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 authentic manhood, a journey designed to move you from the restless energy of adolescence into the grounded responsibility of mature masculinity. In a world lacking eldership or decent masculine role models men are dying - literally - for guidance, and the ability to affectively guide themselves. This container offers a return to something ancient.
It is a space where you confront the shadows, the wounds, and the parts of yourself that have been buried beneath the weight of societal conditioning. This is not a quick fix or a surface-level exploration. Week by week, we will dive into deep work together where you will meet you learn how to how your emotion, meet the mother wound, and explore the sexual shadows that influence how you show up in the world. With the support of other aligned men, you will be held accountable to your own growth, pushed beyond comfort, and guided through the discomfort of transformation.
This is a return to knowing - not just in the mind, but in the body. Through ritual, communal accountability, and emotional containment, you will emerge from this experience not just as a man, but as a leader - equipped with the wisdom, responsibility, and heart-led strength needed to navigate the world with purpose and integrity.
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: Meeting the Mother Wound
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Within every man lies a imprint that influences every relationship he has with the opposite sex. It is the imprint left by his first bond with the feminine - his mother.
At first, he was her - inseparable - sharing her body, her heartbeat, her breath. And eventually, he discovered he was not her, realising for the first time that he was separate, different, no longer one with her. For many men, this earliest rupture is experienced as the first betrayal.
Every man carries a Mother Wound - because no mother, no matter how loving, can ever meet all of her child’s needs. In those tender years, a boy doesn’t see limitation - he feels lack. And that lack becomes a belief about himself: “I’m too much. I’m not enough. I’m unlovable.”
These imprints ripple into adulthood, showing up as people-pleasing, co-dependency, mistrust of intimacy, or a hunger for women to provide what only he can now give himself.
But when a man begins to face, nurture, and guide his Mother Wound - everything shifts.
He no longer looks to women to complete him - he meets them as whole. He honours his mother for the life she gave, while finally stepping into the man he was born to become.
"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 3: Integrating The Sexual Shadow
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Masculinity cannot thrive until its sexual shadow is brought into the light.
If a man isn’t taught how to relate to his desire, he’ll never truly know what he wants - or what turns him on.
Today’s culture pathologises male desire. It’s feared, parodied, fetishised, demonised - managed by policy, shamed by media, or swallowed in silence.
And it makes sense - generations of immature men committed horrendous acts that left scars still felt today.
But what was once instinct made sacred - a life-giving current of intimacy, creation, and devotion - has been reduced to something a man must either repress or exploit.
This sexual shadow shows up in two extremes. The Predator, who is ruled by a hunger he doesn’t understand and tries to satisfy it through conquest or manipulation. And the Nice Guy, who rejects his own masculinity to avoid conflict, disapproval, or abandonment - suppressing desire until it resurfaces as quiet, corrosive resentment.
Neither of these archetypes are evil - they’re immature expressions, shaped by the absence of acceptance.
Facing this shadow means peeling back layers of shame, meeting desire honestly, and reclaiming it as a current of life to be carried with responsibility and discernment.
When men integrate this part of themselves, they stop grasping for validation. They begin to anchor their desire and explore authentic intimacy.
The result isn’t less masculine power - it’s more.
Power that’s no longer dangerous, because it’s finally in service to something greater than the self.
"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 4: 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.
It’s not therapy. It’s not performance.
It’s 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.
""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?
Stuck in your head - constantly overthinking, zoning out, or unable to switch off?
Struggling to hold your emotions when life demands clarity, control, or presence?
Feeling the call to be challenged - to meet an edge and see what’s actually there?
Curious about what really turns you on - and wanting space to explore it without judgement?
Noticing how your relationship with your mother still shapes how you relate to women?
Tired of shallow conversations with men that leave you feeling unseen or untouched?
Wondering why so many men are lost, numbing, or taking their lives - and what your role is in changing that?
Wanting to be a true role model - someone your family and community can trust, follow, and feel safe with?
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: Meeting The Mother Wound (Part 1): Wednesday the 4th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 4: Meeting The Mother Wound (Part 2): Wednesday the 11th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 5: Integrating The Sexual Shadow: (Part 1) Wednesday the 18th of Feb 2025 6:00pm - 10:00pm at: Man Cave HQ
Week 6: Integrating The Sexual Shadow (Part 2): 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 (rural VIC)
Week 10: Integration: Wednesday the 25th of March 2025 7pm - 10pm at: Man Cave HQ
Total:
x8 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