MEDIA KIT FOR GRAPPLING: WHITE MEN’S JOURNEY FROM FRAGILE TO AGILE

BY ANDREW HORNING

AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK

This book teaches you about grappling with the king of perpetrators—the White male persona, especially the White, straight, Christian, cisgender male persona. You’ll understand how you came to be conditioned to play your part—to live out a role that stifles the authentic you. You’ll learn to take on the conditioning that’s been buffeting you your whole life by learning how to grapple with yourself and the world around you. You’ll walk away with a framework to comprehend today’s world, and how to let it change you in ways that support a nimbler you. If businesses can position themselves as innovators, why can’t we—you—consider that pivot, too? Become an innovator in your own life. Doing so will build an internal agility that will serve you handsomely for the rest of your life.

And you’ll be able to leave behind a sanctified, whitewashed emotional landscape. You can stop bleeding out your essence, that cost of staying in White Male character. You’ll learn to embrace your own core instinct, your authenticity, and a self-compassion that allows for mistakes, giving you the full range of your humanity. You’ll learn how to draw lines between your internal world, your relationships, and our society. And to do all this, you’ll also learn to be open to learning. Remember when that used to be fun, an adventure in new discovery?

I want you to leave behind denial, stonewalling, and anger, to instead feel lighter, liberated, and able to respond in a way that acknowledges all of the different colors of the world. Instead of saying “life should be easy,” I want you to acknowledge that life is hard. Instead of focusing on being right, I want you to focus on getting it right.