Name: Knowing the Conscious Man Intensive - Nov 21-24, 2024 - PROGRAM FULL
Start: 2024-11-21T15:00:00+11:00
End: 2024-11-24T15:00:00+11:00

***For more information and to register visit our [website](https://mensgroup.melbourne/knowing-the-conscious-man-residential/).***

We are designed as part of nature to encounter life with amazement and wonder. And yet, our predominant transactional consumer culture trades this for a fiction i.e. that your happiness and ‘worth’ is found through productivity, material gain, technological advancement and social status. The fiction leaves most men with a profound lack of fulfillment, chronic disconnection, loneliness and a frustrated search for meaning.

Men can go for days, weeks, months or years without encountering their own wildness, rarely sharing an authentic, deeply intimate moment with themselves and those they are closest to. It is a critical time for us to stand up for ‘inner work’, a time to listen to our own soul, heal ourselves, and reclaim our wild beauty.

The good news is that embedded in our psyche by nature, is the potential for a bigger, more sensuous, more imaginative, more intimate and vital life. As [Bill Plotkin](https://www.animas.org/about-us/our-founder/) posits, ‘it’s time to take another look at ourselves’.

The Knowing the Conscious Man Intensive invites participants to look more deeply at themselves using nature as a mirror of their inner landscape.

It is about offering courageous men a deep sense of possibility – an alternative, soul infused, more meaningful and conscious way of embracing and walking your individual path.

The workshop asks a lot of you – if you are drawn to register, prepare to be significantly stretched on the path toward psychological wholeness. Using nature as a mirror, you will be supported to explore the deeper questions about your life – questions that have no right to be ignored.

The workshop will take you as deep as you are willing to go – it is being held at ‘[Raven’s Nest](https://www.alexwhite.com.au/retreat-centre)‘ in Venus Bay 170 kilometres South East of Melbourne.

This is a camping-only program and some previous personal growth experience is expected of applicants.

During the workshop you will:

♦ Encounter [Bill Plotkin](https://www.animas.org/about-us/our-founder/)‘s Nature Based Map of the Human Psyche as a core navigational tool. (The ‘Wild Mind Map’ is a holistic model to reclaim and embody the many facets of our innate human wholeness granted to us by nature yet suppressed by our experience of the prevailing ‘ego-centric’ culture).
♦ Access the four windows of knowing
♦ Experience deep somatic ritual and altered states of perception
♦ Cultivate an intimate conversation with your internal world and the natural world around us
♦ Experience significant solo time in nature using nature as the mirror of your psyche
♦ Proximate into a deeper relationship with the wounded and/or protector parts of yourself.
♦ See your physical body as a manifestation of your inner ‘story’
♦ Experience ‘soul hygeine’ with practices for tending often tighly held parts including [grief](https://www.francisweller.net/) and shame
♦ Meditation, deep imagination and dreams
♦ Time in Council and lots, lots more!!

♦ This is a 3 night residential intensive. It is a fully catered (with Chef Ashley Mariani), **camping-only** workshop for up to 16 participants plus the MMG team. You will need to bring a tent and camping gear.

**♦** Date: 5PM (3PM Arrival & Setup) Thursday Nov 21- 2PM Sunday Nov 24, 2024

**♦** Investment: your time and $995 minimum – a 50% deposit will hold your place.

***For more information and to register visit our [website](https://mensgroup.melbourne/knowing-the-conscious-man-residential/).***

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