The traditional male role model has become redundant, but so far no new models have yet appeared. What men are feeling is the need to adapt them but they do not know in which way. Accepting women’s ideas about what a man should be like and how he should behave also doesn’t lead anywhere. What we need is a Men’s Movement (like the Women’s Movement in the 1960’s). The creation of a new male role model is required, one that both bypasses "machismo" and that also moves beyond any model of feminisation.

This is the pioneering activity that we are undertaking in the Czech Republic and even though differing cultural and historical environments produce different men, men’s issues now appear to have become international.

So now may be just the right moment to go looking for the "New Man". Capitalism is racing ahead, in the Czech Republic it is in full swing and everyone, including men, wants to take part in this race. Earning and possessing a lot of money cannot, however, be the be-all and end-all of a man’s life. Of course it is nice to have enough money, but what can make life really fulfilling is work based on a higher vision and actually living and realising that vision. And the only disadvantage of capitalism is that it leaves behind a feeling of emptiness. You have money and every comfort; you can live in luxury, but inside you feel emptiness and loneliness. You need to fill this empty space with healthy and strong male energy without the need to use these forces in a destructive manner nor to denigrate them.

In the industrialised western countries teenage boys frequently grow up "without a father", and therefore also without any male orientation. Either the father is really absent and no other male role model is proximate or the father is mostly at work so that he is usually busy, or he is devoted to his hobbies. It also frequently happens that he leaves all the concern for the upbringing of children to a woman and avoids both his responsibilities and any potential conflict with her that might occur. Due to the absence of a father, many boys do not have the opportunity to encounter supportive and respectful male energy. If the father is not someone that a boy child wishes to follow, he will very often have a lack of respect for him. The boy quite easily – and unconsciously – assumes the role of man-father-partner in relationship to his mother and becomes a rival to his own father. And in this way he loses the opportunity to discover and to utilise his masculine power. For the boy child it is a problem to revere the father as a model and then this child grows up in the body of a man who actually refuses to grow up. And so this unconscious disrespect for male energy and values ​​is passed on from generation to generation.

Where do I stand in my life as a man? Do I enjoy being a man? How do I view men? Which are the actual male characteristics? What is my attitude to male sexuality? Can I really rely on men? What is male strength actually comprised of? How does it function?