Learn how to give and receive feedback.

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...

From the Department of Spring

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...

From the Department of the Willow-Heart

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...