The Mankind Project
Boys to Men is modeled after the work of the Mankind Project, an international non-profit that, through its New Warrior Training Adventure, has powerfully impacted the lives of more than 40,000 men throughout the world. Please also visit The Mankind Project of the Northwest.
What Is The New Warrior?
Men have been warriors since the beginning of time. But present day social forces pressure many men to repress the warrior side of themselves. They unconsciously substitute a distorted shadow for the healthy warrior energy so essential to sustaining individual and communal balance.The New Warrior is a man who has confronted this destructive "shadow" form and has achieved hard-won ownership of the highly focused, aggressive energy that empowers and shapes the inner masculine self. Sustained by this new energy, the New Warrior is at once tough and loving, wild and gentle, fierce and tolerant. He lives passionately and compassionately, because he has learned to live his mission with integrity, and without apology.