Hosted by Ishmiel Lounsbury & John Halcyon Styn
Santa Barbara, CA
May 16, 2025
9:00am-4:00pm
Includes light lunch of soup & bread.
Bring notepad, walking shoes, waterbottle, & additional lunch food/snacks if desired.
If you feel called to attend, but the ticket price makes this cost-prohibitive for you, contact us about scholarship possibilities.
2026 Gathering of Heart-Centered Men
Join us for a full day of community connection.
We’re gathering for a full day.
Not to perform.
Not to prove anything.
But to be… together.
To explore what connection actually feels like in the masculine experience.
Not the version we were handed… but the one we might gently rediscover when we let our shoulders drop and our breath come back online.
Maybe there’s a part of you that’s been asking for more.
More purpose.
More honesty.
More space to be real without the mask.
Maybe there’s a quiet longing to be seen…
not for what you do, but for who you are.
And maybe there’s also a willingness in you to walk alongside other men as they find their way too.
Because something we keep noticing…
is how often we’ve been taught to carry this alone.
To hold it in.
To stay composed.
To keep playing the role.
And it can feel exhausting.
It can feel like belonging is always just out of reach…
like we’re close, but not quite there.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
There’s something that happens when we come together with a little courage…
when we let ourselves be seen in small, honest ways.
The walls start to soften.
The armor loosens.
And something real begins to form between us.
Not perfect.
Not polished.
But human.
And maybe that’s where belonging actually lives.
This isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about gently returning to who you already are.
Showing up.
Breathing.
Letting yourself be met.
Whether this is your first men’s circle or you’ve sat in many before…
there’s something here for you.
Because we all carry something worth sharing.
And we all have something to learn from one another.
So if something in you feels even a small pull…
a quiet yes…
you’re welcome to come sit with us.
We’ll step into it together.



