The Circle of Men was founded in the Bay area to bring together best practices of all different men’s groups.

The villain in the story was all of the problems plaguing modern Men and their loved ones.

The internal problems were fear anger sadness and guilt mostly, especially the extreme form of shame.

The outside problems were men not showing up in their lives the way they wanted to and it harming their family and friends.

Philosophical conflict was how to share intellectual property and best practices with one another while still maintaining confidentiality.

The circle of men were struggling to figure out how to put on trainings for men that would bring results while still maintaining each other’s intellectual property.

When they met Jim and I, we had many years of experience putting together teachings and trainings.

We helped them come up with a yearly offering or we could cross pollinate our abilities and it culminated in a day long training where each group let it key process for the others.

We brought together many different experts and leaders and created the weekend where we could bring the best of the best together.

We agreed to gather together and share our best wisdom and many said it was the best weekend they’d ever been to.

I called them out on their inability to make things happen in real time.

They suggested I lead the next training and so I agreed to along with my friend Cole so that we could model collaborative leadership for them.

The Circle of Men 8 had expert coaches and consultants train and teach on a variety of subjects that were useful to everyone and we brainstormed how we can continue it into the future.

We were able to get past many of the issues of isolation, siloing and share of losing intellectual property.

The circle was transformed from one of a few select groups always dominating things to having many groups represented and cross training occur with everyone.