Listening Circles: Resiliency vs Healing as Men
- Ages 21+
Join Patrick in a Listening Circle to explore what it means to build community, feeling and surviving while navigating masculinity.
Date and time
Location
Healing Spaces Psychological Services LLC
7711 Bonhomme Avenue #Suite 720 (7th Floor Clayton, MO 63105Refund Policy
Agenda
Welcome and Space Agreements
Sharing and Listening: Structured Speaking
Gift Sharing & Connection: Free Discussion
About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
- Ages 21+
- Free venue parking
This Listening Circle is designed for men seeking personal growth, emotional support, and meaningful connections. It is open to men of all backgrounds, including professionals, fathers, young adults, and those navigating relationships, life transitions, or personal challenges.
Resiliency vs Healing as Men
Join Patrick in an donation based intimate Listening Circle to explore the times the challenges men around creating community towards healing as men, exploring feeling safe through resiliency and surviving. This space would be most supportive for those seeking a safe place to explore experiences of masculinity.
What is a Listening Circle?
Listening Circles are spaces for participants to develop understanding and appreciation of one another’s experiences and perspectives by listening carefully to both the ideas and the feelings that each holds concerning a topic. It is a dialogue instead of a debate, with respect and humanity at the center.
Further, Listening Circles aim at creating community and strengthening our humanity through simple acts of gathering, focusing, reflecting, speaking and listening to strengthen and deepen us, individually and collectively.
What is Attunement?
One could say it is our ability to be present to, and with, another’s expression of their experience. Through attunement we learn to listen while noticing multiple cues of communication: the stated verbal, the unstated verbal, body language, and the strength of the relationship. Attunement in Listening Circles can mirror back to the Speaker that the Speaker's experiences matters to the Listener and everyone else where. The Speaker can lean in and give voice to their experience and show up authentically. When the experience is seen as valuable and impactful, it creates a foundation of safety, allowing all participants to learn to create safety and experience safety. Attunement is that ability to See the individual and let the individual know they are Seen.
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Frequently asked questions
Donations allow us to hold more free/donation events - in light of the tornado that devastated and continues to impact North St Louis. This free community event is to provide mental health support for male identifying individuals who may need a space to be safely speak on their experiences.
Listening Circles was created to provide community members the opportunity to experience groups and therapeutic support groups with no long term commitment. Each Listening Circle is designed for that one event, however if you found connection and support, please look into our weekly groups!
Steady Ground is a Men's Support and Therapeutic Group launching June 24th, 2025. If you found this event helpful, please complete our interest form and we will reach out to get you in: https://forms.gle/FG7ySgwpbXUZxyox7
We aim to have several more Listening Circles available on a donation basis to provide access to mental health and community support. Please keep an eye on our Eventbrite and the Listening Circles Collection for upcoming Circles!