Kenneth Haller, M.D.
Golden Grasshopper
St. Louis, USA
Kenneth Haller, M.D.
Dr. Haller regularly shows his commitment to the value of men’s individual personal development by his continued dedication to his I-Group and his active resolution to integrate this knowledge into his professional and artistic activities.
Bob Rakoczy
Elder Turtle
New Mexico/Southern Colorado, USA
Bob Rakoczy
”To Walk in the NOW on Their Path with Every Man, Woman and Child Whom I Encounter on The Way of Life Today.”
Bob is an Interactive Spiritual Director, Mentor, Friend, Companion, Brother, Counselor, Elder, Teacher, Healer, Guide, SoothSayer, Wizard (sort of), Lover of Beauty, StoryTeller, White-Guy Koshari, Lucifer (LightBearer), OutLaw for The Good, Child of the One, Manifester of Divinity, Link on the Universal Chain of BE-ing. He sheds Light. He points out Ways, offers Direction, gives a hand. He encourages them to look UP.
James Collins
White Horse
New Jersey, USA
James Collins
”To feed the world.”
James was on the board of a non profit organization in NYC which provided blankets for the homeless, food for Native Americans on reservations and organized volunteers for a food program for 500 elderly shut-ins on the upper Westside in NYC.
Bill Megalos
Crow
Los Angeles, USA
Bill Megalos
”I create a world of peace and justice through speaking my truth and empowering others to speak theirs.”
Bill Megalos has been providing haircuts to the homeless community of Santa Monica, CA for the past 10 years
Dr. Clarence H. Snelling, Jr.
Zebra
Colorado, USA
Dr. Clarence H. Snelling, Jr.
”To work toward the protection and the mutuality of all persons regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, status, gender, orientation, or current power; with justice as the motivating factor in all endeavors.”
Beyond his work as Pastor and Professor of Theology, Clarence’s 85 years have also been filled with service on numerous boards and agencies which were directed toward justice issues and Higher Education.
Mark E. Lopez
Roaring Lion
Memphis, USA
Mark E. Lopez
”I create a world of unconditional love by loving myself and others unconditionally.”
Mark is a longtime champion for GLBT equality in Nashville and throughout Tennessee. He lobbies and builds coalitions with like minded organizations for the betterment of all.
Caspar Walsh
Fierce Panther
UK and Ireland
Caspar Walsh
”By opening my heart and speaking my truth I create a safe and beautiful world for all beings.”
Caspar has created the charity, “Write to Freedom”, which works with young prisoners and disaffected young men to provide mentoring and support through a wilderness and writing programme based up on Dartmoor.
Darryl Bowens Hansome
Panther
Greater Carolinas, USA
Darryl Bowens Hansome
”To create a world of acceptance and confidence by interacting with you and others without judgment.”
The tenet that I strive to live my life by is “to treat you as I would want you to treat me.” It has served and humbled me.
Peter Huber
Playful Dolphin
Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo, USA
Peter Huber
“To make a difference by being of Service.”
Peter serves as Founder and Director of the nonprofit Center for Uniting Families and Dancing Deer Farm retreat center. Creating harmonious, sustainable living, positive choices for health and relationship, enhanced skills as parents and partners are the Center’s core valves. Peter is tireless, passionate and humble in his Mission of Service.
Jim Gray
Silverhawk
Alberta, Canada
Jim Gray
”To help addicts and alcoholics recover.”
Jim Gray is being honored for living his mission of helping addicts and alcoholics recover by building Serenity Ranch drug and alcohol rehab centre in central Alberta.
Jim Wolfe
Cunning Wolf
Indiana/SWONKY, USA
Jim Wolfe
” I create a world of boundless thinking and loving where bodies and souls are nourished and nurtured by doing the political and personal work needed to be in tune with the divine within and beyond.”
Jim is being honored for his life long work in championing human rights and working for interfaith collaboration and understanding.
Jim Lovestar
Timberwolf with Playful Hawk
Minnesota Center, USA
Jim Lovestar
” Through teaching and touching I empower every man to know his purpose, his place, and his playmates. ”
Jim is a long-time member of Veterans for Peace, he has been active with the Foreclosure Prevention Team for three years in North Minneapolis. He started a community garden in his neighborhood in 2007, has accepted a leadership role in Northside Fresh (motto: COMMUNITY. FOOD. POWER) with the goal of North Minneapolis residents learning how to plant, prepare, and preserve their own food and has been one of the guides with the Winds of Change Racial Justice Action Group.
Richard Renner
Three Hawks Rising
Kansas City Heartland, USA
Richard Renner
” To create a world of love and forgiveness through the expression of Joy.”
Richard is a clown…literally. He has been a professional clown and Vaudville entertainer for 27 years. He is willing to provoke laughter by any means.
Michael Bungay Stanier
Left Handed Kangaroo
Toronto Canada
Michael Bungay Stanier
” To infect one billion people with the possibility virus.”
Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations all over the world do less Good Work and more Great Work. He has written a number of successful books.
Mark E. Rowley
Food Lion
Florida, USA
Mark E. Rowley
” I create a world or trust, transparency and compassion by first modeling it.”
Mark Rowley works as a firefighter, paramedic, college instructor and Coast Guard Reservist in Jacksonville, Florida. In his capacity as a paramedic, he provides emergency medical support to the community, often serving patients who are in extreme health crises.
Daniel Sullivan
Wild Hawk
Upstate New York, USA
Daniel Sullivan
” I create a joyful and vibrant world of cultivated potential by affirming others, virtuous action, and contemplation.”
Dan has been volunteering his time in support of Borgne, Haiti as a community organizer supporting Grassroots Sustainable development. He facilitates improvements in sustainable agriculture, fisheries and clean water initiatives by facilitating sustainable project development, implementation and management.
Ken Rogers
Ancient Hawk
Houston, South Central, USA
Ken Rogers
2nd honoree for working to bring Action in the World to his Center
Ken is a member, leader, and elder of Men in Mission, an organization of more than four thousand men in the Houston area. Men in Mission helps men from all walks of life to become better fathers, sons, husbands, employees, leaders, and servants. Because of Ken’s influence, men throughout Houston and places across the country have turned away from drugs, crime, infidelity, gambling, abuse, and poverty to embrace lives of integrity and service. In recent years, Ken has turned his attention to building Men in Mission into a strong service organization. Under his leadership, men are now serving others across the city of Houston – at soup kitchens, churches, homeless shelters, and wherever volunteers are needed. To many, many men in Houston, Ken is a hero, a father figure, a mentor, and an incredible model of what we can all become.
Peter Tarshis
Gentle Bear with Wild Horses
Toronto, Canada
Peter Tarshis
”As a Man among men I create a world of Love thru my actions”
Peter gives his time and energy to a variety of organizations including the Scott Mission, Habitat for Humanity and Out of the Cold. At Out of the Cold, he regularly organizes groups of 60 on call volunteers to support the preparation and serving of meals, housing, food & clothing banks; all to people in the Toronto core. He also has served as an advocate for The Seeds of Hope Foundation, a shelter based charity in Toronto which oversees the Alano – Broadview Club and Our Homes & Nazareth House for men & women in Recovery. Peter has also worked through the Realtor Cares Foundation of Ontario to raise tens of thousands of dollars to support the Seeds of Hope Foundation.
David Perez
Fun Fucking Dragon
Florida, USA
David Perez
”I create a passionate world through my grounded and blessing leadership.”
Dave is a therapist who works with a wide variety of clients (including warrior brothers) in recovery. Specifically, his focus is in treating co-occurring disorders – recognizing that often, treatment for addiction and treatmentfor mental go hand-in-hand. He is currently the Clinical Director of La Paloma Treatment Center in Memphis, TN.
David Yarrow
Dancing Butterfly
Kansas, USA
David Yarrow
”To restore the earth by renewing the minerals and trace elements in soil so that all life can flourish again.”
David Yarrow’s vision of reconciliation between Man and Nature begins with least of all: trace minerals and micro-organisms in soil. He uses sea minerals, rock powders, compost, compost tea, biochar and cover crops to restore soil to sustainable productivity.
Sonny Elliott
Listening Hawk the Seer
South Central, Houston, USA
Sonny Elliott
”I create a world of flourishing relationships with joy, love, and wisdom.”
Sonny Elliott has led a very active life and has operated in myriad environments, including many areas of business. Since 1991 he has supported MKP and has served as a family counselor and author for “iParenting,” a division of Disney. He has also published articles on communications and relationships, writing “Mom, Dad, are You Listening?,” which received critical acclaim and national exposure on over 40 TV and radio stations.
Fred Dewey
Accepted Lion
Upstate New York, USA
Fred Dewey
“My mission is to create a world of LOVE and ACCEPTANCE, by demonstrating and teaching it.”
Fred has directly contributed to the transformation of thousands of lives through his work as President of LifeStream/LifeResults and board member of A.R.E. (Edgar Cayce’s association) and the A.R.E. Camp) LifeStream teaches people how to spend much more of their time coming from love and mission, and much less time coming from the shadows of fear, anger, sadness and pretense.
Michael Shaffran
Lion Heart
Santa Barbara, USA
Michael Shaffran
“My mission is to empower, boys, adolescents and men to grow psychologically, emotionally and spiritually.”
Michael has worked in CA prisons; particularly at Coalinga State Hospital – a facility for Sexual Violent Predators (SVPs) – where he worked with over 1000 men. He also ran Father and Son groups at CSH for almost 2 years to help men heal from their broken childhoods (90% of these men had no fathers or their fathers left when they were children or they were abused by them). At Kaiser Permanente he ran men’s groups for almost 10 years. This, in addition to private practice.
William Thiele
Bull Elk
New Orleans, USA
William Thiele
“I create contemplative communities by listening in stillness and serving in joy.”
Following his initiation in 2008 he founded a School for Contemplative Living, gathered a steering committee to sustain the initial vision, and established a series of weekly, monthly, and annual gatherings in support of his mission.
Maury Boehmer
Mystical Bear
St. Louis, USA
Maury Boehmer
”I create a world of love by finding my true self and being that presence in the world.”
For the past couple years Maury has volunteered as a math tutor at an organization called Women In Charge. He works 2+ hours every week with these women to help them get their GED. He also focuses on lifting their spirits, encouraging hope in their lives, and helping them to improve their self-esteem.
Christophe DePierre
Alive Wolf
Europe Francophone
Christophe DePierre
”To awake others to the intensity of their lives by fully living mine.”
For years, Christophe has been intensely active in accompanying drug addicts and dying persons, including by leading men’s groups in prison. He now leads emotional intelligence trainings for musicians and the public.
John Larsen
Laughing Muskox
Edmonton, Canada
John Larsen
”To create a more loving world by being more loving.”
John has been very active in the effort to revitalize his community as a site coordinator for our two annual festivals and other events. He has been designated “Volunteer Extraordinaire “. He also works as a volunteer for “Arts on the Avenue” and Alberta Avenue Community League and delivers the Rat Creek Press – our local paper.
Mariano Rabino
Open Hearted Wolf
Los Angeles, USA
Mariano Rabino
”I co-create a loving caring world by growing as much love within myself and cultivating that in the world!”
For over 8 years Mariano has taken an active role in the lives of 50 kindergarten, first and second graders at an inner city Los Angeles school. In addition to appearances during special holidays to read to the children, he comes bearing gifts of “Trick or Treat” bags, flashlights, books and candy. He spends time reading books, he accompanies them on field trips and talking with the children and makes them feel as if they are the most important children in the world. Mariano also volunteered for Project Angel Food. His gift to the community is his ability to connect with those he serves, children and adult alike, on a very personal and sincere level providing support and encouragement.
Patric Roberts and Sam La Deaux
Partic: Mushin Mato Wambli
Sam: Wambli
Colorado, USA
Patric Roberts and Sam La Deaux
”I co-create a child centric future caring for all of tomorrow’s sacred beings in the household of our shared humanity.” — Patric
”As a man among men I allow adults to feel their inner child and allow children to be children.” — Sam
For nearly 10 years Patric has been reaching out to the men, and especially the young men, of the Lakota tribe at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota to help them better their lives through the self-awareness that comes from many types of men’s work. He and his co-honoree Sam La Deaux, have started men’s circles on the reservation and have been responsible for making the MKP initiatory experience available to nearly two dozen native men in the past year. Patric is also intimately involved in the “Friends of the Lakota Initiative” and “The Order of the Earth”.
Nelson Oostenink
Rainbow Trout
Northwest USA
Nelson Oostenink
”I am the one who co-creates a world of open hearted men by opening mine.”
At a time of major reorganization for the Northwest Center, both in personnel and financial, Nelson devoted Herculean effort to make sure
the Center could continue in a good way. This after he got the Mt. Shasta Community started and functioning.
John Nemick
Great Bison
Wisconsin, USA
John Nemick
”I create paradise through compassionate awareness.”
John’s dedication to service began long ago in his college days when he chose the helping profession of Social Worker. Since then John has worked as a counselor helping his clients cope with their dire life emergencies. He also serves on numerous non-profit boards and on community service project teams. But beyond this specialized professional role, for the past 20-plus years he has been the coordinator of the Green Bay Zen community, hosting three services each week, and teaching yoga and Zen at St. Norbert College.
Roger Herbert Dobitz
Golden Eagle
Central Plains, USA
Roger Herbert Dobitz
”To Create an awakened world by listening to the soul’s cry.”
Roger’s mission brings a connection between the deaf world and the hearing world where he has served both in many ways. He was instrumental in creating a NWTA for the deaf and hard of hearing. He is part of several addiction recovery groups and is mentor and sponsor to several men. Roger has been involved with members of the Pine Ridge Reservation and rode a horse as REGOR the clown in the Crazy Horse pony ride. Regor the clown has entertained many children while showing them a part of the deaf world.
Thomas Filler
Playful Dog
German Speaking Center
Thomas Filler
”I create abundance of joy, love and wealth, through inner work and magi.”
Thomas created a workshop called “A King`s Initiation”. He was inspired by the idea to integrate all 4 archetypes and including their shadows in order to let the participants really feel and embrace their King inside and to being the man who is in charge of all his 4 archetypes and put them into the right order inside.
Kenny D’Cruz
Ed The Talking Horse
United Kingdom
Kenny D’Cruz
“My mission is to offer insights and tools enabling self-awareness, conscious community and abundant fulfilling lives, while freely living in abundance.”
Outside of MKP Kenny has been gathering and facilitating Open groups for men for the past 10 years and facilitating discussion groups at Men & Boys Conferences on sensitive subjects, including ‘Men, Violence and Abuse’ and ‘Men and Mental Health’. In 2012 he organised camping, comedy and cemetery trips, fire-circles, ‘Dick Dialogues’, scream-a-thons, as well as starting up mixed gender Open groups. He is a man up for any challenge and he gathers men, holding a deep safe space.
Guy Desfosses
Lion Fier
L’Est du Canada
Guy Desfosses
“Aider mon prochain au meilleur de mes connaissances, sans me perdre moi-même.”
Depuis toujours, Lion fier a fait tout ce qu’il a pu pour changer sa destiné et influencer positivement celle des autres. Par sa grande force de caractère, il a inspiré plusieurs autres personnes venant de milieux défavorisé qui, à leur tour, ont pu apprécier et apprendre à vivre une vie équilibrée.
“Help my neighbor to the best of my knowledge, without losing myself.”
Proud Lion has done all he could to change his destiny and positively influence that of others. Through his great strength of character, he inspired many other people from disadvantaged backgrounds who, in turn, were able to appreciate and learn to live a balanced life.