Healing from Dominant Power
a process group for men
From an early age, boys and then men learn to suppress their emotions. This often leaves them with limited emotional bandwidth, reduced emotional intelligence, and a truncated ability to relate to a variety of feelings.
So often, men find themselves reduced to the familiar outlets of anger, violence, or "being nice"— that constriction of emotion leads to deeper struggles like depression, anxiety, numbness and addiction. What's missing is a depth of emotional experience and the ability to truly connect through robust vulnerability.
How do men learn these early messages? What explicit and implicit forces teach them to shut down and "toughen up"? And how do they begin to unlearn these patterns that hold them small, so they can expand deeper into a world of genuine emotion and meaningful relationships?
Join this five-week therapeutic men's group to explore these powerful questions. You'll move through focused group work to identify, understand, and practice new ways of tapping into and opening up the parts of your emotional world as a man, waiting to be explored.
It's time to reclaim your emotional depth and build more authentic connections.
Five sessions - $65 per session
Wednesdays 6:00-7:30 pm PST June 4th - July 2nd
Participants must be able to attend all five sessions
Meetings in Zoom
This course is the prerequisite to entering the ongoing, group therapy meeting that occurs weekly on Mondays at 4pm PST for 90 mins.
Facilitated by Jeffrey Batstone EdD LMHC
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The facilitator is a licensed, trauma-informed therapist
Jeffrey Batstone EdD LMHC works as a psychotherapist in private practice treating sexual and spiritual trauma. He works to heal the relational patterns of our Western culture’s dominant power disease, towards a wholeness rooted in the integrity of our inherent Earthly belonging. He also serves within the leadership of Illuman of WA an organization dedicated to men’s inner work. He is a ritual and eco-therapy guide, and serves within the Episcopal church. He makes his home with his wife and three children in Bremerton WA.
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