Men’s spaces and places community survey (Wollongong)

Wollongong City Council is undertaking research into programs and services for men, with a focus on Men’s Sheds. The aim is to gather information to help guide future strategies in relation to places and spaces for men, including Men’s Sheds.

We have a short, five question survey (attached) as part of this project. The survey asks questions about participation, what makes environments safe for men, and why or why not men get involved in male programs.

We would appreciate you promoting the surveys with your own groups and/or distributing it to your networks. The survey is designed for both men and women to complete.

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EMALE Issue 115 (October 2012)

In this month's issue:

NATIONAL UPDATE: What’s happening across Australia to improve male health & wellbeing?

Queensland update:

MEN’S WELLBEING INC

Victoria update:

Male Health Victoria (MHV)

New South Wales update:

The Men’s Health Forum of New South Wales (MHFNSW)

The Men’s Health Information & Resource Centre

engaging men MEN’S HEALTH, WELLBEING & RELATIONSHIPS TRAINING SEMINAR

Other State updates:

Tasmanian Men's Health and Wellbeing Association (TasMen)

Men’s Health SA (supported by the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies at the University of South Australia)

The Men’s Advisory Network (M.A.N.) Inc. (Western Australia)

WA MEN’S SHED CONFERENCE

Northern Territory update

news briefs

• Computers lower risk of dementia among elderly
• Pot linked to testicular cancer
• LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Strategy consultation
• Carers NSW Expression of interest - National Carer Counselling Program

Men's health before partisanship (Fairfax Video)

We hear the story of conflict in politics, every day. The story we don't hear so often is a story of friendship, across party lines.

In this documentary series, Beyond the Biffo, we'll be telling that story.

National Mark Coulton and Labor MP Chris Hayes are mates. They've established a cross party group to promote the Men's Sheds foundation. They are putting men's health before partisanship, with terrific results.

Men Together: Questions of Men's Experience in Sheds, by K.C. Glover and Gary Misan

The behaviour of men has long been under scrutiny in academia, focusing on the outward action of men throughout history without trying to understand the underlying psychological experience behind these actions. What is needed is to listen to the experience of those males who have come together in groups to seek out friendship and to instil meaning in their lives after a time in which the men-only group was deemed politically incorrect and the dangerous world in which misogyny and homophobia are born. What is presented here is a brief glimpse into the world of the australian Public Men’s Shed, a place for men to gather and socialize as well as work and organize for the greater community. also presented are possible health benefits to the individual males as well as the community in which the sheds are present. By looking behind-the-scenes at the experience of the world of males, it is hoped that we will gain a better understanding of their fragile psychological and biological life. This in turn will allow for a more understanding discipline of study based around the complete human life. in the place of the australian Men’s Shed we begin to ask questions of what in the world men are experiencing.

From New Male Studies: An International Journal - Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 63-73.

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EMALE Issue 110 (May 2012)

In this month's issue:

choice and control the key to wellbeing

a shed load of stories

Current Training Programs

Effective Ways of Engaging Men

Role of Pharmacists in men's health

Blacks back on track

Qigong

news briefs

• Men can suffer postnatal depression
• Lung disease deaths among men drops
• Guidelines for Prostate Cancer testing guidelines to change 

future events

• Gay Men’s Therapy & Meditation Retreat, Govinda Valley, June 15 - 17
• Men's Health Week June 11 - 17 2012