William and Nicholas together bring over sixty years of experience, devoted to the interdependence of the healing, artistic and spiritual traditions.

“The impact has been huge…”

"The Men’s Room opened up so many layers of myself.

I shall never experience myself in the same way again…"

We invite you to join a global community of men committed to exploring our deeper natures, our vulnerability and wisdom, our power and our hearts.

Our programme is a journey of deep enquiry that opens the great topics of a man's life without offering easy answers or solutions. No previous men's work is necessary, and men of all ages, races, creeds and sexual orientations are welcome.

The programme offers nine live meetings, each devoted to one theme, between which we will encourage you to meet together in small groups to further support and learning. We will also have a community website where we will share relevant texts, research, insights and news.​​

As men we are surrounded by many distortions of manhood, with too few mentors or role models we can look to. This is a unique opportunity to have the honest conversations that men rarely have, to create a safe space in which to be vulnerable together - an essential part of discovering our deeper selves and possibilities. 

We intend to honour intellectual rigour while noting that we, as men, can use our intellect to avoid our feelings. In doing this we seek to bring our physical 'sensing-body' and our emotional 'feeling-body ' to as practiced a pitch as our intellectual 'thinking-body'.​

Poetry will be a rich part of the programme as will meditative practices and the invitation to turn towards those parts of us, the wounded as well as the inspired, the dark as well as the light, that we have knowingly or unknowingly cast into the shadows.

The Programme will consist of nine 3 hour live meetings with William and Nicholas, with integrational small discussion groups between the meetings.​

​“Look no further than the Men’s Room.

Great value, huge reflections, and beautiful inner work”

Meeting dates:​   Sundays

December 5th/19th 2021, January 9th/23rd, February 6th/20th, March 6th/20th, April 10th 2022​ at 2.00pm UK, 3.00pm CET, 6.00am PT, 9.00am EC, 9.00pm HK

Each meeting will be recorded, audio and video, and posted on the private programme website

Cost of programme: $695 + 20% VAT for payment from a personal account

For more Information: https://www.training.nicholasjanni.com/manhood

TO REGISTER: send an email to [email protected]

Please include your name, age, nationality, location and what draws you to the programme

Live Meetings

1) Introduction to Men’s Work

An opening session that lays out the ground and terms of our enquiry, while exploring paradoxes and possibilities.

2) Men and Feelings

Exploring our relationship to fear, grief, anger, joy and shame

3) Facing our Fathers

Every man needs to review, renegotiate, outgrow or heal his relationship  with his father. 

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4) The Darker Side of Feeling

While asserting that no feeling is ‘negative’, in and of itself, we look at how our present culture can toxify and poison our feeling-lives, and that of others.  

5) Lineage

Who am I and where do I come from?

6) Power

In a world where men are expected to be ‘powerful’, but are often held down within masculine hierarchies, how do we develop a healthy relationship with power? 

7) Exclusion and ‘Otherising’

Exploring the way in which men create separation, alienation and false hierarchies.

8) Sex, Relationship and Intimacy

The patterns, habits and misconceptions that can inform, inhibit and distort male sexuality

9) The Holy Grail – Generativity, Creativity and Spirituality

In the end, we explore how ‘doing our work' can bring us to a fuller, richer more satisfying state of being 

For more programme details: https://www.training.nicholasjanni.com/manhood

“A unique space of intimacy, healing, and growth"

“I found the content & presentation to be profoundly engaging" 

“Helped me understand manhood like never before…”

“Profoundly moving, an invaluable journey in the richness of living”

"A must for any man who wants to reconnect deeply with the essence of his manhood and his humanity..."

William is an award-winning poet, author, teacher and ritualist. Over three decades, he has facilitated men’s groups, led men’s rites of passage and worked with men in rehab, prisons, personal development and organisational contexts. He uses poetry and the arts to teach leadership in boardrooms and business schools around the world, and currently teaches at INSEAD. William also designs and leads rituals for individuals and groups in his purpose-built ritual garden in Monmouthshire, Wales. He has published four collections of poetry, a prose book on ritual, and is currently writing a book for and about men in a time of epochal change   http://williamayot.com

Nicholas has devoted his life to the development of consciousness, and the study and practice of awakening and healing. In his first career he was a theatre director. He taught acting at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and directed his own theatre company. He also studied drumming in West Africa and Japan. For the last 20 years he has mentored CEO’s, organisations, NGO’s and senior leaders worldwide, and teaches at the University of Oxford Said Business School and the IMD Business School in Switzerland. He leads intergenerational and collective trauma group work in the UK, US, and The Middle East, and his book “Leader as Healer” will be published early 2022  https://www.nicholasjanni.com

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