Students Invited to Join ‘Promoting Real Authentic Masculinities’ Program

“Promoting Real Authentic Masculinities” is a program aimed at helping undergraduate students who identify as male on campus address the messages of toxic masculinity they have received throughout their lifetime and begin developing authentic masculinities that better fit their experiences of life.

Participants will be expected to attend a total of eight bi-weekly classes and to attend a one-day retreat that will take place Feb. 4, 2017. Participants will be asked to engage in a process that invites them to move toward a deeper self-awareness and to expand their current definition of what it means to be male. At the end of the program, students will receive a certificate of completion.

It will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Faith and Justice Collaborative Lounge between now and the end of the academic year.

Students who are unable to attend bi-weekly classes are invited to contact one of the program coordinators about the possibility of individual sessions with one of the staff members.

The program is sponsored by Campus Ministry, the Department of Housing and Residence Life, and Student Responsibility and Community Standards.

Contact Patrick Cousins, campus minister, at 314-977-1505 or pcousin1@slu.edu to learn more.