“Emotional Intelligence for men”: is not an oxymoron. In fact, we are developing the Masculine Quotient, or MQ Test. Go here to take it: www.masculinequotient.com/mq-test-creation We need your help. Men grew up with the honor of being schooled in emotional intelligence by our mothers, then our teachers, counselors, girlfriends, and wives. No matter how good…
Here’s an interview Katie McCarthy did with me on her podcast Give Good. Katie asks many of the questions I get from women about men’s groups. I go on to explain what a men’s group does for men. Katie explains how women have sisterhood, but how men rarely have a brotherhood. I speak about one…
“Feeling emotions” is not an oxymoron for men. Men generally feel and express emotions differently than women do. Women have always had to step up to fill in for all the times men were away from the family working, fighting, traveling – and they did a great job. But we’ve lost the masculine perspective on…
Who was ever taught how to kiss a woman? I wasn’t. Like all boys, I got coaching from other boys who, like me, talked as if were James Bond.. We acted as if we knew what girls wanted and how to give it to them. Over time, most of us realized that our education was…
In May, Chris Blair and I traveled to Calgary, AB, to present the documentary film, About Men.* The film is about our work and our men’s groups. This showing was the Canadian premiere of the film. I wrote here about the US premiere. After showing the film in Calgary, we answered questions for an hour….
This post I wrote first appeared About Me. Reconsidering Manhood Trying to be a 20-year-old doesn’t work at 60. Getting women to help us with our emotions – like we did when we were younger, starting with our mother – is no longer an option. And our friends? Well, they’re no better off than we…
