When HBR starts writing about Men’s Mental Health at Work we better start paying attention. For too long, traditional ideas of masculinity have focused on power, competitiveness, and aggression. This has led to a culture where men are often afraid to show vulnerability and emotion, and where they are discouraged from seeking help or support. This outdated notion of masculinity is harmful not only to men, but to business and society as a whole.

In this episode, Canay Atalay & Rudy de Waele share with us the story of how they met and recognised their soul connection. They let us in on their secrets of success that have allowed their relationship to thrive, in their personal lives and in business. They open up about the challenges they have overcome since they opened their relationship and how they have dealt with jealousy. They each discuss masculine and feminine energy and how each plays a role in their relationship, business, and in life. They also discuss plant medicine, their most profound cathartic moments, how they turned crises into growth, and the importance of dreaming together.

Very interesting episode on self-inquiry, trauma, and the authentic self, with our Unconditional Men friends, Louie Valloti and Giancarlo Canavesio on the Mangu.tv podcast.

When looking around at what’s happening in the world today, IMHO we are seeing the last outbursts of a limited patriarchal belief system and related fear-based controlling power and resource-driven wars.

After working a couple of years on my personal growth and inner transformation and moving to Ibiza in 2019, when talking to men, I often felt a feeling of superficiality, disconnection, of something lost, of not being present, sometimes a deep feeling of discomfort, a lack of bonding, of not truly being who you are, …

Here's a great in-depth interview with Sudhir on Ibiza Refuge for Dreamers on his +30 years experience with men's work and the work we do with Unconditional Men

Because you’ve been the world’s prototype for success, but also the archetype of entitlement. But it doesn’t seem to make you happy, does it? Because the world around you doesn’t want that anymore. And so the man you’ve become doesn’t make sense anymore. Therein lies the wound.

It is likely that the ongoing evolution of gender and intimate relationships will gradually transform not only human sexuality but also sexual identity. I leave the task of discussing such changes in the female gender for discerning women attuned to the spirit of the times, as well as for the relevant transgender people in the case of nonbinary gender identities. Here I focus on exploring one possible shift in male sexual identity: the movement from the traditional Alpha Male to what I name the Omega Man

A journey to find my truth within, my absolute truth, unconditioned from any judgement, blame or shame I was conditioned to growing up or may have gathered throughout my life.

When opening a circle (or connecting to an online group discussion) we open the space with a personal or group exercise that takes us out of our minds (our work tasks, our worries from the day or stress situations we have been in) into our hearts by doing a short meditation, priming exercise or a connection to the body through breathing, movement or dancing, and connect to the energy or emotion you’re in.