Head to the Heart
In-Person Men’s Group
Every man is born with essential gifts and unique life force that he must bring into being, to those he loves and his communities. Early life teaches us to deny it. Youth teaches us to conform and adulthood incentivizes conformity. Breaking free requires the courage to feel. Accessing your heart is not just the antidote, it is your birthright.
Why Join?
To quote a translation from Carl Jung, ‘Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate’. Most of us are not destined for path to becoming enlightened masters, but we all have the ability to bring a great luminescence into our relationships, our sex, fatherhood, leadership, business, career, etc. It’s a noble pursuit to act through the expression of our highest principles and in order to do so it requires that we know where our consciousness is contracted and our soulful expression becomes limited. Your connection to your heart is the inner resource you cultivate in order to surrender the conditioning of the past: fears, poor habits, collapse, shame, and rage; into loving awareness. This alchemical process begins the essential rewilding of our bodies, minds, and spirits to awaken to the mystery that lies beyond what we fear. Here we discover our hidden talents and super powers capable of generating a more artful and loving world for ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities.
In this group, you’ll learn to liberate the creative life force energy through movement, group process, men’s work practices, brotherhood, and psychological/emotional/spiritual depth insights and practices. Developing the sensitivity to our inner experience and our outer environment while sharpening the perception of our awareness so we can act with precision and the capacity to feel the impact of our actions. Ensuring that our bodies, these vessels for creative energy, are free to respond to life’s challenges and pleasures with the full depth of our being.
3 Core Teachings
Refinements that will live with you forever:
Attitude (Therapeutic)
What is the tone of your inner dialogue when you are responding to your life in any moment? Your ability to navigate life while maintaining a substantive awareness of your self talk is the first step of embodiment. Therapy helps you cultivate this awareness, but nothing will ever replace good feedback from a good group of men who’ve walked their own path and overcome similar challenges. Refining your attitude against the pummel stone of different perspectives is a wildly valuable asset to cultivate and access in this life.
Posture (Practices)
Our human bodies are antennae for consciousness to receive and express. Our posture provides us feedback into our energetic patterns. Where there is no tension, our bodies are open and capable of freely expressing who we are. When our bodies carry tension, our posture reveals it. How do you walk into a room for a high stakes meeting? How does your body respond to a contentious conversation? When your partner complains, do you collapse or do you open up to hear the truth? Your posture has a lot to say about who you are in any moment. Learn how to interpret your posture and practice with precision.
Realization (Embodied Wisdom)
When your questions about your life cannot be answered with more therapy or more practices, you’re in the realm of realization. Big life questions can only be answered from our greatest depth. This spark of insight is enough to create wildfire in our beings to move toward our deepest desires with courage and conviction. To face the things that life will throw at you with determination and the vitality of your being, you’ll need to be attuned to your deepest why. To live your life without succumbing to fear or insecurities you must cultivate the stability of presence in embodiment.
Elements of Focus
Content to unlock access the depth of your power:
Emotional Intelligence
How is your inner state stirred by your experience? What are the components of your emotional disposition? Most importantly, what is there to learn about yourself by understanding your emotional experience? This intelligence can elevate every area of your life. Whether you’ve practiced emotional intelligence for a long time or not, there is always more to learn and always greater depth to grow into. Understanding who you are and what stirs your soul is the only bio-hack that lasts your lifetime.
Awareness of Awareness
Practicing presence amongst a group of men is a balm for the masculine heart. As we dive into these various practices, we’ll cultivate awareness of our awareness. It is the part of us that never changes, through difficult times or easy times. This awareness of awareness is what you cultivate to be able to see the world clearly, outside of your conditioning and watch your psychodrama unfold with objectivity in order to integrate what is ruling your life unconsciously. Building this muscle enables profound relaxation even in the most stressful moments of life.
Energetic Movement
Through ecstatic dance, breath work, physical and energetic training, you’ll deepen your understanding of where flow meets resistance in your body so you can easily identify what needs to move in order for you to be an open vessel of experience. We’ll marry this with group process in order that each man’s experience serves another. Crafting a defined and deep expertise on the mechanisms of your experience well beyond what you currently know.
Structure
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Gathering in a circle of men is a practice as old as humanity. Here we share ideas, best practices, feedback, insights, and reflections. Shaping our awareness through the understanding of another’s experience. We all have wisdom to give and lived experience to share.
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Getting out of the head and into the body is a challenge most men face daily. Men often receive feedback from their intimate partners to get out of their head. Well, its not so easy, until it becomes habit. We practice to make it habit so that our consciousness has room to breathe through our bodies.
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How do you open up your body to experience more when you’re facing a screen? It’s not easy. In person meetings are superior in this work as immersing yourself amongst the nervous systems of other men creates an imprint that is just as essential as the content of the meeting.
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Loneliness is a serious issue. Some of us may know we’re experiencing loneliness, some of us don’t realize it until we’re around a group of men capable of going deep on big questions. This group of men will life you out of any funk holding you back from truly connecting.
Who Should Join?
If these questions stir the pot, you’re ready.
I have a lot of great things going in my life, and I could use more support from great men…
Especially when things are going well in life, we should be seeking out good men to develop our community. A great men’s group can stir the fire and keep you focused on your goals, your family, and yourself; elevating every action you take to help you adhere to your potential.
My intimate partner/family are challenging me to grow in ways that I don’t know how to navigate…
The path of maturity from boy psychology to man psychology is the integration of the feminine experience. I am not talking about women, I am talking about our own emotional experience. Our intimate partners are savvy at reflecting back to us the unintegrated aspects of our psyche. We need men who are further along than us to help guide us to and through our next level of evolution.
I feel stuck in life, like my back is against the wall but I don’t see a way forward…
The failure to change is merely the failure of imagining a different future. Imagination is the key word here. Being around other men, hearing how they navigate challenges, and connecting to your own inherent intuition can stir your imagination and provide new avenues for progress in every area of your life.
I am cycling through problems over and over and I’m tired of insufficient solutions…
This highlights the need to expose your problems to a group of men for reflection and feedback because there is something you’re just not seeing. How can you accurately apply adequate solutions if you only see a part of the problem? You need good men.
I know there is more to life than the path that I am on…
What are your inherent values and principles? How do you define those values and principles? Do you adhere to them in your life? Satisfaction comes when your life is in alignment with what your heart desires. Your values and principles help you take aligned action. Accountability to other men will supercharge your commitment.
What Benefits Can I anticipate?
Greater Clarity
Taking action is easy but doesn’t always lead you in the right direction. Taking aligned action is harder but will keep you firmly rooted in your capacity to respond to your life with confidence, clarity, self-assurance, and intrinsic power.
Emotional Awareness
How often do you wish you had greater resources at your disposal? You are in the midst of making decisions and you feel like you’re shooting from the hip. Emotional awareness is the missing link. Knowing what you want and how to get it while being self aware and aware of another is a master key to success in any arena.
Improved Capacity for Relaxation
Men need to learn how to relax without escape which are often conflated in the dissociated psyche. Throwing Netflix on or watching a football game isn’t relaxing. It’s entertainment and it is numbing. I am talking about the soul quenching ability to relax into awareness. To settle the mind and get into the body without running from your challenges but rather resourcing in order to confront your challenges with more vigor.
Enhanced Sexuality
Your sexual power has little to do with your desire to fuck your partner. It has everything to do with your capacity to slow down, to listen to her body, and respond to her pleasure in creative ways. She wants to feel you feeling her; if this program is anything, it is about your capacity to feel life and respond creatively.
Master Communication Skills
Language shapes our interpretation of the world. The scope of your lexicon is at the core of your freedom and your limitations. Reshaping your lexicon will reshape your life as a new lens is inserted into your perceptive abilities. You’ll discover new ways of expressing yourself to overcome the relational challenges you have with yourself and with others.
Enormous Progress
Where do you currently source wisdom for your life’s challenges? From men you respect who are further along the path than you are? Once you step into this container, the progress on your goals gains immediate momentum. These men will challenge you while loving you and you’ll be way better off because you chose to step in.
Program Investment
Semi Annual Lump Sum Cost: $1200
Monthly Payments: $225 w/ 6 months minimum commitment
Duration: 6 Month Commitment
Meetings: Every Other Sunday from 3p-5p
Limited to 12 Spots
20% discount for all In-Person Workshops & Retreats
100% Money Back Guarantee (80% attendance minimum)
How Do I Evaluate The Value of This Program?
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With therapy as a comparable self-development service, 1 hour sessions typically run $150 for a great therapist. If you attend all 13 sessions at 2 hours per session, the hourly cost is $46.15
Therapy as a Comparison
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I personally select the men for this group to ensure that the quality of the community is of significant value to each member. These men will become good friends and trusted advisors.
Quality Community
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As a highly trained and skilled facilitator, I guarantee you will walk into each session with confidence that your time and investment is respected. As you leave each session, you'll see significant progress toward your goals and objectives.
Quality Guaranteed
