Better Lives for Men, Better Lives for All
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www.mensnetwork.ie
Background of the training
For 25 years, Men’s Development Network have been engaging with men across Ireland to be their best selves as individuals, partners, husbands, fathers, grandfathers, sons, friends, and neighbours. Leadership is a key pillar of Men’s Development Network and has come about through men’s groups and men learning in circles, sharing their experiences, supporting one another in relational, non-judgemental, non-adversarial and developmental settings. The work around leadership within Men’s Development Network aims at supporting men, not only when taking responsibility for their own health, but also when looking at personal development and the role they can play in relation to other men and to broader society.
The New Conversations with Leaders (Leadership Programme) is a programme that takes place over multiple meetings, both online and offline. In this course, participants will get the chance to explore different themes around being a man, leadership, inclusion and equity. They will also get the chance to meet different leaders with whom they will be able to explore different styles of leadership and learn some best practices. Additionally, open space will be provided to explore their own engagement of what their own leadership looks like.
Leadership is needed right now! This programme intends to developmentally improve the leadership skills of men in relation to 4 key themes:
Participant’s profile
The idea with this programme is to bring men together who are already engaged in their community and men who may be marginalised or less active in their community that would like to get involved more as a leader. We are looking for a diverse cohort of participants that represents the make up of Irish society today.
All participants selected for this project must meet the following criteria:
We explicitly encourage men of all sexual orientation and gender identity, civil and family status, ages, abilities, socioeconomic status, religion and ethnic backgrounds to apply.
Logistics and financial conditions
The course will take place over three different phases. We will start with a residential training that will take place from the 18th until the 20th of October, followed by a series of webinars, that will be held monthly from November until February, and it will end with a final residential training in March (22nd-23rd provisional).
The participation fee for this course is €150, which includes food and accommodation for both residential weekends. Men’s Development Network are in the position to provide a limited number of bursaries to applicants in financial hardship to ensure their participation in the programme.
Applications for the 2024 programme are currently closed.
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