The Mankind Project Arizona
Why The New Warrior Training Adventure®?
The NWTA is a traditional masculine initiation similar to the initiations that exist and always have existed in traditional cultures. This training is geared to serve men in today's world. The NWTA characterizes three distinct parts or passages. There is "The Descent," "The Ordeal," and "The Homecoming."
Also, like traditional initiations, the actual events of the NWTA are kept confidential in order to not jeopardize the full experience for each man who chooses to attend a weekend. The training tests participants physically, mentally, and emotionally. It invites men to take a hard look at their lives, to see what is working and what is not, and to transcend their limitations.
The NWTA is about looking at those parts of ourselves that we hide, deny, and repress, so that we can be more authentic and aware men, allowing us to make choices in our lives with the full knowledge and insight of the consequences of those choices. It is also about the harmonious connection of mind, body and spirit in our daily journeys.
A key truth of the training program is that YOU direct your own training through the responses and decisions you make along your journey. The staff serves as your guides and mentors, but YOU choose your own commitment, and the depth to which you will explore the inner terrain of your life.
The New Warrior is a man who has confronted his hidden, denied, and repressed destructive "shadow" forms and who knows his inner self and the ways in which he is at his most effective self in the world. The New Warrior is at once tough and loving, wild and gentle, fierce and tolerant. He lives passionately and compassionately, because he has learned to live more fully and truly then ever before. 
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"After the weekend, all the energy that I used to spend doubting and fearing, was dissipated and I was calmer, more peaceful, even amid huge difficulties. Instead of being "in the stands" when it came to taking new steps, I was engaged and "on the court". I was actually "in the game" for the more significant plays of my own life."John Richards
A man who is willing to take the journey of the New Warrior Training Adventure® is ready to embody the characteristics of a New Warrior and take his place in the world. By reshaping and redefining his choices, his feelings, his very awareness of the world, these characteristics become the fundamental values of the New Warrior. . These values include:
· Responsibility - A New Warrior is responsible for his life, his feelings, his choices, and his actions. He chooses his reactions.
· Integrity - A New Warrior's choices and actions are consistent with his intentions, mission and commitments. He keeps his promises.
· Congruency - A New Warrior's actions equal his thoughts and words. He does what he says he will do. He "walks the talk".
· Self-awareness - A New Warrior examines his thoughts, feelings and behaviors. He is aware of his "shadows", patterns, and limiting beliefs that compromise his integrity with these principles.
· Accountability - A New Warrior "owns" to another man when he is out of integrity. He acknowledges and owns the consequences of his actions, and the choices and intentions behind them.
· Clarity - A New Warrior discerns and articulates his feelings and judgments. He seeks understanding. He knows what he wants. He knows who he is. He knows the choices he wants to make.
· Mission - A New Warrior seeks to discover his true mission of service and to live in integrity with it. · Commitment - A New Warrior clearly articulates his pledge or promise to do something. His intentions are clear and he follows through.
· Action - A New Warrior takes action to live his mission and fulfill his commitments. He asks for help when he needs it. He asks for what he wants. He moves through his fear. He takes risks.
· Service - A New Warrior offers himself through acts and deeds without expectation.
· Authenticity - A New Warrior is sincere and honest in all of his dealings. He is aware of and owns his feelings. He speaks his truth. He comes from his heart. He is genuine and real.
· Directness - A New Warrior speaks clearly to another man of his perceptions, feelings and judgments towards him. He neither practices nor tolerates sideways comments or 'gossip'.
