the wisdom within
unearthing the body’s path to intuition
an 8-week online, immersive experience of embodiment
beginning Monday, October 23rd
our lives are filled with an endless road of choices and decisions.
how do you know which path to choose? how do you know what is right for you?
your body knows what you need.
do you…
see the possibility for living a more full and authentic life, and feel that there’s something blocking or holding you back?
desire to give better care to your body and your self?
feel ready to meet your growing edges and move through them?
want more tools to listen deeply to your body and access your intuition?
desire to show up in a better way for your relationships and your community?
feel ready to grow a life that is healthier and thriving?
through this course you will develop tools to listen more closely to your body,
to process, integrate and move through emotions,
and access your body’s intuitive knowledge.
you will discover that your body is an instrument,
that can play with the experiences and emotions of life.
you will move and dance and breath through your edges.
and you will find a wisdom within that will show you the way.
this course is the culmination of years of training, facilitation and practice.
we have concentrated the most impactful parts of our learnings to create this course,
created to help you access your authentic and inspired self.
The wisdom within was a series of gateways through the discomfort of healing into terrains of beauty, sweetness, and depth. I feel nourished by the small sips of wisdom I received from the facilitators, guests, and other participants. It feels like a compass point to follow, and a few hearty steps down a road toward deeper embodiment, and a deeper sense of kinship with other men, myself and the world. The ripples are nourishing me in my fatherhood, husbandhood, and fellowship with beloveds.
~ fall 2022 cohort member
meet your guides
Dor Haberer
Dor (he/him) has been facilitating groups in men’s work, self care, and cultural & ancestral reclamation for nearly a decade, and brings his expertise and passion in these areas to our course. Dor incorporates somatic modalities into his work and is trained in Shiatsu Therapy, Qi Gong, and 5 Rhythms dance. Dor brings together his connection to his ancestral Arabic Jewish Roots, his love of ecology, and orientation towards simplicity and pleasure.
Ophir Haberer
Ophir is a Jerusalem-born facilitator, educator, healer, mediator, ritualist, storyteller, poet, and organizational consultant, and has facilitated for numerous organizations throughout the united states and internationally. He trained in trauma therapy with the Hakomi Institute of California and body work with the Esalen institute. He is passionate about working with clients to move trauma through the body through individual and collective work. You can find more on his work at ophirhaberer.com.
assistant facilitators
Alexandr Soran
Alexandr (he/they) is a second year seminarian, chaplain, outdoorsman and jack of all trades from Kalapuya land in Oregon. An inhabitant and lover of liminal and multiplicitous spaces, his passion lies in exploring material and spiritual power relationships. Alexandr’s current work at Union Theological Seminary in New York addresses white Christian nationalism through liberative theological and interpersonal frameworks of deep solidarity within men’s work. Bringing together multi-religious and ecological liberation theologies, decolonial anti-authoritarianism, intersectional grassroots labor organizing, transformative justice, and trauma-informed spiritual care, he invites men to cultivate a practice of love in which the mind and body shed hierarchical, extractive, colonial modes of relating to human and non-human beings in favor of interdependent, non-dualistic paradigms.
guest educators
Jonah Jensen
Jonah is a facilitator of healing and awakening with many tools he has collected on the journey. He is a Somatic Experiencing Practicioner, Depth Mindfulness Teacher, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Polarity Therapist, Wilderness Therapy Guide, Ceremonialist, Writer and Photographer. The Soul of his work comes from the lived experience of his own life-given initiations and a journey of disillusionment with modernity which awakened a root of ancient remembrance.
Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch specailist working to identify and interrupt barriers between people. As co-founder of both Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of black people around homophobia, transphobia, internalized racism, and those that are Chronically UnderTouched. Because oppression is a part of historical and present American culture, the long term impact of those trauma stories should be acknowledged and held as a map for our collective healing. Aaron Johnson practices and invites various methods moving through these stories, such as the communal listening year, sound healing, meditation, and closeness to the earth.
Kaylyn Wright
Kaylyn Wright is an artist and healer with a BA in Psychology. With a background in Hip Hop and passion for mental health, he is actively training to be a Sound Therapist through The Illuminiki Method. He was introduced to Mens work through Sacred Sons in 2021. In addition, he participated in the Kinhood launch program for young men of color, which initiated his path to leadership in Mens Work. Kaylyn is currently a Teaching Artist with the Smiling Boys Project, working with high school young men in Watts, California.
Coby Leibman
Coby has 25 years of experience mentoring youth and supporting adults in developing their gifts and supporting their healing journey. He has trained in Somatic healing modalities for seven years with The Somatic Experiencing Institute, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Gabor Mate. His areas of specialty include trans-generational trauma, anxiety & depression, adolescent development, trauma & PTSD, grief & loss, life transitions, communication skills and examining power. Coby has had the honor of working with many esteemed spiritual teachers that inform his work. He has attended Bolad's Kitchen, an International school based in New Mexico with Martin Prechtel (Keres/Mayan Spiritual Leader) since 2009, a school focused on revitalization of living culture, ancestral crafts, stories, and ritual. Other long-term teachers and mentors include Malidoma Some (Dagara tribe), Sonbonfu Some (Dagara tribe), Keith and Shane Pashe (Dakota Tipi), and Eda Zavala (Wari tribe).
Sam Sebastion
Sam Sebastian has been practicing massage and bodywork for over 15 years. He is currently a student in the Contemplative Psychology program at Naropa University, an Esalen Massage Teacher, a Certified Massage Therapist, Hakomi Practitioner, Somatic Mindfulness Coach, and a Yoga Instructor. Various modalities inform his work and have become an ever-evolving body of work of its own. He has a passion for helping others become more embodied!
Tyger
Tyger is a Gate Keeper, teacher, mediator, spiritual guide and mentor. Over his years on our planet he has cultivated skills and talents in the realms of spirituality, holistic healing, theater, and personal and professional development. Tyger has spent this last decade working with inspiring and notable teachers, Malidoma Some, Sobonfu Some, Resmaa Menachem, Francoise Bourzat and Drs. Joanna Macy, Ibrahim Farajeje and Joy DeGruy. The work with these teachers has spanned a West African spiritual cosmology, trauma of various types, Sufism, Buddhism, Earth based medicines and healings, and Joanna Macy’s “The Work that Reconnects”. Tyger and Joanna most recently have offered dharma teaching at San Quentin State Prison on the Tibetan Shambhala Prophesy. Those dharma teachings for the incarcerated ones, himself and for those of the lives he touches encourage using the tools of insight, wisdom and the heat of compassion.
Ian MacKenzie
Ian is a filmmaker, writer, and host of The Mythic Masculine podcast, which explores conversations on mythology, culture and emerging masculinities. For over 10 years, he’s been tracking the global emergence of new culture. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, he has sought and amplified the voices of visionaries, artists and activists who have been working toward planetary system change. Ian is best known for his films Sacred Economics, Lost Nation Road, Amplify Her, Dear Guardians, and Occupy Love (directed by Velcrow Ripper), and Village of Lovers.
"This has been an incredible experience that has taught me to be more open and honest, with myself and those around me. Men's work is brand new to me, and I couldn't have asked for better guides into exploring my soul. I felt so welcome and safe in delving deep inside to answer questions I hadn't even considered asking. My time in this course will always be with me and help shape who I am going forward in life."
- Fall 2022 Cohort Member
mapping our journey
the wisdom within is an 8-module live online course and cohort.
you will have lifetime access to all course materials.
all modules include a live online session and a variety of home play exercises including:
recorded guided practices, exercises, journal prompts, and reading materials.
module 1
Listening to the Body
connecting to your
breath, belly, muscle and heart.
slowing down and simply being.
Monday, October 23 @ 5:30 PST
module 2
Moving like Water
exploring your movement and flow through dance, somatic release, and embodiment practice.
Monday, October 30 @ 5:30 PST
module 3
Igniting the Flame
stoking your passion and harnessing it.
releasing anger while protecting yourself from being consumed by
Monday, November 6 @ 5:30 PST
module 4
Opening the Floodgates
releasing the dam of emotions that want to bring waters.
letting grief flow freely.
Monday, November 13 @ 5:30 PST
module 5
Holding Space
practicing and committing to self care.
creating loving and supportive presence for your relationships & communities.
Monday, November 20 @ 5:30 PST
module 6
Tending the Hearth
receiving guidance from your lineage, ancestry, culture and ritual.
honoring and nourishing through food.
Monday, November 27 @ 5:30 PST
module 7
Embodying the Vision
setting intention and charting a course towards your growth & desire.
living out your prayer.
Monday, December 4 @ 5:30 PST
module 8
Cultivating Gratitude
celebrating yourself for walking your path with care and courage.
expressing appreciation and love.
Monday, December 11 @ 5:30 PST
kinhood is a “men’s care” organization.
we are committed to growing the care that men experience, receive, and give.
we envisions a world where all people live beyond toxic masculinity, in liberated, nurturing and interdependent expressions of self and community. kinhood is a place for men to explore and become their most authentic and expressive selves.
kinhood is holding a wide and brilliant spectrum of what it means to be a man, and our community and offerings are for any person who carries experience or identity as a man.
frequently asked
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When you sign up for The Wisdom Within you are getting an 8-week program dedicated to your personal growth, joining a cohort of men who are on parallel paths of self knowing, and becoming a part of the larger kinhood community.
As a member of the course you will have access to a collection of learning materials including readings, reflection exercises, recorded meditations and guided practices.
Each course session will center around a live 2-hour call, with “home play” exercises before and after.
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This course is for any and all men who want to deepen in their self knowing, in their pursuit of personal growth, and in building supportive, meaningful relationship with other men on the same path. This course and cohort will support and nourish you whether you are new to men’s groups or have been participating in them for years.
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At kinhood, when we say men, we are including everyone who identifies as a man, has been conditioned or socialized as a man, or has experienced life as a man. Our community is made up of a wondrous spectrum of experience and identity, including queer and trans men.
We find that many of the men’s groups we see are bound by certain ideas of masculinity. We are not so concerned with the topic of masculinity, and are more focused on providing support, nourishment, and care for men without regard for how we choose to express our gender or sexuality.
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For each module, you will receive materials and exercises to work with before a live call. These materials will help you to prepare for the session in a way that is personally relevant and meaningful to you.
The main part of each module is a 2-hour live call with the entire cohort, your cohort guides, and guest educators/facilitators. During this time you will be learning and sharing alongside a dedicated group of men.
Following each live call you will receive a set of readings, journal prompts, and exercises that will help you to embody and integrate the week’s learnings.
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All of the calls will be recorded and available to you on the course cohort page to watch or review after the live session.
You will have lifetime access to these recordings and all of the course materials to use whenever you’d like.
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Regular price for the 8-week program, cohort, and course materials is $360.
Early sign-up is available until October 1st and is just $240.
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kinhood is committed to ensuring that nobody is unable to participate in our programs due to financial limitations.
If you would like to sign up at a subsidized rate, please email us at community@kinhood.org and we will send you a discount code to enter when purchasing.
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As soon as you sign up you will receive a welcome e-mail with a link to the cohort page. From there you will have immediate access to the course syllabus, cohort network page, and pre-course “home play” assignments. You will also receive a link to a course member online community forum where you will be able to interact with other course participants.
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Yes!
We are in the planning stages of a winter retreat in January and will likely have at least one summer retreat in 2023. There will also likely be another course offering in the spring.
For now we encourage you to join our online network at kinhood.mn.co and connect with us on instagram @kinhood.community. From there you will be able to learn about all program offerings as well as online gatherings and in-person meetups.
