“LOVE & PASSION: LIVING YOUR FIRE”

 AN 'ESSENTIAL MAN' EVENT

(An experiential intensive exploring connection to our passions. Empowering how you show up in work, relationships and life.)  

1.00-6.00pm Sat 22 Oct, & 10am-7pm Sun 23 Oct 2011,
Melbourne city

Event Overview:

Exploring the authentic nature of our passion for life – and how we express these aspects of ourselves when we desire to live authentically in relationships and in how we express ourselves in the world.

What is your connection to your deep masculine heart, either when relating to women or when following your passions and living your dreams? What conditioned behaviors & beliefs about yourself hold you back from expressing and being felt as fully as you want?

Transform your limitations into embodied wisdom & empowered communication - so that current restrictions start to become a thing of the past! This workshop focuses on providing raw & real opportunities for us to be more powerfully present to ourselves. So we can stand more solidly in the center of our beings and make more of an impact just by being ourselves.

In the first afternoon we concentrate on our experience of self, journeying through our conditioned fears & restrictions around living our love & passions. We do this through raw honesty, presence & self-awareness exercises with the other men, and powerful Taoist Qi Gong exercises where we cultivate, acknowledge and normalize grounding in our bodies. These foundations of who we experience ourselves to be are key to everything we experience in life.

Most of Sunday we will be sharing space with conscious women. This final day's practices will cultivate courage & presence, explore conscious communication, and evoke energetic and emotional space. Focussing particularly on our being fully available to the moment from our authentic hearts.

More than 90% of how we are perceived and received depends on our energy & presence (related to how embodied we are, how fully - or not - we breathe, and how authentically we know ourselves at a foundational level). You will experience this in action. This weekend is NOT about sitting around whilst we tell you what to do or feel!

When You Express Love & Passion:  

• Do you hide who you are under social masks? 

• How aligned are your values, desires & actions? 

• Are you giving yourself fully and being received fully? 

• Are you being the man you really want to be? 

• Are you embodying your raw power? 

• Can you really feel your heart or is that just a concept to you?

In a nutshell, this workshop will feature:

• Simple, powerful physical practices repeated throughout the weekend that will drop you into a strong state of body awareness, and make you conscious of where you have disowned your body (so that you can reclaim it).  

• Transformational therapy practice: to uncover what’s been holding you down, and experience what it’s like to break free and speak your truth. 

• Transpersonal reflective practices to explore moving beyond your fears, judgments and shame to really express who you are, and to find where you hold back.  

• Conscious communication practices and somatic & energetic relating exercises with women, to learn how to interact & express much more openly, deeply and powerfully. 

Our intention is that you will walk away:

• With a stronger experience of integrity & power in how you are in your body

• With a deeper understanding of how you express yourself (consciously & unconsciously), and how aligned that is with the underlying truth of who you really are

• With the courage & clarity to communicate your true self, desires and passions unapologetically

• Having uncovered what’s been holding you back, and experienced how to break free

• With practical tools & perspectives that will allow you to know, own & communicate your love & passions much more fully

Other Information:

View the main 'Essential Man' page for more about the facilitators and the philosophy behind this work. This intensive is an empowering journey, not a goal. We are all on the path of evolving from the place of being vulnerable and imperfect human beings. The facilitators make no claim to be 'flawless archetypes.' What is true is that each of us has in recent years taken huge steps of personal evolution when it comes to expressing ourselves in the world and living our passions.

All relational aspects of this work are framed from a heterosexual perspective because that is what the facilitators know in their lived experience. Other work exists for women and for gay men, and we are happy to refer people on. Any man who can hold respectful space for other men (& women), and participate consciously in the exercises, is welcome to attend. However, all exercises exploring interpersonal connections will be with women.

This is not a workshop on how to 'score with women'. No pick-up lines, and no specific style-advice, are contained within this program. This work is indeed likely to assist participants to relate more authentically and powerfully with women and with their own goals and dreams. It will do that via the challenging path of assisting you:

- to become a more self-aware and authentic human being,

- to evolve discernment, boundaries & clarity around what you want, and,

- by coaching you in how to own & communicate your truth unapologetically.

This workshop is suitable for single men who want to relate more powerfully. And for men already with partners, who want to become more authentic and strong in those connections.

Whilst some core exercises will be variants of ones previous participants will have experienced, even these will cover new ground. This is not a repeat of any of our previous weekends. The work continues to deepen and provide brand new opportunities to feel, notice & evolve aspects of oneself never before engaged.

Practicalities: 

Numbers: 

3 facilitators (male), 8+/- practice assistants/co-facilitators (female), 14-18 participants (that's you guys!)

Timing: 

We will be starting the main program each day at the time indicated. Please arrive ten minutes before that to avoid disrupting the workshop for the rest of the participants.

Payment & Cancellation Policy: 

Please read our cancellation policy at the base of the FAQ page. (Basically if you cancel more than 10 days before an event your money is refunded. Options change at thresholds after that.)

Financial Investment: 

Earlybird $220 ($180 low-income conc.) [Booked or payment plan in place by Fri 7th Oct]

Standard $260 ($210)

If you have attended the Evolving Man work before and are in tough financial circumstances but are enthusiastic to attend this event, we may require set-up assistants who would receive a discount. Contact us and briefly outline your circumstances. IE if cost is the ONLY reason you wouldn't attend, please contact us. We wish to make this work accessible as widely as possible. 

Applying for a Place: 

This workshop will be a small group with plenty of individual attention and we need to know something about each new applicant before signing you on to the course. You will need to complete a brief questionnaire for our records.

Even if you are already known to us through the Evolving Man programs you still need to complete it. Only those who have already attended an Essential Man weekend don't need to.

This is an Advanced Workshop, and is not for complete beginners to personal development. If we have not worked with you before we need to know something about who you are, your journey with personal development, and your level of ability to hold respectful space for other men and for women.