Sundays, January 5 - February 9
4pm - 6pm PST | 7pm - 9pm EST
develop a loving, compassionate relationship with your essential, authentic self by addressing shame voices and patterning at the root.
In this 6-part online course, we will work with shame through somatic practices, deep listening and community building to examine the ways we are culturally conditioned around shame to form unburdened ways of relating to ourselves and each other.
Writer Brene Brown defines shame as the sense that “there’s something fundamentally wrong with me, that I’m unworthy of love.” We believe that one of the antidotes to shame is loving witnessing of all our parts, offering compassion to all those places we deem unworthy. This space aspires for that. We will touch on both personalized and collective stories to re-visibilize the elements of ourselves that have been invisibilized by cultural shame.
this course is designed for male-identifying and/or male-socialized folks and is specifically welcoming of all men including queer and trans men.
if you an hold an identity beyond cis/het male, we’d love to talk with you about what inclusivity means to us.
embrace your shadows
find your freedom
mapping our journey
unburdening from shame is an 6-part 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 integration activities including:
recorded guided practices, at-home exercises, journal prompts, and reading materials.
intro
Leaning in and Meeting your Edges
co-creating agreements and intentions. receiving the invitation of our discomfort. finding language to talk about shame.
January 5 @ 4pm PST / 7pm EST
east
Charting the Territory
examining how shame manifests in our lives and relationships, and why we feel it. how do our bodies hold our stories of shame?
January 12 @ 4pm PST / 7pm EST
south
Visibilizing our Shame
receiving and bearing witness to shame. encountering the inner critic. examining societal voices of shame.
January 19 @ 4pm PST / 7pm EST
west
Unshaming
with Naveed Heydari
engaging with the messages within our shame through somatic and vocal expression. transforming shame into embodied truth.
January 26 @ 4pm PST / 7pm EST
north
Befriending Ourselves
with Chase “Cub” Bishov, AMFT
extending love to parts of ourselves that have not known love. discerning guilt from shame. disarming the inner critic.
February 2 @ 4pm PST / 7pm EST
integration
Opening to the Other
how does our relating change when we release the messages of shame? mirroring transformations. reflecting worthiness. finding integration together.
February 9 @ 4pm PST / 7pm EST
“I felt so welcome and safe in delving deep inside to answer questions I hadn't even considered asking.”
- kinhood program participant
testimonials from previous cohort members:
“This course came at a time when I needed it the most. At the time I had done a lot of reading, listening to podcasts, and work in therapy and I really needed a jolt in how I was reparenting myself around the topic. What I didn't expect was the impact of hearing from other men both familiar and unfamiliar to my own walk of life. I'm leaving this course with the affirmation that I'm not alone in my struggles, strides and learnings.”
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“This was a beautiful space of deep, sprawling exploration of socialization, shame, desire, self-connection, and transformation. There were intimate confessions and connections, and lots of space for moving through it all.”
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“This course felt so sacred to me. So many of the moments of the course felt so rare - moments to talk about sex, my body, early experiences... that I hadn't been invited to share with any one else before. The group so quickly became a place with so much safety and so much vulnerable learning.”
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“I avoided ‘men's work’ for so long, holding onto the protection mechanisms that I'd created to survive adolescence. I'm glad that I finally let me guard down with Kinhood. This space was soft, caring, delightful, and gender expansive. This space helped me move through my misgivings and come out the other side with more openness, sensuousness, and readiness to treat men--and myself--with kindness and curiosity.”
“Men's work is brand new to me, and I couldn't have asked for better guides into exploring my soul.”
- kinhood program participant
meet your guides
Ophir Haberer
Ophir (he/him) is a Jerusalem-born facilitator, educator, mediator, ritualist, storyteller, and organizational consultant. He has been guiding men’s work for over 6 years and has facilitated for numerous organizations all over the country. He is a certified Esalen Massage practitioner and in the process of certifying as a somatic trauma therapist through the Hakomi Institute of California. He is passionate about working with clients to move trauma through the body.
Alexandr Soran
Alexandr (he/they) is a jack of all trades from Kalapuya land in Oregon. He is currently a Master of Divinity candidate at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he studies the intersections of masculinity, earth-based traditions and theology. An inhabitant and lover of liminal spaces, Alexandr’s commitment to deep solidarity and liberation for all beings manifests through their exploratory approach to multifaith chaplaincy and men’s work.
guest educators
Naveed Heydari is a somatic guide specializing in Unshaming and somatic parts work. Through personalized coaching, group facilitation, and embodied practices, Naveed helps clients cultivate safety within themselves and connect deeply with their bodies' wisdom. His work integrates diverse modalities, including somatic self-inquiry, vocal expression, and walking as a healing practice, creating space for profound self-compassion and transformation. Rooted in a belief in the body’s innate capacity to heal, Naveed offers a grounded, compassionate approach to navigating life’s challenges and uncovering deeper truths.
Chase (Cub) Bishov, AMFT, is a relational gestalt psychotherapist, trained psychedelic guide, men’s group facilitator and cosmic folk musician. He believes that psychotherapy can be a practice space for connecting authentically, being compassionately curious with what is present, and developing a deeper relationship with embodied intelligence. Through these intentions, Chase hopes to support his clients in accessing more of their genuine selves, connecting more to their purposes for being, deepening their relationships and experiencing greater play, pleasure and freedom. He also incorporates trauma-informed, transpersonal and feminist lenses into his practice. These days, he feels most excited about working with men in their early twenties to early thirties. You can find out more about his work here.
frequently asked
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Early sign-up is available until December 2nd and is just $240!
Regular price for the 6-week program, cohort, and course materials is $360.
If you would like to support our work at kinhood, we invite you to pay a sustainer price of $440.
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When you sign up for the Unburdening from Shame course, you are getting an 6-week program dedicated to the healing and evolution of your relationship to shame, joining a cohort of people who are on parallel paths of self-discovery, 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 integaration exercises to work with after.
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This course is for any and all male-identifying and/or male-socialized people who want to follow their curiosity toward a more authentic and empowered self-expression, and build supportive, meaningful relationship with other folks 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 recognize the limitations of the category “men,” and how this category can create division and exclusion. Our spaces are for 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, and gender expansive people socialized as men.
We recognize that the intersection of gender and sexuality is a complicated one, and we are in a collective process of learning to navigate it. If you are a queer and/or trans man or non-binary person trying to decide if this course right for you, please feel free to reach out so that we can support you in evaluating this path. We would be happy to connect you with queer/trans members of our community who can share their experience.
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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 fellow participants.
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 and to prepare for the upcoming session.
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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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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 page, and pre-course materials. You will also receive a link to a cohort whatsapp group where you will be able to interact with other course participants.
