A network of friends has developed through participation with the EmoMen, who have gathered annually at an event called EmoTAZ. EmoTAZ is a not-for-profit annual gathering inspired by the Burning Man Festival. Participating EmoMen create a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) to stimulate friendship as an extended family.

While western women have been redefining their role since the suffragists, and the role of men changed dramatically after the industrial revolution, there has been little movement in redefining the role of men, or relationship between them. The founder also believed that, while the sexual revolution recognized diversity of sexual preference, men had become divided along lines of orientation. Men have been squeezed into a very small box of masculinity and imprinted by media. The EmoMen get together to break out of the box by playing with ideas about what men do and how they interact.

Other men's groups, like the ManKind Project's New Warrior Training Adventure® are doing work in this area, but EmoMen is unique. Based on the hypothesis that men build relationship through shared activity, the EmoMen participate in outdoor activities and indoor workshops at retreats to promote affectionate, unmediated experiential communication.

Workshops have included: wrestling, contact improvisation, djembe drumming, relaxation and tantric massage, several forms of yoga, meditation, a variation of the Glass Bead Game, teamwork including low and high ropes courses, martial arts exercises including jiu jitsu holds, nonviolent communication, Intimacy Boundary Discovery and Kecak. A key ritual performed on the last evening each year involves the invention of full tribal markings with black light body paint to a background of electronica, drums and chanting.

While the group operated as a zero-base not-for-profit collective from 2002-2006, momentum and history indicated change was needed to share planning and management to continue. Tazopia Projects Society was formed in October 2006 to create the future.

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