How does the Mankind Project compare with other programs?
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins is known for his large-scale motivational events and seminars. The focus is on success, wealth, and achievement. The approach is universal and not specific to men. The focus is on peak experiences and immediate transformation.
Tony Robbins runs a for-profit business that has raised his estimated net worth to more than $500 million. He offers a range of books, videos, events, and coaching programs that can be very expensive.
The key difference is that the ManKind Project specifically addresses men's emotional development in smaller groups, while Robbins offers broader personal development in large-scale formats.
Landmark Education
Landmark offers seminars and trainings. After an initial in-person seminar (the Landmark Forum), you can choose to attend follow-up trainings. The structured indoor trainings are not specific to men and are typically group sessions of 50 to 200 people. They are led by individual paid facilitators and do not provide opportunities for participants to interact directly with facilitators.
The focus is on personal responsibility and relationships. The emphasis is on language and communication. Participants are expected to participate in structured activities.
The organization is a for-profit company with reported revenues of $100 million per year. After the initial seminar, attendees are strongly encouraged to recruit future attendees and to sign up for additional paid trainings.
Twelve Step programs
Twelve Step programs like AA and NA help men find sobriety and wholeness and save lives. Some men, however, need more. For them, the ManKind Project is a powerful complement to working the steps and a path to deeper and more lasting transformation. The ManKind Project and the New Warrior Training Adventure push you to confront your shadow and grow the hell up. Our trainings are raw, intense, and sometimes uncomfortable. They challenge you to let go of the past and to move forward from a place of agency and self-responsibility.
Other men’s groups
Many men’s groups offer something valuable, but they often stay on the surface—focused on performance, productivity, or moral guidance. Some are rooted in religion, others in fitness or business coaching, and while those can help in specific ways, they rarely create space for the deeper emotional work so many men desperately need.
Therapy
Mental health professionals refer hundreds of men every year to the ManKind Project and the New Warrior Training Adventure. That's because our trainings fill a space not addressed in most therapeutic settings: peer-support for men. Our model encourages and builds on emotional intelligence practices, empathy, listening skills, and emotional risk-taking in an environment without rigid gender socialization, competition or performative masculinity.
How the Mankind Project is different
The ManKind Project focuses on male-specific emotional and personal growth. The core of the experience are free men's circles and a one-time reasonably-priced men's initiation weekend. This is conducted in small groups and staffed by a large number of volunteers who have been through the process before. After the initial training, participants attend an integration experience designed to help them cement and embody the insights they gained from the initiation weekend, and to more effectively sit in the weekly free circles.
The experience of the weekend is more intimate, and done in small groups (alternating between indoor and outdoor settings). The emphasis is on bravely and openly uncovering past blocks, and stepping into a more conscious experience of being a fully-expressed mature man who can lead an authentic life.
After the initial weekend, there are no additional fees, and men are welcome to sit in weekly men’s circles in their area (or virtually). The emphasis is on ongoing personal development at each man’s pace, with the emotional safety and support of a group of other authentic men.
All men are welcome regardless of age, race, religious background, life experiences, lifestyle, or beliefs.
MPK is a non-profit organization and is largely staffed by dedicated volunteers who have themselves been positively transformed by participating in it.
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