The Center Sf SundayMen's Retreat

548 Fillmore Street,San Francisco CA 94117

29 August, 2021

Description

Sunday Men’s Retreat on Sunday August, 29 Calling all San Francisco men! Have you been curious to explore the growing trend of men’s work and conscious masculinity? Do you want to create meaningful brotherhood and deeper friendships with other supportive men? Or do you simply want to learn more about yourself, heal and grow as a human being? If you identify as male and said yes to any of these we would love to invite you to the next "Sunday Men’s Retreat" at The Center SF. Join men from the San Francisco Bay Area & The Center SF Community for our next Sunday Men’s Retreat on Sunday August, 29 from 10:30 to 1:30 + open-invite for lunch or tea in the park after. ***The experience will start promptly at 10:30 AM and run until closing circle at 1:30 PM. Doors will close at 10:40 AM sharp. All attendees are invited to plan for an open-invite lunch or tea time after the event to enjoy making connection and friends. Tentative Agenda: 10:30am - 10:40am: Connecting and getting ready to circle up 10:40am - 11:30am: Welcoming Circle and Learning how to check-in 11:30am - 12:30pm: Group exercises 12:30pm - 12:40pm: Break 12:40pm - 1:10pm: Breathwork/Meditation 1:10pm - 1:30pm: Closing Circle 1:30pm - Later Afternoon: Lunch and/or Tea Time at a nearby park for more connection This experience includes: An introduction to men’s work with lessons in holding space, somatic experiencing and emotional awareness training Opportunities to practice vulnerability, breathwork, and creating meaningful connections with other conscious men. Opportunities to make new friends, let go of stuck energy and to create space to heal deep wounds and traumas while being supported in a brave space. Meet your hosts and facilitators: Chris Wilson, is a men’s coach, facilitator and conscious human being who identifies as male. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his Fiancé Anna and their cat Chesterfield. He’s the founder of The Unshakable Man Brotherhood and host of The Unshakable Man Podcast. In 2016, while working in software sales he experienced a massive anxiety attack that re-connected him with his body, mind, and soul in new and profound ways. This experience motivated Chris from a place of awe (appreciation and fear) inspiring him to reassess his values and identity as a tough, goal-oriented man. Now, after a 3-year "mesearch" process and 2 years of rebuilding his life from the inside out he's found his calling and mission creating The Unshakable Man Brotherhood - a community of conscious men holding space for connection, healing, and growth. He considers this work to be his lifetime personal practice and his greatest gift that he could share with the world. He hopes all men can come to discover that vulnerability is not a weakness. Vulnerability is a man's pathway to transformation, self-discovery, learning, purpose, and wholeness. Julian Sproul has been leading and sitting in men's groups for the last several years throughout the Bay Area. In 2019, right before his 30th birthday, Julian had a "dark night of the soul" experience that started him on his conscious healing journey and led him to finding Men's Work and receiving the potent medicine of being witnessed by and supported by a group of caring men. Since then he has been involved with a variety of different men's group communities over the last several years including the ManKind Project, Evryman, The Unshakable Man Brotherhood, John Wineland's The Path of the Embodied Masculine, & Shems Heartwell's The Men's Passage. Through these experiences, Julian has learned how to create safe, trusting containers where men can be able to connect with their own emotions and feelings so that they can learn to love and accept themselves and those in their lives that much more deeply. Julian is also a Level 1 Certified Meditation Teacher through Anchor Meditation and loves to bring in different modalities of meditation and mindfulness, mindful movement, Qi Gong, and other energy practices into his men's work. Julian is honored to be co-facilitating with his fellow San Francisco-based men's group brothers, Chris and Cam, to bring an introduction to men's work to the Center SF Community! Cam Bigelow immersed himself in men's work through sitting in dozens of circles and ceremonies where he had the gift of learning and continuously practicing the art of slowing down into his body and feeling and honoring his full spectrum of emotions. His journey began after a devastating breakup 2.5 years ago where he was left asking himself the question "How the hell did I end up here?" He didn't know what he needed or where to go, but ended up finding his way to his first men's circle a few weeks after the breakup. He had no concept of what "Men's Work" or "Men's Circles" was all about, but he knew and remembered how he felt - safe, open, connected, accepted, and loved. He followed that thread of feeling by diving deeper into the work month over month and year over year where he sat with men from all across the globe and worked with amazing coaches and mentors taking him even deeper. Cam then became a certified Meditation Facilitator through Anchor Meditation and Breathwork Facilitator through Revelation Breathwork where he continues to give back and serve. He's had the pleasure of facilitating healing for many men through his own practice and through The Unshakable Man. He considers holding space for another man - through Men's Groups, Meditations, or Breathwork - to be the greatest gift he gets to receive time and time again, and truly believes in the simplicity of breathing into emotions as they come up to allow them to move through the body.    The Center SF is a community oriented business that serves as a melting pot for conscious evolution through providing an unparalleled transformational and expressive space to hold events that unite mind, body and spirit for the purpose of personal growth, celebration, and global evolution.