Mentoring for Men

Marriage Through a Whole-Life Lens

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Need a Marriage Tuneup?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In my work as a psychotherapist and leadership mentor I am continually encouraging individuals and couples to live fully and congruently from their Core in all 8 Dimensions in order to realize the full capacity of their uniquely designed lives. Individually the benefits of Whole …

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Pre-Marital Encouragement from The Circle of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”My wife and I are nearing the 50th anniversary of our marriage.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We’ve chosen, as often as reasonable, to drive to a special place near where we live to watch the sunset behind the Rockies. We have a full view, from Pikes Peak above Colorado Springs to the south, …

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Mentoring Older Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I need a mentor.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Anyone associated with young people has probably heard those words before, particularly in a business or organizational context or in working with disadvantaged youth. Mentoring is a powerful tool for helping young people develop. But from a 65 or 70 year-old? Wouldn’t that seem a …

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Mentoring Fatherless Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I know you’re not the man who birthed me…’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “…But I need a man I trust to give me some fathering, as my father was absent from my life. And now, I’m also a father, who needs some guidance. Will you be that with me, for me?” Those who …

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Mentoring a Group of Good Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘See that older man over there in the corner?’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “He’s going to ask if I can mentor him. I can see it in his eyes.” Several years back, when presenting a mentoring workshop, that is what I said to a good friend who had gone with me to a …

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Mentoring Men is More Than Just Coaching Them

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”It’s late summer…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] … in 2016 and I am on a brief, quick journey through parts of Oregon and Washington. The past 100 hours have given welcome glimpses of just how LDG’s Whole-Person Mentoring Model has impacted lives across the decades. Meaning-filled conversations have easily evolved with women and …

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Legacy is a Four Letter Word

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”…an interview with Gary and Jorie Gulbranson” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It was late summer of 1973 when my wife, Judy, and I met Gary and Jorie Gulbranson.  They were newlyweds.  We had been married for over six years.  Gary and I were beginning grad school in Denver, and both of we couples …

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Mentoring Men For Their Whole Life

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Ask any man today if he needs a mentor, and you might run into a little pushback.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “I don’t need someone telling me what to do” “My Dad figured it out” “The world is about survival, I’ll learn it, or not” But talk with men who are self-aware enough …

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Mentoring At Its Best Is Always Intentional

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”The phone call lasted 5 minutes…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The time, the issue, was focused.  He talked.  I listened.  The issue was strategic.  He talked.  I asked two questions.  He went into his day. Just before bedtime that day, checking my messages, there was a several paragraph text from him being thankful …

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