Purposeful Leadership in Disruptive Times is a 7-week training for those who are ready to step into their full potential to be leaders in this time of great disruption. We will journey together to fully awaken our hearts and minds, not just for our own greater well-being but also to bring benefit, solace, and wisdom to other living beings.
We are hard-wired for reaction when faced with disruption. It takes intention and practice to learn how to respond. This 7-week experience will be convened by Terry Chapman and Craig Neal. This Journey is an evolving, co-creative resource that is a field guide and practice that will help leaders build resilience and respond to unfolding disruption with compassion and courage. The first session is May 19th. Learn more on the event website.
A Father for Gen Alpha led by Anthony Monticchio
They say the Spirit works in mysterious ways, indeed it’s true, she assembled a group of men from the Illuman Community in 2019, that worked together and designed a new eight-week online offering called: ‘A Father for Generation Alpha’. The offering is designed to meet new millennial Dad’s at a moment in their young lives when life has initiated them into Fatherhood. The offering’s approach is to drop keys of Wisdom each week, starting with ‘What it means to be a Man’ and then moving to ‘What it means to be a Father’ and ending with an overview of Men’s groups that they may want to follow-up with.
Registration is now open for our second pilot that will most likely be starting in the June time frame.
There is no cost to Register and all Registrants will receive more info about the program in their US postal mailbox after they Register.
Please see our page for endorsements from Fr. Richard Rohr, Illuman of DC and Illuman of Indiana-Michigan- https://a-father-for-gen-alpha.net/endorsements
During this intensive, nature-based experiential gathering we will explore the original design God had for creating us “male AND female”, how that design for wholeness has been distorted to “male OR female” or even “male VS female”. There will be opportunities to explore and reclaim the continuum of feminine and masculine aspects inherent in us all.
The intensive will include a combination of council sharing, directed wanders, journaling, dream tending, and a variety of artistic expression. Everyone at any place on the gender identity and sexual orientation spectrum is welcome. In fact, the more diverse our group is, the richer and more “wholing” the experience will be for us all.
Learn more about the Retreat and Guides by reading the Gender Wholeness Retreat 2020 flyer.
What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
Men’s Virtual Poetry, with our brother Richard Rohr, will take place during New Mexico Monthly Mens’s Meeting on Saturday June 13th from 9 am – 11 am MST. We are extending this invite to “ALL ILLUMAN” Chapters and any man interested in this healing, transformative, non-violent work!
Please go to our website: https://illuman-nm.org and register for our monthly bulletin. The link for our virtual meeting is regularly included in the bulletin. Just go to our website – Follow the links to subscribe to our monthly email list.
Wm. Paul Young – author of The Shack – in a 90-minute live Zoom Webinar platform – June 20th 9:00 AM to 10:30 CDT.
Illinois MALEs presents a morning with bestselling author and speaker Wm. Paul Young. Paul has written several bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Shack, which was also made into a major motion picture. Paul was a featured speaker at Richard Rohr’s CONSPIRE Conference, and has always had a significant interest in the unique challenges that men face when trying to connect with God. Because of the distancing requirements by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are trying a new format for everyone’s protection. We will begin with opening remarks from Paul on the topic of male spirituality, and the rest of the time will be open for moderated Q&A with the audience on any topic, from book discussions of any of his titles, to family, spirituality and anything in between.
Once you register you can join from home – we can have up to 100 people on this Zoom Webinar. There is a special discount for the first 50 who sign up. The link to register is: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/90-minute-live-zoom-qa-with-the-shack-author-wm-paul-young-tickets-102484822864.
More information on our website: ilmidwestmalespirituality.org. It is open to the general public.
What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
A Father for Gen Alpha led by Anthony Monticchio
They say the Spirit works in mysterious ways, indeed it’s true, she assembled a group of men from the Illuman Community in 2019, that worked together and designed a new eight-week online offering called: ‘A Father for Generation Alpha’. The offering is designed to meet new millennial Dad’s at a moment in their young lives when life has initiated them into Fatherhood. The offering’s approach is to drop keys of Wisdom each week, starting with ‘What it means to be a Man’ and then moving to ‘What it means to be a Father’ and ending with an overview of Men’s groups that they may want to follow-up with.
Registration is now open for our second pilot that will most likely be starting in the June time frame.
There is no cost to Register and all Registrants will receive more info about the program in their US postal mailbox after they Register.
Please see our page for endorsements from Fr. Richard Rohr, Illuman of DC and Illuman of Indiana-Michigan- https://a-father-for-gen-alpha.net/endorsements
What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
The Elders’ Rites of Passage (EROP) is a five-day intensive retreat that serves those beginning or already on the eldering journey. Eldering like all of life, has its own seasons, beginning with the most socially active and energetic eldering years, through the release of roles and responsibilities, the lifting of the eye to a broader more distant horizon, and the dawning of the Holy Fool within. The EROP holds all these seasons of the Elder, tending to each in turn.
Thus for some the EROP serves as an entrance into the journey, and for others it is a deepening of work that has been ongoing for a long time. Using ritual, story, time in nature, council, and image, participants are invited to harvest all that has been, sit with death, practice deep listening to the cries of the world, and discern what is theirs to do (and not do) in their final chapter. It is an encounter with life and death that is uncontainable, and calls one deeper into their own story as well as The Great Stories.
After the EROP one finds they have been ushered into a community of Elders, who have gone before, and are welcomed into a council of elders in which the work began can continue. In the end, how each Elder chooses to bless the world is as varied as their fingerprints, but one thing in common is that one cannot elder alone- there are no solo journeys into the sunset, eldering is a communal experience.
“Elder” by definition is a relational word, naming a sacred connection and responsibility on behalf of others. On whose behalf are you being called to elder? It is not (only) for or from one’s own self that the call comes. The call is on the lips of descendants, in the dreams from the ancestors–even the more-than-human world is crying out for men and women to rise up as Elders: to give, live, die, laugh, bless, on behalf of all that is…
The weekend of Sept 25-27, Brad Pickel, administrator of Illuman, will be offering an in-person weekend in Darien, IL on the Enneagram and the Journey of Illumination. This will be an exciting start to a new academic year, as we reclaim our lives after this pandemic isolation.
This Enneagram retreat is unique in that it is centered around the five touchstones Journey of Illumination- Gathering, Centering, Connecting, Releasing and Serving. The Retreat is an immersive investigation of the Enneagram that includes Illuman tools of ritual, teaching, small council groups, music, movements and mediations, and video clips for each type.
Information and registration is on our website: ilmidwestmalespirituality.org
Illuman will host Soularize 2020: A Path to Masculine Healing at the Hyatt Tamaya in Bernalillo, NM on Oct 15-18, 2020. We are excited to once again welcome Fr. Richard Rohr to be with us!
The event will begin on Thursday evening, October 15 and end by 1pm on Sunday, October 18. Please sign up below and we will contact you as soon as further information is available and registration opens. We hope you will join with Fr. Richard and the men of Illuman in October. All men are welcome!
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[/vc_column_text]What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
What is the Men’s Rites of Passage?
For most men, the question of what it means to be a man is perplexing. Many men have a longing for the support and guidance of other men in their journey towards masculinity, maturity, and a deeper experience with the Divine. In ancient cultures initiation rites and vision quests were used to help boys make the journey into adulthood.
Opening the door to this journey can start with the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP). The MROP is not just a men’s retreat, but five days of formal male initiation. These teachings on the “mysteries” and the accompanying rituals have been met with a very positive response in recent years. Over 5,000 men have now been initiated through these rites of male initiation over the past 20 years
This Journey begins with the age-old traditions that teach the five lessons every man needs to learn before he can fully engage in the adventure and mystery life will bring. MROP can awaken men to their own masculinity, their deep spirituality, their potential for leadership, and their life’s purpose. This is not about religion but about spirituality, about age old traditions that guide us into manhood (regardless of our chronological age), about coming to trust that there is something much greater at work in our lives than we could ever imagine.
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