(with gratitude to sister Emma)
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“I was told Men’s Nation has made a prison of this life but don’t know how to get out.” Pat McCabe
“We live on a female planet, but perhaps that wasn’t part of your upbringing. Men live in the cerebral rather than from the heart—how do we get to that disconnect between the head and heart? There have always been options.” gkisedtanamoogk
“We have come to a fork in the road. A road to destruction and a road of Spirit. We must make the choice.” Mike Nadjiwon
As a humble offering to lay groundwork for wider efforts of healing and reconciliation, the Healing and Reconciliation Institute shares our learning journey with a special cohort of male-identified participants. This live, online course consists of four weekly, two-hour sessions, creating a safe and sacred space for us to delve together into challenging topics like inherited identity, neuroscience and healing, blood memory, apology and forgiveness.
The masculine principle has been hijacked in our modern culture, with tragic results like daily atrocities that leave us fearful, rageful, or numb. We have access to precious teachings to help us become stronger and more resilient. This course is not only about understanding where we are and how we got here, but also remembering who we are more deeply–and our fundamental connection to all forms of Life. This is the journey of healing and reconciliation. When we bring our true selves to each stressful situation we no longer have to flee or fight. Instead we can hold the fullness of experience, with its beauty and its pain, and our actions begin to align with our deeper, life-affirming values.
This learning voyage is for people interested in planting seeds of healing and reconciliation through manifesting the true essence of masculine energy in our lives, with our families, and in our communities–and our elders show us how this begins with honoring the Divine Feminine, that which brings Life. Participants will be asked to reveal and reflect on our own strengths, needs for healing & reconciliation, and emotional inheritance. We will explore tools and strategies–and how to actually implement them–in a safe, vulnerable, compassionate, accepting atmosphere.
We are blessed to have Indigenous elders and teachers supporting us in this journey, using both traditional wisdom and the newest science to bring understanding, healing and peace into our experience and our actions–all to help us come into right relation with ourselves, our sense of place, and all manner of life here in the lands known as North America.
We invite you to join us.
- Program Dates: Wednesdays, September 7th – 28th; 12-2 pm PT / 1-3 pm MT / 3-5 pm ET; Cost: $300-$650 sliding scale, payment plans available; Tuition Waiver: $200
- For more information: Male-identified cohort Learning Journey
