This two-hour live workshop offers a grounded and experiential introduction to working with boys and men through depth, relational presence, and circle-based practice.

Designed for therapists, coaches, group facilitators, and leaders, the session brings together conceptual clarity and lived experience to support those working with men who feel disconnected, constrained by inherited models of masculinity, or caught in what is often described as the “lost boy” dynamic.

Rather than offering prescriptive techniques, this workshop invites participants into a different way of understanding masculinity. One rooted in emotional depth, responsibility, purpose, and compassionate connection.

**Hour One: Frameworks and Clinical Clarity**

The first hour takes the form of a live dialogue between "The Man Whisperer" Kenny Mammarella-D’Cruz, the iPaper's Agony Uncle who founded MenSpeak Men's Groups almost 30 years ago and has held daily online groups since lockdown and John Wilson, followed by questions and reflections from participants.

Together, they will explore the core frameworks underpinning this work, unpacking the key pillars that support depth-oriented practice with men. Drawing on lived experience, relational insight, and professional reflection, this conversation focuses on the why and the what of circle-based and relational work with men.

Participants will be invited to bring their own questions, dilemmas, and curiosities, with space for thoughtful, grounded responses that connect theory to real-world practice.

**Hour Two: Experiential Circle Practice**

The second hour moves from understanding into experience.

Participants will be gently guided into a live, facilitated, non-hierarchical circle, offering a direct encounter with the kind of relational space being discussed. This experiential element is central to the workshop and is held with care, choice, and respect for individual boundaries.

This is not about performance or disclosure, but about presence. Participants will have the opportunity to practise authentic engagement, deep listening, and relational attunement, and to sense what it means to be met at depth within a group of peers.

Through this experience, the frameworks explored earlier are brought into the body and into relationship, supporting participants to better understand how such spaces can be held safely, ethically, and effectively in their own professional contexts.

**This workshop is for you if:**

- You work with boys or men and want to support deeper emotional and relational development.

- You are a therapist, coach, facilitator, or leader seeking frameworks that translate into lived practice.

- You recognise patterns of disconnection, emotional inhibition, or arrested development in the men you work with or within yourself.

- You are drawn to forms of masculinity grounded in depth, purpose, accountability, and compassion rather than dominance or control.

This workshop is more than a training session. It is an invitation into a different way of being with men.

Participants are invited to experience the power of circle-based practice and to leave with a clearer framework and embodied understanding of how such spaces can be created and sustained.

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