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 every thing I may to create a world the place males had 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 excited by methods girls and boys, men and women, had been comparable and in addition completely 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 had been doing nice work serving to enhance the lives of boys and males to affix 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 Dwell Males! The Moonshot Mission to Heal Males, Shut the Lifespan Hole, and Provide Hope to Humanity. Within the closing 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 should not going properly in our world. Violence is on the rise, as is melancholy, addictive escapes, deaths of despair, and suicides. Our environmental life assist system is on the point of 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’re feeling known 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 affix 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 affix a males’s group that has been assembly commonly for 45 years. Over time, we have now developed a map that we’ve used to dwell totally, love deeply, and make a optimistic distinction on this planet.
Your Companions: A cohort of males who really feel known as at the moment of their lives to affix 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 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 fundamental human knowledge that may assist remedy 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 battle 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 shouldn’t be being afraid of who you might be.”
The Actual Drawback With Males
Many imagine that the issue with males is that we’re inherently damaging or unsuited to achieve success in a world the place bodily energy is not vital and relationship abilities that girls usually possess should not pure to males. These are principally media myths.
The actual drawback with males is that we have now grow to be disconnected from nature and disconnected from ourselves. We don’t know who we’re and are afraid to search out out. We might 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 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 wish to hear from you. If you’re a lady who is aware of a person you’re feeling would have an interest, please move 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 assist 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, 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 may anticipate once you be part of:
We are going to meet for a free 2-hour mini-intensive (Date to be decided). You’ll be taught 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 be taught 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 improper locations.
For many who resolve to proceed collectively, we’ll 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 are able to decide to supporting one another on our particular person and shared warrior’s journey residence. I’m nonetheless creating this system, however it’s going to possible embrace these components:
- Every week you’ll obtain considered one of my classes articles: “Life Classes of an 81-Yr-Previous Males’s Well being Maverick,” which can have two classes I’ve discovered that you could replicate upon and apply in your individual life.
- There might be a devoted neighborhood area the place you may share your experiences, ask questions, and get assist and suggestions from the neighborhood.
- As soon as a month we’ll meet collectively. There might be a brief discuss with knowledge you need to use, adopted by dialogue, sharing, and instructed “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 writer of
Resolve For Glad.
Marianne J. Legato, M.D., Founder Basis for Gender-Particular Medication,
writer 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 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 consultants, authors of Getting
The Love You Need and The best way to Discuss with Anybody About Something.
Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor, Harvard-trained neuroscientist, writer of My Stroke of Perception
and Entire Mind Residing.
Dr. Warren Farrell, Creator of The BoyDisaster and Position Mate to Soul Mate.
Dr. Julia DiGangi, Neuropsychologist and writer Power Rising: The Neuroscience
of Main with Emotional Energy.
Shana James, Marriage and household therapist, writer of Trustworthy 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 Fashionable Elder Academy and writer of
Studying to Love Midlife.
Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley, Creator of Who Do We Select to Be? Going through Actuality,
Claiming Management, Restoring Sanity.
Ruth Whippman, Journalist, documentarian, and writer of BoyMom: Reimagining
Boyhood within the Age of Inconceivable Masculinity
Michael Gurian, Journalist and bestselling writer of 32 books together with The
Surprise of Boys and Boys: A Rescue Plan.
Kelly Wendorf, Creator of Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Knowledge for
Main and Residing.
There are 4 pillars that assist this therapeutic journey:
- Turning into your genuine self and being the perfect you that you could be.
- Studying to like your self, your loved ones, and your neighborhood, deeply and properly.
- Embracing your calling and bringing your distinctive work to the world.
- Being a supply of readability and energy at this difficult time in human historical past.
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