Awakening Healthy Masculine

I am hosting my “Awakening Healthy Masculine” introduction to my 4 part series @ Salisbury Centre, on these 2 upcoming December dates:
Monday, Dec 9th @ 19h-21
AND / OR
Sunday, Dec 15th @ 12h-14h
Registration (£18) is directly from my website via the black button / bar @ www.HealthyMasculine.com
NOTE:
— This gathering is open to ALL humans / genders — it is NOT ‘only’ for men
— it is focused on masculinity, within humans, to invite a nourishing & reciprocal relationship to the Healthy Feminine 🧞‍♀️ ☯️ 🧞‍♂️

HealthyMasculine.com — James Wood ~ Consulting ALL GENDERS invited to awaken the Healthy Masculine. Council circles are rooted in sharing, deep listening, and skilful reflection, held in a safe & ceremonial container.

Join this 8 week program to deepen towards awakening your Healthy Masculine, inviting a nourishing and reciprocal relationship with your Healthy Feminine.

Dynamic Wholeness – 8 Week Series — Culture Garden Inviting Nourishing and Reciprocal balance. Collectively Rewrite the Script of Gender & Culture in the World Today.

My September program is about to begin – you may register @ HealthyMasculine.com

For me “Awakening the Healthy Masculine” gatherings are in response to what I was seeing in my community development career all over the planet — where I continued to witness the immature and shadow sides of the masculine constantly undermining the basic goodness of human connections, and the world that we know is possible when we collaborate together for a common good.

As an international Community Development professional, I have worked and lived in urban + rural Canadian & US communities, in northern remote First Nation villages, in rural Mexico, as well as in the remote island in the South Pacific, and now, these last 5 years I have spent in Scotland, England and France. Over these 20 years, and in my youth growing up with a single mother of 5 children in a middle-class Canadian city, I have witnessed plenty of destructive immature masculine energy in my life. The dominant “power-over”, control, bullying, and emotional shutdown that I have witnessed, all lead towards what has become known as "toxic masculine” behaviours. While I have felt my own shame, deep grief, and a longing for healthy mentorship, I realised something — that I myself require co-mentorship in order to relearn how to be in my own healthy and mature parts of myself, while learning how to acknowledge my own immature ways of being.

Sadly, I have struggled to find enough models & mentors in our society, as I battled not to through in the towel and give up. Instead I have responded — to my sadness, my shock, and my embarrassment of witnessing and watching the immature masculine destroy what I can see that has such potential for increased human-human connection — by offering spaces for us to grow together, to question our own inner ways of being, and to share this in circle with each other, as a way of co-mentoring each other through this re-learning process with all genders together, in circle. To do so, I have found it supportive to be guided through the lens of an awareness of the human ‘archetypes’.

I have a strong sense that the time has come for humans to co-mentor each other if we are to transform and transition into new cultural narratives that define what it is to be living in our Healthy Masculine fullness, while offering a renewed story of the sacred masculine in a post-patriarchal world — which is where I invite a nourishing and reciprocal relationship with the feminine. The energies of Being & Doing. Balancing the Ying & Yang inside all of us.

Although I much prefer meeting in person, due to craze and shutdowns of Covid-19, I have made theses gatherings available on-line, now offering them globally, which has its own powerful way of connecting folks from all over the world to practice healthy ways of witnessing and being together.

I’d love to have you join in circle with me, so that we can continue to collectively heal the old "power over” learned ways of being, in order to begin to re-learn healthy was of being together, with practice, in a safe place, so that when it matters most, we will collectively have the skills to show up for ourselves, for each other, and for this world.

All Genders' HealthyMasculine.com – SEPTEMBER 5 Part Series - https://mailchi.mp/e462f6c60fef/healthymasculinejuly2020-7857549

Looking forward to our final Session in this current July Series – The Sovereign!

Now is your time to practice Engaging your confidence, purpose, and well-being – offering yourself a supreme sense of balance.

Notice that even when the world around you becomes chaotic, can you still remain cool, calm, and collected? Can you act, rather than react? Are you the rock in crisis?

As someone fully engaged with positive Sovereign energy, you are completely present, surveying everything that is going on, soaking it all in, and taking a broad view of things within your domain. With this overarching perspective, you can better remain immovable in the face of the passing and superficial, as well as in the face of climate change, Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and/or your local community or family conflicts.

Humanity is calling for Sovereigns in their fullness to rise up and practice now more than ever at this moment in history.

New Healthy Masculine online Series coming this September.
Stay tuned for Registration information.

Healthy Masculine 5 Part July Series Online – All Genders Welcome! - http://eepurl.com/g8s05P

If you, we, I don’t practice ways to awaken the healthy masculine, whose to say I won’t become another ‘idiot’, an imbecile leader in my community or family.

Join the upcoming 5 Part Series this July to Awaken your www.HealthyMasculine.com

"Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.

"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.

It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk."

Steve Schmidt, Leading Republican:
The most succinct -- and brutal -- Republican rejection of Donald Trump that you will ever read (CNN, June 23, 2020)

Healthy Masculine — James Wood ~ Consulting James facilitates multi-gendered circles to explore the Healthy Masculine, providing an opportunity for people of  all genders  to share, be seen, and to offer each other witnessing and learning. Participants explore the many meanings of "the Healthy Masculine" a

All-Gender Online 5 Part Series — Awakening the Healthy Masculine, held weekly in July — Inviting a nourishing and reciprocal relationship with the Healthy Feminine.

“This is a pivotal moment in human history:
In order to address major social, environmental and political crisis,
we are again being called to re-member, re-skill and co-mentor each other in our communities,
by practicing how to live into our Healthy Masculine,
supporting a reciprocal and nourishing relationship with the Healthy Feminine.”

Join this Circle at this pivotal moment in human history to:

Explore Healthy Masculine archetypes & their Shadow sides;
Be seen & offer witnessing to the masculine aspects of being human;
Improve positive presence in families, friendships & communities;
Contribute to balancing the masculine consciousness — Partnership modelling VS Domination.

Open to All Genders — as all humans have both Feminine & Masculine aspects within all of us.

More information and Registration at the link below — See you in this deep ceremonial, safely held, vulnerable gathering.

James Wood — Awakening the Healthy Masculine

Healthy Masculine Online Course A 5-part live experiential online course for all genders where "masculine" qualities are explored and embodied with movement.