Robert Augustus Masters, PhD

BRINGING HEAD, HEART, AND GUTS

INTO FULL-BLOODED ALIGNMENT

Uncommonly deep group work for men who are ready to face whatever is obstructing their well-being and their capacity to function optimally in every area of their life. Through such work, men learn to embody a manhood as strongly empowered as it is vulnerable, as emotionally attuned as it’s alive, as passionately present as it is loving, a manhood that cannot help but serve the highest good of one and all.

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When I need my own therapy I call Robert. So, speaking as his client, having been a psychotherapist myself, I have often said of Robert: “He gets a year’s worth of work done in about an hour.” The subtitle of his mens groups (“Bringing Head, Heart, and Guts into Full-Blooded Alignment”) is not hyperbole. This is what Robert does, better than anyone I have ever seen in 35+ years. (Bill Kauth, cofounder of the ManKind Project)

             To Be a Man

MY APPROACH

My approach is intuitively integral, working with body, mind, emotion, and spirit through a spontaneously structured mix of cutting-edge psychotherapy, coaching, bodywork, emotional opening, shadow-work, and relational and spiritual deepening. All of this is conducted in the spirit of becoming more intimate with all that you are — high and low, dark and light, masculine and feminine. There’s plenty of rawness, plenty of revelation and deep opening and breakthrough, plus a sense of safety that’s solid enough to provide a powerful container (both crucible and sanctuary) for whatever work needs to be done. Areas covered include:

• Facing and making wise use of your shame
• Coming fully alive, including emotionally
• Softening without any loss of power
• Both embracing and protecting the boy within
• Stripping your anger of its aggression without robbing it of its passion
• Deepening your courage
• Connecting head, heart, and belly
• Fully embodying your masculinity
• Bringing your shadow (whatever you’ve disowned in yourself) out of the dark
• Facing and working through your core wounds
• Dream exploration (using dreams as portals for healing and awakening)
• Shedding your armoring without abandoning your boundaries
• Outgrowing any pornographic leanings you might have
• Freeing your sexuality from the obligation to make you feel better
• Getting your inner critic off your back
• Deepening your sensitivity without losing your balls
• Cutting through your fear of your raw masculinity
• Cultivating healthy challenge
• Developing more transparency
• Finding a source of strength in your vulnerability
• Relating not from your conditioning, but to it
• Accessing a warriorhood that’s rooted in both love and power
• Deepening your ability to be in truly healthy relationships

Full-Blooded Manhood & Men’s Work: Mankind Project interviews Robert

PREREQUISITES

• • Previous work with me (in-person or through a Skype session)
  • Have read my books To Be a Man and Emotional Intimacy, and heard my audio program Knowing Your Shadow 

LOGISTICS FOR GROUPS

• • • Groups are 5 days long (except for Ojai group), and are usually limited to 8 or 10 men.
    • Participation is by invitation only.
    • Tuition in the continental US is $1300 (the Ojai group tuition is $750), with a $400 nonrefundable deposit.
    • Participants are responsible for their own accommodation and meals (except for Hawaii group).
    • If you’re interested in attending and haven’t worked with me before, the first step is to complete our Client application form.
    • The next step is to have a session with me (either in-person or Skype), to do some in-depth work and to make sure that the group is right for you. My usual fee is $300 per hour, but for these sessions my fee is $225 for 50 minutes in-person or $150 for 30 minutes via Skype.

NEXT MEN’S GROUPS

May 10-14 (full)

July 25-29

September 2-6

November 10-12 (Ojai, CA)

December 8-12

January 28-February 3 (residential, Maui)

The passage to full manhood is deeply transformational, abundantly supplied with soul-enlivening challenge and firsthand teachings, catalyzing needed healings and breakthroughs, uprooting us again and again so that we might stand ever-truer ground.

Along the way we learn to cultivate an intimacy with everything that we are — high and low, dark and light, masculine and feminine, dying and undying — for the benefit of one and all.

This is the primal odyssey pulsing in every man’s marrow, whether or not he embarks on it.