Meeting of small groups of men who support and challenge each other in order to find a healthier, more truthful and vital way to be in the world.

We meet once a week for 2 hours. A ten week commitment is necessary.

We explore important issues for men:

- Male identity in our times
- What is real masculinity?
- Men among men: rivals or trusted friends?
- The testosterone challenge: from anger and aggression to
   assertiveness
- The things men carry: sacrifice, burden, and resilience
- Our fathers, our sons: turning wounds, betrayal, and grief into
   a valuable and vital legacy
- The male way of feeling and expressing
- Males under attack: society, feminism, chauvinism
- How to deal with women: domesticity, autonomy, intimacy,
   and desire
- Commitment: fear, inability and longings
- Wild at heart: our connection to dreams, creativity, spirituality

Therapist Details

Hans Stahlschmidt is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, California. He has a long-standing interest and expertise in working with the complex issues of sustaining a long-term relationship, desire and intimacy, commitment and autonomy, men’s issues, blended families, parenting and finding creative and lasting ways to build a marriage that fosters individual growth and vitality.

He has worked with couples, families, individuals, and groups for over twenty-five years in the US and Germany. He has extensive training in David Schnarch’s Passionate Marriage/ Sexual Crucible approach, James Maddock and Noel Larson’s Differentiation/Attachment Model of Couples work, John Gottman’s Scientific Marital Therapy as well as Neurobiologically based Attachment concepts.

His first experience with men’s groups was in the mid-seventies in Berlin, Germany. He has also been part of the early men’s movement around Robert Bly. He is also a poet and building contractor.