We offer a cost-effective program because of our training configuration:
- A small traveling core staff of trained leaders
- A supporting group of trained local men
All over the US, there are thousands of men who are participating in men's groups. These men live the principles of accountability, personal responsibility, emotional literacy, community involvement, and non-violence. There are both formal and informal networks through which these men serve projects like AIM.
Our initial workshop takes only a single intense weekend, plus a set of follow-up sessions. Our approach is experiential, based not on lectures, but on challenges met by participants. While one intention of the program is to enhance student culture and thus reduce bad behavior, our approach is not anti-anything but pro-traits that a college man must develop to become his best.
As mature, compassionate, emotionally literate men, we do advocate a set of universal principles. We offer these principles to the college men, believing that they appeal directly to the human heart, and that they are transmitted from elder to younger by modeling and sharing how these principles apply in modern life.
We offer the following principles:
- Power: an ability to make effective, conscious choices in
my life.
- Accountability: to be responsible for my actions and behaviors,
intended or otherwise, and to be responsive to the
consequences of those actions and behaviors.
- Integrity: where intentions, promises, thoughts, feelings, and
actions are in alignment.
- Awareness: recognizing the complex array of variables, both
internal and external, that impact my decision-
making at choice point.
- Shadow: that part of me which I repress, hide, or deny, and
which unconsciously drive my beliefs, feelings, and actions.
We offer shame-free learning in order to clarify and live one's deepest personal values. Instead of trying to impose our own various values, we seek to help college men understand and deepen their own best values.
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