Note: Beginning in September, 2021, I began offering a certification and training program for people who wanted to expand their work to help others more effectively. As part of the training, they read several of my books, including My Distant Dad: Healing the Family Father Wound. Here is one man’s reflection on the book and
Part 1 Scott Harrison leads an organization called Charity Water and his mission is to bring clean water to everyone on the planet. I founded MenAlive in 1969 following the birth of my son and daughter. My mission is to heal childhood trauma and end male violence in the world. This is our story.
Part 2: The Traumatic Roots of Male Violence Abused Boys Grow Up to Become Abusive and Violent Men It never occurred to me that my life-long anger and depression and later my two broken marriages had anything to do with my past. All that changed in 1998 when I learned that I had 4
Part 1: Naming the Problem Correctly We now have a verdict in the George Floyd case, but male violence continues and must be addressed. We don’t need experts to tell us that we live in a very violent country. The April 16, 2021 headline in the New York Times headlines, “A Partial List of
“I am what survives me” – Erik Erikson “Leaving a Legacy” is one of the chapters of Ken Dychtwald’s new book, Radical Curiosity: One Man’s Search for Cosmic Magic and a Purposeful Life and Ken leads with the above quote from Erik Erikson. When I was in graduate school at U.C. Berkeley in 1965 I
Part 2—What is Your Brain Type? In Part 1, I talked about the different brain types discussed by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen and learning that I had the Empathizing brain type that is more common in women. Both men and women have brains that can both empathize (E type) and systemize (S type), but females tend
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