Masculine Soul – resources
Thanks to all those who came to today’s workshop on The Masculine Soul and contributed to such a rich conversation. As promised, here are links to many of the resources I mentioned during the afternoon. Enjoy!
Nick’s website
www.nickthorpe.co.uk – author, speaker, coach
Male Rites of Passage & Circles
Male Journey Rites: www.malejourney.org.uk/rites
Male Journey Groups: www.malejourney.org.uk/local-men-s-groups
Mankind Project UK: https://mankindprojectuki.org/
Journeyman UK (for 13-17yr-olds): https://journeymanuk.org/
Female Rites of Passage
Woman Within: https://womanwithin.org.uk/
Women in Power: https://womeninpoweruk.com/
Mixed Rites of Passage
For men, facilitated by women, and vice versa:
https://www.celebrationofbeing.co.uk/
Cat Nightingale’s Integrated Masculine and Feminine diagrams
http://www.integratedmasculineandfeminine.com/bodygraph/
Books
Wild man to wise man by Richard Rohr
Adam’s return by Richard Rohr
Manhood by Steve Biddulph
Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph
He by Robert Johnson
The Birth of Pleasure by Dr Carol Gilligan
Science on Boys’ Development
The Fragile Male, Sebastian Kraemer: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119278/
“This is Why Boys Need More Emotional Support than Girls”: https://bit.ly/2sX5Y9v and https://bit.ly/2sN2DdN
Quotes
“In speaking to women’s groups, I have suggested that women look at men this way : if they took away their own network of intimate friends, those with whom they share their personal journey, removed their sense of instinctual guidance, concluded that they were almost wholly alone in the world, and understood that they would be defined only by standards of productivity external to them, they would then know the inner state of the average man.”
James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up (Kindle Locations 1989-1995). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
“What a mystery a boy is… And how easy it is to forget what beautiful creatures they are. There’s so much about them and in them that’s lovely. Graceful. Dreamy. Vulnerable. Qualities we either don’t notice, or simply blind ourselves to. You see, there’s great native tenderness in children. In boys, as much as in girls. But so often I see boys having the tenderness shamed out of them.”
Tim Winton, novelist, from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/09/about-the-boys-tim-winton-on-how-toxic-masculinity-is-shackling-men-to-misogyny