Returning to the New Warrior Training Adventure | ManKind Project's NWTA

0:00 Greetings and welcome to real men fear. I'm your host author, coach and healer Andy. Grant, please. Visit v&e Grant.com to learn more about that last weekend. I was in Connecticut to staff, the new Warrior training Adventure weekend, which is a weekend-long rite of passage for men. From the mankind project. This was the first and WTA event in New England and three years. Thanks to covid. I was supposed to have staff this week and last October, when it was originally scheduled, but then All the end WTA events across the United States will put on hold due to charges of cultural appropriation. I did a show about this last October episode 277 cultural appropriation, and misappropriations with the mankind project.

0:45 The charges of cultural appropriation from a group of Native American Elders, called Spirit. I'm not going to rehash. Everything here, you can visit the blog at real men, feel dot-org, and I love links to every article and video that I mentioned. But when I discovered that all the nwt A's were cancelled, I would I was shocked disappointed and hurt my nwt, a was back in October of 2016 and there was a lot of Native American ritual and ceremony and it was prevented very respectfully. I thought honoring where they came from and giving full acknowledgement and it was stressed how much training the mankind project guys, had with the Lakota people to learn what we would be doing. No.

1:26 I thought cultural appropriation meant taking something from another culture, and claiming it as your own and mkp. Never did that in anything that I was involved with nobody in mkp claimed to have invented any of the rituals of processes that we took part it. Now, there are months of negotiation between the mankind project and Indigenous leaders. And I wasn't sure when, or if n wta's would even return, I feared they would be so watered down. If they did come back that the power just wouldn't be there. They just kind of be this this lame shell. Of what? Once was a great thing. Now, I don't agree with all the things that mkp, let go of doing, but I also wasn't there. I was not part of the process. I have had no interaction with Native Americans who were upset by what were Happening by things that were happening on Louise these weekend's. I do appreciate em, KPS attempt to have integrity to really stand behind their intended consequences and the unintended consequences of their trainings.

2:25 When the end of you Tas were scheduled. Again, I did not sign up to staff. I wasn't sure what the changes were. And if I was on board with making any changes at all, but as I had previously step forward to staff, they reached out and asked me if I would staff. So, I decided to do so, and II was interested, I wanted to see and have the experience of this updated weekend to see if it was, you know, for better for worse or just, you know, maybe had no impact at all. I don't know. But I wanted to find Out that it was still powerful and was something I could recommend to men again because though I staff this past weekend. I did not promote it at all. I did not invite any men to come do it because I wanted to make sure it was worth doing darling.

3:09 I didn't want to. It's almost like inviting someone to see the sequel to a movie when it's like half as good as the original and you're just kind of telling them to come to the sequel because, you know, everybody like the original but even though if I know that the sequel's just crap, Real, my feels history with the mankind project goes back. A long ways. It was way back. Episode 26, man, that sounds like fucking forever. Go episode 26, we interviewed boys and Hodgson from the mankind project. He's their communications director. That was back in early days. I'll be, oh Hunter was was still my co-host then. And so we talked about him and that's really when I've learned the first time I learned about this new or your training Adventure weekend and they'll be a link to it in the show notes and as fate would have it, It Boysen was in Massachusetts as when the same, that's where I live. And there was a weekend in Massachusetts, coming up in just a few weeks and it was like 30 minutes from my house. So in the show, I agreed to do the weekend and I did. And I also I did my traditional before and after videos that have become kind of native two things I do. So, they'll be a link for my before video, the day I was leaving for it and my after video, and it's either, I think it's the morning after I got home, and I just watch that again today.

4:23 And I'm just my voice is shot. It's yeah, is funny anyways and get first-hand reports and I don't give away what happens. I don't give it away Stone, you know, if you go to the weekend now you go to the weekend, 10 years from now, you're not going to know what's different. Just like if some of that did it in the freaking in the 80s is very different from one, what I went through in 2016. And so, you know, don't bother comparing, just just know that you'll get what you need out of the weekend. I believe that firmly So I did my before, and after videos and then we also did a full real men, feel episode talking about, again, my reported the weekend, my experiences, and my first time I really recommend everyone, she do this. And I've often joked that if I ever run for president, my, my cat, a platform of my campaign will be that all men must attend.

5:08 The new Warrior training Adventure weekend, so then I was really on board for that. And then I stabbed about, six months later, in March of 2017, I did my first Staffing also have had many many guests On real men, feel have been through the weekend are active, or were active at one point in the mankind project and sometimes that's really part of the show. And sometimes that's just something that we find it. We had in common after the show. But so many of the best men, I meet have been through this weekend. This new Warrior training Adventure anyway, back to last weekend. I staff. My first nwt, a since 2017. And I did. So I did so because I so wanted to fall in love.

5:51 With the weekend. Again, I wanted to find that despite any changes and especially despite any opinion I had on those changes that this was still a powerful potent weekend that I could recommend to all men. It is. I was flying high for four days knowing that they were 25 new men in the world men with vision meaning and a mission men who had grown healed and reclaimed the gold within them. I wanted to staff this new Warrior training Adventure weekend to see if it was still something. I could hardly recommend two men. Do it.

6:40 Just fucking do it. Don't look for details about what happens. Don't go looking for a detailed reviews. All of my videos are safe. I share only the experience. I don't give details about what we go through, but you'll go on a hero's journey. There will be times, you will want to leave. You will want to quit. If you're anything like me, you want to quit and leave, let that be enough of description. Let the notion that you were going to step forward for a challenging weekend, that will benefit. You greatly Be enough. And if you've done the weekend I highly recommend a staffing it you'll get wins and insights at another level and seeing it from the other side. Well, it just it just helps you develop and grow and appreciate your experience as well. And you'll make new friends with staff. And with with new men, as well as reconnect with people that perhaps, you know, we're on your weekend, depending where you live, right?

7:35 After my first Staffing, I shot a video in my car before I drove home and I just started talking about it. And it's maybe I just remember being in tears, unplanned Tears, like immediately, and I expected the same thing. Last Sunday. I think, I even told her the men like. Well, I'm now just sit in my car for a while and I'll start talking about it and start crying to make a video, but there were no tears. I just felt good. I kept waiting for a few days. Waiting for the emotions to Bubble Up to kind of well, me and then I'd do my little recap but That that point never came so it allowed me to see my growth since 2017.

8:17 I can have a positive impact on the weekend and help man grow. Without it being so emotional that. When I finally X handle it go, I'm not sobbing. All right. Nothing wrong with that. I've done it plenty of times, but it was, it was just interesting to see that. That isn't the only way my experience has to end. Right now. Plug-in new Warrior training Adventure.com into a browser and you'll get a list of upcoming weekend events around the globe. Pick one anyone and register. And to be transparent.

9:01 I don't even get a free t-shirt, regardless of how many people you go there, how people sign up and is, there's nothing. This is, this is me sharing something that I firmly believe will help you tremendously. And then we really both get what we want. A better world. wherever you are discovering real men, feel please, like subscribe, follow care of somebody, post a comment Until next time we go to yourself. Until next time we go to yourself.