mentoring — The Good Men Project

Can They Hear You Listening?

May 21, 2013 by Ken Goldstein 2 Comments

Ken Goldstein talks about the challenges and rewards of mentoring people at the top.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: business, coaching, Dodgers, Icarus Paradox, Kellogg School of Management, listening, mentoring, Sandy Koufax

LGBTQ Mentoring Program Transforms Life for Chicago Students

May 8, 2013 by Abigail Ortlieb 6 Comments

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Lincoln Park High School is a pioneer for a new type of LGBTQ club that gives individuals the support they seek.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: advocacy, Chicago, Christy Walker, gay, gay pride, gay-straight alliance, gender, Gender Identity, GSA, gslen, high school, identity, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, lincoln park, mentoring, orientation, queer, sexual orientation, transgender

The Value of Snow Shoveling

March 11, 2013 by Robert Barsanti 1 Comment

When Bob Barsanti was his eldest son’s age, his adolescent ego was stoked by shoveling snow: a modern John Henry against the snowplow. That was then…

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Hands On, The Good Life Tagged With: blizzards, conservative, conveniences, fatherhood, fathers and sons, generations, hard work, improvements, Investments, John Henry, mentoring, modern times, old fashioned, rites of passage, shoveling snow, snow blowers, snow storms, snowblowers, Technology, traditional, values, winter

The Function of Adrenalin in Boys’ Rites of Passage

February 15, 2013 by Nick Clements 8 Comments

The young generation can be a threat to the status quo, or an energy source that needs direction, depending on how we meet the challenge.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: acting out, adolescent boys, adrenalin, adrenaline, adulthood, anti-social behavior, body modification, capitalist culture, car accidents, Challenges, character, consumerism, danger, driving, drug use, Families, gang rape, gangs, growing up, guns, individuality, male role models, manhood, mentoring, peer pressure, piercings, quarter-life crisis, reckless behavior, Responsibility, rites of passage, role models, self-expression, selfishness, service missions, sexual violence, social justice movements, strength, Stress, success, tattoos, teenage boys, testosterone, violence, weapons, young men

Reimagining Mentorship

January 19, 2013 by Justin Cascio 4 Comments

The building blocks of society are its adult citizens. What kind of society do we want to build?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: AA, accepting change, accepting differences, adulthood, alcoholics anonymous, altruism, apprenticeship, childhood development, civilization, cultural change, Culture, curriculum, defining adulthood, defining manhood, diversity, egalitarian relationships, egalitarian society, emotional intelligence, gangs, identity, manhood, masculinity, maturity, mentoring, mentoring boys, mentorship, milestones, mission, Motivation, patience, pedagogy, raising heroes, relationship building, relationship skills, religious rites of passage, Responsibility, rites of initiation, rites of passage, self-discovery, self-worth, service, skills for change, social skills, teaching children, Technology, The Karate Kid, wisdom, work/life balance

The First Rule of Mentorship: Be Present

January 16, 2013 by Roger L. Durham 4 Comments

If you want to be there for someone, there’s just one thing you have to do.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: building connections, connecting with others, fatherhood, life lessons, memorable experiences, memories, mentoring, mentoring boys, mentorship, relationships, teaching boys

Guestpost #91: Ken Romano – Ten Things I’ve Learned From Mentoring Teens

January 12, 2013 by Josh Bowman Leave a Comment

Guestposter Ken Romano share some tips from his nine years of experience mentoring teens in New York.

Filed Under: Ten Things I've Learned Tagged With: adults, listening skills, mentoring, One Direction, parenting, teenagers, Teens, women

Children Will Listen

December 19, 2012 by Greg White Leave a Comment

Greg White spent a summer teaching a ten-year-old nephew to run, and changed both their lives.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Hands On, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, basic training, boot camp, children, coaching, distance running, Families, friends children, gratitude, learning to run, legacy, male role models, Mallorca, Marines, mentoring, nephews, opportunities, running, Sex and Relationships, Spain, teaching, uncles

Letter to J., Who I Used to Mentor

November 26, 2012 by Michael Copperman 2 Comments

Michael Copperman finds that the right moment to mentor usually comes on the way to somewhere else.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering Tagged With: acceptance, adolescent boys, advice, aging out of mentorship, anger, arrogance, athletes, athletics, baseball, body image, bullying, death of a father, driving, epistolary, grief, heroism, Jewish, letter, letter to mentor, lying, manhood, mastery, medical, Mentor, mentoring, mentoring relationships, military, Mississippi, rage, road rage, sports, Temper, Traffic

International Men’s Day 2012

November 19, 2012 by Justin Cascio 6 Comments

Helping men and boys live longer, happier, healthier lives.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Men and Masculinity, The Good Life Tagged With: African American youth, aggression, at-risk boys, Boys, bullying, child abuse, Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh, education, fatherhood, fathers, gender roles, heroism, honoring men, incarcerated youth, International mens' Day, Male Abuse Awareness Week, manhood, masculinity, men, men in prison, Men's Health, Men's Issues, men's life expectancy, mental health, mentoring, patriarchy, Philadelphia, sacrifice, sexual assault, smashing male stereotypes, Storytelling, suicide, The Good Life, The Green Parent, traditional gender roles, violence, volunteering, work/life balance

The Utility of Rape Porn

November 7, 2012 by Justin Cascio 73 Comments

Under what circumstances is it acceptable to simulate non-consensual or violent sex?

Filed Under: Men and Pornography, The Good Life Tagged With: abuse, adolescent boys, adult film stars, Andrea Dworkin, anti-pornography, babysitter porn, BDSM, Ben Keeler, Boys, bullying, clarisse thorn, consent, defining porn, emotional intelligence, entertainment, fair trade pornography, feminism, Fetish, Gail Dines, gang bang porn, GLBT, Grand Theft Auto, horror movies, Hugo Schwyzer, IMPACT training, Internet porn, Margaret Atwood, Men and Pornography, mentoring, misogyny, Model Mugging, Noah Brand, Pat Califia, Playboy, porn addiction, prostitution, rape, rape culture, rape fantasies, rape porn, respect, Robert Jensen, role playing games, romance novels, second wave feminism, self defense, sex education, sex work, sex workers, sex-positivity, sexting, sexual assault, slash fiction, smut, Suffering, survivors of sexual assault, table of contents, taboo, third wave feminism, Video Games, violence, women's sexuality

Incarcerated Youth Write the Stories of Their Lives

October 18, 2012 by Justin Cascio 3 Comments

A writing and mentoring program in Los Angeles for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth is changing their lives from the inside out.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, Prison Tagged With: Boys, california, criminal justice, Duane Noriyuki, education, incarcerated youth, InsideOUT Writers, journalists, juvenile detention, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall System, Los Angeles Times, men, mentoring, non-profits, poverty, prison, Prisoners, probation camp, relationships, Sister Janet Harris, teachers, therapeutic writing, violence, volunteering, writers, writing

VIDEO: The Fight of 9-Year-Old Josef Miles

October 13, 2012 by Cameron Conaway 2 Comments

In protest of Westboro Baptist, a Topeka boy speaks out for love and cultural tolerance.

Filed Under: The Good Life, What's Your Fight? Tagged With: Boys, children, diversity, God Hates No One, heroes, Josef Miles, Kansas, mentoring, NPR, Patty Akrouche, protest, respect, Sex and Relationships, The Good Life, The Huffington Post, tolerance, Topeka, volunteering, Westboro Baptist Church, What's Your Fight

The Art and Science of Coaching

October 1, 2012 by Ken Goldstein 1 Comment

Ken Goldstein talks about the dynamics of business coaching, and offers three specific tips.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: business, business ethics, business utopia, coaching, CTI, executive coaching, Human Resources, intellectual curiousity, John Vercelli, Ken Goldstein, mentoring, Psychology Today, role playing

Seduction of the Palate

September 18, 2012 by Keith Doyle Leave a Comment

With culinary seduction, Keith Doyle wins over lovers, neighbors, and thieves.

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Ancient Male Rites of Passage

September 5, 2012 by Earl Hipp 9 Comments

How do you know when you’ve become a man?

Filed Under: Men and Masculinity, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: coming of age, definition of a man, getting driver's license, intentional man-making, losing virginity, manhood, masculinity, men, mentoring, milestones, rites of passage, ritual, teenage boys, The Good Life, young men

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