Sean, Elia and Greg

If you've been in a container like MANifest before and you've had the big release, the breakthrough, the moment of connection that felt unlike anything in your regular life, and then you went home and thought, okay, but now what? - this workshop is for you.

If you've wondered how to hold on to what you touched in a powerful experience, how to translate it into actual practice, how to remember it when you're standing in your kitchen on a Tuesday and nothing feels like it did on the mountain - this is for you.

If you're newer to this work and there's something in you that might want to be witnessed, maybe something you’ve been holding back, this would be a good place to check in. 

We're going to look honestly at what powerful cathartic experiences offer and what they can't offer. We'll talk about what happens when men go home, the risks of focusing only on the big release, and how to work with this material in a more grounded way. One that actually serves your relationships, your daily life, and the people who depend on you.

This is not the dramatic version of men's work. It's less loud. But it's more potent, more anchored, and it has more longevity. Wisdom-based rather than experience-based.

If you're a guide, mentor, or elder looking for new ways to hold younger men, or new ways to hold yourself in this work, there's something here for you too.

We'll Cover

The dependency cycle that men's “transformative” events can create without meaning to

Why catharsis is real but incomplete, and what the nervous system needs instead

What integration looks like in the ordinary moments of your life

A somatic grounding practice you can take home

Triad work: getting clear on what you need, what you value, and what you want to practice

How to stay connected to this community after the event ends

Format

The session opens with a brief somatic practice to arrive in the body, followed by a round robin where each man brings his voice into the room. From there we move through two short teaching blocks with somatic movement woven between them. The heart of the workshop is triad work, where men practice in groups of three, each getting dedicated time to be witnessed and also to practice receiving. We close with a take-home practice and a tangible anchor each man can carry back into his life.

Invitation questions

What does your life look like right now? 

Where are the needs of your community at home?

What do you need? What do the people near you need?

Where is there leadership needed in your own life that you haven't stepped into yet?

What kind of support would help you keep showing up with integrity?

What participants will leave with

A simple somatic practice for regulation under pressure. A triad of men you've worked with directly, with contact information and a structure for staying in touch. A letter you've written to yourself, which your pod leader will mail back to you at six to eight weeks. A physical anchor object to carry home. And a different lens on what this work actually is.

Sean Talbeaux

Sean is a somatic guide and practitioner based in Portland, Oregon. He spent 14 years commercial fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and draws from that experience, carpentry, training in somatic therapies, and his own trauma recovery to offer a grounded, body-based approach to presence and leadership. He works 1:1 with high-performing men and leads men's groups and retreats. He writes What Doesn’t Change on Substack. 

Elia Serras

Elia is a facilitator and guide for individuals, groups and organizations. His work is to empower embodied belonging through Truth, Healing, and Wholeness. Contact with wilderness saved his life as a younger man and inspired him to live and learn in communities ranging from traditional villages to contemporary Ecovillages in 11 different countries.

Elia is a Cofounder of Grieving Man (https://linktr.ee/grievingman), a cofounding teacher of Great Earth School (greatearthschool.com), and the founding director of Cascadian Men's Alliance. He has been working with men and masculinity throughout the US since 2018 with several organizations including Mankind Project, Sacred Sons, and Kinhood.

He currently lives close to the woods and waves on the Olympic peninsula in WA state, and can often be found singing, dancing or breaking bread wherever the village fire is burning bright. See more at EcoSomaBe.com.

Greg Estes aka Raven Heart

Greg brings many years of Alchemical Guide work, ritual literacy and  hypnotherapy, along with hundreds of sessions supporting individuals in integrating the deeper knowledge gained from peak experiences and ritual containers into their daily lives.

He works with somatic and tangible, embodied tools to help build a framework where these lessons can land, take root, and be lived with reverence and a sense of the sacred.

Greg will offer additional facilitation capacity and perspective—holding the room during triad work and supporting the group across the full arc of the session