I used to be 25 years previous on November 21, 1969 once I held my first-born son, Jemal, in my arms shortly after he was born and made a vow that I might be a distinct type of father than my father was in a position to be for me and to do the whole lot I might to create a world the place males have been totally healed and engaged with their households all through their lives. When our daughter Angela was born on March 22, 1972, I first turned focused on methods girls and boys, women and men, have 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 kids, 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 quite a lot of colleagues who I knew have been doing nice work serving to enhance the lives of boys and males to hitch me in what I known as a Moonshot for Mankind and Humanity.
We quickly began a corporation, MoonshotforMankind.org, and I wrote a brand new e book (my seventeenth), Lengthy Stay Males! The Moonshot Mission to Heal Males, Shut the Lifespan Hole, and Supply 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 are usually not going effectively in our world. Violence is on the rise, as is despair, addictive escapes, deaths of despair, and suicides. Our environmental life assist system is getting ready to collapse. But warriors for the human spirit have all the time arisen at instances of hassle when our households and communities are in danger. That is our time. Do you are feeling known as to behave?
I consider 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 prone 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. Over time, we’ve got developed a map that we’ve used to dwell totally, love deeply, and make a optimistic distinction on the planet.
Your Companions: A cohort of males who really feel known as at the moment 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 writer 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 follow map I’ll share with you was first described in my e book, The Warrior’s Journey Residence: Therapeutic Males, Therapeutic the Planet, which was printed in 1994. In work main as much as the e book, I drew upon historic knowledge in regards to 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 fundamental human knowledge that may assist remedy the world’s issues. This knowledge doesn’t belong to anyone tradition or faith, nor does it come solely from the West or the East. Somewhat, it’s a custom of human warriorship that has existed in lots of cultures at many instances all through historical past.”
Chögyam Trungpa goes on to say, Warriorship right here doesn’t refer to creating conflict 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 just isn’t being afraid of who you might be.”
The Actual Drawback With Males
Many consider 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 essential and relationship expertise that ladies usually possess are usually not pure to males. These are largely media myths.
The actual downside with males is that we’ve got turn into disconnected from nature and disconnected from ourselves. We don’t know who we’re and are afraid to seek out out. We could placed on a superb 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 girls, but additionally 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 go this invitation on to them. Ladies have their very own work to do in these instances of transformation and alter. However women and men are on this world collectively and we have to assist one another.
Among the many many colleagues who reviewed my e book, The Warrior’s Journey Residence, was my Aikido teacher and mentor Dr. Richard Strozzi Heckler, writer of many books together with In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Instructing Consciousness Disciplines to the Navy. 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’ll be able to anticipate while you be part of:
We are going to meet for a free 2-hour mini-intensive (Date to be decided). You’ll be taught in regards to 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 be taught in regards to 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, be taught that all of us have one thing to show others and all of us have one thing to be taught, and we will decide to supporting one another on our particular person and shared warrior’s journey house. I’m nonetheless creating this system, however it should seemingly embrace these components:
- Every week you’ll obtain one among my classes articles: “Life Classes of an 81-12 months-Previous Males’s Well being Maverick,” which could have two classes I’ve discovered you could mirror upon and apply in your personal life.
- There might be a devoted neighborhood area the place you’ll be able to share your experiences, ask questions, and get assist and suggestions from the neighborhood.
- As soon as a month we are going to meet collectively. There might be a brief discuss with knowledge you should use, adopted by dialogue, sharing, and instructed “warrior practices” you’ll be able to interact.
- Twice a month you’ll obtain a video program with me in dialogue with among the world’s main specialists on Gender-Particular Therapeutic and Males’s Well being together with the next:
Mo Gawdat, Former Chief Enterprise Officer at Google X, bestselling writer of
Remedy For Pleased.
Marianne J. Legato, M.D., Founder Basis for Gender-Particular Drugs,
writer of Why Males Die First: Tips on how to Lengthen Your Lifespan
David Katz, M.D., Founding Director of Yale College’s Prevention Analysis
Heart and Senior Science Advisor to Blue Zones.
Riane Eisler, President and Founding father of the Heart for Partnership Techniques, writer
of The Chalice & The Blade and Nurturing Our Humanity.
Richard V. Reeves, Founding President of the American Institute for Boys and Males,
writer of Of Boys and Males.
Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt, Relationship specialists, authors of Getting
The Love You Need and Tips on how to Speak with Anybody About Something.
Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor, Harvard-trained neuroscientist, writer of My Stroke of Perception
and Complete Mind Residing.
Dr. Warren Farrell, Writer of The BoyDisaster and Function Mate to Soul Mate.
Dr. Julia DiGangi, Neuropsychologist and writer Vitality Rising: The Neuroscience
of Main with Emotional Energy.
Shana James, Marriage and household therapist, writer 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 writer of
Studying to Love Midlife.
Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer of Who Do We Select to Be? Dealing with Actuality,
Claiming Management, Restoring Sanity.
Ruth Whippman, Journalist, documentarian, and writer of BoyMom: Reimagining
Boyhood within the Age of Unattainable Masculinity
Michael Gurian, Journalist and bestselling writer of 32 books together with The
Surprise of Boys and Boys: A Rescue Plan.
Kelly Wendorf, Writer of Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Knowledge for
Main and Residing.
There are 4 pillars that assist this therapeutic journey:
- Changing into your genuine self and being the very best you you could be.
- Studying to like your self, your loved ones, and your neighborhood, deeply and effectively.
- 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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