Spencer Ernst attended the Minnesota Men’s Conference in 2012.  He offers his testimony here and invites young men of all ages to attend the Minnesota Men’s Conference.  [...]

  At this year’s conference we will work together to create a genuine homecoming for troops and veterans, rites of passage for all men no matter what our histories, and reconciliation between veteran and civilian men. Twenty-seven years ago the [...]

THE 39TH ANNUAL GREAT MOTHER AND NEW FATHER CONFERENCE IN MAINE JUNE 1-9-2013 If you can’t wait for the Minnesota Men’s Conference and/or you want your wife, girlfriend, daughter, mother, sister, etc to experience something similar to wha[...]

Tom Hennen grew up in a Minnesota farming family and worked with Robert Bly’s Minnesota Writers Publishing House cooperative in the 1970s.  His poetry, until recently scarce and much prized by collectors and poetry-lovers, is informed by a life[...]

Dear Friends of the Minnesota Men’s Conference, We wanted to let you know that the Minnesota Men’s Conference is solidly going forward into the future. Under Craig Ungerman’s leadership, a number of Minnesota and Wisconsin men have been working this [...]

Help us make our Facebook and Twitter accounts look lived in.  We need ideas, content and community to make this grow.  As we look out at the world today we recognize the need to build a voice in new areas with new technologies.  Young men and men of[...]

Twenty seven Men made the “hard climb up the mountain” to our first Southern California Men’s Retreat on MT. Pinos at El Camino Pines. Eleven veterans graced our group with their presence along with three amazing street poets, sever[...]

This year I am participating in a series of conferences. The first one took place in Southern California- April 12-15, 2012. It was a very rewarding men’s retreat entitled “THE HARD CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN: Reclaiming Our Sanctuary and the [...]

FOR MT PINOS: THE HARD CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN Reclaiming Our Sanctuary and the Seeds of our Community When a veteran returns home with his soul frayed by war, or when a man survives prison or the meanest streets,  his intense experiences make for an e[...]