MenAlive started in 1969 after I held Jemal, my new child son, in my arms and made a vow that I might be a unique form of father than my father was in a position to be for me and to do all the pieces I may to create a world the place males had been totally healed and concerned with their households and communities all through their lives. In 1972 I launched MenAlive as my window to the world to share what I used to be studying about love, life, survival, and transformation.
In June, 2026, I will probably be providing thrilling new and expanded providers at MenAlive. I’m in search of women and men who acknowledge the world is altering and who need to obtain one of the best steerage and assist out there to assist them to dwell totally, love deeply, and make a optimistic distinction on this planet. If this sounds such as you, learn on.
When our daughter, Angela, was born in 1972, it turned clear that boys and males’s well being and women and girls’s well being had been ceaselessly intertwined and we couldn’t enhance one with out enhancing the opposite. My spouse Carlin and I now have six grown kids, seventeen grandchildren, and 6 nice grandchildren. We’re dedicated to serving to to rework our lives for the nice of all and for future generations.
I’m positive I don’t need to persuade you that people reside in methods which are out of stability with the legal guidelines of nature. We acknowledge this imbalance as our local weather disaster, limitless conflicts, and lack of ecological range. As “geologian” and historian Thomas Berry warned,
“We by no means knew sufficient. Nor had been we sufficiently intimate with all our cousins within the nice household of the earth. Nor may we hearken to the varied creatures of the earth, every telling its personal story. The time has now come, nevertheless, once we will hear or we’ll die.”
Many individuals have given up on humanity and picture that the world could be higher off with out us. Others hope that Synthetic Intelligence (AI) will save us. I used to be given a unique imaginative and prescient throughout a sweat lodge ceremony at a Males’s Management Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1993.
The imaginative and prescient allowed me to see the sinking ship of civilization and the emergence of lifeboats to a brand new way of life. In line with Václav Havel, Czech statesman, writer, playwright, and dissident,
“As we speak, many issues point out that we’re going by means of a transitional interval when it appears that evidently one thing is on the best way out and one thing else is painfully being born. It’s as if one thing had been crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, whereas one thing else, nonetheless vague, had been arising from the rubble.”
I’ve written in regards to the imaginative and prescient and what I’ve been studying in quite a few articles over the past 33 years. In my most up-to-date article describing the imaginative and prescient, “How You Can Survive and Thrive because the Ship of Civilization Sinks,” I supplied quite a few insights I’ve gained. Listed here are a couple of:
1. “Civilization” is a misnomer. Its correct identify is the “Dominator Mannequin.”
I quoted my colleague Riane Eisler who wrote in her e book, The Chalice & The Blade,
“Underlying the nice floor range of human tradition are two fundamental fashions of society. The primary I name the dominator mannequin, what’s popularly termed both patriarchy or matriarchy — the rating of 1 half of humanity over the opposite. The second, by which social relations are based totally on the precept of linking could greatest be described because the partnership mannequin.”
2. There’s a higher world past civilization.
Daniel Quinn was the writer of quite a few books, together with Ishmael and Past Civilization: Humanity’s Subsequent Nice Journey.
“If we go on as we’re,” says Quinn, we’re not going to be round for much longer. You don’t need to ‘go someplace’ to get past civilization, it’s important to make your residing a unique manner.”
I’ve realized there’s a totally different manner we will dwell. Let’s construct it collectively.
3. We have to discover our tribe exterior the confines of civilization.
Tribalism has taken on a pejorative that means, however tribal life is what makes is human.
“The tribal life and no different is the reward of pure choice to humanity,” says Daniel Quinn. “It’s to humanity what pack life is to wolves, pod life is to whales, and hive life is to bees.”
Of their e book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Form Our Brains, Lives, and Future, Riane Eisler and Douglas P. Fry say that for hundreds of thousands of years we lived as hunger-gatherers they usually had been “the unique partnership societies.” They go on to say,
“For greater than 99 % of our roughly two million 12 months historical past our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived with the next values: (1) General egalitarianism; (2) Equality, respect, and partnership between ladies and men; (3) Nonacceptance of violence, struggle, abuse, cruelty, and exploitation; and (4) Ethics that assist human caring, prosocial cooperation, and flourishing.”
Come Be part of Our MenAlive Tribe
Starting, June 21, 2026, I’ll begin a brand new chapter in my skilled life. Up till now I’ve served my group within the following methods by means of: (1) Particular person and couple counseling, (2) Articles and books, (3) On-line programs. I’ve been getting extra requests to start out an on-line group the place individuals may obtain extra targeted steerage and assist to raised navigate these difficult instances.
The core of what I’ve been providing, and what I really feel is critically vital presently in human historical past, is targeted on relational well being and well-being.
On Father’s Day, June 21, 2026, I’ll launch a brand new MenAlive tribal group that builds on my fifty-plus years of labor at MenAlive and provides extra providers, steerage, and assist. Those that be a part of will alternative for extra direct interplay with me the place you possibly can “ask me something” and obtain trustworthy suggestions. Along with my very own experience, I will probably be introducing you to my colleagues who’re additionally consultants within the subject and have nice deal of knowledge to share.
Listed here are a couple of of my colleagues you’ll meet:
Darlene R. Walley, PhD
Dr. Darlene R. Walley is at the moment the chief government officer of NEXT Life Sciences, which focuses on reproductive healthcare. Walley has over 30 years of life science enterprise expertise, having served as an government at Procter & Gamble, Gillette/Oral-B laboratories, and Arm & Hammer.
Dr. Walley holds 12 patents, largely coping with client well being merchandise, and has over 13 publications. Walley obtained a bachelor’s diploma in chemistry from Case Western Reserve College and a PhD in natural chemistry from the College of Cincinnati.
Dr. Walley will spearhead Plan A™ and convey it to market and as well as, oversee the R&D efforts in different male contraception choices NEXT Life Sciences is creating. You may learn my article and interview with Dr. Walley right here.
Joe Conrad
Joe Conrad is a artistic entrepreneur and a digital well being pioneer who believes within the energy of innovation, creativity and know-how to unravel any downside. In 1990 he based Cactus, a purpose-driven branding and inventive company with the mission of rising manufacturers that assist individuals thrive.
He’s additionally the founder and CEO at Grit Digital Well being –– a crew of specialists in behavioral well being, wellness, know-how and advertising and marketing dedicated to transcending obstacles like stigma and entry to assist individuals get the assist they want, when and the way they want it. Joe and his crew are the creators of Man Remedy, an modern and award-winning marketing campaign that makes use of humor to interact working-age males in an immersive, entertaining, digital expertise the place remedy truly occurs. Joe is the writer of the forthcoming e book, Man Remedy: Remedy the Manner a Man Does It. You may watch my latest interview with Joe Conrad right here.
Caitlin V. Neal
Caitlin is a thought chief in fashionable masculinity and male sexuality. Additionally recognized merely as Caitlin V., she emphasizes the necessity to reshape how society views males’s roles and the dynamics between women and men in right now’s world. Caitlin’s work is devoted to empowering males by educating them the important abilities to reach fashionable relationships and life, serving to them embrace authenticity, confidence, and intentionality. By way of her transformative method, males foster deeper connections and redefine masculinity on their very own phrases.
Caitlin V’s journey started with a ardour for understanding human sexuality and its profound impression on our lives. Over 20 years she has cultivated a deep understanding of the intricate nuances of intimacy, pleasure, and connection. She has greater than 850,000 social media subscribers, 140 million video views, and 15,000 college students. You may see my interview and article with Caitlin right here.
If you need extra details about the way forward for MenAlive and our new and expanded group, drop me a observe to Jed@MenAlive.com and put “MenAlive Tribe” within the topic line. These are difficult instances with fantastic alternatives for individuals who need to come collectively in assist of that my colleague Charles Eisenstein calls “the extra stunning world our hearts know is feasible.”