Keynote Speeches
More than ever, people today are having conversations about our ideas of masculinity and manhood. Jeff illustrates how the rituals and path we set for men and boys to achieve manhood are like a ladder we climb which is rigged to fail us all. He challenges us to rethink these harmful ideas leading to a self-defeating pursuit of identity as men. What are the traditions handed down here? What do you want them to be? Where are you on this ladder based on various aspects of your identity? Jeff explores how all this reinforces a certain definition of manhood that limits us all. Jeff encourages men to embrace new models of manhood and forge new maps, and new paths forward. Together we look at how men and young men can become part of a change that impacts us all.
Invite Jeff Perera for a session with a fresh approach to a challenging but important conversation. Together we’ll explore ways to identify our unconscious gender biases as roadblocks impeding our abilities to be better colleagues, community members and friends.
Just as we build physical muscle, we can learn to build or re-build and strengthen our emotional literacy like a muscle. Being in touch with what we are feeling is our strength. Empathy is the muscle that leads to taking action and finding connection. As men, we can go to the ‘Emotional Gym’ together, learn to lean on one another to have hard conversations, support one another, and develop our emotional literacy. We can spot one another as we learn how to nurture and grow our relationships, connections and friendships.
In an era of divides, how can we inspire one another to work past ‘the illusion of our separateness’ and find ways to nurture spaces of respect, and build community amongst people? Invite Jeff to talk with your group about facing hard truths, and doing the gardening work to cultivate environments where we all can thrive and bloom!
In this session, Jeff creates a courageous space to have some real, honest conversations about the many ways we interact with one another from everyday interactions to romantic and sexual situations. Consent is a conversation we tend to have backwards: we start at the end. The conversation actually starts before we meet someone, and it continues with the person we meet and get to know (whether it is a one night interaction or a lifelong relationship). Rather than transactional, we can approach every interaction as a collaborative one.
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- Being Better Teammates to People of All Genders
- Developing an Inner Compass as Men
- Facing Hard Truths and Striving to be an Ally
- Men Respecting Emotional PPE
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