Here’s some news for you readers who’ve been keeping up with The ManKind Project, the controversial so-called men’s self-help group that detractors have criticized for targeting members of 12-step recovery groups, practicing therapy without a license and maintaining a dark cloak of secrecy regarding its “New Warrior” rites and rituals.
Reid Baer, the former editor of the non-profit organization’s monthly publication, the New Warrior Journal, says he was fired from the position b
After years of stewing in a mix of controversy and mystery, The ManKind Project is finally going to give the world an official glimpse into its secret world of male rites, rituals and so-called "training" programs.At least according to an MKP memo obtained by Warren Throckmorton, Associate Professor of Psychology at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, who blogs about the organization. He says he first became interested in MKP two years ago after the Houston Press wrote a story about how Micha
When the Houston Press first wrote about the ManKind Project, a secretive so-called men's-help group, following the suicide of a man who had attended the organization's initiation weekend, MKP's leadership declined to comment. Now, more than two years later, the group finally decided to speak up in the form of a letter on its website titled, "A Response to the Houston Press Article." In the letter, MKP Executive Director Carl Griesser highlights several criticisms made by people interviewed i
