Here and There with Twin Cities Men

“RIP Norm Petrik [VA therapist and longtime TCMC board member]--He said “what is the purpose of your behavior?” (I pray and say). I choose to live on purpose--also choose to live in joy. Norm was a great person. He helped me out a lot!!” – Jame Svihel, 2025-09-25.

“I did the Wisconsin MKP weekend in 1989, after going to a day or two event in Minnesota that I believe you put on, and that was transformative. Thanks. I think Bill Kauth was with me that time.” – Bill Klatte, Greenfield, Wisconsin, 2025-10-15.

Inroads, an online magazine for the mythopoetic men’s community, is coming back! The mythopoeic men’s community has a unique offer for our current world. Myth and poetry open the heart, help us imagine the world differently, and deepen our experience of life. The current crisis in social and political culture, especially among men, calls forth this work even more strongly. It is easy for our hearts to close up against the constant onslaught of news, toxic expectations, or our own shame. The world can form a shell around the real pearl of our souls, but we need that pearl to live!

Inroads is here to soothe, open, heal, see with clarity, know the heart, and cultivate the imagination.
Inroads was first created and published from 1988 to 1993. We published Robert Bly, Michael Meade, James Hillman, William Stafford, Joseph Bruchac, John Lang, Thomas R. Smith, Timothy Young, Anthony Signorelli and others. Essays about passion, modern initiation, alchemy, the criminality of the soul, and much more simulated thinking and healing for readers. You can expect this kind of work from the new Inroads. In fact, we created a sample archive issue on the Substack site for you to see.

Subscribe to the free Inroads mailing list: https://inroadsnow.substack.com/welcome
– Anthony Signorelli, Co-Editor & Publisher; Robert Netzer, Co-Editor & Designer - 2025-11-13.

Some views on the 2025 41st Annual Minnesota Men’s Conference, held October 7-12
“The spirit moves in mysterious ways. What grounding we got for grief work at the conference, a grounding we will all have to call upon to deal with the mounting pain in our society and workplaces.” - Dennis Merritt, Jungian Therapist and Author, 2025 presenter
“The medicine of our collective grief expands and for that I am grateful.”
– Tyler Schueffner, Therapist and MMC Board

“The week was truly sweet! I am deeply moved by the knowledge, compassion, depth, and grace of each man present. A true gift for us all.” - Ben Dennis, Storyteller and Ritualist, 2025 presenter
“The 2025 Minnesota Men’s Conference had the juice, sweetness, grief, and joy of the early men’s work of the 1980s.”
– Timothy Young, Poet, 2025 presenter, MMC Board

Standing in Awe of the Thundering Ice” The 2026 Winter Minnesota Men's Conference

Standing on the quiet shore of Lake St. Croix, where the Winter River rests, sealed in ice, we listen for something other than the snarl of a snowmobile or the grind of hard rubber on frozen gravel. Beyond the hum of the cars crossing the bridge (which links the lands of two states bound by shared forests, waters, soil, dairies, fisheries, and long memory) there are other sounds, deeper, older, wiser, enchanting.

Crossing these still waters too quickly by motor, we may miss the splintering sounds of thunder snapping sideways through the great sheets of ice—a sound that can awaken old stones...

This winter, we are called by the thundering ice, to listen...listen for the forsaken, abandoned, forgotten, and the disenfranchised voices that move toward us, that call us back to them, guiding us to the water's edge, to the edge, to our edges. Welcome them all and "Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

Dates: January 31 through February 2, 2026 (Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon)

Location: YMCA Camp Saint Croix, 532 County Rd F, Hudson, WI 54016

Fee: $435.00 (includes lodging, meals, and all conference activities.)

Scholarships are available, Our upcoming three-day conference features story carriers, poets, thinkers, and men of soul gathering in the best traditions of our work, including:
• Miguel Rivera • Ben Dennis
• Timothy Young • Other Friends

Men of all backgrounds are invited to join us for a conference focused on engaging the great soul of the world, meeting that with our personal gifts, bearing responsibilities, and being active in a lively crucible of very alive men. FFI contact us at contact@minnesotamensconference.com, or www.minnesotamensconference.com

The Minnesota Men's Conference is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization dedicated to enriching the masculine soul.