I used to be 25 years previous on November 21, 1969 after I held my first-born son, Jemal, in my arms shortly after he was born and made a vow that I’d be a special type of father than my father was in a position to be for me and to do the whole lot I may to create a world the place males had been absolutely healed and engaged with their households all through their lives. When our daughter Angela was born on March 22, 1972, I first grew to become excited by methods girls and boys, women and men, had been related and likewise totally different. I quickly launched MenAlive.com as my window to the world to share my books, articles, and on-line applications.
My spouse, Carlin, and I now have six grown youngsters, seventeen grandchildren, and three nice grandchildren. We quietly celebrated my eighty-first birthday on December 21, 2024. My dedication to the wellbeing of future generations continues and my work with boys and males has expanded. In 2019 I invited a lot of colleagues who I knew had been doing nice work serving to enhance the lives of boys and males to hitch me in what I referred to as a Moonshot for Mankind and Humanity.
We quickly began a company, MoonshotforMankind.org, and I wrote a brand new e-book (my seventeenth), Lengthy Dwell Males! The Moonshot Mission to Heal Males, Shut the Lifespan Hole, and Provide Hope to Humanity. Within the last chapter of the e-book, “Be a part of Our Moonshot Mission For Mankind and Humanity,” representatives of the founding organizations shared their causes for becoming a member of. The founding organizations and present co-founding organizations are:
As we start 2025, it’s clear to me that issues aren’t going nicely in our world. Violence is on the rise, as is melancholy, addictive escapes, deaths of despair, and suicides. Our environmental life help system is getting ready to collapse. But warriors for the human spirit have at all times arisen at occasions of hassle when our households and communities are in danger. That is our time. Do you are feeling referred to as to behave?
I imagine that males are each the “canaries within the coal mine” alerting us to the truth that we face a transparent and current hazard, in addition to the hope for humanity. I’m inviting a choose group of males who’re prepared to hitch me on the hero’s journey of a lifetime—one the place we heal ourselves as we decide to therapeutic our households and communities.
Hero’s journeys are by no means taken alone. They’re too perilous, unpredictable, and more likely to fail and not using a map, companions, and a information.
Your Map: I used to be blessed to hitch a males’s group that has been assembly usually for 45 years. Through the years, now we have developed a map that we’ve used to reside absolutely, love deeply, and make a optimistic distinction on this planet.
Your Companions: A cohort of males who really feel referred to as right now of their lives to hitch with different males to make this journey collectively.
Your Information: I’ve been a mentor to males, healer, and chief for greater than fifty years. I’m the creator of 17 books on males’s psychological, emotional, and relational well being. I’ve earned a PhD in Worldwide Well being and a grasp’s diploma in social work and work with people and organizations all through the U.S. and all over the world.
The apply map I’ll share with you was first described in my e-book, The Warrior’s Journey House: Therapeutic Males, Therapeutic the Planet, which was revealed in 1994. In work main as much as the e-book, I drew upon historical knowledge concerning the true nature of warriorship. Tibetan Buddhist grasp Chögyam Trungpa tells us, “The world is in absolute turmoil. These teachings are based on the premise that there’s primary human knowledge that may assist resolve the world’s issues. This knowledge doesn’t belong to anybody tradition or faith, nor does it come solely from the West or the East. Relatively, it’s a custom of human warriorship that has existed in lots of cultures at many occasions all through historical past.”
Chögyam Trungpa goes on to say, Warriorship right here doesn’t refer to creating warfare on others. Aggression is the supply of our issues, not the answer. Right here the phrase ‘warrior’ is taken from the Tibetan pawo, which accurately means ‘one who’s courageous.’ Warriorship on this context is the custom of human bravery, or the custom of fearlessness. The important thing to warriorship and the primary precept of the imaginative and prescient will not be being afraid of who you’re.”
The Actual Downside With Males
Many imagine that the issue with males is that we’re inherently harmful or unsuited to achieve success in a world the place bodily power is not vital and relationship abilities that ladies usually possess aren’t pure to males. These are principally media myths.
The actual drawback with males is that now we have change into disconnected from nature and disconnected from ourselves. We don’t know who we’re and are afraid to search out out. We could placed on entrance, however deep inside many people really feel misplaced and alone. We act like adults, however inside we really feel like perpetual Peter Pans who by no means grew up. We starvation for ladies, but in addition resent them as a result of we really feel so dependent. We all know we have to develop up however don’t know the place to go for mentoring.
If this resonates with you, know you aren’t alone.
A Cohort Guided by Dr. Jed Diamond is Forming Quickly.
The World Wants You. Your Households Want You. You Want You!
If you’re a person and this resonates with you, I want to hear from you. If you’re a lady who is aware of a person you are feeling would have an interest, please cross this invitation on to them. Girls have their very own work to do in these occasions of transformation and alter. However women and men are on this world collectively and we have to help one another.
Among the many many colleagues who reviewed my e-book, The Warrior’s Journey House, was my Aikido teacher and mentor Dr. Richard Strozzi Heckler, creator of many books together with In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Educating Consciousness Disciplines to the Army. He says, “Jed Diamond attracts a compelling thread between the lack of our warrior values, the desecration of the planet, and our pervasive addictions. He then outlines a set of clear and pragmatic practices that may return us to a deeper connection to ourselves and the pure world.”
Right here’s what you may anticipate whenever you be a part of:
We are going to meet for a free 2-hour mini-intensive (Date to be decided). You’ll study concerning the three archetypal wounds that males have skilled: Disgrace, Betrayal, and Abandonment and the warrior practices that heal them: Honor, Loyalty, and Dedication. Additionally, you will study concerning the cultural editors that perpetuate our wounding and trigger us to disconnect from ourselves and to repeatedly search for love in all of the fallacious locations.
For many who resolve to proceed collectively, we are going to open our hearts and minds to one another, study that all of us have one thing to show others and all of us have one thing to study, and we will decide to supporting one another on our particular person and shared warrior’s journey residence. I’m nonetheless growing this system, however it’s going to probably embody these parts:
- Every week you’ll obtain considered one of my classes articles: “Life Classes of an 81-12 months-Outdated Males’s Well being Maverick,” which can have two classes I’ve realized you could replicate upon and apply in your individual life.
- There shall be a devoted group house the place you may share your experiences, ask questions, and get help and suggestions from the group.
- As soon as a month we are going to meet collectively. There shall be a brief speak with knowledge you should utilize, adopted by dialogue, sharing, and recommended “warrior practices” you may have interaction.
- Twice a month you’ll obtain a video program with me in dialogue with among the world’s main consultants on Gender-Particular Therapeutic and Males’s Well being together with the next:
Mo Gawdat, Former Chief Enterprise Officer at Google X, bestselling creator of
Resolve For Comfortable.
Marianne J. Legato, M.D., Founder Basis for Gender-Particular Drugs,
creator of Why Males Die First: The best way to Lengthen Your Lifespan
David Katz, M.D., Founding Director of Yale College’s Prevention Analysis
Middle and Senior Science Advisor to Blue Zones.
Riane Eisler, President and Founding father of the Middle for Partnership Methods, creator
of The Chalice & The Blade and Nurturing Our Humanity.
Richard V. Reeves, Founding President of the American Institute for Boys and Males,
creator of Of Boys and Males.
Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt, Relationship consultants, authors of Getting
The Love You Need and The best way to Speak with Anybody About Something.
Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor, Harvard-trained neuroscientist, creator of My Stroke of Perception
and Complete Mind Dwelling.
Dr. Warren Farrell, Creator of The BoyDisaster and Function Mate to Soul Mate.
Dr. Julia DiGangi, Neuropsychologist and creator Vitality Rising: The Neuroscience
of Main with Emotional Energy.
Shana James, Marriage and household therapist, creator of Sincere Sex who’s rumored
to be “A mix of The Dalai Lama and Dr. Ruth.”
Dr. Gary Barker, Worldwide voice for wholesome manhood, gender equality and
violence prevention. CEO of Equimundo.
Chip Conley, Co-founder and CEO of the Trendy Elder Academy and creator of
Studying to Love Midlife.
Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley, Creator of Who Do We Select to Be? Dealing with Actuality,
Claiming Management, Restoring Sanity.
Ruth Whippman, Journalist, documentarian, and creator of BoyMom: Reimagining
Boyhood within the Age of Not possible Masculinity
Michael Gurian, Journalist and bestselling creator of 32 books together with The
Marvel of Boys and Boys: A Rescue Plan.
Kelly Wendorf, Creator of Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Knowledge for
Main and Dwelling.
There are 4 pillars that help this therapeutic journey:
- Changing into your genuine self and being the perfect you you could be.
- Studying to like your self, your loved ones, and your group, deeply and nicely.
- Embracing your calling and bringing your distinctive work to the world.
- Being a supply of readability and power at this difficult time in human historical past.
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