Mankind Project

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The ManKind Project (MKP) is a non-profit organization registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3), but with many affiliated Training Centers around the world. The primary training is the "New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA)" undertaken by over 40,000 men in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

MKP serves as the umbrella organization for 38 interdependent Centers worldwide, which conduct more than one hundred NWTAs and scores of more advanced trainings each year.

Among the values MKP promote are: Accountability & integrity; leadership; emotional literacy; multicultural awareness; and the blessing of elders. MKP has created several additional Leadership Development Trainings and endorses the development of several non-affiliated workshops, including InnerKing, Warriormonk, Vets Journey Home, InsideCircle, and Hollowbones.

In addition to this activity, MKP has a variety of other programs to assist incarcerated prisoners, military veterans and young men during adolescence.

InsideCircle Foundation has a working relationship the ManKind Project, creating NWTA-type trainings and integration groups inside prison walls.

[edit] New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA)

The New Warrior Training that would later become the NWTA was founded in 1984 by three men: Rich Tosi, a former Marine Corps officer and corporate executive; Bill Kauth, a psychotherapist and social activist; and Ron Herring, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and educator. Designed to compress a large amount of material into a very short period, NWTA purports to be a "Radical Departure" from the modern male psyche. Men who undertake it pass through three phases characteristic to virtually all historic forms of male initiation: Descent, Ordeal and Homecoming. Unlike initiations of old, these passages are navigated internally. Nevertheless they retain all of their validity due to being deeply experiential and powerfully transformative.

The training is designed to "challenge men to develop their abilities as leaders, fathers, and elders" and to "support men in developing lives of integrity, accountability, and connection to feeling."

Specific details of NWTA trainings are kept confidential by both new initiates, and the initiated men who staff the training.

[edit] Integration Groups (iGroups)

After experiencing the NWTA, men can join an on-going "Integration Group" (iGroup) which provides a place for men to do ongoing personal work by applying the principles learned on the NWTA to their lives.

iGroups are available to all men who complete the NWTA, as well as men who want to explore the ManKind Project. Most iGroups are on weekday evenings and meet weekly.