ManKind Project (MKP) is a global network of nonprofit organizations focused on modern male initiation, self-awareness, and personal growth.

[9]MKP states that those who undertake this journey pass through three phases characteristic of virtually all historic forms of male initiation: descent, ordeal, and return.

[18] In both the New Warrior weekend and the follow-up groups, Mankind Project "... focuses on men's emotional well-being, drawing on elements like Carl Jung's theories of the psyche, nonviolent communication, breath work, Native American customs, and good old-fashioned male bonding".

[19] A study conducted in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area collected retrospective survey data from members of 45 I-groups that met between 1990 and 1998.

[20] MKP is affiliated with several similar training programs: My Morning Jacket frontman (vocals, guitar) Jim James, told Pitchfork magazine:[28] There's this group called ManKind Project, they lead retreats to try and help men feel more OK with all the different sides of being a man.

The experience was about taking accountability for yourself and your actions ...Actor Wentworth Miller, in an address to the Human Rights Campaign during an event in 2013, describes his involvement with MKP as vital to his coming out process, and his introduction to being part of an accepting community.

[30] Actor Eka Darville told the New York Times that MKP helped him become a better father, commenting, "There is no way I could have done that without a brotherhood telling me all the bull I was projecting onto my wife .

... "[19] Frederick Marx, a film director, writer, and producer (Hoop Dreams, Journey from Zanskar) talks openly about his involvement with MKP,[31] and has made documentary films involving the organization, e.g., The Tatanka Alliance[32] about a "Hunka" ceremony[33] to consecrate an alliance between the ManKind Project USA and the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota elders community.

Anthropology associate professor Norris G. Lang[35] said that some of the groups' exercises that he attended were "fairly traumatic" and were "dangerous territory for an unprofessional"; and Anti-cult advocate Rick Alan Ross said that The ManKind Project appears to use coercive mind-control tactics, such as limiting participants' sleep and diet, cutting them off from the outside world, forcing members to keep secrets, and using intimidation.

"[36] In that response, MKP also indicated that licensed physicians review applicants' medical questionnaires, and that they added questions to "improve our ability to identify men with emotional instability, mental illness, and suicidal ideation.

[38] A 2007 wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Texan Michael Scinto charged that MKP was responsible for his suicide.