by adminmkpusa | Nov 16, 2016 | Community News, From the Chair, Recent News, Soul of the Work
I’m sitting with the outcome of the recent National Election. I supported the candidate that lost. So, I am grieving, as humans do, the loss of something that I wanted that I didn’t get. After breaking through the denial, I was angry, began to bargain...
by adminmkpusa | Oct 17, 2016 | Community News, Recent News, Soul of the Work
by Ed Gurowitz In MKP we have a variety of cultural values – integrity, support, brotherhood, inclusion, and others. One that goes unnoticed in my judgment is the culture of invitation. Starting in the NWTA and in all our circles and trainings we say “any...
by adminmkpusa | Aug 23, 2016 | Community News, Recent News, Soul of the Work
by Ed Gurowitz Up until 1998, MKP USA was a training-driven organization. That is, most of our revenue came from trainings, mainly NWTAs, and our work was filling trainings. The Stanford ACT II study blamed the decline in the organization’s viability on its being...
by adminmkpusa | Aug 8, 2016 | Community News, Recent News, Soul of the Work
by Ed Gurowitz In MKP we talk about feelings a lot, and particularly, it seems to me, about anger. We have processes to “get anger out,” and implicitly or explicitly we seem to value other feelings (love, joy, empathy) over anger and fear. On the one hand, I can get...
by adminmkpusa | May 10, 2016 | Community News, Recent News, Soul of the Work
by Ed Gurowitz A few weeks ago, on Easter Sunday, my son Michael died just short of his 36th birthday. As you can imagine, this was devastating for my wife Emy and me. Nothing in life prepares you for the loss of a child – along with the grief that is there when...
by adminmkpusa | May 5, 2016 | Recent News, Soul of the Work
Initiating Men into Their Sacred Masculinities Somos Iniciadores de Hombres. As New Warriors, we are Initiators of men. On Friday night, a man who has prepared impeccably, owned his shadow and his gold, and is ready to provide a challenge, informs the “NEXT MAN!” that...
