Rewilding Men

An August Men’s Retreat at Just Love Forest

Friday, August 7th – Sunday, August 9th, 2026

Optional Swimming Hole Adventure Stay-Over on Monday

To be a man in this world is to walk a path full of contradictions - strong and soft, protector and nurturer, leader and one who surrenders to the flow of life. Too often, we are told we must be one thing or the other, that vulnerability and power cannot coexist. But we know the truth: that real masculinity is expansive, not restrictive. That to stand fully in who we are means embracing every part of ourselves.

Rewilding Men is a recurring gathering for those who feel called to a different kind of masculinity - one rooted in camaraderie, authenticity, and self-discovery.

In the height of summer, we gather as men to remember what has been domesticated out of us.

Rewilding Men is a return to instinct, truth, and embodied masculine presence - beyond performance, beyond shame, beyond the versions of ourselves we learned to manage in order to belong.

Many men feel it: a restlessness, a dulling, a sense that life force has gone sideways. We’ve been trained to contain, suppress, or redirect our raw energy without ever being taught how to inhabit it. This retreat offers a different path - one rooted in the forest, the fire of the sun, and honest brotherhood.

We work at the edge between who we were shaped to be and who we actually are underneath. There is permission here to be real, strong, tender, uncertain, fierce, grieving, alive. Nothing to prove. Nothing to perform.

This is men’s work for these times. In a culture that often shames, belittles, or polarizes men, we create a container where masculinity is neither inflated nor erased, but embodied with integrity.

Expect time in the forest, council with other men, embodied practices, ritual, fire, movement, silence, and deep listening. Expect to leave feeling more inhabited - more rooted in your body, your voice, and your place in the world.

Summer tells the truth.

Life wants to move.

Fire wants to burn with intention - clear and clean.

This is an invitation to meet yourself there.

Over the course of the weekend, we will explore what it means to be a man in today’s world - not through lectures, but through real engagement, through story, through movement, through time spent in nature. Expect deep discussion, shared rituals, nature therapy, and a heck of a lot of fun. Expect moments of laughter, moments of silence, moments of recognition. Expect to be challenged in the best possible way.

And if you want to stretch the experience a little further, we’ll have an optional stay-over on Monday, where we’ll head to the swimming hole and let it all soak in.

If you are seeking something real & if you are ready to stand alongside other men who are asking the same questions, walking the same journey, then this is for you.

Come as you are. Show up for yourself. Show up for each other.

REGISTRATION OPENS SOON