by adminmkpusa | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers
The ManKind Project is a feedback-rich environment. That’s a great thing. Personally, I receive feedback from mentors and mentees, community members, leader training participants, and hot seats to name just a few. And I give feedback to most of these people too. It’s...
by adminmkpusa | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers
This is the most beautiful spring of my life. The flowers are bursting, the air is redolent and clean, and it is so quiet I hear birds far overhead and bees buzzing in the garden. And, in the same moment, I feel dissonance. Hey wait a minute, isn’t there a...
by adminmkpusa | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers
At this point in this series of newsletters on leadership, you might be feeling like each email is a performance evaluation…an opportunity to see a leadership standard, acknowledge some success, and dwell on critical words and areas needing improvement. It’s...
by adminmkpusa | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers
My dharma name in the Hollow Bones Rinzai Zen Order is Yoshin, which means “willow-heart.” I first heard the word many years ago when I started studying jujitsu, since the name of our school is Yoshin Jitsu Kai: the school of the techniques of the willow-heart. It...
by adminmkpusa | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers
A few weeks ago I emailed you about a new MKP course called Living Through Disruption. The first program sold out before I could even get the official word out to you. The good news – I’m personally leading the second course which starts May 27th. So you...
by adminmkpusa | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers
I’d like you to approach today’s email differently. Instead of reading the entire email, watch Ashton Applewhite’s TED Talk when you get to the link. It sets the stage for this week’s topic of being an advocate. We can’t challenge bias if we aren’t aware....