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Men’s Retreats & Conferences, 1983-1996

 File — Box: 134, Folder: 24

Scope and Contents

6th Annual California Men’s Gathering, Oct. 7 – 10, 1983; Tess Wiseheart’s ReBOOT CAMP: Intensive Training for Pro-Feminist Men, June 13 – 16, 1996,, Portland, OR; Circles and Arrows: Exploring Mutual Empowerment for Men and women, Mar h 14 – 17, 1991 sponsored by International Earthstewards Network, The Dance of Gender with Michael Meade presents Myth and Gender: When the Women Went One Way and the Men Went the Other, July 13 & 14, 1991; Drums Rattles Masks with Jim Hickey & Doug Von Koss, Maple Hills, WA; The Gift of Being a Man: An All Male Leadership Workshop and Retreat, Nov. 14 – 20, 1983, sponsored by the Goodenough Community; Leaving the Father Seeking the King: A Day for Men (10/21/1989) & Myths of the Feminine, Myths of the Masculine: Stories of Gender and Power (10/22/1989) with James Hillman and Michael Meade sponsored by David Bryen, West Hills Counseling Center & Jim Soliday, Counseling Services of Beaverton; Male Initiation: The threshold of Power and Wounding of Men with Michael Meade sponsored by the Fairhaven Mysteries Project, Bellingham, WA; Unmasking Masculinity: 1989 Midwest Regional Men’s Conference, Men Talk, Vol. 13, Nos. 2 & 3 (summer & Fall, 1989) pp. 1 & 3; Northwest Conference on Men & Masculinity: Men, Sex, & Intimacy, May 10 & 11, 1991, Western Wash. University, Bellingham, WA; Paths of purpose: Finding the Indigenous Self with Malidoma Some & Michael Meade Plus Ritual, Gender and Community: A Village of reconsillatio0n with Malidoma Some, Sobonfu Some and Michael Meade presented by Limbus and Mosaic Foundation; Men: The road to the Castel; Exploring the Trickster & the King, Men’s Island Retreat IV, Orcas Island, Olga, WA, May 11 – 13, 1990; Manhood, Brotherhood and Purpose among Men of the Vietnam Era, Family Counseling Assoc., Auburn, WA, First North American Conference of Men Organizing Against Pornography at the University of Ottawa, Dec. 5 – 8, 1991; 6th Annual Rocky Mountain Men’s Conference, Oct. 16 – 25, 1992, program; The Sacred Chest: A Myth of Male Initiation: A Men’s Weekend, Aug. 25 – 27, 1995 c/o Counseling Associates, Lynnwood, WA; Unmasking Masculinity, the 1989 Midwest regional Men’s Conference, Oct. 20 – 22, 1989, sponsored by the Twin cities Men’s Center with Robert Bly, Ron Hering, Andre Heuer, Bill Kauth, and more; plus more.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983-1996

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research except for documents bound by a red ribbon, which are restricted.

Conditions Governing Access

The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.

Extent

From the Collection: approximately 292 Linear Feet (292 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Also see MSS 228, Box 130 of Craig M. Scherfenberg and California Men’s Gathering Vertical File in the CMC. See MSU Library Catalog for more materials on many of these events and presenters.

Repository Details

Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository

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