Join a Lunch Hour Circle
Give yourself the time, resources, and community to start living into your best dad-self
Here’s the Deal
Fatherhood really has it all: the highest highs and the lowest lows; the greatest challenges and greatest rewards.
What it doesn’t have are the right tools for preparing for it and managing everything that comes with it once you’re there.
Maybe you’ve read some books or listened to some podcasts on fatherhood or parenting - and that’s a great start because a lot of those have really good information. But the static answers they provide only get you so far before running into the complex, dynamic, and intensely personal nature of parenting.
The only way to “do fatherhood well” is to do it the way that resonates with you and works well for your family, and that is something you can’t discover in a book, blog, or podcast.
It’s something you need to figure out yourself.
BUT…
The most effective and least exhausting path there is not soldiering through that journey alone. It’s to work with other dads who understand what you’re going through and where you want to go, guided by someone who has been there themselves and is equipped with knowledge and tools that can be adapted to your specific situation.
That’s what we offer: the time, the structure, the resources and the community to support your discovery of getting the most out of the experience of fatherhood and give your best to your family.
We draw from a wide array of research and resources in both adult and child development to guide groups of dads through the 5 most common areas of challenge - providing tools, techniques, practices, philosophies, and approaches that respond to the context and needs of you and your family.
Most importantly, we do this with other like-minded dads who will give you invaluable new perspectives and a greater sense of meaning and purpose. Plus, they’ll make the whole experience a lot more fun and feel less like yet another responsibility.
So if you want to feel confident that you are getting everything you can out of fatherhood and giving all you’ve got to your kids and family - make this investment in your most important job and join a Fatherhood Circle…circle
“Joining The Fatherhood Circle was honestly the best thing that I did for myself in terms of study or self-help in service of my child and my family”
“It has been invaluable to share the ups (and downs) of the journey with other Fathers who are going through (or have gone through) similar experiences.”
“The group creates a really unique space for trust. There are few other spaces in life where you build community around fatherhood with others who understand what you’re going through. There’s no judgement.”
“The group was a good opportunity to talk about issues that I (and probably others) tend to avoid from day to day. Having the opportunity for facilitated conversations with other local parents was even more valuable than I had imagined.”
What You’ll Get
Professionally guided conversation and exercises that will prompt meaningful learning and discovery, as well as connection with your peers
Notes from each meeting with extra resources and suggestions for digging a little bit deeper if you want to build your knowledge and fortify your toolkit even more (don’t worry, none of it is required, this isn’t another task for your to-do list)
Greater confidence in your capabilities as a parent and person. We often get satisfied reports back about being able to introduce new knowledge, tools, or practices that improved some aspect of family life to the surprise and delight of partners, kids, and even your own parents.
More meaning and connection in those relationships that are closest and most important to your experience as a father
A little levity and humor. Parenting is serious business but if we can’t have some fun with it and occasionally laugh at ourselves it’s gonna be a real long 18 years.
Friends for life? Look, we obviously can’t guarantee you’ll bond tightly with everyone in your group but the odds are high that you will be connecting with like-minded dads who can and will offer you critical support outside the group in all kinds of unknowable ways - socially, emotionally, professionally, or otherwise.
Links to the larger Fatherhood Circle network, including a newsletter with reflections from other groups, standalone events and workshops, and more.
Logistics
We keep it simple because life is busy and complicated enough: weekly meetings on Zoom for 60 minutes that provide just the right blend of learning, processing, and unwinding with a bit of goddamn levity!
When: Fridays at 12pm ET
Sept 29; Oct 6; Oct 13; Oct 20; Oct 27; Nov 3
After registering you’ll receive the Zoom link and calendar invites, along with any additional instructions about connecting or preparing. Ultimately, all you really need to do is show up prepared to share about your experience in fatherhood and open to learning some ways to make the most of it for everyone involved.
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But is this really for Me?
If you made it this far down this page and are asking yourself this question then the answer is a resounding “hell yes this is for you!”
Groups are open to dads in any phase of fatherhood so long as they are striving to do their best in the job and willing to invest in that pursuit.
Being a dad is definitely among, and arguably the single most important and impactful thing you’ll do in the world. Doing it alone is virtually certain to produce less than optimal results and more than often make for a more miserable experience.
Doing this sort of thing can feel a bit alien to a lot of dads, thanks to decades of cultural conditioning to hold it all in and take it all on, but we’ve yet to hear anyone tell us that joining a group just wasn’t all that good (see those testimonials again).
So make the investment that will enrich your life and the lives of those most important to you. (back to registration)