Forest path used in Men's Academy land-based and foundational work

Foundational Training

Nine weeks. The work between the fires.

A live online container for the man who wants structure after an intensive, or a first honest room if the land is not yet calling.

The practice

Peak experiences fade. Practice does not.

If you only come once a year and disappear, you will get a peak and then the old life. Foundational Training is the weekly hearth: live sessions, embodiment, first-person speech, and brothers who remember your name on a Tuesday.

Nine weeks. Held online, in English, on a Lisbon-time evening rhythm. You do not need to have sat an intensive first, though many men arrive from the land wanting the work to continue. There is no certificate to display. There is a nervous system that learns a new fact: I can be seen and the room does not leave.

Next cohort dates are given on the call. Investment is €900.

Men walking toward the hills during an intensive
Men sitting in circle on the land
The Atlantic from the land of a Men's Academy gathering

The arc

Nine rooms, one house.

  1. Week 01

    Arrive

    Agreements, the body as the room, first-person speech. You learn how this house is kept.

  2. Week 02

    The mask

    Competence as costume. Where isolation was a strategy. What it costs to keep performing.

  3. Week 03

    The body

    Sensation before story. Breath, freeze, fight. You cannot think your way out of the jaw.

  4. Week 04

    Lineage

    What you inherited. What you will not pass on. Honour and release in the same week.

  5. Week 05

    Relation

    Partners, children, brothers. The work is who you are after the call ends.

  6. Week 06

    Shadow

    The parts you exiled to stay loved. They will not be improved. They will be met.

  7. Week 07

    Desire & direction

    Want without apology. A life that is chosen rather than survived.

  8. Week 08

    The hearth

    How a circle is held. How you stay when it would be easier to disappear.

  9. Week 09

    Integration

    The last week is not a graduation speech. It is a plan for ordinary Tuesdays.

Prefer the land first? The November Intensive is the fire. Circles are the monthly door if nine weeks is too much architecture for now.

Next cohort

Join the waiting list.

Nine weeks, live online. Dates are given on a short call. If you are not ready to speak yet, leave your name, we write when the next container opens.

Book an info call

Your message is sent to reachout@mensacademy.org. We'll respond within 48 hours.

Questions

Questions men actually ask.

The next step

Ask for the next cohort.

Book an info call, or join the waiting list. We will not sell you nine weeks you should not take.

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