MT: You have been conscious about your inner work and personal growth for more than ten years. How important have men's support groups been to you?

DJ: Men's support groups have been very significant in my life. I joined my first men's group when I was 21 years old. I was having a hard time just being a young man trying to support himself with food, rent, and a job as an apprentice bricklayer. It was a group facilitated by two professional therapists. I learned so much. I watched men from 30 to 70 talk about everything men in their 30's thru 70's would talk about. It blew me away. It was quite different from the conversations I had with my extremely religious father or the construction workers I worked with. Since, then I have been involved in many different types of groups each serving a purpose for whatever stage of development I was at at the time.