The Second Adventure of Life: Reinventing Mentors and Elders, an audio tape featuring Michael Meade. Recorded live at an intensive workshop in Sausalito, CA on December 5th and 6th, 1998.

Far from being a time of resignation and withdrawal, the second half of life can be an opportunity to live a rich inner life while actively contributing to the community. In this live workshop tape, Meade uses poignant anecdotes from his work with at-risk youth and mythic stories of many cultures to bring the listener closer to the philosophical truths that guide a person from adolescence to the end of life. In this "second adventure" a person takes intentional risks to become an elder, rather than simply an "older," by extending innate gifts through specific practice and turning from the lament for lost youth toward a positive view of death and ancestors.

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Character and Destiny: Authentic Threads in Life, featuring James Hillman and Michael Meade. Recorded live at Seattle Art Museum, October 1996 and based on James Hillman's book The Soul's Code.

Robert Bly and Marion Woodman, Facing the Shadow in Men and Women. Tape: Oral Traditions' best-seller.

There is a mystery around the word "shadow." We throw out part of ourselves in childhood, or put them in a bag; it is those abandoned parts that become the Shadow, which can then act destructively and independently of our will. If we can reclaim these parts much of our vitality and passion returns. Therefore Bly and Woodman challenge us to face the shadow in all areas of our lives. With live music, poems, and a moving Norwegian tale of love, The White Bear King Valamon.

Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé, We Have No Word for Sex: An Indigenous View of Intimacy. Tape: fascinating and insightful. Read our Review

In this live presentation, Malidoma Somé and his wife Sobonfu take us into the Dagara village and give us their tribal view of intimacy, relationships and marriage. For a subject as overworked as sex, here are some fascinating and important lessons from the heart that are as fresh and relevant as they are ancient.

Author Michael Gurian reads from his best-seller The Wonder of Boys. Tape: Audio Partners.

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Boys are different. Parents, educators and the community needs to recognize and honor those differences, not just pretend they're not there. Listen to expert Michael Gurian, author of the best-seller The Wonder of Boys, talk about these differences and how we can take them into account in raising boys.

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Michael Gurian, author of the best-seller The Wonder of Boys, talks about why boys are the way they are. Brain, body and hormones make boys different. Parents, educators and the community needs to take these differences into account in raising boys, according to this expert. Listen to expert Michael Gurian talk about what these differences are, and help us to understand boys and raise them better.

Author and grief expert Tom Golden talks about men and grief. Tape from a seminar for therapists, on men and grief.

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Our culture is, perhaps, the only one that doesn't find a way to let men express and release their grief. Listen to grief expert Tom Golden, author of Swallowed by a Snake, talk about multi-cultural perspectives on men and grief.

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Grief expert Tom Golden talks about how men handle emotions. Men and women handle emotions differently. We need to recognize this and find ways, other than "talking therapy" to help men handle their grief, according to grief expert Tom Golden.

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Grief expert Tom Golden talks about how men grieve. Men and women grieve differently. Neither way is "right" or "wrong," "better" or "worse." We need to recognize and respect these differences if we are to help men handle their grief, according to Tom.

Images of Initiation Hillman, Meade, Somé

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