Emotional Growth and Anti-Fragility Across Organizations
Emotional Growth and Anti-Fragility Across Organizations Most organizations don’t break from strategy errors; they fracture under accumulated emotional load. Before your next staff meeting, pause for thirty seconds and scan the room. Are people leaning forward or holding back? Are faces relaxed or tight around the eyes and jaw? Is conversation fluid, or clipped and […]
Centripetal Healing: The Path Back to Center
Centripetal Healing: The Path Back to Center In nature, nothing moves aimlessly for long. Rivers spiral, storms rotate, planets orbit. These forces – centripetal forces – pull things inward toward balance and stability. They keep chaos from flying apart. Your body works the same way. When we experience trauma, the opposite force takes over. Instead […]
Where Are All the Elders? The Missing Piece Men Are Searching For
Where Are All the Elders? The Missing Piece Men Are Searching For Something happened in one of our groups recently that’s been sitting with me. A man raised his hand and asked if we could spend the evening talking about elderhood. Not because he was old, he wasn’t, because he felt the absence of it. […]
Navigating Chaos: Somatic Practices to Turn Stress into Connection
Navigating Chaos: Somatic Practices to Turn Stress into Connection When the world feels loud, the first thing we lose is the rhythm of our own heartbeat. How Chaos Sneaks In Chaos rarely arrives with sirens. It leaks into the small moments that make up a day: The Endless Ping: Heavy smartphone use has climbed alongside […]
The Hidden Force Blocking Men’s Success — And How to Break Through It
The Hidden Force Blocking Men’s Success — And How to Break Through It Steven Pressfield describes Resistance as the unseen force that keeps us from stepping into our true calling. It’s the hesitation, the fear, the self-sabotage. It whispers that we’re not ready, that we don’t deserve it, that we should wait just a little […]
Why Individual Growth Isn’t Enough: The Evolutionary Shift to Communal Growth
Why Individual Growth Isn’t Enough: The Evolutionary Shift to Communal Growth The Reconnection: Reclaiming Our Ancestral Roots Imagine a moment when human connection was not a luxury but a fundamental survival skill. When “community” wasn’t a buzzword, but the very fabric of existence. This is the story of how we lost that connection — and […]
Unlocking Emotional Strength: The Power of Somatic Coaching for Men
Unlocking Emotional Strength: The Power of Somatic Coaching for Men There is a growing interest in somatic coaching. After studying with the men who started somatic psychotherapy in the 1980s, practicing and teaching somatic therapy myself, and now to watching somatic coaching take off, I couldn’t be happier. Men realize that changing our thoughts can […]
Beyond the Traditional Men’s Retreat
Beyond the Traditional Men’s Retreat Most retreats follow a familiar script: a few days away, bonding through shared experiences, maybe some insightful conversations, and the feeling of connection that fades as quickly as you return to everyday life. It’s a powerful experience in the moment, but often it leaves you wondering, What’s next? You leave […]
Antifragility — Do You Have It?
My biggest wins in life and in groups often came from my failures. When we can experience stress in a non-survival manner, i.e., our survival response is not running the show, we get stronger.