I’ve just returned from my "rookie" staffing at a New Warrior Training Adventure weekend near Albany, NY: a multi-cultural NWTA co-sponsored by the Upstate NY, New England, and Montreal communities within the Mankind Project (MKP). It was a powerful experience on multiple levels for me, made all the moreso by the opportunity to participate in the initiation of a good friend. It has been nearly three years since my own initiation, with the Chicago MKP community, and while my weekly post-training "integration group" in the local Northwest MKP community provides a safe container within which I continue to grow, the weekend represented a long overdue, deeper reconnection with — and renewal of — my sacred masculine energy, an aspect of my self that I need to increasingly draw upon as I continue to stretch beyond my comfort zone in my personal and professional activities. It was also a great opportunity to meet, work with and develop new relationships with some amazing men who are committed to making the world a better place. I feel great joy and gratitude for this opportunity. Aho!
New Warrior Training Adventure: A Powerful Multi-cultural and Multi-dimensional Experience
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Aho, Brother. I, too, find a reconnection and re-energizing of my soul and spirit at the weekends. I am from the Windsor/Detroit community and went through my training in September of 1996 at Gesstwood. My mission is to co-create a better world by loving, accepting and trusting others and myself.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to staff a weekend due to family and time constraints, but I try to get away to the Brother Dancer talisman ceremony on Sat. night. I go to support the New Warriors and the Brother Dancers but honestly I think I come away with much more from the experience than I have given. For weeks after, I seem to be tapped into some kind of ancient power and energy that revitalizes me and keeps fresh in my mind the gifts I was given on that weekend that seems so long ago and yet so new.
Thank you for triggering the many glorious, fearful, wondrous memories I have of my time as a New Warrior. I wish you many memories of your own to come and a long and healthy life in which to make them. I’m out. AHO!
inititated in aug 97 loved dog ho, ive been out of circle for 2 plus years (i judge that my I GROUP became a bitch house full of little boys who didnot want to look at there deepest darkest wounds .
after i quit i enjoyed at least a solid year of EMBRACING MY SHADOW every chance i got a would call out leaders especially during staffing when my bullshit meter would go off continually.
where am i now .my father wound is healed 100% my father is 85 and i finally connected with him after 25 years of avoidence , it was amazing .
fellings are mostly sadness and fear around staffing , i judge i cannot do it anymore without ****ing with the proffesinal therapists oops i mean leaders ! .
i judge i still have work to do around authority .
i want to be heard so i still hang with a couple of warriors once a week, i want to staff again one day , i think i have 10 or more under my belt,as to the leader track ,not interested. your feedback neg or pos if you want .i,m robin
[Editor’s note: I am honored by robin’s willingness to share his observations, feelings, judgments and wants on my weblog. I want to offer robin and others the opportunity to be heard, while maintaining my integrity and the integrity of this weblog. I have deleted portions of robin’s comments that I judge to be in violation of confidentiality agreements made by all men who have been initiated into MKP. I have also edited the comments to remove what I judge to be unacceptably offensive language.]