help at each event and have been encouraged to bring friends and family which they/we do.

Frank was a member of a group that built a bridge at Woodlands Gardens which is a local public park in Decatur Georgia that continues to evolve. The bridge was a project they had in their planning. The bridge was built out of wood from a tree that had fallen in the park that had been previously prepared into lumber. It took various brothers 3 days to complete. Frank to design the bridge, pick up materials, coor-dinate, and delegate. The Georgia MKP paid for all the materials. The park administrator was very happy with the product and the representatives of MKP.

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Frankie volunteers as a positive adult male presence to the residents of Kilbarchan, a residential facility in New Jersey for troubled teenage boys.  Frankie's intention is to show the young men that in their lives, there are men to whom they can look up, who will not desert them, and who will continue to show up for them. Frankie's other activities include volunteering for scholarship fund-raising for juvenile diabetes, volunteering at a soup kitchen one to two times per year, volunteering as a family group facilitator at a substance abuse center, and volunteering at the Pediatrics Burn Unit at a Staten Island hospital.

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Gary has done pioneering work among prison inmates in Alberta. He has helped build a program in Alberta for members of the public to visit and establish friendships with men who are in prison. He also has brought to Alberta prisons an “Alternatives to Violence” Program. Gary's work shows incarcerated men that there are members of the community who are prepared to accept them as they are, for who they are, no matter what they have done. Gary is also a recognized poet and he puts this talent to use as a poet/chaplain, spending several hours a week visiting with and composing poems for patients at the University of Alberta Hospital. Gary's life speaks clearly of the principle of unconditional love.

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Gary is a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, an organization owned and managed collectively by a small group of specialty coffee roasters located in the U.S. and Canada. The members are committed to supporting and partnering with small-scale, fair trade coffee farmers and their exporting cooperatives around the world. This group ensures that poor coffee farmers get a decent income for their coffee which in turn allows them to feed and clothe their families, live healthier lives, and ultimately provide greater sustainability to farming communities.

Gary also started the Louisville Sustainability Forum which has developed into a communications resource for individuals, non-profits and for-profit businesses interested in sustainability. Businesses and community organizations and interested individuals meet monthly to partner and learn about, profit from, and adopt green and local business solutions.

He also started Breaking New Grounds, a 501C(3), which is a sustainable system to transform a plentiful waste product (70 tons of coffee grounds and other local food waste) into a healthy, living soil, create neighborhood gardens, nutritious food, sustainable jobs and teach young people how this simple process can give birth to amazing possibilities. Breaking New Grounds is developing local farmers and other partners across the city of Louisville to create a neighborhood-based community food system that will grow food, grow farmers, and grow jobs. Among other things it provides healthy food to neighbors and local not-profits, including several Kid's Cafes that serve breakfast and dinner to hungry children. His latest idea is 15 Thousand Farmers. It's a plan to help 15,000 people in the Louisville area to create garden plots to grow their own food.

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Bill is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a consulting editor for the Journal of Individual Psychology. Author of the book Reflections on the Screen and essays in The Black Elk Reader, he continues to write and publish articles in professional journals on aging, philosophy, psychology and men’s issues. As a faculty member of ICASSI, the International Committee for Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (www.icassi.net). Since ICASSI meets in a different country every year, he has conducted courses in Men’s Issues and lectured in lands such as the Netherlands, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Israel, Greece, Canada and many other countries. Next summer he will be in Romania. He is chairperson of the scholarship committee of ICASSI.

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Gilles has AIDS since 1985. He has fought his illness with much will and has been a volunteer in testing new treatments. He has regularly worked with the association SIDACTION aiming to both help other ill people and prevent spreading of the virus. Above all he has accepted to testify openly about living with AIDS, including on the French TV network. In doing so, he has demonstrated that people with AIDS belong to our society like anyone else.

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Gordon's been active in the men's movement since 1976 and developed and has been facilitating the Healing the Father Wound workshops for women only and men only since 1985. In 1992 he bought an old RV and had converted it to a Men's Bookmobile, holding over 1000 books on 60 different men's issues, and was on the road visiting small towns that didn't have a library or bookstore. After 4 1/2 years full-time on the road, driving over 30,000 miles through 24 states, he retired the bookmobile to acreage he stewards on the coast in Southern Oregon. There he built The Men's Study which houses over 3,500 books broken down by 100 men's issues. While on the road, he started a number of web sites including www.menstuff.org which has become the largest web site in the world on men's issues getting over 100,000 hits a day. He was one of the European Americans (white) in the movies on racism - The Color of Fear and Walking Each Other Home and developed a six day workshop Clearing the Air Between Women and Men, which is in its 16th year. His volunteer work continues with his involvement with the Curry County Commission on Children and Families, the Drug Coalition of Curry County and the South Coast Drug Free Coalition and continues to look for ways to broaden his mission.

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Grant is executive director of Cowichan Men's Resource Centre. Grant founded the Boys To Men centre in Western Canada after realizing he wanted his 12 year old son Nathaniel to experience a Rites of Passage weekend. As a result Boys To Men is in full swing in Canada West.

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He has been living this mission by bringing Boys to Men including the Inner Mentor training to South Africa, his work in the Sudan building a hospital, helping in New Orleans the victims of hurricane Katrina, and work on the Inner Circle in Folsom prison. "Grant Williams is a man in service, especially to the Boys to Men Program.He had a vision of bringing Boys to Men to South Africa. Not only did he accomplish this he first had to schedule an Inner Mentor training. Both of these were completed in October of 2007 outside of Cape Town. Grant’s vision, passion, determination and spirit stands out a man who lives his mission every day."

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Hal Klegman had a vision several years ago to bring the national Boys to Men program to Chicago. Hal recruited a team to help create an organization to offer sustainable mentoring programs to Chicago youth. Hal personally raised the necessary funds to train 40 mentors and to partner with a leading Chicago youth program. He has been tireless in promoting this vital program and inspiring others to claim their own leadership and to practice their missions through this work.

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Harold has been boldly modeling the way for many years. Coming from a working class family, Harold served in a MASH Unit in the US Army, and continued as a reservist while attending the University of Louisville. Harold graduated with a double major in marketing and management and went to work for IBM. By age 40 Harold’s career with IBM and subsequent move to real estate had created wealth and prestige; however, rather than continue to ‘climb the ladder,’ Harold chose to drop out of the rat race, bought a piece of land and moved to the country to reconnect with his heart. He joined a men’s therapy group and was the first man in Louisville area to attend the New Warrior Training Adventure.
During his 7 years living in the country, Harold supported the growth of Louisville’s fledgling MKP Center, and “learned how to stop and be in my heart.” During this same time, Harold actively fostered and participated in a group called Home Church – a unique faith community that provides services and support directly in its member’s homes. Harold’s vision of building a retreat center on his land came true when he chose to move back to Louisville and sold his property to a faith based community which then created a state of the art facility. Harold just stepped down after a total of 4 years at the helm of MKP – KY as center director/ president. As a result of his contributions, the community has solidified a structure and process for effectively moving into the future. Similarly, after 20 years of participation, he has helped reorganized the structure of his Home Church community for its continued effectiveness and service to it’s membership. Harold also continues his participation in a mixed circle of initiated men and women who choose to create sacred space for the two genders to support each other in their work.
 
Now that he will have more time on his hands, Harold is working on completing a book chronicling his journey. The title - Coming Out of the Woods to Knowing and Loving Yourself – serves not only to capture the essence of his personal experience, it accurately reflects the mentoring and modeling he chooses each day. Of all the mission-focused work Harold has chosen to step into over the years, some of the most profound impacts have been on the most personal level. At any given time, Harold has 10-15 individuals he’s personally mentoring. So it might just all come down to his personal philosophy that “we teach what we most need to learn.” When asked what he’s most needed to learn, Harold smiles and says, “It’s not about me. It’s about growing.”

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Harry’s mission since 2005, has been very connected to New Orleans and recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and its many aftermaths. He has helped hundreds of homeowners, businesses and churches find qualified Public Insurance Adjusters, expert witnesses and attorneys so that they will be paid properly on their insurance claims. He moved into the city in 2006 so that his daughter could attend a reopened public high school. He has supported his wife, Jane Mauldin, in training for and now serving as Chaplain of an inner city hospital, Touro Infirmary.

The Mankind Project New Orleans lost over 60% of its members and all of its i-groups due to the displacement. Harry has made it his mission to reconnect men that have relocated, as well as those emotionally scattered by Katrina. Some have returned; others have come back to participate in a day of healing or to serve on the staff or Men of Service team for the four New Warrior Training Adventures held near New Orleans.

Harry has been a lead coordinator for four New Warrior Training Adventures and three PIT cycles, motivated to connect men from diverse cultures and reconnected men scattered by the storm. New Orleans has been redefined as no longer just a place, but now a culture extended great distances by a disaster. Harry has trained and been certified in “Psych-K”, learning and practicing whole brain balances to help people align and shift subconscious beliefs with conscious goals. The techniques have been very helpful in balancing past trauma.

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Harry possesses a doctorate in education and for 28 years has been instrumental in the children's music education programs at the Steckman Studio of Music, the non-profit organization that he founded. Over the years, he has been involved in or overseen The Studio's music education programs at various Chicago Public Schools and suburban school districts, as well as the in-house programs and classes that The Studio offers to the community. Harry believes that through music young people can develop self-confidence, socialization skills, self-motivation, and that music education positively impacts children's ability to learn in other areas of their education. Harry embodies the New Warrior spirit in this work by putting the children first -- above money, above notoriety, and certainly above himself. He has tirelessly championed his cause in front of various corporate, governmental and public administration agencies to obtain the necessary funding to ensure success at every turn for "his kids."

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For eighteen years, I have been advocating for the Dying and Bereaved. I began this direct volunteer work, as an opportunity to “put my grief” in a place.
That place was Abington Hospital. I have been honored to help create SAFE HARBOR, a grieving center for children and their families, and bear witness as these kids mourn the special people in their lives that have died. I blend a philosophy of adequacy, where “everything belongs”, striving to create a healing environment and sacred space that facilitates the mourner’s search for meaning in the transformative experience of death, grief and loss.
My volunteer work also extends to and includes: Home Hospice visits, Home Bereavement visits and the “In Hospital” Hospice Unit at Abington Hospital. I feel joy and gratitude for this acknowledgement, and to be honored with this award.

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James was one of the designers and leaders in a 4-day training at Folsom Prison in Ca. which began in 2000. The workshop provides a behavioral-cognitive model for men to take accountability for their lives and begin to lead responsible lives. Since rival gang members participate in the workshop and the follow-up sessions, the level of violence in the prison has dropped considerably. There will be a documentary of the work released in the near future. To gather more information about the organization. you can go to Inside Circle Foundation.org.

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Jean-Marc Bouchard has been involved with an organization that helps men who have been sexually abused in their childhood for more than 3 years. He acted as financial officer from 2005 to 2007 and President from 2007 to 2008. During his 3-year mandate, Jean-Marc's mission was twofold: build internal structure and be seen externally. Jean-Marc built a team of experts that have the skills and expertise to provide the clientele the best professional services possible.
Government grants were raised from $38,000 per year to over $100,000 per year during his 3-year mandate, mainly due to good governance. Jean-Marc also organized the first ever "Mobilization and Support March of victims of Sexual Assault" in 2008. More than 200 participants came to support victims of sexual assaults.

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Jeff recently drove 15,000 pounds of fresh vegetables and other good food to Pine Ridge Reservation. He’s footed the bill and has cooked for the homeless in Denver and the Lakota in SD, several times.

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Jeffrey lives his mission of creating peace in the world and building connections between people everyday. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Peace Partnership International which works towards the creation of a US Department of Peace as well as strengthening the field of Peace Building. He also works diligently with people who are struggling with family and legal issues, helping them find solutions to these disputes through mediation. In addition, he facilitates father/son weekends, gender healing, applied restorative justice practices as well as personal growth workshops dealing with what it is to be a person of passion, integrity and authenticity.
Jeffrey is a Mediator, trained in Conflict Resolution, Restorative Justice and Nonviolent Communication. He leads personal growth programs for children, men and women. Jeffrey co-founded the Gainesville Men's Group. He serves on the Board of Peace Partnership International, an organization dedicated to revealing a Culture of Peace.