MEN OF HEARTS
Men of Hearts is an 8-week transformative journey that challenges men to meet their shadows, integrate emotional sovereignty, and reclaim a heart-led masculinity through rites of passage and brotherhood.
Welcome to Men of Hearts
8-Week Initiation - Deep Inner Shadow Work - Embodied Rite of Passage - Brotherhood & Community
Begins Jan 21, 2025
Men of Hearts is an 8-week initiation into authentic manhood, a journey designed to move you from the restless energy of adolescence into the grounded responsibility of mature masculinity. In a world lacking eldership or decent masculine role models men are literally dying for guidance, and the ability to affectively guide themselves. This container offers a return to something ancient—a rite of passage that men have long been denied.
It is a space where you confront the shadows, the wounds, and the parts of yourself that have been buried beneath the weight of societal conditioning. This is not a quick fix or a surface-level exploration. Week by week, we will dive into deep, embodied work together where you will face your inner feminine, heal the mother wound, and confront the sexual shadows that influence how you show up in the world. With the support of a brotherhood, you will be held accountable to your own growth, pushed beyond comfort, and guided through the discomfort of transformation.
This is a return to knowing—not just in the mind, but in the body. Through ritual, communal accountability, and emotional sovereignty, you will emerge from this experience not just as a man, but as a leader, equipped with the wisdom, responsibility, and heart-led strength needed to navigate the world with purpose and integrity.
(8 x Weekly Tuesday Night Sessions (both in person and online) from 21st of January - 11th of March, 2025)
Men Of Hearts is for men that are…
Based in Melbourne and seeking to connect with a community of like-minded men.
Have already had some level of experience exploring their emotions, and are ready to deepen that journey.
Ready to step into an integrated masculinity that can hold himself, and others.
Motivated to seek out where they hold shame towards their human nature.
Committed to creating a relationship with themselves where they won’t abandon themselves ever again.
Navigating a significant life transition and want to powerfully embrace it.
Searching for the next spark that will truly ignite their passion and purpose in life and career.
Willing to cultivate deeper, more authentic relationships in all areas of their lives.
About the Body of Work:
This body of work is a cultivation of all the tools and resources I have been deeply initiated into across the past 6 years of facilitating and participating in various trainings world wide. (eg. Sacred Sons, The Man Cave, Movember, Rites of Passage Institute, Australian Olympic Committee).
The concept behind this body of work, revolves around the idea that individuals experience life through their unique lens shaped by their emotions, their belief systems, their wounding, and their core memories.
The core memories we have experienced and the pain we have endured across the timeline of our lives often fogs up our window, leading us to see the world, ourselves, and others through a distorted lens.
Through compassionate witnessing and gentle guidance, my role is to support and empower you in cleaning your window, creating a far clearer connection with your fullest expression, deepest desires, and your own sovereign power.
The Content We Will Explore Together:
Embodied Leadership & What It Means to Truly Lead
Initiating The Masculine through Rites of Passage
Integrating the Inner Feminine through Descending into the ‘Feeling’ Body
Reclaiming Ritual and Brotherhood to Integrate Seasons of Life
Healing the Mother Wound & Cultivating Deeper Awareness of where you may be Projecting the Mother Wound onto Others.
Liberating the Sexual Shadow of the Masculine.
Parts Work and the Power of Reparenting Yourself
Integrating the Little Boy, the Teenager, the Young Man & The Elder Within
Radical Self-Reconciliation and Accepting who you are Beneath the Masks and Illusions that have kept you in a False Sense of Belonging.
More About The Experience….
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Week 1 Introductory In-Person Master Class: Tuesday the 21st of Jan 7:00pm - 10:00pm at:
Man Cave HQ, 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Week 2 Online Gathering: Tuesday the 28th of Jan 2025, 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Week 3 In-Person Master Class: Tuesday the 4th of Feb 2025 7pm - 10pm at:
Man Cave HQ, 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Week 4 Online Gathering: Tuesday the 11th of Feb 2025 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Week 5 In-Person Master Class: Tuesday the 18th of Feb 2025 7pm-10pm at:
Man Cave HQ, 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Week 6 Online Gathering: Tuesday the 25th of Feb 2025 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Week 7 In-Person Initiation Ceremony: Friday the 7th of March 2025 7pm - 7am.
Location TBA.
Week 8 Online Integration Closing Circle: Tuesday the 11th of March 2025 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Total:
x3 In-Person Mater-classes- at Man Cave HQ
x3 Online Gathering's - via Zoom
x1 Initiatory experience - Location TBA
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Personalized guidance in Unconditional Self Therapy, an advanced approach to Parts Work, designed to foster deep inner transformation.
Empowered emotional awareness that allows you to navigate your inner landscape with confidence and clarity.
Practical tools for rewriting limiting beliefs, enabling you to break free from patterns that no longer serve you.
Authentic connection with a community of good men, rooted in mutual respect and support.
Embodied, heart-led leadership that inspires and empowers both yourself and others.
The opportunity to meet and challenge the edges of your conditioning, expanding your understanding of who you are.
The courage to face and transform some of your deepest fears, emerging stronger and more resilient.
A new and liberating relationship with discomfort, allowing you to embrace growth and change with grace.
A deeper sense of compassion and appreciation for the women in your life, enriching your relationships and connection.
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1 x In-person Introductory Masterclass.
3 x 2-hour Zoom Sessions.
1 x In-person Initiatory experience.
1 x 2-hour Online Closing Integration Circle.
Unlimited access to The Men of Hearts community.
Resources to assist in emotional regulation, and integration.
1x exclusive discount for 'Your Window' 1 on 1 mentoring.
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Pay In Full: $1,400 if you pay in full.
Payment Plan: $1,480 paid off via 8 x fortnightly instalments of $185.00.
Men of Hearts is chartered into 4 Potent Modules that you will be both guided through and initiated in:
MODULE ONE: Integrating the Inner Feminine
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For the new masculinity to be born, it must first descend through the gateway of the feminine once more.
Connecting to your Inner Feminine does not mean succumbing to emotional chaos; rather, it signifies the beginning of a relationship with the part of you that holds the power for transformation.
Without this connection, a man will remain trapped within the confines of his mind, bound by the survival strategies forged to protect him in his youth.
Allowing ourselves to finally feel, really feel, and accept what is within us - creates an expansion that is impossible to imagine, because the mind can only go so far.
It is in the body, the domain of the feminine, where your deepest wisdom, intuition, and creativity reside.
This is the part of yourself that holds up the mirror reflecting the man you can be - not just for yourself, but for everyone. Here lies the potential for true acceptance - of yourself and of the world. This is the place where you can finally allow everything in, only to powerfully choose to let it go. Let go of the masks you’ve worn to fit in, the illusions that have kept you in a false sense of belonging. Release the pain and shame that has kept your dreams small and your ambitions stifled.
It is in this surrender, you grant yourself the nurturing you have always longed for. It is in the leaning in of your sensing body, that you can step into the embodiment of a Man that can not only see himself within the emotional landscapes of others, but can also meet people in ways that foster richer relationships.
MODULE TWO: Healing the Mother Wound
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To heal and integrate your mother wound, you must return to the origin—the place where it all began.
There was a time when you were one with her, inseparable and deeply connected. She was the first voice you heard, the first to nourish you, and the first to show you love in the only way she knew how.
In those early moments, any distance—emotional or physical—tore at the very fabric of your being, shaping abstract belief systems about yourself. You began to measure your self-worth within her presence or lack of presence. When she couldn’t show up for you in the ways you craved, you learned to believe you were unlovable.
This belief system can manifest in your life as difficulty caring for yourself, people-pleasing, co-dependency, abandonment wounds, trouble setting boundaries, and attracting unhealthy relationships that reinforce feelings of worthlessness.
They can also show up in our romantic relationships where we may be subconsciously looking to our partners to soothe us like our Mother failed to. Simularly, if we couldn’t trust our Mother, our first experience of the feminine, then how can we truly trust our partner?
Facing and integrating this wound is a rite of passage for for every man, and when approached with respect and bravery, a Man can finally claim who he is is while respecting the woman that gave him life.
"The more in touch we are with our feminine, the more we can harness the full power of our masculine."
– David Deida
Why integrate the inner feminine in a container that’s about healthy masculinity?
The male identity is one of such deep fragility and uncertainty - that most men don’t hold any visceral or embodied understanding of what it actually means to ‘be a man’.
Of course, we have the socialized norms of perceived masculinity: to be stoic, domineering, ‘strong’. To repress emotional suffering into anger. To seek to extract our worthiness in others.
This inevitably leads to most men going to the extremes to try to prove their masculinity - rejecting their emotions, their ‘feeling body’, their wounding, and their internal chaos - at fear of it weakening their sense of self or identity. After all, it’s better to earn your place as a ‘Man’, than to be emasculated.
However, what if what men seem to need, is the very thing they fear the most? What if being a ‘man’ was actually about embracing the full range of your humanity by integrating your inner feminine, the part of you that can hold the currents of strong emotions?
Within the male consciousness rests a great power that goes untapped by many in this lifetime. That is the power of their inner feminine - the seat that holds all the colours of their emotions, their creative lifeforce, and their ability to surrender to life’s initations.
"The mother wound is the original wound, the one that sets the stage for all others. Healing it transforms every aspect of our lives."
– Richard C. Schwartz - Creator of the Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS).
MODULE 3: Liberating the Sexual Shadow of the Masculine
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Masculinity will never be understood, until its sexual shadow is brought into the light.
There was once a time in human history where a man’s sexual drive was revered as sacred, essential to the vitality of not just himself but his family and the broader community. At its core, this drive was more than physical desire; it was the primal seat of a man’s power. The place from which he could co-create life.
Over centuries, men have become severed from this innate part of themselves, misled by a society that prioritizes power and status over primal instincts. This disconnection has fragmented masculinity, shattering its sexual life force into two extremes.
On one side lies the base-heavy, ‘leaky’, sexually hungry “Inner Predator” - a shadow born from repressed survival instincts. This fragmented aspect of the masculine psyche is not inherently evil, but rather a marginalised, adolescent force that can manifest in using violence, manipulation, or sexual harassment to extract his worthiness in others.
On the opposite side of the spectrum resides the top-heavy, self-abandoning “Nice Guy”. In an effort to adapt to a world where masculinity is increasingly questioned or demonised, this archetype becomes lost in people-pleasing - resulting in suppressed resentment and a lack of assertiveness.
Within this spectrum of sexually repressed opposites lies the key for regenerating Masculinity. What would it look like for a Man to have both the ability to be aware, attuned, and kind - while also knowing what he desires, making his intentions known through his actions, and remaining deeply anchored in his base. More importantly what would it take to achieve this?
Its starts with the process of peeling away the multiple layers of generational shame and conditioning within the presence of other Men. Only here can the sexual shadow of the Masculine be reclaimed and embodied, allowing men to reconnect with their true power and purpose. This process is not just about healing, but fully integrating the dark and light aspects of masculinity, leading to a more balanced, authentic expression of what it means to be a man.
MODULE 4: Initiating the Masculine
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In the heart of every man lies a dormant ember, waiting to be stoked into a roaring fire. Yet, in a world that celebrates speed and superficial success, this ember is often neglected, buried under distractions and disconnection.
Many men today feel adrift, caught in a cultural web that equates masculinity with power and material wealth, leaving them unfulfilled and longing for deeper purpose.
The path they seek is the path of initiation, a journey men have walked for millennia.
From the rigorous training within the Spartan Agoge of Ancient Greece to Indigenous Vision Quests and rituals like the Maasai Lion Hunt and the Aboriginal Walkabout - men have endured the Sacred Sun Dance, braved Hamar Bull Jumping in Ethiopia, and embraced the transformative power of Scarification across Africa.
These rites of passage were more than just rituals; they were sacred trials, designed to forge strength through struggle, wisdom through wounds, and purpose through pain. They served as the essential furnace required to purify the naiveté of youth, where a boy was transformed through hardship and acknowledged at last as a man.
Without these rites, as depth psychologist Bill Plotkin notes, our society remains stuck in early adolescence, obsessed with power and consumption but lacking wisdom and meaningful ritual and initation.
Initiation is not just a relic of the past; it’s an essential process of transformation—a reconnection with the ancient wisdom encoded in our DNA. It is a process that embeds knowledge in the flesh, that reminds us that true understanding arises not from abstract thought, but from the lived experience of struggle, sweat, blood, and the tears shed in pursuit of that inner fire.
In this module, you’ll be called to slow down, listen to the wisdom in your bones, and confront trials that lead to an embodied understanding of manhood. The world needs men who have walked through the fire - men who understand that true power lies not in domination, but in the deep, enduring strength that comes from knowing oneself and serving the greater good.
"The journey of the male soul is to confront the wild, untamed parts of himself, to bring them into the light of consciousness, and thereby become whole."
Michale Meade - Mythologist and author of The Water of Life.
“To undergo initiation is to step into the unknown, to face our fears, and to emerge with a deeper understanding of our place in the world.”
– Bill Plotkin - Depth Psychologist & Author
A bit about me….
With over six years of experience leading men through transformational change, I’ve personally mentored over 10,000 people across Australia, helping them step into their full potential.
As a visionary behind Facilitation Training and Programs at The Man Cave—Australia’s leading preventive mental health and emotional intelligence organisation—I’ve guided more than 5,000 young men in embodying healthy masculinity while elevating our facilitator team to new heights of leadership and impact.
Beyond The Man Cave, I’ve designed and delivered world-class leadership programs for organisations such as The Rights of Passage Institute, The Australian Olympic Committee, Movember, and Monash University.
My work helps emerging leaders powerfully meet themselves and their challenges. Whether delivering high-impact workshops for adult men or facilitating initiatory rites of passage for young leaders, I empower men to confront their edges, face their shadows, and step fully into their power.
In my private coaching practice, Your Window, I work with clients who are ready to meet their limitations and claim their sovereignty. From high-level professionals to men seeking deeper purpose, I’ve supported clients in cultivating the freedom to make more powerful decisions and become living “permission slips” for what’s possible within their communities.
With extensive training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Positive Psychology, and Parts Work, along with six years of facilitating life-changing experiences, I’m now preparing to launch Men of Hearts—a program designed for men committed to reclaiming their true masculine expression.
Are you experiencing the following?
Are you seeking clarity on what your unique expression of masculinity truly looks like?
Do you find yourself lacking the tools and skills to effectively regulate your emotions?
Despite external success, do you feel a persistent sense of emptiness or unfulfillment?
Are you feeling the pressure to conform to traditional masculine roles that don't resonate with your authentic self?
Do you struggle to trust women or feel discomfort in your relationships with them?
Is your conditioning holding you back from realizing your fullest potential?
Do you experience isolation, feeling like a lone wolf without men you can rely on?
Are you caught in the cycle of comparing yourself to other men and feeling inadequate?
Are you battling the fear of failure or wrestling with feelings of inadequacy?
Would you like the following?
A clearly defined vision of the man you are choosing to become, rooted in your authentic self.
Practical skills and tools to effectively regulate your emotions, allowing you to navigate life's challenges with resilience.
The ability to cultivate deep, meaningful, and authentic relationships with the women in your life, based on trust and mutual respect.
The freedom to fully express who you are, free from the constraints of traditional masculine stereotypes.
A strong and supportive community of men you can trust and call upon when you need guidance and solidarity.
Unshakable confidence in who you are as a man, grounded in self-awareness and inner strength.
The power to break free from conditioning that no longer serves you, unlocking your true potential.
A deep connection to your emotions, with the courage to express vulnerability and embrace your full emotional range.
A sense of fulfillment and purpose that transcends external success, bringing lasting satisfaction to your life.
The strength to overcome the fear of failure and feelings of inadequacy, empowering you to step boldly into your potential.
Imagine anchoring deep emotional sovereignty, living from your heart, and being a part of a community of men that you can trust.
Key Dates
Week 1 Introductory In-Person Master Class: Tuesday the 21st of Jan 7:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ, 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Week 2 Online Gathering: Tuesday the 28th of Jan 2025, 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Week 3 In-Person Master Class: Tuesday the 4th of Feb 2025 7pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ, 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Week 4 Online Gathering: Tuesday the 11th of Feb 2025 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Week 5 In-Person Master Class: Tuesday the 18th of Feb 2025 7pm-10pm at: Man Cave HQ, 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
Week 6 Online Gathering: Tuesday the 25th of Feb 2025 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Week 7 In-Person Initiation Ceremony: Friday the 7th of March 2025 7pm - 7am: Location TBA.
Week 8 Online Integration Closing Circle: Tuesday the 11th of March 2025 7pm - 9pm via Zoom.
Total:
x3 In-Person Mater-classes- at Man Cave HQ
x3 Online Gathering's - via Zoom
x1 Initiatory experience - Location TBA
The Soul Investment…..
Please note that this container has limited spaces available. The soul investment is available on both Pay-In-Full and Payment Plan options.
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Pay in Full Price: $1,400
Save $80 if you pay in full.
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Payment Plan: $1,480 paid off via 8 x fortnightly instalments of $185.00
($185.00 is withdrawn from your account automatically once every 2 weeks, across 16 weeks).
Contact me…..
joshua@yourwindow.life
0417 131 925