ManKind Project South Africa

Our Mission

Our objectives are to challenge and support mature masculinity. The context we see for this is that men are hurting – inside and out. For a variety of reasons, many men are disempowered, disconnected and disheartened. And often men lash out at those around us, whom we are meant to love and protect.

We often feel as though the world is asking us to sell our souls to earn a living. These are some of the challenges we recognise in being men.

For us, the mature masculine enables us to respond positively to these challenges and includes:

• Living a life of accountability and integrity
• Being authentic and true to ourselves at all times
• Being connected with people and feelings, our roots, our loved ones, our community and ourselves
• Recognising the dark side within us and responding constructively to it
• Living in mission and in personal leadership in the world whatever our circumstances

The objective of the New Warrior Training Adventure weekend is to look with fierce courage at who and where you are now, where you want to go, what’s to honour and celebrate and what is holding you back from being the best man you can be, and set yourself on a conscious course to mature masculinity.

On the weekend you stand free of the clutter of identifying yourself by where you work or don’t work, how much money you have or don’t have, and any masks you may have adopted in making your way out in the world – and look at yourself simply as a man amongst men.