Leadership Initiation Training
An initiation into your masculine leadership for these times
For brothers who feel the world calling you into leadership—whether in your community, your relationships, or through Heart of Men—this immersive journey moves beyond building of skills to the apprenticing with, keeping of, and claiming your own fire. Through three distinct thresholds, you'll join a carefully curated cohort to set the foundation for initiation, to walk through the passage, and to step forward with your expression of masculine leadership that gives life to the world.
If you’re reading this, it’s because we see the work you’ve been doing in your own heart and in this circle. And, we also see that you’re now ready to lead others from this place.
Threshold 1-The Preparation: Apprenticing with the Central Fire
2x Monthly Calls (2nd/4th Thursdays) • September 25th-December 10th • Setting the ground for initiation to be possible
At the core of this threshold is the question: what is it you most need for your fire of leadership to be LIT? We will spend these months a) in collective inquiry, reckoning, and study b) receiving and practicing the core facilitation attunements of Heart of Men and c) setting the course for your personal and group initiation in Threshold 2. Everything that follows in this journey comes from the ground we establish together in this threshold. By year’s end, we will have become an intricately and intimately woven unit.
Threshold 2-The Initiation: Keeping Fire, Holding Center
Weekly Calls (Thursdays) • Jan 8th-Feb 12 • The Separation that asks you to become something Greater
Initiation asks us to step into something we previously deemed unreachable. In this threshold, we will be moving through both a personal and a circle initiatory experience. In this time, Thomas will be stepping away from the central fire with the explicit intention for this group to tend the fire that is Heart of Men. It is through this sincere responsibility that the initiation becomes possible. Each brother will have a full call devoted to their leadership and their personal initiatory calling during this threshold.
Threshold 3-The Integration: Warming your World
2x Monthly Calls (2nd/4th Thursdays) • Feb 26th-May 7th • The Integration into your masculine leadership
We come back together as a full circle to make meadows from the depths we’ve traversed. In Threshold 3, we begin by each facilitating our own small groups for the first four weeks in March. With robust support from leadership and the circle, with the initiation passage complete, we land deeper into the unique fire that is ours to share. We culminate our leadership experiences with our spring immersion and begin to look ahead for what we collectively co-create—both within Heart of Men and beyond it.
Commitment & Community
This journey requires both a devotion and a personal responsibility. We are asking you to step into and through something that will change the trajectory of your leadership and your service. We cannot do this for you; we’re asking you to find and claim the fullness of your own fire through this experience.
You'll be part of a highly skilled, curated group of men genuinely ready for this level (and up-leveling) of work—building not just individual capacity but the interwoven village that can hold the growth of conscious masculinity in our world.
Lead Facilitator: Thomas Doochin
Guest Facilitators: Becky Boisvert and Taylor Clark Johnson
The In-Person Immersion:
April 1st-April 5th, 2026
We’ll be gathering on the beautiful 20-acre property you all each know, situated within the broader 330 acre Earthaven community, nestled in the mountains east of Asheville, NC. Our gathering space is the hand-built, wooden Yogasthan overlooking the creek, and our work will be supported by dozens of miles of walking trails, the serene quiet, spring water, and glowing stars by night. We will be eating nutrient-dense, local, organic meals, crafted by a dear farmer, friend, and chef. This is the place that holds the fire of Heart of Men.
*Retreat costs will be separate from the below investment invitation.
** There is a willingness and openness for another gathering in mid-to-late November of 2025 if this is a strong desire from the group.
Financial Exchange & Reciprocity
We ask each brother to make an initial contribution of $444 upon enrollment to anchor and nurture the inception of this journey.
Beyond that, we are inviting you into something new—and something we hope eventually can be the bedrock at Heart of Men: a gift-offering.
There is no price for this journey. We ask each brother to enter into a deep place of prayer and discernment around the value of this journey and what financial exchange they would like to offer to uplift both Heart of Men and the facilitation team. This is my livelihood, and I feel the trust in this group of men such that I can open my palms and receive.
In the enrollment form, we’ll ask each brother to name a monthly contribution, and we will set up a recurring payment at this amount (to make consistent payment easeful for everyone).