The weekend is aimed at participants getting to know themselves and each other as a team in action, performing tasks aimed at reaching individual and shared goals.

The program consists of a series of team and individual challenges designed to develop real work skills and dig a layer deeper than the polite screen personalities that we bring to online group meetings. Each man will be given the opportunity to lean into his fears and limitations, to see how he and others react under pressure, how he deals with discomfort, unexpected difficulties and conflict, and how he works as a member of a team. This provides an ideal foundation for taking the next step in development and depth in a men’s group.

The training will focus on developing skills in nature survival, bushcraft and military tactics. Concrete skills which will be introduced and practiced during the weekend include:

• Map, compass and primative navigation
• Camouflage, stealth movement, tactical target reconnaissance and observation
• Survival with minimal food, sleep and equipment under harsh conditions
• Water crossing
• Medic and first aid
• Military physical fitness test
• Basic self defence
• Force-on-force training with hardball weapons
• Close Quarter Combat Simulation
• Military patrol formation and standard procedures

Expect a program with limited sleep and exposure to the elements. The program is designed to cater for a group of men at considerably different levels of physical fitness and ability.

As a minimum to complete the weekend, you should be able to run at least 3km. To prepare for the weekend, it would be an advantage to start training as soon as possible, focusing on running, rucking, field navigation and orientation and a physical strength training program such as Maniphesto’s Kampkraft training.

Available weekends:

• 1st – 3rd Dec 2023
• 8th  – 10th Dec 2023
• 26th – 28th Jan 2024
• 2nd – 4th Feb 2024
• 16th – 18th Feb 2024
• 23rd – 25th Feb 2024
• 8th – 10th March 2024

Pricing:

• 600€ pr participant for individual signup
• 1800€ for group of 5 participants
• 200€ for additional participants above 5, maximum 15 participants

This is a tailored package training program for teams on Maniphesto Core. We can also cater for a men’s group outsode of Maniphesto or any team of men who want to establish a strong foundation for work.

Minimum 4 participants. For practical details, please contact us on info@maniphesto.com

Some pictures from our previous events:

The foundation of leadership is often wrongly assumed to be related to authority and power. This is a misconception – leadership is founded on a person deciding to take on responsibility for ensuring a specific shared goal or outcome. Authority and power which can be used for good are the natural result of manly leadership.

Leadership is therefore not a role which is assigned to a person, but rather a burden which one takes upon one’s shoulders through an explicit decision to take on a responsibility for a positive outcome.

In order to lead, men need to be able to formulate a compelling vision. That is why we work explicitly with supporting every member on Maniphesto Core to develop a high level vision for his life. That vision then needs to be grounded in the practical work of his everyday life of developing the habits that will mold him into the kind of man who can realize it. This is what we do in our Core groups with our accountability work.

A key necessity to formulate vision is to have an explicit existential foundation which defines your cosmology and anthropology. Only through having a clear and positive understanding what life and existence is about and what humans are, can you develop a clear and true vision of the future. This is defined through the spiritual, religious level. Thus men need to ensure a stable, strong and embodied spiritual practice rooted in real community to lead well.

For most men, family life is the ideal training ground for leadership. It is through learning to take responsibility for, to love, and to guide their own family well, that they can learn to lead others. Especially the relationship with his wife in a fully committed marriage, which he is driving towards deeper intimacy, is the key ingredient which will make a man a leader who is a flame which is fully alight and burning brightly in the world.

Additional resources on Men Lead:

Men Lead series:

• The Power of Vision in Leadership | Men Lead Series 1
• Unveiling the Foundation of Leadership: Religion & Spirituality
• Family Life is a Leadership Training Ground
• The Path to Deeper Connection: Eros and Intimacy as the Vital Ingredient
• Leading with Purpose

Core Community meeting: Why Vision is Masculine

Vision for Orthodox Christians

Find the book here: https://visiondrivenleader.com/ and on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Driven-…

Michael Hyatts company Full Focus: https://fullfocus.co/

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The only thing in the world that you can control is yourself. If you see anything anywhere which you think should be better, then you should automatically think – can you fix it first in yourself? As you manage to establish peace and harmony within yourself as a fully functioning human being, then you will naturally find that the opportunities for taking responsibility for things outside of yourself will grow together with your capacity to manage them. Taking hold of and struggling with these opportunities is your journey of growth.

A man who takes responsibility is a rock who cannot be moved and who can be depended on through storms and chaos. He is a model of integrity in that he can always be depended upon to only say that which he knows he will do. And once he has said he will do something, he does it.

It is easy to find things that are somehow wrong in the world. It takes a little more effort to figure out how they got that way. Coming up with ideas as to how to fix them requires critical thinking. And doing something about them requires real action in the world. But all of these are nothing in comparison to the work of focusing your critical attention on yourself and making yourself into a better man. And until you do that, then your efforts in all other areas will fall short.

Taking responsibility entails being able to give a guarantee for ensuring without doubt that something in the future will happen in a specific way. Given how chaotic reality appears to us and how unpredictable the future is, it is difficult, even dangerous, to attempt to take responsibility for yourself, let alone people and things outside of yourself.

And yet, as a man, taking responsibility is the key to growing from being a boy in a man’s body, towards maturity and adulthood, and eventually into eldership. Taking responsibility for ensuring the stability and robustness of your own health, finances, and relationships are some of the first indispensable steps into manhood. This means that a man still living off the state or his parents, has yet to join the ranks of manhood. But even this is not enough – men are characterized by taking responsibility for things and people other than themself, which is why selfishness is so frowned upon in men.

The ability to take responsibility is ideally taught from father to son during childhood, and is ultimately dependent on a man being willing to put his own body on the line and to “sacrifice” his own desires, wants, and ultimately his own body, in order to realise a specific outcome. This starts with actions such as a boy sacrificing his playtime to mow the lawn, and finds one of its fullest expressions in a man who is willing to put his own body and life in the way of a mortal threat to his loved ones.

All men have areas where they fall short, blindspots and failings in the way that they take responsibility. Taking on an appropriate level of responsibility for something outside of yourself that takes you just a little out of your comfort zone is thus a growth accelerator for men.

Maniphesto Core provides opportunities for its members to take on appropriate levels of responsibility which parallel and mirror their battles to take on responsibility in their own life. Through the Core Team accountability process, men are able to experiment with taking responsibility, be held to integrity and receive honest reflection and input as they struggle with the consequences, and thereby continue to grow in insight into their own strengths and weaknesses.