The Good Men Project & Basic Goodness Present:
A Real Woman Owns Her Anger (And Her Vulnerability) – A Workshop For Women
Atalwin Pilon is one of our much appreciated writers at The Good Men Project. He is also the one who opened Pandora’s box on our website by defending and explaining the Psycho Bitch From Hell phenomenon. As a consequence he will now not only teach guys how to become more mature and complete men, he will also facilitate a unique full day experience to empower women. Would you like to learn how to better balance all your different roles in your hectic life? Would you like to learn how to be more confident and authentic? Would you like to understand human emotions (like anger and fear and many others) better and learn how to be less ‘irrational’ but more sensitive? Would you like to be more accepting of yourself and others? The set-up of the workshop allows you to have a profound and potentially life transforming experience.
The workshop will be ‘experiential’ which means that you will actually feel empowered, full of compassion and integrated afterwards. You will realize a potential of harmony, strength, compassion and integrity in yourself that will amaze you: you will find your inner Bodhisattva. Also, you will experience meditative states and inner peace. If you do it for the first time it can be a pretty spectacular experience. Not unimportant: you will have a lot of fun. You will leave as a wiser, stronger and softer woman.
Atalwin Pilon is a much appreciated contributor at The Good Men Project and the founder of Basic Goodness. He lives the life of a spiritual warrior, serving humanity as best as he can. He is a life coach, meditation teacher, writer and Zen Buddhist practitioner from Amsterdam who has been traveling the globe since January 2012 to contribute to the growth of as many people as possible. He feels the world needs inspiring and noble leadership and he has been and is searching for inspiring people who match that profile. At the same time he offers workshops to all the communities he visits. Since January he has been teaching in places where very few coaches and trainers dare to go: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon (Beirut), Iraq (Baghdad) and Colombia. But he also worked in India, Australia, California, Bali, Argentina and Hong Kong. If you ever participated in his workshops or had a private session with him you will definitely remember.
Date: Sunday March 17th
Time: 10 am – 6 pm (please arrive at 9.30 am)
Location: The Bhakti Center, 25 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Costs: $150 (including an excellent lunch, tea, fruit & refreshments)
Participants: 15 – 25
Registration: please use PayPal only and transfer $ 150,- to [email protected]. Please mention date and name workshop in the message box.
For more questions and information, email Atalwin Pilon at [email protected]
Why advertise it here? This site’s for men.
Because a lot of women are here reading this website. It’s a great space to share the information.
Yes, this is for men. No one is trying to take that a way. Even on websites for women, there are resources for men included because they know that men read those websites out of interest in women and understanding them.
Why do you continue to click on articles that are obviously about women? You are free not to click, read or acknowledge them.
Copyleft, because this is a website for men TGMP and I came up with the idea to organize a workshop exclusively for men. That seems to make sense in this context although normally my workshops are co-ed. But I care about women too and having some insight in the dynamics at play is beneficial for both men and women. In my experience there are quite a few very sensible women visiting (and contributing to) this website. So to contradict what I just said in my first sentence (life is full of paradoxes): this site is not exclusively for men but… Read more »
Short answer: Because there are women out that actually care about men in a true sense instead of the usual “care about men as long they are satisfying women” or “care about men as long as women have input in the changing state of men”.
I certainly hope you’re right, Danny.
A real woman? as opposed to a fake woman? what is a real woman, and a fake one?
Real as in “authentic”. I don’t find it offensive for women to pursue a path to become more authentic and real within themselves, hence “real women”.
a woman has to be what she wants to be, not what others want her to be.
Wow Erin, thank you. In just 2 sentences you explained my choice and preference for the word ‘real’. And what a relief that a woman understands immediately where I get abuse for using the same word in the same context for men..
I think you get that abuse when using it with men is because men have constantly told what they must do in order to be considered a real man (where “real” usually means “what someone else wants that man to be”.) That’s not to say this doesn’t happen to women though. (But I must say that in recent years I’ve seen a lot more “a real men….” efforts to try to reshape manhood than I have seen “a real woman….” efforts to try to reshape femininity.) I’m wondering if for men there may be a need to just stop trying… Read more »
I responded to this issue before. This is what I said to Phil: “Lisa at TGMP told me that the term ‘real man’ creates resistance among GMP readers. I asked myself why the words resonate with me and why I cant come up with something better. To be honest: because it feels like that. The experience I describe that happened in March 2004 truly felt like ‘becoming real’. The whole inner journey is a journey towards more realness, more authenticity. Every-time I make a step I realize: damn, I was pretty fake before. Now I was not less authentic on… Read more »
And it is not the word that caused the pain, it is the way it was used. Changing the words does not heal the wound. On one hand I’ll agree that this holds true for a lot of words. The pains are associated with the word. On the other I do think there is something to be said that sometimes a part of the healing process is to just leave the word be and use something else. Mind you it would be idea if the day came when the terms “real man” didn’t have so many stigmas attached to it… Read more »
The reason for the hostility is that the word “real” has very different connotations when applied to “woman” versus when it is applied to “man.” When applied to “woman,” the word real is often about getting in touch with and accepting yourself for who you are. When applied to “man,” the word real is almost always refers to an ideal and is a judgment on you because you don’t live up to it. To check out my argument, I just did searches on Google for “real woman” and “real man”. The results for women are mixed, but even the first… Read more »