Mankind Project Newcastle and Hunter

31/07/2025

13/07/2025

Many say the ongoing brotherhood is the best part.
You’ll also have access to leadership development, facilitation skills, advanced trainings, and a global network of mission-driven men.

This is how we break isolation, step into purpose, and stay grounded — long after the weekend ends.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WEEKEND? (PART 4 OF 5)

The NWTA isn’t a one-off high. It’s a starting point.

After the weekend, you’ll be invited into a local men’s group (I-Group) — free, confidential circles where men meet regularly to challenge, support, and grow together.

Many say the ongoing brotherhood is the best part.

You’ll also have access to leadership development, facilitation skills, advanced trainings, and a global network of mission-driven men.

This is how we break isolation, step into purpose, and stay grounded — long after the weekend ends.

👉 Reserve your spot: 25–27 July 2025 | Springbrook QLD
💻 mkpqld.org.au/nwta3
📞 Ian Wright (Spirit Bear): 0466 598 637
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📅 Tomorrow: The question everyone’s afraid to ask — is this a cult?

11/07/2025

It’s not about being “tough.” It’s about being real. No military drills. No preaching. No one telling you what to believe. You choose your own depth.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS ON THE WEEKEND? (PART 3 OF 5)

This is Day 3 of our 5-part series unpacking the NWTA experience.

Let’s break it down.
📍 You arrive Friday evening.
📍 You leave Sunday afternoon — different.

In between, you’ll experience a series of guided processes, challenges, conversations, rituals, reflections, and moments of deep connection.

You’ll laugh, maybe cry, possibly feel uncomfortable, and definitely feel alive.

It’s not about being “tough.” It’s about being real. No military drills. No preaching. No one telling you what to believe. You choose your own depth.

Phones off. Masks off. Eyes open.

👉 Join us: July 25–27, 2025 | Springbrook QLD
💻 Visit the site for FAQs and discovery call
📞 Ian Wright (Spirit Bear): 0466 598 637
📤 Tag someone who’s ready to get real.
📅 Tomorrow: What happens after the weekend?

08/07/2025

Phones off. Masks off. Eyes Open

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS ON THE WEEKEND? (PART 3 OF 5)

This is Day 3 of our 5-part series unpacking the NWTA experience.

Let’s break it down.
📍 You arrive Friday evening.
📍 You leave Sunday afternoon — different.

In between, you’ll experience a series of guided processes, challenges, conversations, rituals, reflections, and moments of deep connection.

You’ll laugh, maybe cry, possibly feel uncomfortable, and definitely feel alive.

It’s not about being “tough.” It’s about being real. No military drills. No preaching. No one telling you what to believe. You choose your own depth.

Phones off. Masks off. Eyes open.

👉 Join us: July 25–27, 2025 | Springbrook QLD
💻 Visit the site for FAQs and discovery call
📞 Ian Wright (Spirit Bear): 0466 598 637
📤 Tag someone who’s ready to get real.
📅 Tomorrow: What happens after the weekend?

07/07/2025

So what's in it for a man who chooses to lean into this training?

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME? (PART 2 OF 5)

Answering your biggest “WHAT” questions about the NWTA – all this week.
Why would a man with a great job, loving family, and full life sign up for something like this?

Because even high-functioning, outwardly successful men carry inner questions.

✔️ What am I here for?
✔️ Why do I feel disconnected or numb?
✔️ Why do my relationships feel stuck?
✔️ Why can’t I let go of that old wound?

The NWTA offers tools, brotherhood, emotional depth, and clarity — not to “fix” you, but to awaken the man you already are, underneath the noise.
No judgment. Just truth, growth, and a weekend that stays with you for life.

👉 Next NWTA: July 25–27, 2025 | Springbrook QLD
💻 mkpqld.org.au/nwta3
📞 Call Ian Wright (Spirit Bear): 0466 598 637
📤 Share this with a man who’s ready for more.
📅 Tomorrow: What actually happens on the weekend?

06/07/2025

If you’re curious about our New Warrior Training …

🗓️ This week, we’re answering the big 5 “WHAT” questions to clear up the mystery around the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA).

WHAT IS THE NWTA?

Let’s start with the big question.

This is not a retreat. It’s not a boot camp. And no, it’s not a mysterious secret club.
The NWTA is a 48-hour, immersive, life-affirming experience designed to help men get real with themselves, with others, and with the lives they’re leading.

It’s a modern-day rite of passage. A powerful weekend where men from all walks of life come together to examine their beliefs, face their fears, drop the masks, and rediscover their purpose.

It’s intense. It’s honest. And it just might change your life.

Coming Up this week:
✅ Tuesday: What’s in it for me?
✅ Wednesday: What actually happens on the weekend?
✅ Thursday: What happens after the weekend?
✅ Friday: What if this is a cult?

Follow this page to get the full series — or tag a mate who needs to see this.
👉 Next NWTA: July 25–27, 2025 | Springbrook QLD
💻 Visit the site to learn more or book a discovery call
📞 Call Ian Wright (Spirit Bear): 0466 598 637
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10/12/2024

How to protect your joy

Sometimes, what gets in the way of joy is the happiness bar rearing its’ head: instead of immersing yourself in the moment of connection, you remind yourself of other things you should be doing, make comparisons between yourself and other people, or talk unkindly to yourself.

This is further amplified by the relentless treadmill of modern life that seems expressly designed to limit joy – the sense that all of life must be productive and purposeful, that we should move efficiently from one task to another, and that we should keep ourselves closed away in our separate rooms. Joy arises in the pause, in the extra five seconds of connection, in the honest disclosure to another.

05/12/2024

Joy can exist in times of deep suffering

The traditional concept of happiness fails us when bad things happen. And bad things do happen in life.

When they do, we must turn to something else. In the hardest of moments, joy is still possible. Joy is able to co-exist with suffering, with fear, with loss, with the awareness that we have an utter lack of control over our lives.

Joy and suffering can coexist because they are inextricably intertwined.

Joy is only possible when we put ourselves at risk of suffering. In order for any good thing to happen in our lives, we must choose to make ourselves vulnerable to an infinite number of bad, scary, or upsetting possibilities. We must face the possibility of suffering in order to ensure the birth of joy. For example:

To love another means to live with the awareness that their love can be taken away from you at any single moment.
To dream of a better life means to embrace the fear of failure, the anticipation of laughter, the inevitable risks.
To create something from your inner talents is to put your heart out to the world for judgment.
To seek to grow is to know that you will flail, fail, and feel uncomfortable along the way.
To live a good life, you have to make yourself vulnerable to things that are outside of your control, to trust in the world and in others, and to acknowledge the fragility of your state of being – and to connect anyways, because joy is worth it.

original source: https://betterbelieveit.net/you-have-power-to-change-your-life/

29/11/2024

The differences between happiness and joy

Something kind of funny happens when someone (like, for example, a psychologist conducting a study on happiness) asks you if you are happy.

Most people tend to answer, not with a precise summary of their lifetime happiness levels, but instead, with a cognitive evaluation of their life. You have a mental bar for what ‘happiness’ looks like to you, and when you’re asked this question, you look at how your current life is measuring up to this bar, whether it’s higher or lower, and how much higher or lower. Then you label it with a number.

Try it yourself! Ask yourself, “How happy am I, on a scale of 1-10?” and then watch how your mind leaps into action to measure against the bar. It probably will quickly scan back over the past few days, tally up how that experience aligns with your personal definition of happiness, and then give you the number, a judgment.

Joy is not a judgment; it’s a feeling, one that we all know intuitively. Like all feelings, it manifests differently for each of us, but it is usually found in the same places: in play, in connection, in awe, in worship, in giving, in growing.

You don’t have to ask yourself if you’re feeling joy. You don’t evaluate joy; you know joy. You know joy because it springs from the deepest part of you, your true humanity, your natural state as a loving being. Joy arises when you let your barriers down and allow yourself to be your true self, or when your true self pushes through your barriers because it is just so compelled by something. Babies and puppies are joyful because they have no rules for themselves and no rules imposed upon them.

28/11/2024

How to choose more joy

The first step is to be aware of the possibility of joy in every moment. You can do that by choosing to connect, at any time, with yourself, with other people, with nature, and with whatever is happening around you. Build space into your day for joy to arise.

I’ve identified seven pathways to joy — look at this list and try to find a few ways to fulfill one of them today:

The joy of our senses: the taste of food, the sound of music, the feeling of touch, the sight of beauty
The joy of growth: focusing hard to learn something, listening hard to give, or putting a good day’s work in
The joy of awe: being connected to things so big that we feel small, like family, community, country, nature, and faith
The joy of relationship: being seen, seeing others
The joy of love: being helped and helping, holding and being held
The joy of being you: taking what you’re great at and offering it up to others
Another profound strategy is learning to catch the joy of others. When you see people enjoying themselves, let yourself feel their emotions, and be moved by them. Smile at babies and dogs and let them make you laugh and smile and coo. It feels that good for a reason!

Listen to the voice inside of you that asks for joy, that has a will for it, no matter how hard this moment might be for you. By asking for joy, know that you are part of something much greater than this challenging moment.

original source: https://betterbelieveit.net/you-have-power-to-change-your-life/

19/04/2024

Wow!

After years of community planning, dreaming and 6 months of behind the scenes work, I was in Awe of what happened here over the weekend. 33 men showed up to take a look a how they may show up for themselves, their partners, families and communities in a different, more congruent way.

To take such a journey requires a yearning that nags away and then a supportive and committed group of individuals who choose to show up collectively to hold these brave men. There were 65 such men who came to the Wollombi valley.

The inaugural Hunter NWTA was an astounding success of belonging through healing. Responsibility through Mission. Celebration through Brotherhood.

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