Recently, I've been looking at my career, my life as a whole and trying (through anaylsis, mediattion etc.) to figure out what I would like to spend the rest of my life doing. So far, I have worked in a variety of industries from international communications to corporate communications, manufacturing, the service industry and now the mobile telecommunications industry. Although, I have learned lots of valuable skills in each of these experiences I have yet to feel that I have found the field and career that I would love to devote my life's work to.
So in the last few months I have been doing some research on the latest fields of study and careers and cross referencing them with the skills I have, the things I enjoy doing and my goals and vision for the world. I've come up with coaching/mentoring and training and in my research I came upon a leading coach - Aboodi Shabi's website http://www.aboodi.net/index.htm. On his site he has links to a number of other things and one that I encountered with great interest was the Mankind Project.

Aboodi says that the Mankind Project is a programme that also affected him deeply - a men's initiation ritual that cuts to the core of who we are as human beings, underneath all of our sophistication and defences. It resonates strongly with the mythological ideas of quest and ordeal, and is a real gift to the soul.

So, being the adventourous, inquisitive soul that I am, I checked out the Mankind Project's site at http://www.mkp.org or http://www.mkp.org.uk for those in the UK. They conduct 4 training sessions a year called the " New Warrior Training Adventure" - a weekend programme. I happened to discover this site a few weeks before June's training session which took place June 2-4 and I thank God and all his angels for leading me to this.

I recently attended the programme and would strongly recommend it to any man. It is a once in a lifetime experience that will draw out and fill a man with a world that will make his life brand new. The New Warrior Network Identity Statement is - We are an order of men called to reclaim the Sacred Masculine for our time through Initiation, Training and action in the world. In a world that has good sadly awry due to the misplaced male role models and the unbalanced energies in our societies, this programme is a godsend that can make the difference between a man struggling to come to terms with the challenges of his life and the lives of all around him and a man coming to terms with himself, his purpose in life and what he has to do to make our world a better place.
It is a weekend full of heart moving experiences, bonding and brotherhood that will forever mark an end and beginning of chapters in my life. Triple A+ and highly recommend for any man who is fed up of living in a state of flux and stagnation or just wants to get in touch with that noble and warrior side of his soul


Melodious Dolphin