…is perhaps the most frightening five letter combination in the English dictionary. Death. But, in my opinion it is also life’s greatest teacher. My very first experience of death was visceral. As I have shared it in my book a few years back: “I had always made sure never to stay overnight [in the hospital]. …
Below is a selection of resources for further research that I’ve accumulated over the years and have been very helpful in my own growth and development. This is by no means an exhaustive list but a good place to get started and familiar with what’s available. Courses If you google “men’s work” you’ll find a …
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This is the first part of a series of article on men and the masculine dimension of life. I want to go on a brief journey and talk about men’s work, the qualities of the masculine, the history and the social predicament we find ourselves and how we move forward from here, as well as …
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The power of initiation and transmission As I was going deeper into this work two words, initiation and transmission, kept popping up. Joseph Campbell, the author of a Hero with a Thousand Faces, talks about how initiations were used in many traditions to mark the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. The idea …
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it It’s important to look at why a purpose or a mission matters so much in the context of men and men’s work. The nature of the masculine is presence and utter attention to a particular thing, or nothing. This quality is very helpful in cutting through the …
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