The Men’s Lab explored trauma in men’s lineages and the collective – the role of fatherhood in it, and our alignment with God. Creative and destructive forces struggle in us. We have inherited our forefathers’ wounds and inner strength, their fighting, and their care. Together we dived into the roots of our manhood, and their expression in our lives. We explored the divine dimension: our way of bowing down, of leading and being led, and the relation between courage and grace. The qualities of fatherhood we find in God – in what we trust.
We invited men of all nations and colors, who feel drawn to explore their manhood in the context of the collective within a supportive group of other men. Men, who dare to address old wounds and traumata in their lineages. Men, who take responsibility to face old mistakes and matters of guilt. Men, who are ready to take the next step and set out for new shores in their manhood.
We started with group synchronization and resourcing, focusing on supporting one another. Through our ancestral entanglements, we then touch the landscape of collective trauma in men, encountering fields of denial, repression, hidden wounds, and buried violence. Expressing and witnessing the voices and sensing the specific quality of each trace allowed us to step towards integration and restoration. We concluded by reflecting on how trauma shapes the culture and society we grew up in, and by listening to the call of the future as to what steps of transformation and action will be appropriate.<br /> <br /> We started out with a group of ca 40 participants and completed with ca 20 participants. We met for 10 group sessions from Feb. - Dec. 2024. <br />
"I have become more aware of the complexity and challenge of men's struggles to embrace emotional experience, to inhabit their strength and assertion, to face and include their fathers, to allow intimacy and be with fear in their personal lives and I have met the part of me and of other men that approaches men's collective history on the planet and doesn't want to know, see or feel what is there."
"I really appreciated the bond between the men and found it powerful. My conscious awareness of the injuries of all the men was greatly strengthened and it was very touching to witness the sharing of this. The injuries and traumatic experiences became very present. The topics of fear and intimacy were particularly intense for the group."
"Through the weekly triad meeting rooms, the topic always stays above the ‘fire’, always stays warm. I personally experience this as supportive, because patterns (avoidance, anger, grief, distancing, become visible much more quickly and can come to light"
"The close connection between ancestor work and connection to the divine was not something I had previously realized to the extent that I experienced it in the lab. By connecting with our fathers, we connect with God. This is very touching and enriching."
"I am more at ease with men than before and can welcome myself warmer in my masculinity. That's amazing."
"Through sharing and witnessing the others I have found that some of what I sense as pain and tension in my body has a collective dimension. I have experienced that it is safe to open up towards men, to express my feelings and thoughts. This helps me to be a better friend towards the men in my life, to have deeper and more nourishing relations to men........ Listening to those men who are fathers struggling in their relations to their sons has made me more understanding of my own father."
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Stefan Beier 
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