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Men ask us how is it that your groups continue to grow, have men transform their lives and have a rep for being so much fun. In one word, Deep. In part from trail and error we learned that the edge for us men and a successful group is going deep into our emotions, awareness…
In this interview, filmmaker Maja Bugge, talks about smashing the myth that men are not emotional beings. Greg Berg from Radio Enso interviewed Maja and me about her film, About Men, and my men’s group, which was featured in the film. It was great hearing a woman’s perspective on how the men of the group…
I’m often asked, what is a good men’s group? My standard answer is that it’s not therapy, its men learning what we didn’t get to learn growing up. All that is true, but it doesn’t explain what occurs during the meetings. Nor does it explain how, in six months, a man’s life can be…
Over the years, we’ve had many men join our groups at the suggestion of their therapist. That’s right: a therapist suggested their patient check out a men’s group rather than enter therapy. That’s because more and more therapists are realizing men aren’t bad or broken. Being a man is not a pathological problem. Men don’t…
Today President Obama speaks in Chicago about gun violence because the Black Youth Project generated over 45,000 signatures on their petition to have the president come to Chicago. Having our President speak about gun violence’s largest set of perpetrators and victims is huge. Black boys are traditionally the last to receive political attention. Now that…
Men are often accused of not being emotional, not being empathetic. It’s an unfair accusation. We do feel. We do care. Sadly, many of us just don’t know how to express it. For most men, any training in Masculine Emotional Intelligence™ was non-existent. We had no male role models, no male teachers showing us how…
