The 10 Week Circle
A circle of men learning what it is to become conscious.
Years ago my own life came apart, and everything I believed about being a man came apart with it. What rebuilt me was inner work, done in the company of other men.
Ten weeks. A small circle of men, looking honestly at what it is to be a conscious man in today's world.
We ask key questions:
Where do we stand as men, in a world rightly questioning old dominance?
How do we hold the balance between the masculine and the feminine we each carry?
What is it to be present, to listen without rushing to fix?
What is sovereignty, and the maturity to meet your life with steadiness rather than reaction?
How can we become more conscious? Free from our emotions and limiting beliefs so we can become free, lighter, more joyful and loving towards ourselves and the world.
We work these in the body, in practice, and in the mirror other men offer once the room is safe enough for honesty.
The circle moves through four passages. It begins by meeting the self you have constructed, turns toward the shadow and what you buried, identifies the balance of your opposites, and opens toward sovereignty and purpose. A first taste of a deeper path, walked honestly.
The Call and the Container
Why you are here? What is your inner calling?
The Constructed Self
The personality you have constructed. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Presence and Attention
How to be present, to come into the here and now, rather than somewhere else.
The Shadow
Meeting the parts you have been avoiding and meet them with honesty, maturity and integrity.
Trauma and the Coping Self
The patterns that once protected the boy that now run the man.
What We Buried
The anger and grief you were taught to swallow.
Masculine and Feminine
The two poles alive in one man, and the balance between them.
Sexuality and Presence
Intimacy as honesty rather than performance.
Sovereignty
Alignment with the truth of who you are and who you are meant to be.
Purpose and the Return
Your potential and your path towards freedom.
Ten weekly sessions, two hours each, live on Zoom with video on. Nothing is recorded, so every man shows up, and what is spoken in the circle stays in the circle.
A sitting practice that grows week by week, somatic and contemplative work, and some reading drawn from key thinkers. Light enough to hold alongside a working life, steady enough that something shifts.
A private group where the men hold each other through the week, for accountability and witnessing. Materials arrive by email each week.
Private work with me is available alongside the circle, at an additional rate, for the man who wants to go deeper, to meet with himself and to explore more.
Men who feel the call and are ready to change.
Often you have achieved much and sense that something essential is still waiting. You are willing to be seen, to be met, and to do the work rather than read about it.
This is depth work, and it is also a beginning. The circle is a genuine first taste of a longer path, a doorway rather than a promise of arrival. I will not tell you ten weeks will complete you. I will tell you they can change how you stand in your own life, more aware of yourself and where your work lies.
I have spent most of my life following one insistent call, to understand the human experience at its depths, where mind, body, emotion, spirit, and ancestry meet.
I have practised for over 20 years, apprenticed with masters from different parts of the world, received initiations and rites of passages, studied psychotherapy, compassionate inquiry, yoga, meditation and so much more.
I work as neither guru nor fixer. I hold a clear, grounded presence so you can hear the intelligence of your own system, and I walk beside you as the calling is about your becoming.
Although I have been working with men and men groups for almost a decade, this is the first cohort in this style and delivery, and you will help shape it with me. For that reason it runs at a founding price, held for the men who arrive first. Future circles will run at £1,200.
Six to eight men · Beginning October
If you have read this far,
something in you already knows.
The circle begins in October
Request a conversationricardoassisrosa@gmail.com
+44 7828 500285 · WhatsApp
* Monday evenings 18h30–20h30 (GMT), starting 5th October
Sovereign Alignment
Oxford, United Kingdom