(NOTE: This particular event is over, but more Manology events continue. Read on and find out more!)
I’m very pleased to be presenting at this years Manology: Exploring 21st Century Masculinity event for men. Manology is an 11-week series of 2 hour evening workshops delivered by a diverse team of top-notch educators and facilitators.
Please join me October 29th when I present…
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At the Roundhouse community centre in Vancouver BC. 7:30-9:45pm
View the complete schedule and themes for the Manology series here:
http://masculinity21st.wordpress.com/scheduleandthemes/
The Manology series is the brainchild of my friend David Hatfield. David has been doing male rites of passage work, group facilitation and men’s workshops for years. He’s a great guy and I recommend checking out his work:
http://www.davidhatfield.ca/bio.php
Here’s the overview of Manology: Exploring 21st Century Masculinity (from their website):
http://masculinity21st.wordpress.com/overview/
Manology is a new course for men of all stages, backgrounds, orientations, and ethnicities. This series acknowledges that this moment in culture is one of fast and profound change that affect all humanity. Men as a major social group are thereby also affected. While Western women have been redefining their roles in society for decades, there have been very few places where men have been invited to examine and redefine their roles, relationships, and sense of purpose. Manology is just such a place, where men are celebrated and supported, and are offered insight, experiences, and conversations on the physical, mental, and spiritual journey of manhood. It’s for men who are interested in exploring male identity and are ready to encourage other men to do the same. Manology is delivered by a diverse team of educators and facilitators with a wide range of knowledge and skills to share with men.
Male diversity is desired – all men aged 19 and older are welcome.
Come connect with yourself and with other men in an atmosphere of fun, respectful, open-minded, positive masculinity.
Manology is a new course, and a new experiment in promoting awareness, positive male community, and a skill set that will better help men to navigate and negotiate with the realities of the 21st Century. And in doing so, Manology will benefit friendships, family, community, society, and ultimately, the global community and the earth itself.
On a less lofty level, Manology is a place to have fun, try new things, express yourself, and make new friendships as we learn and share together. There will be insights, feelings, familiarity, challenge and opportunities to expand your comfort zones as well as your friendship circles.
Manology holds a set of evolving ideas about 21st Century masculinity:
A 21st Century masculinity seeks to create and sustain inclusive community among males, is respectful of the continuum of masculine and feminine, is healthy and flexible in body/mind/spirit, honoring and skilled in the arts of fathering and/or mentorship, in leadership and followership, honoring in relationships and conscious in sexuality, creatively alive, spontaneous, clear and aligned in life purpose, skilled in cooperation & open communication, self-aware and responsible, assertive in conflict, connected to the wider community, engaged in sustainability practices with self/others/the earth.
It’s a new century. Manology holds a vision that the current global context of change and complexity, coupled with the urgency of climate change, demand that humanity come together with an intention of unprecedented willingness to work together to redefine cultural norms and roles that have proven detrimentaland/or unsustainable. In this vision, men, like all other social groups, have their own important role to play. It is clear that in order for men to gain insight and clarity into what this era may be asking of them, they must first gather together to share their questions, values, strengths, vulnerabilities, stories, humor and wisdom.
Sadly, many/most men in Western society do not have any experience in doing so. And some men have negative experiences of doing so. The Industrial Revolution fostered new aspects of daily life for men that have proven very detrimental to men’s souls: to be separated from families, home and from the land itself; and a economic system that inspired systemic competition for opportunity, advancement and security. With little change since, and persistent societal homophobia, men’s reluctance to gather together in open sharing is understandable. Yet these times are calling for radical and courageous shifts in our daily living. Men’s perceptions, styles, and ways of doing and being need to be validated, invited and engaged, and in new ways. Manology hopes to the underline the conspicuous lack of and need for diverse forms of male studies in North America. We hope you’ll drop in on a session and join us.
WHEN/WHERE/COST
Thursdays, Sept 17 – Nov 26, 2009, 7:30-9:45 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie St. & Pacific Blvd.), Vancouver.
www.roundhouse.ca
Telephone: 604-713-1800
11 sessions: $110 (plus gst) or $12 drop-in (plus gst)
Getting There: Men are encouraged to walk, bike, take transit, car pool, skateboard, rollerblade…
Driving? Underground pay parking is available (access off Drake St.), for a $2 max after 6 pm.
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