…have told me that they don’t want to be a burden to their families, and they have expressed that they fear being seen as “weak”. The “rules” can shackle us from our true selves. Men feel deeply.

I see my individual male clients stepping into who they really are by exploring their emotions. They are leading their own revolutions to be fully connected to themselves, their families and their communities. They are becoming whole.I am inviting the clients of CPYC to take part and encouraging more of us to take this risk to really know ourselves and each other.

It is in connection to others that we heal. It is in groups where we find the courage to share and be supports for others. The Men’s Club is an opportunity to express ourselves more fully, to create meaningful connections and to support each other to grow into our greater selves. 

Pre-requisites: 

• Must be in regular psychotherapy
• Ready to participate fully in group (listening, taking feedback, repairing relational breaks, sharing with vulnerability, owning our mistakes)
• Willing to commit to all 8 sessions

If you are unsure or would like more information, please email [email protected] 

Who:

This intensive is for people:

• With trauma symptoms (depression, anxiety, chronic pain/migraines/headaches, autoimmune disorders, emotional overwhelm etc.)
• Who are looking to do some deep work in a short period of time
• Who feel they can handle a powerful week of healing in a group setting. 

 What:

Healing practices throughout the intensive will include:

• Developing group cohesion and support
• Connecting to nature/outdoors/elements as resources for healing trauma imprints – we will go outside
• Psychoeducation
• Daily Yoga therapy practices (movement/poses (asana), breath work (pranayama), meditation and visualization practices
• Intensive psychotherapy sessions based on the Comprehensive Resource Model. Psychotherapy sessions will be held in a group space where the energy of the group supports the individual’s work and the individual’s work supports the group.
• Energy work
• Healthy lunches

Purpose:

• To develop a small community of support around healing work – we all need community to heal with
• To develop your connection to nature as a re-Source in your healing work – we will go outside
• To develop your internal resources to help you manage on a daily basis
• To develop a personal, daily yoga therapy practice that will allow you to continue to discover and grow beyond the intensive
• To develop your cognitive understanding of the ways in which trauma symptoms and neurobiology impact your day to day life, relationships, and decisions
• To help you discover the choices available to you that your trauma symptoms may be masking
• To dismantle neurobiological trauma structures that are causing triggering of trauma symptoms from this lifetime, and throughout the lineages so that you can live free of these distressing symptoms
• To cultivate new truths/new neurobiological structures that are enlivening, empowering and can result in greater contentment and peace in your life.
• To offer a significant, powerful healing experience that can spark a deep curiosity, energy and interest in continuing on the healing path towards embodying your higher Self.

Informed Consent and Risks:

• This healing work can be confronting, enlivening, painful, joyful, frightening, triggering, clarifying, confusing, lightening, loving, angering, compassionate and so much more; please be prepared for anything to emerge and come to the intensive with the intention to remain available to working through your defence responses, to be open to new ways of experiencing yourself and the world and to be open to healing and growth.

Insurance:

• This therapeutic experience is facilitated by a Registered Social Worker – can be claimed on insurance if your insurance covers Social workers.

Daily schedule:

• 8:30am-6:00pm Monday-Thursday
• 8:30am-8:00pm Friday
• What we do will be determined based on what is happening in the process so it will change as needed – please book off the entire time and keep evening responsibilities light for integrating the day and to allow for a longer afternoon session if we need to go over time.
• Yoga practice will always start the day and will end the day as needed. Please be on the mat in the morning promptly at 8:30am.

Cell phones: are to be used ONLY for music during sessions. Please make a conscious effort not to busy yourself with cell phone use during breaks or lunches. The purpose is to be present with yourself and the group and often we dissociate by engaging the phone instead of our lives.

To register or for more information, please email [email protected] . Once you have been accepted into the intensive, please send $1000 non-refundable e-transfer to [email protected] to secure your spot.