Entries from October 2008

Defensive Detachment and Mentors

Date October 19, 2008

I now have recruited 4 mentors for myself.  I am really quite impressed with myself, and amazed that these men are keen to support me and encourage me in my life.  Now comes the scarey part - taking advantage of what these men have to offer me.  I am aware that I am likely to […]

My Men’s Group

Date October 7, 2008

I’m involved in a men’s group - we do “men’s work”, which involves being open and authentic with each other.  It also involves a commitment to work on the dark sides/ shadows in our lives.  We do this through various processes involving emotional identification and release.
Anyway, I don’t want to get bogged down in definition.  […]

Mentoring and SSA

Date October 6, 2008

I mentioned mentoring the other day.  I am currently in the process of recruiting mentors for myself.  My therapist is really pushing me to do this.  I have always avoided this in the past, and have focused on creating good peer relationships.  I never realised that mentoring relationships would be useful.  But, now it just […]

Silence is Death

Date October 4, 2008

I am currently looking for mentors.  I will tell you more about the motivations behind this in another post.  However, I am currently pushing this forward well.  I met a guy for breakfast this morning, and I am meeting four other guys this week to discuss the possibility together.  It’s kind of exciting, but also […]