Have you ever felt that you didn’t quite “measure up” as a man? What if you were to step back for just a moment and ask yourself: “How many times today and in what ways did I hear “what men are like”? Think of the billboard advertisements, the social media posts, the meetings and conversations at work, the interactions of people on public transit, the messages above the urinals in public washrooms, the comments around your supper table and the playful joking with your buddies. And have you ever thought that “something just doesn’t seem quite right” about expectations surrounding what it means to be a man?

The good and hopeful reminder of this session is that underneath it all, we are all human. So while you have undoubtedly heard many times today that men are not interested in listening and are somehow incapable of sharing what’s going on in our lives, this session will invite you into a different way of seeing and experiencing “what it means to be a man”. Please join us if you would like to take part in a conversation in which men are welcome to be themselves. In other words, a conversation that invites you to see and feel what happens when men feel safe and free to engage one another as whole human beings. And