In a month from now (16th-18th May 2025) the next New Warrior Training Adventure Black and Brown men will be taking place near Sheffield. This is the third of the NWTAs to be organised by Black and Brown men and their allies from the MKP UK & Ireland community. Most participants and staff on these trainings are Black and Brown men. This provides an experience for all involved that is unique in many ways. It allows us as Black and Brown men opportunity to introduce a new way of being men to a new group of Black and Brown men.
The lack of trainings that are specifically for Black or Brown men or men of colour means that we can’t even compare the NWTA for Black and Brown men to other trainings. Although this training uses the same globally respected protocols as a regular New Warrior Training Adventure everything is the same and yet, nothing is the same. For many of us it’s the first time we’ll see a man like us in leadership positions and the brotherhood that is an important part of staffing these trainings.
For those of us who’ve been involved since the beginning it’s been an amazing journey and so much more than we expected. However, each time the challenge has been, how do we attract participants while keeping an element of surprise that is integral to what happens. The answer when we arrived at it was obvious, let’s ask the men who’ve done the training to see what they say. So we did…
