New Mexico
Healthy Masculinities
2nd Edition Toolkit for 2025
Tools to Initiate Community Conversations that Explore Gender, Reimagine Masculinities, and Build Healthy Relationships
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The 2nd Edition of the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit
We are excited to announce the 2nd Edition of the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit! This body of work emerges from a collaborative effort of 17 organizations, statewide. It includes feedback from many of you, who graciously participated in an evaluation of the first iteration of this toolkit. It aims to help community members explore gender, reimagine masculinities, and deepen consent within relationships. Ultimately, we hope it serves as a resource for communities!
Click the link below to view the full toolkit or find what best serves your practice and role in community conversations by reviewing the following:
- Pre-readings on masculinities
- Facilitator’s Guide with tools for facilitation prep and evaluation
- 13 group activities to consider around topics from affirmative consent and healthy relationships; to music and masculinities; and supporting fathers and partners in the birthing process
- Appendices which include handouts for print, and additional resources in support of understanding and working toward healthy masculinities.
We invite you to use this toolkit to support the development of healthy masculine expressions rooted in connection, compassion, emotional awareness, humility, respect, collaboration, and courageous vulnerability. This resource offers much-needed nonviolent approaches to relationships and community building.
¡Con mucha emoción anunciamos la 2ª Edición del Manual de las Masculinidades Sanas de Nuevo México! Este trabajo surge de un esfuerzo colaborativo de 17 organizaciones estatales y dos departamentos del estado, e incluye sugerencias y comentarios de muchos de ustedes, quienes generosamente participaron en una evaluación de la primera versión de este manual. El objetivo es ayudar a explorar el género, reimaginar las masculinidades y profundizar sobre el consentimiento dentro de las relaciones. Ultimadamente, esperamos que sirva como un recurso para sus comunidades.
Seleccione el enlace de abajo para ver el manual completo o encontrar lo que mejor se adapte a tu práctica y rol dentro de conversaciones comunitarias, revisando lo siguiente:
- Lecturas previas sobre las masculinidades
- Guía para facilitadores con herramientas de preparación y evaluación
- 13 actividades grupales sobre temas que van desde el consentimiento afirmativo y las relaciones sanas, hasta la música y las masculinidades, y el apoyo a padres y parejas en el proceso de parto
- Apéndices que incluyen folletos para imprimir y recursos adicionales en apoyo a la comprensión y el trabajo hacia las masculinidades sanas.
Les invitamos a utilizar este manual para apoyar el desarrollo de expresiones masculinas sanas basadas en la conexión, la compasión, la conciencia emocional, la humildad, el respeto, la colaboración y la vulnerabilidad valiente. Este recurso ofrece enfoques no violentos muy necesarios para las relaciones y la construcción de comunidades.
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June – July 2024
Watch The Healthy Masculinities and Parenting Series
We have released a series of conversations as a learning series on YouTube:
• Session 1: Conversation with community leaders on queer/trans-affirming parenting and inclusive caregiving practices.
• Session 2: Discussion on anti-violent parenting, affirmative consent, and setting healthy, age-appropriate boundaries.
• Session 3: Dialogue on accountability and relational repair in parenting, with practical tools for trust and communication.
November 1, 2022
New Mexico Healthy Masculinities 2023 Open Grant Cycle
NewMexicoWomen.Org is launching the 2023 Healthy Masculinities open grant cycle. This program emerges from the work of the NM Healthy Masculinities Collaborative over the past two years of developing the NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit. It also stems from NMW.O’s past research. Learn more here!
September 20, 2022
New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit Virtual “Train the Trainer” Event
Members of the Healthy Masculinities Collaborative recorded this “Train the Trainer” workshop to provide an overview of how to use the toolkit by members of the Healthy Masculinities Collaborative.
The New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit is a collection of readings, workshops, and exercises aimed at helping audiences reimagine masculinities, raise awareness about the concept of healthy masculinities, and provide skills and resources that promote self-awareness, healthy relationships, and thriving communities.
It is designed to act as a guide for facilitators to frame and engage in conversations and activities around healthy masculinities. It is important to note that this toolkit is a living document, co-created and co-authored by many people in a community of practice. We welcome feedback and intend to update the toolkit periodically in response to community input and wisdom.
The toolkit is intended to help catalyze, facilitate, and continue conversations about healthy masculinities. We know that it may take generations to truly heal from the harms of patriarchy. This toolkit is not framed to heal individual or collective trauma; however, it may lead to transformations and understandings that contribute to such healing. This toolkit offers us the opportunity to become more aware of our conditioned behaviors in order to disrupt the harmful impacts of patriarchy.
We invite you to use this toolkit to support the development of healthy masculine expressions rooted in connection, compassion, emotional awareness, humility, respect, collaboration, and courageous vulnerability. This resource offers much-needed nonviolent approaches to relationships and community building.
In 2024, NewMexicoWomen.Org commissioned an evaluation of the 1st Edition of the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit in order to understand its usage, impacts, and potential areas for improvement.
View the Full Evaluation Report Here!The New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Community of Practice (HM CoP) is a multi-gendered and inter-generational group of organizations and individuals from diverse racial and geographic communities across New Mexico. It was initially formed as a smaller collaborative in 2018 to identify programs across the state that engaged men and boys—along with masculine of center, trans, and gender nonconforming communities— and to review existing resources and curricula focused on masculinities. It has since evolved into the Healthy Masculinities Community of Practice, which is composed of 15 organizations and two government departments.
This work has been developed by community members located throughout the state of New Mexico who reside on the ancestral lands of Pueblo, Diné, and Apache people, as well as the traditional homeland of our Mestiza and Indo-Hispana ancestors who came after.
Support for the 2nd edition of the toolkit was provided by our funding partners at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and NewMexicoWomen.Org.
We appreciate local and national groups engaged in work around healthy masculinities.
