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		<title>Calling All Spiritually Minded Dudes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Men's Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waking up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who wants to join a conscious man tribe?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://brycewidom.com/2009/12/view-no-29/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1863" title="Art by Bryce Widom" src="http://www.jaysongaddis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Screen-shot-2010-08-01-at-12.06.31-PM-225x300.png" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>If you are a hungry man, keep reading. I am calling out to evolving men who may want to join our tribe.</p>
<p>I just finished a 6 month <a href="http://jaysongaddis.com/mlt/">Men&#8217;s Leadership Training</a> and WOW.  11 men + 10-12 staff and me all went through this amazing modern-day rite of passage.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s safe to say, this was a life changing experience for everyone involved.</p>
<p>Testimonials and a video to come&#8230;.</p>
<p>I witnessed men:</p>
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<li>go from boy to man</li>
<li>get in touch with their authentic power</li>
<li>experience a deep connection to source, the divine, and God</li>
<li>who now know what it is like to have men in their lives who genuinely have their back</li>
<li>get in touch with deep rage and express it</li>
<li>gain seriously clarity around their life purpose</li>
<li>go from being stuck and locked up to incredibly open, loving, and powerful</li>
<li>feel safe enough and <span id="more-1857"></span>relaxed enough to take major risks and explore real conflict with each other</li>
<li>step into solid leadership on the fly</li>
<li>willingly make mistakes and fail so they could move forward</li>
<li>learn what a true brotherhood is really about</li>
<li>and on and on&#8230;</li>
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<p>I too grew into the next level of me-hood. I stepped into my power and leadership like never before and it was nothing like I expected it to be. I eventually led from a place of total transparency, a first for masculine leadership and I was able to model the <a href="http://www.jaysongaddis.com/2010/05/the-new-masculine-paradigm/">new masculine paradigm</a>.</p>
<p>The training is a really solid place to explore and expand yourself in a super safe container. A weekend workshop is never enough time to build this kind of community. But within six months, you have time to enter conflict and work through your own challenges and interpersonal challenges. And, you get to stay in a mountain home and live together during the weekend intensives, taking &#8220;community&#8221; from a concept into an experience.</p>
<p>What I am now clear about is that I am holding some big masculine space for whatever needs to happen in men who want to dive deeper. When a tribe is safe, community members are free to let go and express themselves fully. Knowing that you are held is what many of us have longed for.</p>
<p>This tribe is growing. So, are you ready to join us next time?</p>
<p>Here is what one man said:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>This training has offered me so much in my personal growth and spiritual development, I can honestly say that it has transformed my life. The connections that I&#8217;ve made with the men, the breakthroughs that I had, and watching my confidence in myself grow, have been truly astounding to witness. Self discovery, really sums up my experience of this training. I feel more confident, self assured, self awareness, and most of all I feel really supported, emotionally and spiritually. I know all of these men have my back, in the same way I have theirs. Powerful, transformative, awakening, edges pushed, shadows unveiled, playfulness,  feeling held, going deeper, unlimited potential and room for growth.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Ian Shaw<br />
personal trainer/kickboxing instructor/media-music specialist<br />
Oregon/Colorado</em></p>
<p>and here&#8217;s another man&#8217;s words&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>I&#8217;m still processing everything from our tribe&#8217;s six months together. A lot has happened for me since January and my life keeps getting better everyday. I&#8217;m starting my lifelong dream of traveling around the world without a set agenda in September. I would not have had the self confidence to quit my job and align my life with my purpose if I had not had the support of you and this tribe. I was able to face and deal with issues that have been holding me back since childhood and that still effect my relationships today. The brothers in my small group supported me and held me accountable on a weekly basis. I&#8217;m in great appreciation and awe of their support. It has made me realize the power of living honestly and with extreme integrity. It keeps bringing so many amazing new gifts and people into my life. I&#8217;m a huge supporter of this work and realize that what we have started is just a beginning. I&#8217;m freaking jazzed about the vision for the new conscious masculine paradigm.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Aho!</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Tom Taber<br />
</em></p>
<p>The short video below is quite vague, but if you take a glimpse, you&#8217;ll begin to feel how i was personally impacted. Grrrrr.</p>
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		<title>Men&#039;s Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://www.jaysongaddis.com/2009/11/mens-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Men's Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religion versus spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a piece I recently wrote for the Good Men Project. What does spirituality have to do with being a man? Is personal growth a spiritual process?How is spirituality more suited than religion for the modern man? These are questions this post explores&#8230; Check it out: More and more men I work with are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- Begin #main -->This is a piece I recently wrote for the <a href="http://www.goodmenbook.org/index.php">Good Men Project</a>. What does spirituality have to do with being a man? Is personal growth a spiritual process?How is spirituality more suited than religion for the modern man? These are questions this post explores&#8230;</p>
<p>Check it out:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>More and more men I work with are seeking a spiritual path. More men are hungry for more meaning and purpose in their lives. More and more men are open to a conversation about spirituality. More and more men are waking up to what is possible in their lives.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Spirituality is a tool to facilitate this waking up process.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Perhaps the term spirituality is hard to understand. Still, most of us have had spiritual moments or experiences in our lives. From a newborn child to an epic scene in the wilderness, the unexplainable splendor is everywhere.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>I grew up in Utah around the Mormon faith and was raised agnostic. In my teens I became an atheist and even suicidal. Not until my experimentation with drugs in college did I begin to see there was something going on “behind the scenes.”</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em> I spent years searching, wondering, spending time alone, and reading books—seeking something I could not name. Since religion didn’t have the answers I was searching for, I continued my quest. Because I was so depressed and locked up in my life, I finally&#8230;<a href="http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/2009/11/spirituality/">read the rest here</a>.</em></p>
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