What are Man Groove Circles ?

ManGroove Circles are heart-centred, embodied sharing circles for men.

Curated by Keef. They are designed to be an open-ended ongoing groups in which each man is free to stay for as long as he likes and is free to leave when the time is right. The current record is 5 Years. Big up Sky Williams!

They are also about resource, safety, inclusion, belonging and connectedness. The circles are intentionally small, intimate and are run as closed groups, rather than ‘drop-ins’ with a maximum of 12 men in any circle. This ensures safety, trust and depth.

Witnessing, Sharing and Power-beside are golden keys.

The medicine of witnessing and being witnessed - in our full-spectrum humanness - is truly transformational.

Sharing our sufferings, failings and failures as well as our dreams, achievements and unapologetic magnificence is profoundly empowering.

Cultivating the integrity to reclaim our power with response-ability and clarifying what we stand for, what we love and choose to protect with love, gratitude and respect enables us to bring both tender and fierce compassion to our collaboration with others.

Structure

When?

Currently weekly sessions are running on Mondays and Tuesdays, 7-9.30pm and openings appear from time to time for new men to join.

There is a strong possibility that other circles will open on different days and times, so feel free to get in touch even if the current evening options don’t work for you.

Contribution

Standard - Monthly Standing Order. £95/month

Paying It Forward - Monthly Standing Order. £120+/month

*This is a good option if you are feeling abundant and recognise the value of supporting other brothers who are facing financial struggles. This enables us to provide bursary places. So super grateful to those that can.

Bursary - We have a basic policy NO MAN EXCLUDED BECAUSE OF FINANCES.Each circle has a handful of access places available. These are allocated at my discretion. TALK TO ME.

How?

Weekly Evening Zoom calls 2.5 hours with a maximum of 12 men

MOVEMENT MEDICINE: Re-source, feel, come into your center. 30 minutes of Movement Medicine practice together, in the comfort of your own home.

EMBODIED LISTENING AND SHARING: We utilise simple somatic approaches to cultivate heart centred and embodied presence when witnessing one another in our heart seat shares. 2 hour sharing circle.

THEME - A theme is always invited as this provides focus and rich material for exploration. However, the most important opportunity is to share from your heart whatever is alive for you on any given day and this may or may not speak directly to the proposed theme of the evening.

PEER GROUP SUPPORT: Buddying. Dive a little deeper into getting to know each other and to offer and receive support. Each week you will connect with one other man for at least 30 minutes in the week between group calls. To dive a little deeper into getting to know each other and to offer/receive support.

WHATSAPP GROUP - we have a lively group where the circle can share inspirations, breakthroughs, challenges, successes and so on, in the spirit of the circle in written messages and voice or video drops. This provides the lifeblood of the group.

“I’ve been a part of a men's group facilitated by Keef over the last 6 months or so. It has been an utterly beautiful experience throughout and has been highly conducive to my healing process. I’ve never been in such a loving & warm environment with a group of men before. I feel a sense of true brotherhood from a group of souls who truly do care deeply about one another. To feel what has emerged and bloomed within myself as a result of being involved has been quite simply amazing. I’ve been able to overcome many aspects of self that I've deemed shameful through opening to vulnerable sharing within the group and being held in everything that I've brought without judgement, only compassion and love. Keef holds the space amazingly and offers frequent pearls of valuable insight to all of us, as well as us all sharing with the other members from a place of support and love. I can highly recommend it to any man who is looking to grow and develop themselves in the container of brotherhood!”

Jess Farmer, Coach UK

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Who are they for?

These circles are for Men who are:

seeking to take more responsibility for their personal healing journey in the various dimensions of their life and to access more of their golden gifts of wholeness and creativity in their personal experience as a unique body-heart-mind-soul in relationship with others, community, nature and the spirit of mystery
humble enough to realise that the time of the lone wolf is over. We need each other.
willing and able to recognise the need for a healthy balance in their lives

willing and able to recognise the need for courageous vulnerability - to open to receive the love, support and protection of others. Which includes acceptance, empathic comradeship, compassionate accountability and celebratory upliftment.
willing and able to recognise the need to cultivate the resourced and empowered capacity to discover, energise and give their gifts fully for the benefit of all. Which invites unapologetic authenticity and disciplined conscious evolution.

Intention and Values

MOVING MEN - Our intention is to move and be moved - physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and relationally. Moving with whatever is arising in our psyche, our soma and our lives in general can lead to healing, wholeness, evolution and creative solutions to life’s challenges and opportunities.

A SAFE HARBOUR - is needed, and is co-created though organic leadership and collective care and attention. A place of refuge and mutual support, confidentiality, inclusivity, nourishment and encouragement where we feel safe, valued, seen, heard, honoured and respected. Where our presence is felt and our contribution is invited and celebrated. Witnessing and being witnessed, authentic sharing from the heart and ‘power beside’ are golden keys.

EMBODIMENT RESOURCING - happens through explorations of and inclusion of all aspects of our being human - physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and relationally. In Man-Groove circles this is built on the fundamental resourcing of essential Movement Medicine practices and through clear structure, heart sharing and embodied witnessing and listening.

RECOGNITION - that ‘No man is an island or a world unto himself’. We are interdependent beings in the web of life. All of life is sacred and we strive to make choices in our thoughts, words and actions that honour our children, our elders, our ancestors and all of life.

RECONNECTION and community. Healing comes through community, connection, co-operation, collaboration, communication, creativity and cultivating wholeness. As such we gather as a circle of men, in a place of safety, inclusivity, non-judgement and ‘power beside’

BALANCE - We seek a healthy balance - between ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, between the rational and the mystical, between inner and outer worlds, physical and spiritual worlds, between our personal and professional worlds and between our courage and vulnerability.