by Richard Fay | Jan 31, 2017 | Event, MROP, Posts
Over the past 500 years, society has constructed a way of thinking and living that now imprisons men, trapping them in cycles of futility. Get good grades, go to university or learn a trade, work hard, pay the bills, raise the kids, wrestle with traffic and hopefully...
by Richard Fay | Jul 5, 2016 | MROP, Posts
For men who have done MROP in the past, the returning men’s program invites you to revisit your rites, deepen your own journey with other initiated men, and celebrate with this year’s initiates in the closing rites and in the feast afterwards. Led by the founder of...
by Richard Fay | Nov 10, 2015 | MROP, Posts
Taking stock of the immense changes I faced after doing the Men’s Rites of Passage (MROP), I found the elements in my life fell into three categories: Things either seemed almost new to me as I saw them now with a different set of eyes and heart, shifted in...
by Richard Fay | Nov 3, 2015 | MROP, Posts
(This is part one of a three part reflection by Kent, an initiated man, on his experience of the Men’s Rites of Passage. This may be helpful for any man considering the rites with apprehension, uncertainty or anxiety, which is very common.) I had it all. Money....
by Richard Fay | Jul 1, 2014 | MROP, Posts
This is the third in a series of blogs on the Men’s Rite of Passage (MROP), a unique, five day experience for men to prepare them for the second half of life. In the first blog, “The Rite Stuff: Why Initiation?” I discussed why initiation is so vital in the...
by Richard Fay | Jul 1, 2014 | MROP, Posts
Last time I wrote on why initiation is vital for the modern western man. Not only in adolescence, which, thankfully, is starting to occur, but for older men (anyone over 30, and many who are under 30) who are entering the second half of life without the tools needed...
