M3 Annual Intensive - May 5-7, 2023
The weekend intensive retreat, facilitated by M3 founder, author, artist, and psychologist Dr. Ed Adams, is designed to help us rediscover the myth, mystery, and magic within ourselves and the natural world. Through the use of sharing in small and large groups, visual media, laughter, and personal time to reflect, participants will develop the self-awareness and skills that enable a greater degree of inner harmony.
M3 Annual Intensive - May 20-22, 2022
Our Annual Intensive is May 20-22. Click on the flyer for more details
My Relationship with Anger
I think there’s a misunderstanding about anger among men. There’s being angry or being with anger.
Liberating Masculinity With Edward M. Adams and Ed Frauenheim
How mindfulness helps to cultivate self-awareness, courage, and vulnerability that can help men live more full, connected lives.
M3 Mentoring Moment in a Minute
Father’s Day can be a special day, it can be a tough day. Meeting facilitator and organization president, David Malchman, shares one minute thoughts on what Father’s Day is for him.
WHAT M3 MEANS TO ME
Since joining in 2005, M3 has helped me in many ways:
Upon reflection, and writing these notes this morning, my M3 journey has been built upon the implementation of the 5 C’s from Ed Adams’ book: Curiosity, Compassion, Courage, Commitment and Connection
Upcoming EVENT: Weekend Intensive
Reinventing Masculinity:
The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection
The 2021 Weekend Intensive Sponsored by MEN MENTORING MEN®
“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. You gain it by winning small battles with honor.” Norman Mailer
A little road work ahead.
Along with the brotherhood, friendships, support, and the opportunity to talk about the important things in your life, M3 believes in having fun and being a good community citizen.
Discovering a new way of Communicating
Self-doubt, incomplete, inadequate, shameful, lonely… the list can go on! These are the feelings that circled my mind and continued to show up at various times in my life.
What the World Needs Now
Stepping back to my initial months of M3 meetings I was often struck by how freely a group of men shared how they felt. I always considered myself to be pretty open with my own feelings, but never did I experience such a free-flowing exchange between guys.
MEN MENTORING MEN
Men Mentoring Men is a long-term experiment, with men who are healthy and searching for more meaning, connection, and growth in their lives. Men join us for multiple reasons, whether they are looking for a connection with other men, or are going through tough experiences as their relationships or jobs change, they age, or their personal thinking evolves.
ARTICLE: THE HEALING POWER OF COMPASSION
Ben was a wounded man. His wife divorced him to marry her lover and moved far away making it inaccessible and expensive for Ben to father his three children in a meaningful way. He defined himself as "a man reduced to a paycheck."
A CASE FOR MEN’S SUPPORT GROUPS
The New York Times article entitled, “The Challenges of Male Friendships,” highlights the desire men have for meaningful friendships and describes many of the factors that cause many men to experience difficulty entering into and maintaining friendships, particularly over time.
MEN, SEXUALITY AND LOVE WORKSHOP: FABLE VS. POSSIBILITY
In the June, 2015 3-day Men Mentoring Men (M3) intensive workshop, a dialogue began on pornography. M3 founder and workshop facilitator, Dr. Ed Adams PhD., requested that the men consider the impact of pornography on their lives and love. This discussion opened up the potential effects of pornography on health, relationships, and addictions.
REDEFINING, REFRAMING AND EXPANDING WHAT IT IS “TO BE A MAN”
Joe Ehrmann’s philosophy of redefining and reframing what it is to be a man, as exhibited during his TED talk in Baltimore, dovetails perfectly with the mission of M3. He identifies the current cultural consequences of the phrase “To be a man” as the most detrimental in society today. The damage of this message comes from the times and situations in which it is delivered; when a boy or man is expressing himself in ways that are considered unmanly. He is told to stop acting that way; stop the emotions, stop the tears; don’t be a mama’s boy; don’t be a sissy.
IS THIS AN ADVENTURE?
In this month’s article, the President of Men Mentoring Men, Paul Rodriguez, talks about his experience during a recent fishing trip as an example of the impact wireless “connectivity” has on our “conceitedness” with the world around us.
A RECOVERING LIAR – PART 1
I lie to myself and I lie to others, particularly when I am in the presence of men because there is a piece of me that feels deficient and defective. This piece of me is part of who I am; it is unacceptable and irreparable and therefore must be kept hidden at all costs. Most of the lies I keep to myself.
DIVORCE & MEN
Relationships for men as husbands, fathers, dads and friends occupy great deal of our time. Relationships with those we love is one of the most satisfying areas of our lives. And all add significance to our experience as men. In our experience divorce can be one of the most difficult time in a man’s’ life. And just when he needs support the most, he may find he has few male friends who understand.