29/04/2024
EDIT - due to summer weekend availability issues for core group members, we will be making the most of available daylight and holding the farm-based circles on weekday evenings.
The next Circle will take place on Tuesday 11th June. Further dates to be confirmed.
Calling all magnificent, mindful men. We need you. Well.. we don't need you so much as want you. We want to welcome you to experience, just as we have, the benefits and the camaraderie of our Mindful Men's Circle. A safe, non-judgemental space where we exchange mutual support, open conversation, swap skills, share wisdom, offer companionship, encourage calm and reflection, make a noise, and generally do fun stuff.
We are a motley crew of males who have enjoyed being part of a loose collective for some time now, with its origins in the sacred yurt space at the inspirational Sol Haven. Gradually the gathering has evolved to take itself out into nature and has now found its monthly home around the campfire at Hideaway Wood Farm in Dodford NN7.
The farm gatherings will generally run from 9:30 until 11:30 on Saturday mornings and will feature a local facilitator from within or through close association with the group who will guide us in an exercise to encourage mindfulness, improve mental wellbeing, learn new practical skills, or all of the above!
Between the monthly farm gatherings, and subject to everyone's availability, weekend walks in nature or other social meet ups are organised on an ad-hoc basis.
What sets the gatherings apart from purely social events is the time that is always set aside for the sharing circle. The Circle can be the most powerful and rewarding element to our meetings. Sharing is not compulsory but each one of us has found it transformational to speak openly from our hearts amongst strangers, who have very quickly become a band of brothers.
Each one of us in our time has known either loss, loneliness, depression, relationship breakdown, or a lack of drive or sense of purpose, and each one of us has benefitted hugely from the power and support of the Circle.
Men have felt for generations that they need to 'stay strong' and keep any struggles silent, but there is great strength to be found in both owning and sharing your vulnerabilities with those that care enough to listen.
For all the good that the Circle provides in the form of tribal counselling, there is nothing more therapeutic than fun, and the group is very much alive with self expression, banter, music and occasionally song.
If we can encourage more men to be brave, to speak their truth, to escape their bullsh*t, swallow their pride, open their hearts and be the best authentic versions of themselves, then we might just create the right role models for the future generations of magnificent men to come.
Dates for Mindful Men's Circle @ Hideaway Wood Farm:
Tuesday 11th June
1800 to 2000
More details to follow shortly!
