MEN OF HEARTS
Men of Hearts is a 10-week transformative journey that challenges men to choose a path of maturation, by meeting their shadow, cultivating emotional containment, and reclaiming a heart-led masculinity through initiation and ally-ship.
"The longest journey a man will go on is the 18 inches from his head to his heart" - Andrew Bennett
Welcome to Men of Hearts
10 Week Container - Shadow Work - Emotional Containment - Maturation - Community
Men of Hearts is a 10-week initiation into matured masculinity - a structured process designed to move men out of reactivity, confusion, and self-betrayal, and into grounded responsibility and agency.
In a culture with little real eldership and few embodied masculine standards, many men are left to navigate adulthood without guidance. The result is fragmentation: emotional avoidance, relational collapse, leaked desire, and power that shows up without direction. Men of Hearts exists to address that gap.
This container focuses on developing capacities most men were never taught. Week by week, men build the ability to stay present under pressure - emotionally, relationally, and internally. They learn how to hold emotion without collapsing, reclaim their centre in relationship with the feminine, and integrate their edge, desire, and penetrating force so it no longer distorts their lives.
The work is demanding by design. Men are challenged, reflected, and held accountable by other men who are serious about stepping up - living to their word, owning their blind spots, and taking full responsibility for their lives.
Through practice, structured inquiry, and communal accountability, Men of Hearts develops a core skill set: self-governance. Men leave steadier, clearer, and more trustworthy, carrying a mature expression of masculinity that holds up under pressure.
2026 Program Dates
Weekly Sessions:
Every Wednesday night, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
From: January 21st – March 25th, 2026
Immersive Experience – The Vigil:
Overnight from: Friday March 20th – Saturday March 21st, 2026
“You wont leave the same, thats a promise”
-Phil
“This is what I have been looking for to understand what it is to be a man.”
- Peter
“Having someone lead this who actually lives it makes all the difference.”
-Kosta
Men Of Hearts is for men that are…
Based in Melbourne and seeking to connect with a community of like-minded men.
Motivated to really look at what it means to be a modern man in this climate.
Have already had some level of experience exploring their emotions, and are ready to deepen that journey.
Motivated to seek out where they hold shame towards their human nature
i.e aggression, sexuality, sensitivity, survival patterns…
Committed to creating a relationship with themselves where they accept everything they say they are are, and everything they say they are not.
Navigating a significant life transition and want to powerfully embrace it.
Willing to cultivate deeper, more authentic relationships in all areas of their lives.
Ready to step into an integrated masculinity that can hold himself, and others.
It’s time for men to begin the maturation that modern culture failed to initiate.
The Content We Will Explore Together:
Insight as to why Modern Masculinity is the way it is, and what is being asked of Men.
Understanding the Mother Wound & Cultivating Deeper Awareness of where you may be Projecting this Wound onto Others.
Getting Intimate with the Sexual Shadow of the Masculine.
Meeting a Man’s Relationship with his Violence & Aggression.
Integrating the Little Boy, the Teenager, and the Young Man Within.
Learning Parts Work and the Power of Reparenting Yourself.
Reclaiming Allyship to Integrate the Seasons of Life.
Initiating The Masculine through Ceremony.
Responding to the Call of Heart-Led Leadership.
More About The Experience….
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Week 1: The Opening + Introducing Containment: Wednesday the 21st of Jan 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 2: Containing The Emotional Self: Wednesday the 28th of Jan 2025, 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 3: Meeting The Mother Wound: Wednesday the 4th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 4: Meeting The Mother Wound: Wednesday the 11th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 5: Integrating The Sexual Shadow: Wednesday the 18th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 6: Integrating The Sexual Shadow: Wednesday the 25th of Feb 2025 6pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 7: Maturing The Masculine: Wednesday the 4th of March 2025 6pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 8: Initiating The Masculine: Wednesday the 11th of March 2025 6pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 9: The Vigil: Wednesday the 20th of March 2025 6pm - 8am at: Location TBA
Week 10: Integration: Wednesday the 25th of March 2025 7pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Total:
x9 In-Person Master Classes - at Man Cave HQ - 20 Ovens Steet, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
x1 Initiatory experience - Location TBA (Rural Vic).
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The ability to hold your emotions - not by shutting them down, but by feeling deeply without being ruled by reactivity.
A grounded connection to the parts of you that shaped how you show up in love, conflict, and leadership - especially the wounded boy within.
A new depth of presence that makes you safe to be around - for yourself, your loved ones, and your future.
Insight into how your relationship with your mother still impacts your adult life - and tools to shift those patterns without blame or bypass.
Freedom from the grip of co-dependency, people-pleasing, and the quiet resentment that sabotages intimacy with women.
The space to explore your desire, shame, and sexual identity in the company of honest men - without judgment or performance.
Tools to reclaim and integrate your sexual energy - not to suppress or project it, but to carry it with responsibility and discernment.
A clearer sense of your place - as a man in the world - through frameworks on masculinity, biology, violence, and the role of men in society.
The company of honest-brave men - where depth, humour, and honesty are the baseline, not the exception.
A new relationship with discomfort - one that reveals it as a threshold to growth, not a threat to avoid.
A Leadership that earns its place - through clarity, containment, and care.
A structure of support that meets your readiness - we’ll challenge you when needed, hold you when required, and walk beside you as you return to who you really are.
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9x In-person Masterclasses.
1x Overnight Initiatory Experience.
Voice note access to Joshua across the 10 weeks.
Unlimited access to the Men of Hearts community.
Resources for emotional regulation and integration.
1x exclusive discount for 1:1 mentorship with Joshua (Your Window.)
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Pay In Full: $2800 if you pay in full.
Payment Plan: $2900 paid off via 8 x fortnightly instalments of $362.50.
Men of Hearts is chartered into 4 Potent Modules that you will be both guided through and initiated in:
MODULE ONE: Containing The Emotional Self
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The most powerful man in the room is the one who is most calm, not because he feels less, but because he has learned how to hold more.
Most men carry unprocessed parts within them: the boy who felt abandoned, the teenager who was shamed, the man who buried his pain just to survive. Left unseen, these parts hijack us - in conflict, in love, and in leadership - causing outbursts, withdrawal, or patterns that sabotage the very intimacy we crave. A man does not evolve until he turns toward this inheritance, until he feels the pain he’s been taught to turn away from, and meets it in the body - the domain of emotion, intuition, and wisdom. Here, he learns to hold storms without being ruled by them, to feel fully without collapsing into emotional chaos.
This is what containment really is: not control, not suppression, but the creation of a safe space inside where his own well-being can be held, managed, and protected. A space that eliminates the need for self-defence or pretending, and allows him to choose his response rather than react from old wounds. And in that capacity, he becomes trustworthy - not because he has no emotion, but because he can carry it with strength, presence, and self responsibility.
This is the ground of maturity: the man who sheds his masks, lets go of false belonging, and stands calm, steady, and safe - for himself, for his loved ones, and for the world. He is no longer ruled by the boy within; he becomes the man that boy always needed - the one who stays.
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
MODULE TWO: Standing With the Feminine
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Most men don’t struggle with women because they don’t care.
They struggle because intimacy activates patterns they were never trained to regulate.That early imprint shapes how a man shows up with the feminine - long after childhood.
It appears as over-giving, withdrawal, emotional dependence, or quiet resentment.Many men don’t realise they are still asking women to provide something internal: regulation, reassurance, or a sense of worth.
In this module, men examine their relationship to the feminine honestly and without blame: their relationship with their mother, and the patterns that repeat across past relationships.
This work isn’t about fixing the past.
It’s about completing a developmental process that was never finished.As a man builds emotional self-authority:
he stops seeking mothering from partners.
he stays grounded under intimacy and conflict.
his boundaries become clean, not defensive.
Relationship stops destabilising him.
It becomes the place where he stands - not where he disappears.
"The mother wound is the original wound, the one that sets the stage for all others. Healing it transforms every aspect of our lives."
Richard C. Schwartz - Creator of the Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS).
MODULE THREE: Owning the Edge
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Masculine power is a penetrating force.
It initiates, pursues, and brings life into form.When a man isn’t taught how to relate to this force, it distorts.
It leaks through sex, conflict, avoidance, violence, or self-sabotage.Modern culture has no clean place for this energy to mature.
It is often shamed, feared, or caricatured - sometimes for good reason.
But suppression doesn’t create maturity.
It creates extremes.Some men become ruled by hunger they don’t understand.
Others disown their edge to avoid conflict, rejection, or consequence.
Neither is whole.In this module, men learn to meet their penetrating energy with awareness and responsibility - across sexuality, aggression, ambition, and pursuit.
This work isn’t about indulging desire or physical strength.
It’s about creating the conditions for power to develop, mature, and serve.As this force integrates, men gain clarity around what genuinely turns them on, what is worth fighting for, and what they are willing to pursue with purpose.
The result is not less power - but power that is conscious, grounded, and directed.
"The journey of the male soul is to confront the wild, untamed parts of himself, to bring them into the light of consciousness, and thereby become whole."
Michale Meade
MODULE FOUR: Initiating the Masculine
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For most of human history, ceremonies have been used to mark transitional periods of life.
Rites of Passage were structured experiences offered to someone crossing from child to youth, youth to adult, and adult to elder.
These trials stripped away immaturity and prepared the initiate to embody the responsibilities of the next stage.
For boys in particular, they were essential to maturation: confronting him with challenge, revealing his limits, and testing his courage so he could meet the strength and perspective required of him as a man. As Bill Plotkin reminds us, without initiation, societies remain stuck in early adolescence - obsessed with power and consumption but lacking depth, wisdom, and the maturity that comes from struggle and responsibility.
Without these Rites, as we see today, men drift: chasing validation, collapsing under responsibility, or avoiding it altogether, because they were never shown how to hold their strength in service to something greater than themselves.
At Men of Hearts, we don’t claim to recreate traditional Rites of Passage. Those were intimate, ancestral ceremonies - led by elders who had known the initiate since birth, and shaped by generations of communal wisdom.
What we offer is a modern initiatory experience that honours the heart of what those Rites provided: a space where men are held, tested, and encouraged to step more fully into who they’re becoming.
We hold the container. We protect the edges. And we let nature do the rest.
“To undergo initiation is to step into the unknown, to face our fears, and to emerge with a deeper understanding of our place in the world.”
Bill Plotkin - Depth Psychologist & Author
A bit about me….
Most men aren’t broken - they’re just uninitiated.
They’re still carrying the boy who was never shown how to hold his power without hurting someone.
The boy who lashes out, shuts down, sexualises every connection, or mocks what he doesn’t understand.
I know that boy. I was him.
I grew up around men who were emotionally volatile, checked out, or abusing their power.
The ones meant to protect and guide me were often the most unsafe.
So I rejected masculinity.
And in doing so, I lost the internal structures necessary to support my journey of manhood.
I didn’t know how to want, how to lead, or how to feel without being consumed and confused by it. I longed to be lead by man who was safe, accountable, and willing to show me what is possible.
And so, eventually I obtained perspective, and I began taking responsibility for my circumstances by not only integrating aspects of myself, but also supporting others to do the same thing.
Over the past decade, I’ve guided over 10,000 people through transformational experiences globally. As a senior facilitator and trainer at The Man Cave - Australia’s leading preventive mental health charity, I mentored over 5,000 young men through emotional intelligence programs, and led the development of advanced training pathways for the facilitation team.
I’ve designed and led character development and leadership programs for Movember, the Australian Olympic Committee, Monash University, and The Rites of Passage Institute.
For the past two years, I’ve belonged to a team working alongside psychologist Nigel Denning to develop Unconditional Self Therapy (UST) - a therapeutic model that integrates psychotherapy, somatics, parts work, and cross-cultural healing frameworks to help people navigate inner conflict and access self-trust, creativity, and integration.
Now, I run Men of Hearts - a space for the modern man to honour his journey of maturation.
A space to grow the parts of masculinity the world never helped mature.
Men don’t need to prove anything here.
They just need to bring all of themselves, and trust.
""If you're ready to meet the man inside you - the one buried under all the shit - this is the place to do it"
-Peter
"I finally found the environment that I believe all men are crying out for”
-Harry
"It helped me meet and reparent my inner child. I've never had anything like that before"
-Bryden
"“MOH has shown me how I can take more responsibility for how I show up in the world”
-Kyle
Still unsure if this is the right thing for you?
You are wanting to show up better in your relationships - especially with women.
You’re tired of being hijacked by your emotions when being grounded is needed.
You’re feeling the pull to do something real, raw, and beyond your comfort zone.
You can see the threads between your relationship with your mother and how you relate to women - and want to cut the cord.
You’re done with surface-level talk with men that leaves you feeling empty.
You want to understand why so many men are lost, numbing, or ending their lives - and how to do something about it.
You’re ready to name what actually turns you on, not what you think is acceptable.
You want to be the kind of man your partner, son, or younger self could respect.
Be honest, are you experiencing any of the following?
Key Dates
Week 1: The Opening + Introducing Containment: Wednesday the 21st of Jan 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 2: Containing The Emotional Self: Wednesday the 28th of Jan 2025, 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 3: Standing with the Feminine (Part 1): Wednesday the 4th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 4: Standing with the Feminine (Part 2): Wednesday the 11th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 5: Owning the Edge: (Part 1) Wednesday the 18th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 6: Owning the Edge (Part 2): Wednesday the 25th of Feb 2025 6pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 7: Initiating The Masculine: Wednesday the 4th of March 2025 6pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 8: Initiating The Masculine: Wednesday the 11th of March 2025 6pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 9: The Vigil: Friday the 20th of March 2025 6pm - 8am at: Location TBA (rural VIC)
Week 10: Integration: Wednesday the 25th of March 2025 7pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Total:
x9 In-Person Mater-classes- at Man Cave HQ - 20 Ovens Street, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
x1 Initiatory experience - Location TBA (rural VIC)
The Soul Investment…..
Please note that this container has limited spaces available. The soul investment is available on both Pay-In-Full and Payment Plan options.
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Pay in Full Price: $2800
Save $100 if you pay in full.
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Payment Plan: $2900 paid off via 8 x fortnightly instalments of $362.50
($362.50 is withdrawn from your account automatically once every 2 weeks, across 16 weeks).
Contact me…..
joshua@yourwindow.life
0417 131 925