Below you'll find feedback from various clients:
Specializing in the design and delivery of transformative, experiential education.
Testimonials
You gave me some wonderful ideas for that I can use immediately with the kids in our Detention and Treatment Program. Great thought provoking info. I appreciated your ability to articulate and point out aspects of masculinity and male power that some more 'feminized' group would choose not to look at.
City of Eugene, Recreation
Lane County Department of Youth Services
It's one thing to get together with a bunch of guys to talk about stuff that matters. It's another to do it so we're opened to profound insights about other men, ourselves and the big themes framing gender politics. David Hatfield's highly skilled and insightful facilitation of the Manology sessions does that.
Kris Klassen
Principal and Founder, Working Design
This is a great program for teenage boys learning about what’s coming next in their lives. I think it’s a good thing to have an all-guy talk about masculinity. It’s a good place to learn about taking care of yourself.
Vancouver, Grade 10
The most important thing I’ve learned from this session is how important it is for the genders to be separated in the rites process so that both can be recognized and honored. This training helped me to see how youth create their own rites of passage in the absence of structured/formal ones, and how dangerous that can be.
City of Eugene
Department of Recreation, and Oregon Youth Authority, Oregon, USA
I appreciated David's ability to navigate some of our fragile relationships by never letting us forget our common human nature and vulnerability. I found David to be a very knowledgeable facilitator who created an environment that was positive and supportive, but did not shy away from dealing with difficult and negative existing relationships among participants... read more
Kurt Dehnel, Owner
I/O Design & Engineering