Angelic - Voodoo Art Ritual: Overcoming Political Powerlessness
Presenter: Michael Gardos-Reid
When: Wed. Oct. 2, 7-9 pm
Open to Men & Women
In this presentation Michael will help you to connect with the world you want or the world you fear through junk art, sculpture and collage. Move the energy of the ethers with your own ritual song and dance.

Michael Gardos Reid has 10,000 ideas on how to make a dancing world available to everyone. For more info contact Michael at gardosreid@aol.com. His business is Listening to the Body; creative body therapies.

The 7 Qualities of True Leaders
Presenter: Sharol Tyra
When: Wed. Oct. 9, 7-9 pm
Open to Men and Women

Express the leader within you: Apply knowledge and practices for significant leader transformation. Relate to the 7 qualities or pathways of true leaders. Identify ways to sharpen your integrity. A true leader is a state of being from the inside out. Learn about the qualities of a leader and more at this dynamic presentation by Sharol Tyra.

Sharol Tyra, Personal/Career Coach, Speaker, and President of Life Illumination guides your potential to light! Sharol coaches men and women to live their life purpose, develop as leaders and remove self-limiting beliefs that block true potential. Sharol was featured on TV and several magazines. She presented seminars several times at The Men's Center.

A Journey of New Beginnings
Presenter: Rev. Jan Townswick
When: Wed. Oct. 16, 7-9 pm
Open to Men and Women

Through a blend of healing traditions and varied philosophies Jan Townswick will provide participants the means to access, heal and free their own beautiful spirits - to find their way back to self and wholeness.

Jan Townswick has been a counselor and facilitator of change for 2 decades. He belief that true healing is grounded in spiritual awakening led to their ordainment.

Overcoming Men's Most Serious Health Problems
Presenter: Sam Satean
When: Wed. Oct. 23, 7-9 pm

Sam will talk about the health challenges he has faced and how he has overcome them. He has had the scare of prostrate cancer and has overcome it with attitude and supplements.

Sam spent 30 years in radio-TV, left the corporate way of life and later joined 4-Life Research, a company with the mission of improving the health of people by building their immune systems.

Let's Talk About Sex: "Healthy Sexual Behavior"
Presenters: Steven Wolfgram and Andy Ansell
When: Wed. Oct. 30, 7-9 pm

This meeting will give men an opportunity to talk frankly and ask questions about what is healthy sexual behavior for men regardless of orientation or health status. Please bring your opinions and questions and share them with others.

Steven and Andy are safe sex educators with MAP and facilitate Positive Link.

Shamanism Today
Presenter: Timothy Cope
When: Wed. Nov. 6 7:00-9:00
Open to Men and Women

Shamanism is the oldest spiritual tradition known to humanity, yet it remains a vital and viable path today. This presentation will describe the essential nature of shamanism and consider its contemporary manifestations and applications. Come and learn about this often misunderstood spiritual tradition.

Timothy Cope has been exploring the shamanic path for over eighteen years. He is a certified shamanic counselor and maintains a healing practice in Minneapolis.

New Developments in Understanding Relationships
Presenter: Jim Duffy
When: Wed. 13, 7-9 pm
Open to Men and Women

There has been a lot of exciting and valuable research published in recent years on the subject of behaviors that help or hinder success in intimate relationships.

From scientific researchers such as John Gottman and Neil Jacobson to psychiatric authors such as Bernard Appelbaum and Ellen Wachtel these recent results are both immensely practical and profoundly fascinating in what they teach us about human nature. Come and hear a summary presentation of some of the recent research and learn more about how you can study in depth the new developments in understanding of intimate human relationships.

Jim Duffy is a writer and freelance researcher in a wide variety of areas of the human studies. He is a humanist, educator and consultant whose popular presentations and many subjects at The Men's Center have been well received as both interesting and useful as well as often controversial.

Constructive Living
Presenter: Jim Guswiler
When: Wed. Nov. 20, 7-9 pm
Open to Men and Women

"Trying to subdue a wave by striking it only results in a thousand waves." Trying to control our emotions is as hopeless as trying to demolish a wave with a single hammer blow. Constructive Living is a common sense approach to handling the ups and downs of every day life. It explores what is controllable and what is uncontrolable in our lives and directs us to put our efforts on the controllable parts. You will learn we cannot directly control our feelings, that our feelings always pass unless restimulated and that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel. "Doing what needs to be done" is what Constructive Living is all about.

Jim Guswiler is a certified Constructive Living Instructor. He provides individual and group educational programs. Jim is a frequent and popular presenter at the Men's Center.

Emotions By Design
Presenter: Rick Rudd
When: Wed. Dec. 4, 7-9 pm
Open to Men and Women

We all know that our individual histories and personal coping strategies have embedded "programs" or unique ways of reacting to our environments. These actions and emotions often chain together to form a behavior strategy that can lead to depression, anger, or a host of other emotions. These strategies influence everything that we do and everyone that we interact with. Only by identifying the chain of emotions and determining what triggers the strategy, can we break it and then learn new behaviors.
This fun, lively and interactive program will create awareness, responsibility and initiative to change. Participants will discover the types and purpose of individual emotions (the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). We will discuss the sub-modalities to actually change the emotion.

Participants will discuss Personality Styles, Representational Systems, and Sorting Strategies. After discovering our personal Styles, Systems and Strategies, we will learn how they can be managed and how to effectively work with others.

Rick Rudd is a counselor for Dynamics of Growth, Inc. a counseling and training center located in Vadnais Heights, MN. He has a M.A. in Clinical Pastoral Counseling, a B.S. in Psychology and a Masters Certification in Theosynergistic Neuro-Transformation. He specializes in counseling individuals with traumatic anxiety disorders, phobias, anger management and men's issues. Rick also delivers seminars, workshops and teaches on a variety of topics.