Developing Your Natural Talent
To Lead
Read the article and interview about the Natural Passages Program with Herb Stevenson in ALN Magazine.
See the article...
To Herb Stevenson
talk about the
Four Principals of Leadership in these short interviews.
and to Falling Leaves - music and lyrics written and performed by Jeff Endemann, a participant in MoMen 2006. The song was inspired and written during a MoMen weekend.
The complete CD is available
for purchase at: www.jeffendemann.com
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star"
—Nietzsche
Tentatively, twice per month on Tuesdays from 7:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Come a little early so we can start on time.
Once a circle reaches ten people, it will be closed.
It is preferred that each member of the circle be committed to attending each meeting.
The quarterly fee is $300 payable in advance for six sessions (18 hours at $16.67 per hour). Monthly payments can be made at a rate of $120 per month (6 hours @ $20 per hour. The full monthly or quarterly amount is due regardless of attendance. There are no per session payment options, unless prearranged.
This is not a therapeutic group. It is a personal development and support group for men. The following rules apply to everyone:
The meetings will provide an opportunity for the following:
Each session will be loosely structured to ensure continuity and consistency. For example:
Adapted from Joseph Zinker
We value the following group behaviors:
Adapted from Joseph Zinker
Each of us:
Adapted from Joseph Zinker
In Gestalt terms, individuals struggle to:
Therapy versus Male Maturation
Therapy | Male Maturation | |
Aims for enhanced coping and social adjustment based on modification of one’s behavior to the external authority in one’s life...social, cultural, parental, employer, etc. Work is done in and about the middle world of day-today life, where emotional wounds, development of personal bonds, the cultivation of physical grace and emotional expression, and the blossoming of empathy, intimacy, and personality authenticity are addressed. It can be focused towards saving marriages, facilitating divorces, cultivating social skills or friendships, enhancing performance or enjoyment in our current careers, raising economic standing, ending depressions, helping us understand or express feelings, gaining insight into our personalities or personal histories, or being happier. Descent into the underworld is often avoided or
bypassed by initiating coping or reframing techniques. Male maturation means assuming socially and culturally defined adult responsibilities such as economic and employment sustain-ability, family and relational stability, and/or personality congruence. |
Aims for initiation and cultural change that can lead to the re-establishment of internal authority as a vessel for how to live one’s life. Work is done in the under world, home of the soul, where embodiment of the soul deepens individuality through the discovery of our particular place in the world and the embodiment of our unique form of service, and brought into the middle world, home of day to day life and personalities. The focus is to cultivate a relationship between the ego and the four parts of the soul. It is not focused towards saving marriages, facilitating divorces, cultivating social skills or friendships, enhancing performance or enjoyment in our current careers, raising economic standing, ending depressions, helping us understand or express feelings, gaining insight into our personalities or personal histories, or being happier, even though it might occur as a side effect. The initial descent into the underworld may make life more difficult or lonely or less comfortable, secure, or happy as social stability and psychological composure can be lost while internal authority is restored so that the active, mature adult male of the soul can surface. Male maturation means moving closer to the soul. This can be done by returning to nature and experiencing the elements, exploring the symbols that give meaning to your life, discovering the vision that has been waiting for you to claim. |
Adapted from Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, 2003