Resisting Norms and Building Healthy Men - A Men’s Supper Club on Connection, Custodianship and Responsibility

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What is a healthy man?

For generations, the answer was handed down without much question: provide, protect, don’t complain. That story has had broad and serious deleterious impacts on society, families and men themselves. In a period of schism where what that story means and represents is being questioned and requires changing, many men are left uncertain about what comes next and how to get to that place.

The cost of the current story is all around us. In rates of male suicide, in the the statistics of gender-based violence, in rates of crime perpetrated by men, in the proportion of men who are lonely, in the rise of a manosphere ideology that only makes individuals and our society even more unwell. Under all of these is a pattern of disconnection in boys and men - from family, partners, children, friends and themselves.

This is a night to discuss these patterns, to ask questions together and to realise that connection is the first step towards unity and change.

At this Supper Club, Finding Nature is gathering a small circle of men around one table with Daniel Principe, who has spent the past decade in more than 3,000 classrooms talking with young men about masculinity, respect and relationships. He sees what the next generation is learning about manhood, and he knows that boys become the men they see around them. Which brings the question back to us.

We’ll explore responsibility, not as burden but as care. Custodianship, of the people in our lives, the generations coming after…