While we work with all genders and we believe that we all need to be skilled in relating to and interacting with all genders, it can sometimes be helpful to spend time in a group of same-gender-identifying people to reduce one of the variables that cause complexity and misunderstanding in our relationships. By popular demand, we have two different men’s group offerings.
Why group therapy can be just as or more beneficial than individual therapy?
Group therapy helps you develop real, authentic, vulnerable relationships with others. Sometimes the professional/client 1:1 relationship can leave you still feeling different than others. By connecting with the same people each week, with the guidance of a professional, you can develop more awareness of of yourself, help you feel more connected, and find that those things you thought you were holding all by yourself are common and easily forgivable with compassion from yourself and others.
A group of peers helps keep you accountable. Accountability to specific goals and actions that you commit to as well as commitment to sticking with your growth or healing journey when it is tempting to revert back to old patterns.
In our age of social media and many digital but superficial connections, group therapy helps us learn how to relate to others, regardless of how similar or different they are to us. Actually, experiencing genuine connection with others, especially others you might not choose to spend time with otherwise, is an important life experience that can help us with all of our relationships and social interactions.
Our groups are not just supportive, though; they can also be challenging, especially while you are developing the skill to be honest about your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of yourself and others. In order to gain the most from groups, we recommend you also have an individual therapist. The group alone can be sufficient for ongoing work, especially if you are experienced in therapy or personal growth work. But for most people, focused 1:1 work in individual therapy and group therapy are a great combination to gain maximum benefit as they are both different and equally powerful therapeutic experiences.
Tuesday Men’s Interpersonal Process Group – This group mimics real life as much as possible inviting you to focus on the present moment experience and what is being experienced in the interpersonl relationships in the group. It’s a real time lab where you give and receive support while focusing on learning about yourself, your patterns, and developing more honest, authentic, interpersonal relationships.
Thursday Elemental Masculinity Group – This group is for men who want more direct facilitation, teaching, and challenge to aid in cultivating awareness and skill in the domains of thinking, feeling, doing, and being and how to apply these essential skills to life challenges.
Tuesday 5-6:30
This men’s interpersonal process group can help you get more real, more honest with yourself and others propelling you into deeper relationships and deeper success through challenge and support by other men. It is a real-time lab, where you will experience yourself and others with greater awareness and be able to try new behaviors and ways of relating to be more effective in your life.
All topics and goals are welcome. Common themes are anger, depression, anxiety, personal identity, masculinity, relationships with women and/or other men, assertiveness, sex/sexuality, disconnect from emotions, work problems, fatherhood, confidence/self-esteem, accountability, honesty, spirituality, finding purpose and meaning in life. The group runs on the topics you bring, and is then facilitated more directly into the here-and-now relationships with the other people in the group.
This group has been running weekly since 2016 facilitated by Chuck and over a decade prior to that facilitated by a psychologist who retired passing it on to Chuck. The long-running stability, diversity of age, background, and experience of the members, and the experience of the facilitator is rare and one of the most beneficial parts of this group.
The ideal man will have had previous or current experience in therapy or other personal growth, but motivation and desire for greater self awareness will also enable you to benefit if this is your first growth experience.
All men are welcome in this group. You are welcome with all of your struggles, your gifts, your challenges, your gender, your sexuality, your personality, your pain, your shame, your questions, your desires.All of you is welcome here!
It is an ongoing group. $50 per group. 10 week minimum commitment, but most people want to continue on long term for the support, authentic relationships, and unique opportunity to grow with a safe, established, circle of men and trained, experienced, professional facilitator.
To learn more, reach out to inquire if there is an opening. You will either be put on a waitlist for an opening or we’ll schedule a free consult to see if this group is a good fit.
Facilitated by: Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC. Chuck has over a decade of experience participating in and leading men’s groups, experiential groups, therapy groups, wilderness groups, interpersonal process groups, ritual and rites of passage programs, and teaching college courses. Chuck is highly trained in treating trauma, mindfulness, somatic therapy, and is a perpetual student of intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship patterns through ongoing study in psychoanalytic work through JPA in New York.
Thursday 4:30-6
This is a newer group facillitated by Mike Tepp and Chuck Hancock that helps men directly build more skill in thinking, feeling, doing, and being to become more whole, well rounded, and effective in breaking through challenges in your life.
It is an ongoing group. $50 per group. 10 week minimum commitment, but most people want to continue on long term for the support, authentic relationships, and unique opportunity to grow with a safe, established, circle of men and trained, experienced, professional facilitator.
To register, contact [email protected] or call 970-829-0478.