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HIDDEN WINE presents
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21st Annual Mens Conference
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21st Annual
Minnesota Men's Conference
September 13-18, 2005
Camp Miller, Sturgeon Lake, MN
for registration click here
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Three Roots,
Three Roads,
Three Dances
Aggression, Compliance, and Withdrawal
In order to thrive, a child has to find a strategy that brings him survival, attention, and love. Some find that to be demanding works; others adopt compliant and agreeable ways. A third group withdraws and lives quietly on whatever is offered. Each of us taps all three roots, but one tends to be primary.
As we grow older, it becomes helpful and even wise to learn the roads less often used. Thus, we discover fresh ways to be in the world.
One road may favor an instinct, such as aggression. Another may favor emotion, such as merging with people. Another may favor thinking. Which road did you choose?
Please join us at this year’s conference where
we will take up the lively dance that goes on between the instincts, the emotions flowing from the eternal fountain of the soul and the intensity of the fervent, thinking mind.
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MINNESOTA MEN'S
CONFERENCE 2005
Robert Bly
Michael Meade
Malidoma Somé
Tom Gambell
Doug von Koss
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For more information call:
Craig Ungerman (860) 923-6987
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email: hiddenwine@earthlink.net
http://www.hiddenwine.com/MMC
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The Teachers
 Robert Bly, internationally recognized and award-winning author and poet, helped found the modern men's movement. He has taught men how to create a home for what is best in them. He inspires both men and women to lead a life of intensity and beauty that brings them together into community.
Interview in the Rake Magazine January 2004
The Wind Isn't Depressed:
Robert Bly Talks With Michael Ventura About Art, Madness, And The Joy Of Loss in the Sun Magazine
May 2004- Robert Bly and Michael Ventura
download interview with Robert Bly and Michael Ventura in the Sun Magazine 2004
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The Teachers
 Michael Meade is a nationally recognized storyteller, teacher, author, and scholar of mythology and student of ritual in traditional cultures.
We are extremely honored that Michael Meade is bringing back to the conference this year his mesmerizing mode of yarn-spinning and myth-making. Michael was very instrumental in the formation of the Minnesota Mens Conference in its early years.
interview: Men and the Water of Life
website: http://www.mosaicvoices.org
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 Malidoma Somé: village elder, author, comes to us from the Dagara Tribe of West Africa. He an astonishing teacher, able to bring in ideas almost unheard of in the West. His first book was Of Water and The Spirit, and his new book is The Healing Wisdom of Africa.
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 Doug von Koss joyously returns again this year to lead early morning chanting. Many participants return to this conference just to begin each day in “one voice” under his guidance. He teaches the vowel sounds as well as chants from the Near East and the West. |
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 Tom Gambell: a 6th degree Black Belt, is a returning teacher this year. He has taught Aikido for 25 years, and is now the Chief Instructor of Eastbay Aikido in Oakland, CA. He teaches that once the principles of Aikido are embodied, they become a source of strength and guidance in everyday living. He will do workshops that will be open to all participants each day on the art of compassionate self-defense.
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The Conference History
The Minnesota Men’s Conference was started by Robert Bly in 1984. This was shortly after the interview between Keith Thompson and Robert Bly called “What do Men Really Want?” This first conference, as well as all the ones following have included the telling of old stories, the gifts of poetry, making music together and opening our hearts to grief, which sometimes appears when men who trust each other gather together for a few days.
This conference has been blessed with many fine teachers such as Etheridge Knight, James Hillman, Michael Meade, and Terry Dobson in the 1980’s. Aaron Kipnis, John Lee and Robert Moore joined us in the 1990’s. In 1993 with the addition of Malidoma Somé, Miguel Rivera, Onaje Benjamin and Martín Prechtel, the conference moved towards a richer diversity of thought and a deeper connection to our ancestors. In the last few years we have begun to ask that men who have been given the honey of the old stories and soul teaching give some of this sweetness back to younger men. So again we are inviting 30 young men between the ages of 13 and 20 to attend this years conference.
We are asking all the men to reach back toward young men-both the fathered and the fatherless—and to work out rituals and ways of communication in order to offer to the younger men what the culture as whole does not.
Conference Site
This years conference will be held once again
at Camp Miller, a beautiful YMCA camp on
100+ acres of woods, fields and waterfront,
on Sturgeon Lake 100 miles north of the
Twin Cities. The cabins, dining room and
main meeting lodge are a combination of
rustic and modern. The camp staff are superb,
the food is excellent and the sauna is always hot!
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Past Themes
1984—What Do Men Dance About?
1985—Bringing Back the Gold! Men, Failure and Harvest
1986—Men’s Work in World: Leaving the Father’s House
1987—Animal Truths, Imagination and Danger: On the Track of Male Nature
1988—Passion and Purpose in the Male Psyche
1989—Developing the King: Inside and Outside
1990—Men in Community: Men in Ritual
1992—Men in Relationships
1993—The Hostile Brother
1994—The Generous Mothers and the Angry Mothers: Giving Gifts to Both
1995—Shimmering Flowers on the Community Tree: Growing Into Our Ancestor’s Faces
1996—The Adolescent Society and the Way Men Are
1997—Reaching Back to Younger Men
1998—Tracking Our Own Souls: Men in Nature and the Nature of Men
1999—Old Grandmother Growth: Men, boys and the Trickster
2000—Feasting the Mother Bear
2001—Who is the Friend of the Hidden One?
2002—What will Heal the Wounded King?
2003—The Dragon of Grandiosity
2004—The Souls Survival When Things Fall Apart
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Click here to link to other Hidden Wine events
this year and other online resources
Recommended Books:
Robert Bly, The Insanity of Empire
Robert Bly, Iron John
Robert Bly, My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy.
Michael Meade: Men and the Water of Life
Meade (co-editor) The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Malidoma Somé: Of Water and The Spirit
Malidoma Somé: The Healing Wisdom of Africa.
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Scholarship Fund
The Minnesota Men’s Conference is supported entirely by participant fees and individual donations to the scholarship fund. Help reach out to a young man by sponsoring him to this year’s conference. Please send a check or money order for $10, $25, $50, even a full scholarship
Please bookmark this page and return for
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21st Annual Minnesota Men’s Conference, Sept 13-18th, 2005
Camp Miller, Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota
Attendance will be limited to 90 adult men and 30 young men.
Cost : $650 Adult Men, $350 young men
After your registration is received, a confirmation letter with conference details will be sent.
Travel
By Air: If you are traveling by air, you will be arriving at the Mpls/St. Paul International Airport. We have reserved a charter bus to take you to and from the camp. The cost for this is $70 paid in advance.
The bus will be at the airport by 3:00 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 13th and will leave for the camp by 3:30pm.
The bus will return to the airport on Sunday, September 18th no later than 3:30pm. Please try to arrange your flights so that you arrive at least 1 hour before the bus departs from the airport and 1 1/2 hours after the bus arrives back to the airport.
By Car: Camp Miller is located 100 miles north of the Twin Cities, just off Interstate 35. To get to the camp, take Interstate 35 to the Sturgeon Lake exit. Go east approximately 1/4 mile to the Red Oak Inn, turn left and go approximately 1/4 mile to the Camp Miller entrance, which is on the right.
Additional Logistical Details for Minnesota Men's Conference:
The bus will be at the airport by 3:00 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 13th and will leave for the camp by 3:30pm.
For more Information call Craig Ungerman at Hidden Wine:
Call
in US
phone 860 923-6987
email: hiddenwine@earthlink.net
Conference Cost :(Conference costs include all lodging and meals)
Adult Men: $650, registration deposit: $150.00
Young Men: (ages 13-20) $350, registration deposit: $75.00
Refund Policy:
All Deposits Refundable until August 1st, 2005 less $30 handling fee, after August 1st all deposits are non-refundable
Balance of fee Refundable until Sept 1st, 2005 less $30 handling fee, after Sept 1st all feees are non-refundable
What you need to know if you are registering for the Men's Conference.
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Workshop Registration
I am registering for the 21st Annual Minnesota Mens Conference
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Conference Cost (includes lodging and meals):
__Adult men $650 Registration deposit: $150
__Young men (Ages 13-20) $350 Registration deposit: $75
Refund Policy:
All Deposits Refundable until August 1st, 2005 less $30 handling fee, after August 1st all deposits are non-refundable
Balance of fee Refundable until Sept 1st, 2005 less $30 handling fee, after Sept 1st all fees are non-refundable
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Please make check payable to Hidden Wine.
If you are sending the deposit $150 ($75) the remaining balance of 500 ($275) is due by August 15th
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For more Information call Craig Ungerman at Hidden Wine:
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E-mail: hiddenwine@earthlink.net
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What you need to know if you are registering for the Men's Conference.
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