![]() "Member agencies can anecdotally report thousands of cases where people have made significant and sustained changes. She highlighted the perceived strong efficacy of the programmes themselves, saying that two violent outliers do not reflect Friendship House's overall rate of success. Lawler responded to the story, telling 1News that greater focus must be put on "systemic failings" in stopping domestic abuse, and New Zealand needs to have a "national conversation" about family violence and the factors enabling it. TVNZ Chief Correspondent John Campbell recently dug into the efficacy of men's non-violence programmes after 1News learned Matu Reid and Jesse Kempson - two men that made headlines for their murders - both attended Friendship House, a provider in Manukau. Merran Lawler, the chief executive for the National Network of Family Violence Services, told 1News she doesn't just think the slogan is too gentle, but the country's political, cultural, and societal approaches to family violence are as well. And it is up to us to negotiate our way through that minefield of messages to somehow find a place where we are happy with the state of sport and our place in it."Family violence: it's not OK" is the Ministry of Social Development's campaign message against domestic abuse. The media, the event producers, the fans, legislatures, sponsors, players and the myriad associated commercial ventures all have specific ideas on how modern sport should function in our social, political and economic worlds. ![]() The way we think about sport, the way it gives us meaning and shapes our lives is always in play. The greatest lesson emanating from this whole imbroglio is that sports are a contested terrain well beyond any field of play. Can he find and practice real Buddhist humility while calling up the necessary hubris when he lines up a 30 foot putt before standing in a long line to rent a little fishing boat to take his kids out on a muddy Florida bog? Perhaps this will be the truest test of Woods' 'rehab'. But few players have the rare ability to control the flow as they re-enter the 'world of everydayness' and willingly de-entitle themselves. But while there is little evidence that his indiscretions have turned minority groups further away from the game of golf, they didn't help the cause either.ĥ.The Greek concept of hubris-of supreme, Icarus-level confidence-has its place on the battlefields of elite and pro sports. Woods ethnic transcendence altered worn-out perceptions about access to sport and racial ideology. At least we have witnessed less hand wringing among their fans when iconic players step out of line.Ĥ.We continue to judge our heroes based on their contributions to society, real or imagined. Popular ideology suggests the power and performance sports of hoops and gridiron include a kind of cultural destiny toward off-field deviance if not promiscuity. So what does Woods offer us in this clipped USA Today-style example of the classic monomyth? Consider these possible lessons we might take from Woods' experience as an obviously-humbled man returns to the public eye if not a public place.ģ.Golf is not the NBA or the NFL. ![]() The costs for having lived an exalted experience, Campbell claims, is that the Hero must give back to his tribe that which he learned while away slaying dragons or living in golden cathedrals. Borrowing from the mythologist, Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, Woods' story was serialized as Campbell suggested, all heroes' journeys must be: the Call to adventure and Separation from the tribe, the Initiation that takes places while our hero lives amongst the gods and the Return with what knowledge and power they have gained. Everyone had their say as the lurid points of Tiger Woods debauchery lit up the technosphere as each week a new supporting character advancing the narrative.īut like a casual consumer of James Michener novels, the readers of Tiger's text were ready for a new chapter. Soon enough our fallen hero was summarily deconstructed by leagues of water-cooler pundits. Then the detailed and compelling back stories were dolled out in palatable bites. Wrought with universal themes that drew us in and begged for secret self-reflectivity, the tale opened with the Big Scene and moved very quickly into a series of delicious mysteries. His book Racing the Sunset: An Athlete's Quest for Life After Sport explores the world of pro athletes in transition.įate, the Media and the Man could not have written a more compelling story. Scott Tinley, a retired professional triathlete and 2 times Ironman World Champion, writes about fallen heroes and teaches sport humanities courses at San Diego State University.
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