Men Being Real

Do you want to a better partner…a better father…a better man?

Men Being Real is for any man who knows he could get more out of life. Whether your life is working well or you have some things to sort out, you will find this workshop a powerful journey of personal discovery. It provides help and growth for men of all ages – for younger men making their way in the world, midlife men in transition, and older men moving to the next stage of their life as well as for men at beginning, intermediate or advanced levels of personal growth experience.

This workshop supports you as you break isolation and connect more fully to your identity as a man. You will become more available to your families, loved ones and communities, and more in touch with your purpose. You will become a better, partner, father, friend and man.

Sometimes in the cycle of living, loving and just plain surviving we men can lose ourselves. Complex events, relationships, parenting, life transitions, difficult emotions, or dull routine can leave us feeling disconnected, isolated and dissatisfied. Traditionally our culture calls on men to be strong - providers, protectors and achievers; at the same time we are expected to be loving, emotionally open and available. We may admire the deeper friendships women seem to have but often don't know how to create the same for ourselves. You may recognise below some of the issues which repeatedly arise for men:

- Isolation and competitiveness.
- Loneliness and lack of friendship with other men.
- Numbness to your own feelings and difficulty in developing intimacy.
- Emotional over-dependence on relationships with others.
- Lack of positive masculine identity.
- An unnameable sense of loss due to the absence of fathering.
- Cycles of control, depression, frustration and inappropriate expressions of anger.
- Challenges in relationship and family life.
- Questions of who am I and where am I going with my life? – especially in relation to life transitions.

There is another way. The codes of masculinity are changing and men are learning to go beyond the traditional mate-ship of pubs, clubs and sports. Increasingly men are getting together to examine who they are and what's important to them. In this process we are undergoing a powerful transformation.

Our Promise to You...
Thousands of men from all over New Zealand have found the Men Being Real workshop to be a powerful catalyst for renewal and change, and you will too. This is our promise. If you are not satisfied with your weekend experience, we will give you your money back.

The Men Being Real workshop and six-week Integration programme will give you access to:

• Recognition of how and why you isolate yourself and greater confidence of the gifts you bring to your relationships with others
• Greater confidence in creating strong relationships with other men that go beyond the superficial
• An ability to talk about how you feel, to listen more deeply and to build intimacy with others
• Reduced need for emotional over-dependence on others, a greater ability to meet your own needs for emotional well-being
• A more positive masculine identity
• An ability to reframe your relationship with your father
• Support for managing a desire for control, for depressive feelings, frustration, inappropriate expressions of anger
• Greater ability to manage challenges in relationship and family life
• A place to answer questions of "Who am I?" and "Where am I going with my life?" and a healthier way to manage life's transitions.

Exposing ourselves to change may feel like a risk on a number of levels and ultimately it is up to each of us to make the change we want for ourselves. The purpose of this promise is to remove any question of financial risk. If you have fully engaged with the weekend process and you are not satisfied with your Men Being Real experience we will give you your money back.

Simply click on the link to email THE TRUSTEES within 7 days of completing the workshop and tell us why. We'll be in touch promptly.