Our Staff
Tom Daly, PhD
Tom is the creator and founder of the Leadership Training Program. He is a teacher, therapist, life transitions coach, and a nationally respected elder in men's soul work. He is a co-creator of the Inner King Training and 4 Gateways Coaching. Tom has led men's groups and done rites of passage work for over twenty-five years. He is best known for his ability to create powerful containers for sacred soul work. Tom is a father, step-father & grandfather. He is also author of 'Wildmen at the Border' and '4 Gateways Coaching'.
Jeffrey Duvall
Jeffrey is co-founder and co-director of The Men's Council Project. He has guided men's retreats for 18 years in celebration of personal mythology, creative expression, healing, and world peace. He is a wilderness rites of passage guide and on the staff of the School Of Lost Borders Youth Programs. Jeffrey is author of 'Men, Meaning, and Prayer: The Reconciliation of Heart and Soul in Modern Manhood'. He is also a devoted husband and father.
Keith Fairmont
Keith is co-founder of Men's Leadership Alliance. He is an executive coach assisting individuals and groups in navigating business and personal transitions. His work is designed to stimulate positive and dramatic shifts in the way a person responds to their inner world, their partner, family and friends, their work and their world. He is also a certified resource for the Young President's Organization (YPO).Keith is a dedicated husband, father of four, a mentor, a men's group leader, and a community builder.
Mel Grusing, MSW
Mel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. For the past 25 years he has focused on men's issues and is dedicated to guiding men in finding their core value and expressing this value through their relationships, work and community. Mel has been on the staff of the Men's Leadership Training for 11 years. Mel is an elder, husband, father and grandfather.
Bob Stien
Bob Stien is the chairman and founder of the New York Fathers Conference. Bob is on the board of the national non-profit organization, "Dads and Daughters". He facilitates several programs focused on fathers: "Dad's Talk" at the 92nd St. Y in New York City and "For Dad's Only", a program in Rockland County for EPIC (Every Person Influences Children). Bob has appeared on Dateline, Oprah, in the New York Times, Daily News and Journal News. In addition, he participated in a PBS documentary "Fathers and Daughters: Journeys of the Heart" with one of his two daughters.
John Davis, PhD
John has three children, ages 33, 22, and 17. John is on the faculty of the School of Lost Borders, Naropa University and has led wilderness vision fast retreats since 1984, trained wilderness rites of passage guides, and helped found the Wilderness Guides Council, the professional organization for wilderness rites of passage guides. John has been a professor for 25 years, and he teaches the Diamond Approach of A. H. Almaas.
Michael Herrick
Michael is an artist, poet, psychotherapist and director of "The Human Rites Institute". As a teacher and trainer for the Hakomi Institute from 1986-2001 he taught workshops and psychotherapy trainings worldwide. Currently he maintains a private practice and studio in Longmont Colorado. where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Jason Geoffrion, M.Ed
As a teacher and mental health counselor Jason has worked with high school students and adults throughout Minnesota, Alaska, and Colorado. Through it all he has felt a deep desire and hunger from men to have meaningful connection with themselves and others, and has seen the dire ramifications when that connection is absent. Jason is actively working to create spaces for men to access their authentic selves, connect meaningfully with their communities, and discover their work in the world. He has guided wilderness trips, camping excursions, father/son retreats and rites of passages for people of all ages.
  Gene Dilworth, MA
Gene has led environmental education programs and therapeutic wilderness expeditions since 1986, and he has participated in, and helped lead, wilderness rites of passage in several traditions. He has an academic background in ecology and community-based environmental conservation and is an adjunct faculty member in Environmental Studies at Naropa University. Gene lives with wife and three year old daughter in Nederland, Colorado.