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Men's Rites of Passage Northern California, CYO Camp & Retreat Center November 10-14, 2010 Occidental, California Main Speaker: Fr. Richard Rohr  OMF Rites of Passage Online Registration

Introductory Workshops on 4 Male Archetypes

Topic:            The Warrior
                       The Lover
                       The King
                       The Magician/Priest

All men are called to embrace a spiritual walk. What does that look like? Where does a man begin? One enterence to the spiritual path is the 4 Male Archetypes. A good working knowledge of these four archetypes brings an understanding of how men embrace power, money, and sex. Join us in and experience a day with other men who share similar spiritual values. We will experience how each of these archetypes impact us as men in both our relationships and our approach to life.

A little about Archetypes:

An archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior. An archetype is an inherited mental structure with a latent content which is brought to a specific content by the person’s actual experience in his or her family and culture. Most of the archetypes are characters such as the “hero”, the “king”, the “wise old man”, etc.  Certain members of the “Men’s movement” such as Robert Bly (1990), and especially Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette (1990), and Patrick Arnold (1992) have proposed four pri­mary archetypes as underlying male psychol­ogy. These are referred to as the archetype of the King, the Warrior, the Lover, and the Magician/Priest. These archetypes are proposed as psychological representations of male personality that need to be experienced and reinforced in a  contemporary culture that no longer adequately recognizes and supports male psychological needs. Men have become confused about male identity in our androgynous or unisex society and need to get back in touch with these four innate masculine psychological structures.

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Date & Time: Saturday September 18, 2010 from 9AM to 3PM
Place: St. Bonaventure Church at
            5562 Clayton Road
            Concord. CA 94521
Presenters:    Gary Kalus, Rick Barmore, Steve Conroy

Workshops are being sponsored by NorCal M.A.L.E.s (Northern California Men as Learners and Elders.)

Lunch will be provided at both workshops.
Suggested Donation of $20.00

Register for workshop CLICK HERE
 

International Events

Men's Rites of Passage
Czech Republic
September 11-15, 2010
Nesmer, Czech Republic

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Men's Rites of Passage
Austria
September 22-26, 2010
near Oberösterreich – WELS, Austria