Man ALive

This week is about learning how to maximize your insights and personal growth within a group therapy setting. You’ll develop tools for self-inquiry, group interaction, and clear communication. You’ll receive a general overview of the course, and like all participants, you will introduce yourself to the group and share your intentions for learning. Dr. Tierney will lead the the group by creating a supportive environment that encourages collaborative learning.

This week includes educational material that will give you a map to navigate your personal development. Dr. Brian Tierney will discuss issues of agency, autonomy, and self-control to aid men in galvanizing their integrity. You’ll participate in group exercises designed to help men develop the strength to encounter the ways they may sabotage their growth and development. You’ll also learn conflict resolution techniques and get a valuable model for conflict resolution that you can use.

This week is a continuation of Week #2, focusing on conflict resolution, accountability, and integrity. Your men’s group will dive deeper into exploring conflicts, inner and outer. Group members will have an opportunity to explore their relationship with anger and rage. Plus, group exercises will revolve around navigating conflicts, self-expression, and developing emotional intelligence. You’ll also be given a structure for managing and containing conflictual interactions in life and work. The group will then shift to look at issues of personal meaning and life mission.

In this group session, Dr. Brian will discuss matters of intimacy: what helps and what hinders. He will provide valuable education about shame and support the men in deepening and diversifying their ability to express love. The cultural construction of maleness will be encountered, critiqued, and deconstructed in a supportive environment.

This week allows you and the group a space to explore your fears and vulnerabilities. Processes will aid group members in encountering the aspects of themselves that they hide, repress, or deny. There will be an opportunity for each man to be supported in uncovering barriers that block them in various life domains.

By now, the group has been forged and the session will deepen the prior week. Each man will have an opportunity to work through some of their core issues in a supportive environment. Personalized education will give participants practical ways to develop themselves outside of group.

This week will explore the topic of sovereignty, which is all about embodying your unique power as an individual. You’ll learn what it means to be both humble and grand. Dr. Brian will teach about the shadow side of sovereignty, narcissism—and you and the group will explore this shadow side, as well as the creative and expansive elements of sovereignty.