Why We're Launching A Monthly Men's Group (with video)
Why We're Launching A Monthly Men's Group (with video)
What happened when my wife Dr Genevieve von Lob asked myself and co-facilitator Daniel Simpson what we love about this work.
Resonant World #57
Daniel Simpson and I have just run a month-long course for men called Power to Relate, where we practiced listening more deeply, speaking more authentically, and bringing more awareness into our relationships.
As I’ve found time and again with men’s work, I loved the depth of connection we were able to establish in a relatively short time, and the practical support each of us were able to give one another to live more fully in alignment with our values.
To build on the course, myself and Daniel are now offering monthly men’s group sessions, starting on Sunday, December 10 at 1900 GMT. Sessions run for 90 minutes. For more info and to book a spot, click here.
In the short video above, my wife Dr Genevieve von Lob, a clinical psychologist and conscious parenting coach, and creator of The HSP Revolution newsletter, asked us to explain what men can expect if they choose to participate.
Do get in touch if you have any questions.
Hope to see you there!
In Conversation with Karen O’Brien: Available Now
A reminder that the amazing Climate Consciousness Summit 2023 continues today, where my interview with Karen O’Brien is viewable for the next 48 hours. The interview will then go back live for 48 hours on December 12-13. You can watch our conversation by registering (free) for the summit here.
Karen, a professor of social science at the University of Oslo, is an inspirational figure building new paradigms in the world of climate science. I felt nourished and expanded hearing more about her work on quantum social change, which has opened mind-bending new vistas into the art of the possible. Please join us!
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Matthew: I enjoyed your conversation with Danielled by your wife. Thanks. I might join the conversation excepting that it coincides with the departure of my wife and I for Melbourne (1,000km south from where we live) - revisiting places of our marriage (church etc) where we wed on December 15th, 1973. I have just purchased your book: Aftershock - and in the process uncovered another Matthew Green and his book Shadowlands. A Scottish cousin of mine did archaeological work as a university student at Skara Brae - in the 1990s subject of the first chapter in your namesake's book! If I can call in on your meeting, I shall - though I imagine it falling into the wee small hours here in eastern Australia. Jim (PS Daniel's family name has an intriguing resonance for me. When my reprieved from hanging great x 3 grand-mother - Susannah Holmes of Surlinghom - then beyond the city limits of Norwich with her as yet unweaned child via her as yet fellow prisoner (Norwich Castle County Gaol) unwed husband - Henry (KABLE/KEABLE/CABLE) - though not for want of seeking permission - was sent to join the First Fleet - part of which was outfitted in Plymouth - the Castle Gaol turnkey accompanying four woman and the infant was John Simpson. When the master of the "hulk" to which they were first delivered in Plymouth refused to accept the baby - his name not being on the Manifest he had - John Simpson, later in newspaper reports to be called "the humane turnkey" took the child and went up to London and lay in wait for Lord Sydney (Thomas Townshend) - explained the story - was told to collect the father - still in the Castle Gaol in Norwich - and deliver father and child to Plymouth - which he did. The story is told in the Folk Ballad Opera "The Transports" written/composed by Peter Bellamy in the early - then performed in the latter - 1970s. Matthew Crampton effected a revival of the Opera in 2018 - as part of a broader presentation The Transports: A Tale of Exile and Migration. my great x 3 grand-parents were part of five couples wed on Feb 10 , 1788 in Warrane (Sydney Cove) just 15 days from the arrival in Sydney Harbour of the First Fleet (11 ships) announcing the beginning of the invasion of the continent by the British - good for some - including British power - a beach-head into the Pacific - but not so for Australia's First Peoples. Greetings, Daniel... Jim