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Testimonials
From Men From Elders From Women

Video Testimonials from ManKind Project Leaders
There are over 200 Certified Leaders and Co-Leaders in the ManKind Project who have spent years gaining the experience and insight necessary to lead our trainings safely and effectively.
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"Other trainings helped, but this woke me up ... it totally transformed me. "
Les Sinclair
is a certified leader in the ManKind Project.
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"This work is about men finding their passion, their mission, removing blocks that were intractable ..."
Rick Broniec
is a certified leader in the ManKind Project.
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"... my dad got me into the NWTA … now I have an incredible relationship with him – and my son – today. "
Steven Hill
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"I had a good job, but I was disconnected from men… "
Henry Thurman
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"The women’s movement was outer-focused, the men’s movement is about the recovery of the internal ... "
Joe Laur
is a certified leader in the ManKind Project.
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From Men:
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Steve Wilemon
The New Warrior weekend was one of two major pinnacles in my life. My heart and soul, the essence of my being has been permanently made more integral and congruent. I'll carry the love and gratitude for all the men who loved the hell out of me for the rest of my life. |
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Kevin P.
MKP was something I needed and I didn’t realize how badly I needed it. I came out of the weekend a much better person than the one that arrived on Friday afternoon. I want this to stick. I want to continue to grow as a man, because this feels good |
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Frank Manfre
At 47 years of age I had enjoyed a great career with financial success, a great wife and two wonderful healthy children yet I kept asking myself "is this all there is?" I really had no mission or purpose and couldn't figure out what to do with the rest of my life. Then a man I worked with invited to the New Warrior Training Adventure. It was truly a transformational weekend and allowed to look at what wasn't working in my life. The only regret I have is that I didn't do it much earlier in my life. I came away with a mission and connection with other men that I cherish. |
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Orion Linekin
After doing the weekend, I am spiritually uplifted...and loving every moment of this day. I now have a huge desire to return and help other men with their work. My chest hurts with the opening of my heart. I have been needing this since I was 15, I have been looking for this since I was 28, and I finally found it at 41. |
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Dan W.
The weekend began as a group of somewhat cynical strangers and ended as a band of brothers. I left the weekend with a profoundly new sense of what it means to be a man and a new understanding of how I can be of service to others and be supported by others. I feel a new energy and excitement about discovering who I am and what I can do on this planet. The weekend cleared my head of lots of crap accumulated over the years and brought me back to some basic values that I hadn't even realized were forgotten. I wish I had done this years ago. |
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Aernout
Through my initiation I found bearings I can call my own, and so have been able in the years since to lay to rest my anger, to retrace my steps and explore new paths, to learn to live in the here and the now, and to embrace myself as a man in Africa. |
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Adam
MKP has opened the door into my multiplicity. This has afforded a re-birth. It too is making it possible for me to be conscious and mindful as I grow - 360°. |
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Gary Viljoen
The Mankind Project has offered me the space to really understand what the mature masculine is all about, and, more importantly, to find that part of myself and to live it in a confident way as a husband, a father and a professional person. |
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Andrew Fulton
For me, MKP provides a safe container to discover and realize my mission in life. |
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James V.
Prior to doing this work, I always chose the company of women where possible; since my involvement I have been able to relate to men in a way that is deeply trusting, safe, supportive, challenging and REAL, and I choose this often; naturally this leads to making significant friendships, but also extends to relating to men with whom I have little in common, and may not even particularly like – men who I would previously have dismissed, ignored or forgotten. |
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Willie Baronet
MKP changed my life in ways I couldn't have anticipated. At the time I did my weekend I owned my own company, had done quite a bit of self discovery work, and didn't know I was missing a key piece of what I now believe it means to be a man. It's made a tremendous difference in my relationship with my girlfriend, my father, and my friends. And I am so grateful. |

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Mark Zwahl
I didn't realize it at the time I went to the training, but I didn't trust men and definitely didn't know how to love them or to see men as anything but a threat. Through this work, I've learned to truly see men for all that they are, and to love them just like they are. |
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Jim Lovestar
As a boy I was lonely, isolated, and bullied. At eighteen, I enlisted in the Marine Corps seeking trust and connection with men. I was disappointed in that experience, finding little of what I sought. Now, nearly forty years later, I am connected with men who I trust. I know I can speak to these men candidly. The feelings I keep hidden in the rest of my life are welcome with these men. The ongoing community that we create nourishes my marriage and my work life. This is priceless and I am eternally grateful. |
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Burt W.
I went through my weekend in 1997. Its the most life altering experience I've had. Over the years the empowerment has spread to every part of my life. I am very, very happy with the life I have created. |
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Sean Niland
The New Warrior Training Adventure was a turning point in my life. I really noticed how I felt different crossing the threshold of my home Sunday night. I felt a depth of gratitude, responsibility, and love for myself, my family, job, and friends well up within me. I could see more clearly how I needed to live in the world around me. My confusion, emptiness, and aloneness had cleared. I began to trust in a deeper part of myself that I always sensed, but couldn't act upon in my day to day living. It was truly wonderful to make the journey with others, and receive the support from so many men. I had never experienced this much trust and love from men in the past. |
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G.J. Anderson
At age 63 I thought that I experienced all that this life held for me. My weekend was a re-birth, a new beginning of a new life that holds endless ways to grow, to be happier, to find myself after years of shutting down. How exciting the future is and how excited I am to be walking a new path, filled with hope, love and new brothers. |
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M. Davids
Experiencing the New Warrior Training Adventure was the most eye-opening, impactful & meaningful experience of my life. It was my wake up call to how I live my life, how my actions affect others, how I see my self and how other percieve me. It is a must for any man who wants an intense personal growth experience. |
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Dee Spitler
After 3 failed relationships, 2 failed businesses and sinking into depression, partying and running away from major responsibilities, including 3 sons, I was finally ready for something different in my life. I had no clue what it meant to be a man and how important it was to my self-esteem to be accountable, responsible, and congruent in my actions. My warrior brothers supported me in my self-forgiveness, shame and not good enough self lies. My life today is full of successes, abundance and gratitude. |
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Tyler
Never before have I had a carpet laid down just so the rug could be pulled out from under me. |
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Mike Matt
MKP gave me the opportunity to live a life of connection with the world around me, rather than isolation and fear. Before my NWTA, I had everything I had hoped for -- a prosperous career with an incredible salary, success over years of addiction, material possessions -- but I was still alone and in fear. I was afraid to let go of the dream and hope that eventually my father and uncles were finally going to step forward to show me how to be a man. Instead, I have elders and brothers in MKP who WANT to connect with me on this level. I now am able to help the next man living that same life of isolation and fear that crippled me. |
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Horace Steward
I have been "working" on myself since 1991 by using weekend seminars, workshops and motivational materials. I found that live people to people gatherings allowed me to be more real and authentic. When I did my weekend in 1999 it was a synergy of all the work I did before combined. The 8 to 10 weeks follow up helped to reinforce many life changing skills which I still use practically in all my relationships today. |
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Thomas Griggs
What could possibly be so compelling that an independent and very busy man would choose to meet for 4 hours every other week for 13 years with a group of 10 other guys? I can tell you, it is not sports, or poker, or hunting. It is the discovery that emotional authenticity and trusting other men completely can save a man's life. How valuable is that to his children? |
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Greg Gondron
MKP has created a space for me to look at all parts of myself, to see what's working and not working in my life, and to connect with a powerful, healthy circle of men whom I trust and love. |
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David Two Hawks
MKP quite literally has saved my life. My life was like watching a re-run of a bad T.V. show over and over again. Every relationship had the same plot and same demise; I had no way to change the channels. MKP has shown me how to stop them from playing. |
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William R. Pike
A 'veteran' of self-help books, 'healing' workshops, and personal development courses, I felt powerless to consistently extend myself to be the 'me' I wanted to be. At 41 I needed to regain some of that elusive courage and self-belief I demonstrably had years ago. Several 'things' in the MKP New Warrior Training Adventure literature 'spoke' to that part of me that wanted to be more than my current lot. I took the plunge, enrolled, and attended what remains the most transformative and empowering experience-bar none I have ever experienced. Simply put, the MKP Initiation is a highly evolved and purely spiritual 'initiation' into the sum of the best that Mankind has ever been, and has potential to become;- it's the 'ignition' a truly 'connected' man must experience to connect and remain in tune with the sacred mature masculine energy which permeates our world. It is 'essential' men's business, as practiced throughout the history of mankind prior to its suppression in recent centuries through excessive religious practices and over-rationalism. I will happily speak to any man of this essential experience at any time on +61411754547-its the least I can do to share this sacred, and much-needed gift with another man who needs it like I did. |
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Ron Samfeld
My eleven-year experience with MKP/New Warrior has enabled me to GET IT. I don't know what IT is? But, I got it. |
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Ken Rehm
MKP changed my life. I now know what accountability, integrity and mission really mean. I practice the skills I learned at MKP every single day. I know what it means for me to be a man with all the honor, responsibility, accountability and emotions that go with that. |
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Bill Napier
The NWTA weekend served as a wakeup call for me. I initiated 11 years ago and the memory and learnings still resonate within. This weekend was instrumental in a deepening up my relationship with my wife & children as well as a new personal direction for myself. I highly recommend it to any man ready to look inside and do his work! |
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Mike
Actually, I thought my life was working just fine. Granted, my son was dying of cancer, my marriage of 20 years had ended, I had no real friends, I was spiritually dead, and was depressed and suicidal, but, hey, I'm fine! So to say that MKP saved my life would be understatement. It gave me a life. It set me on a spiritual path that makes my life one of joy and purpose. Even though it's been only 4 years since I was initiated, I can barely remember what life was like or what I was like before MKP. |
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Robert Desmarais Sullivan
On the Weekend, I learned how much I had been hiding my feelings from myself, living in shadow, blaming everything on everyone else in the process. I was living with total misunderstanding of my own role in creating sadness. The Weekend was a first step, but one I probably wouldn't have taken on my own. Also, I discovered honest and compassionate connection with men that I had never known before. With initiated men, I continue to have experiences that mystify me and bring a richness to my life that I rarely have with uninitiated men. I believe that it is because I learned to trust men who have willingly gone through the initiation, but that I am generally still suspicious of men who have not. |
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David C Pierce
ManKind Project activities have opened me up to go deeper and inquire about what I really am. This work with Adyashanti is setting me free to be totally conscious, and sense the joy of life. I am much more present, with a heightened awareness, for all of us. Much Love & Blessings! |
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Joe Sigurdson
I initiated in 1994 with my brother Corky. In 1995 we brought our father Herb to a weekend. He was 67 years old and had done a lot of internal work in his life. Jim Coleman facilitated his work and had the wisdom to recognize that he had been around the block. His guts work was to tell a love story of our mothers passing and what he did to grieve and move through his loss. The entire room was bawling. When he entered the New Warrior community he took on the role as ideal father for many men. When he became ill with cancer, that is when I became fully aware of what this community meant to me. Men literally carried me through his death. The outpouring support for him and our entire family was and still is one of the most profound
expressions of love I have ever experienced. I am eternally grateful to all the New Warriors that have taught, shaped and evolved me into the man I am today. |
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William L. Marinucci
The New Warrior Training Adventure weekend changed my life... forever! It was perhaps the most powerful gift I have ever given myself... Six years later, I am heavily involved with MKP and living a life filled with joy, accountability, and integrity! Thank you ManKind Project. |
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Dennis Nicely
The NWTA and the follow-up group work has been a major part of the change that has occurred in my life these past nine years. This organization has provided the space for me to claim my place in this world as a man whose is gay. I denied that part of myself for so many years, but realized I was not in integrity with my core being. Since I have embraced that part of myself and have learned to love that part of who I am, I have become a much happier man and I believe a better Dad, brother, son, educator, and friend. |
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"I came to the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA) as a 25-year-old man with no idea where I was going or what I wanted to do. I had just been fired from my job and felt rudderless. I desperately wanted close relationships in my life and yet, didn't even know or like myself very much. Less than 48 hours later, I left the NWTA with a feeling of purpose and connection unlike anything else I could imagine." - Sean O'Dell
"It wasn't just a weekend, it was a positive change in my life that has gone on for four years." - Greg Zimmer
"It's not too strong for me to say that doing the New Warrior gave me back my life - without it I was living half (or even less!) of a life." - Aboodi Shabi
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"I stepped into the weekend expecting a chance for a growth opportunity, and what I found was an explosion of growth. I had a chance to look into depths I had not touched. I had the chance to experience all of who I am, as never before. And along the way I found a group of men staffing the weekend who are full of love, care, and challenges for each participant-and for each other." - John Davis
"For me the weekend is, in a word, magic. Courageous men held me in an envelope that allowed me to experience myself in a challenging and sacred place." - Randall Larson-Maynard
"I came looking for a community of men-and men I could trust. I loved the energy and being held by my brothers after a very dramatic part of the Weekend. I learned about myself and found an avenue to learn more." - Bernie Gross
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"During my New Warrior Training Adventure four years ago, I suddenly realized that I had been sleepwalking through my life. The weekend woke me up so I can live the rest of my life more fully." - Dennis Hartwell
"The training weekend was simply incredible. I started off confused and afraid, but somehow during the weekend I stepped into a new life. I had arrived scared, grumpy and withdrawn, and left feeling enlivened, focused-and for the first time in my life I had brothers!" - Peter Underwood
"I was in a wonderful and deep relationship with my wife and children, but I did not express my childish exuberance or other strong emotions. The weekend helped me claim and express my exuberant self. It was a miraculous, life-changing experience." - Ted Lau
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"The New Warrior Training Adventure helped me look at the stuck places in my life and deal with them, with a group of men who really cared to make a difference in my life." - Robert Giambrone, MD
"The New Warrior Training gave me the tools to discover my mission in life. That mission had always been there, but until my weekend, it had never framed in my mind. Now that it is clearly in front of me, I use it to guide whatever I do, wherever I go." - Bob German
"I was afraid that my arthritis in my back and hips would create a problem on the weekend. I found no problem with this as the support staff was always there for me. They always emphasized safety. I saw others with handicaps who were also accommodated. I felt totally accepted." - Erling Hallanger
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"Before the journey of the NWTA I was floundering around trying to hold things together with sheer will. Now I have some new tools that serve as mirrors and magnifying glasses into my heart, allowing me to see the 'shadow' and confront it." - Mark Henderson
"I feel like I've had my eyes opened. I feel more alive and aware, especially about myself, than probably ever. I'm seeing things, good and bad, about myself, that I either had long since forgotten about, taken for granted, rationalized, excused, grown numb to, or written off as standard behavior. Bottom line is, I've been missing out on being in on my life." - Ken Lessley
"As a monk, I had undergone an initiation when I entered the monastery nineteen years before. I found the initiation experience of the New Warrior Training Adventure to be an explosive re-discovery of myself and my mission as a man, a Roman Catholic Christian, a Benedictine monk and priest." - Father Stephanos Pedrano
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"Through my experience with the Mankind Project I have been able to see clearly how and why two 12-year marriages ended in divorce. I was able to define what I wanted and needed in a relationship, and I have found that relationship." - Danny Spitler
"The Mankind Project has given me the tools to open myself to abundance like I never imagined possible-spiritual, emotional, financial, and best of all, relations with my family, friends and the brotherhood of this men's organization." - Dee Spitler

From Elders:
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Brian Kwitny
I just returned from the Elder Retreat and just loved it. I even loved working in the kitchen amongst other men. Last year I got out of an oppressive job and landed a great new job as an Optometrist at a new Wal-Mart on Lafayette Road and couldn't have done it without getting clear, owning my stuff, dealing with my stuff, and developing a strong work ethic and integrity. The MKP experiences helped tremendously. I am grateful for MKP and grateful for all the men and mentors. |
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Jack Childs
ManKind Project fulfills my need for connection with men. MKP came in my 70's, a culmination of years of teaching men's issues and running a college men's group. It is for me a place of loving support where I can become more whole and further the transformation of the planet. I experience in the work of I Group the range of my emotions, always with an underlying sense of joy--saying "Is this possible?" |
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G.J. Anderson
At age 63 I thought that I experienced all that this life held for me. My weekend was a re-birth, a new beginning of a new life that holds endless ways to grow, to be happier, to find myself after years of shutting down. How exciting the future is and how excited I am to be walking a new path, filled with hope, love and new brothers. |
"As an older man, this is the first place where I have been welcomed and respected as an elder." - Fred Cheyette
It not only helped me clarify my role and mission as a man, it solidified my sense of manhood in a way that no other experience could." - Noel McNaughton
"I did my training over seven years ago, and still find it one of the most valuable experiences in my fifty-nine years on the planet." - Donald Karp
"Through the weekend I found a safe and nurturing way to do my personal work and to develop as a man...AND I did it at age 55. So, now I have the joy of working with and learning from men of all ages, including many younger. I look forward to my elder years knowing that they will be a time of growth and not waiting around to die." - Dick Silberman
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From Women:
"I wish more money went into things like New Warrior instead of prison growth. If the court sentenced men to a weekend, the world would become a different place. The Mankind Project saved our marriage & I believe it saved Scott's life. I am a true believer! This works. I hope more men make the decision to give themselves the gift. That's what it is, a gift." - Camille Darkes, June 2001
"My husband's childhood was anything but idyllic, and he carried those hurts and upsets into his adult life…. He hid behind work rather than being a complete partner in our family. He missed swim meets, Little League games… and I think his excuse (making money for them) was really an excuse to keep intimacy away. After he did the New Warrior weekend, a new man began to emerge, one who was still scared and scarred but also tender and no longer afraid to show his deep love for his family, to be a man of integrity and a wonderful father and husband." - Abby Lederman, May 2003
"We have always had a great relationship, but our marriage is clearly much stronger today than it was before…he has become an even more wonderful husband and a terrific father to our two sons." - Sylvana Hamilton, March 2003
"My husband went through the New Warrior Training in May of 1996. He left home a man who was out of touch with what he needed to do and be, distanced from his family. Miraculously, he came home a new person-now, what he says and what he does consistently 'line up.' The experience was such a gift to both of us. Thank you!" - Deborah Saas
"My husband came in the front door and looked into my eyes and stayed there long enough to see my heart and soul. He's never done this in our 18 years of marriage. This makes me feel so close and loved by him. Our 6-year-old daughter told me that daddy feels soft and more cuddly. I really appreciate the staff for giving me back my husband." - a wife at an NWTA graduation (or 'homecoming')
"From the moment he walked in the door from his weekend, I was profoundly moved by the work he did. I receive real benefits as his partner, because he has a community of men holding him to the light, helping him clarify his mission on the planet and giving him company with the real challenges of being a man with conscious intent." - Jan Cooper
"Monday afternoon, Roberto got off the plane and came straight to my flat, here in Rome. The first thing I noticed was the look in his eyes; there is a new stability in his gaze. His voice is now clear and firm. He can't wait to go back and staff. I've finally got 'my warrior' and I feel incredibly proud of him." - Anonymous girlfriend of a New Warrior
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