the wisdom within

unearthing the body’s path to intuition

an 8-week immersive experience
beginning again fall 2023

our lives are filled with an endless road of choices and decisions.
how do you know which path to choose? how do you know what is right for you?

your body knows what you need.

do you…

  • see the possibility for living a more full and authentic life, and feel that there’s something blocking or holding you back?

  • desire to give better care to your body and your self?

  • feel ready to meet your growing edges and move through them?

  • want more tools to listen deeply to your body and access your intuition?

  • desire to show up in a better way for your relationships and your community?

  • feel ready to grow a life that is healthier and thriving?

“the intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the logical mind is a faithful servant. we have created a society that has honored the servant and forgotten the gift.”

~ albert einstein

through this course you will develop tools to listen more closely to your body,

to process, integrate and move through emotions,

and access your  body’s intuitive knowledge.

you will discover that your body is an instrument,
that can play with the experiences and emotions of life.
you will move and dance and breath through your edges.
and you will find a wisdom within that will show you the way.

this course is the culmination of years of training, facilitation and practice.
we have concentrated the most impactful parts of our learnings to create this course,
created to help you access your authentic and inspired self.

we would be honored and delighted to support, witness, and celebrate you on this journey.

"Beautiful, essential, nourishing and surprisingly easy to settle into. I'm more in touch with my true self than I've ever been & trust that I've made lifelong friends."

- kinhood program participant

mapping our journey

the wisdom within is an 8-module live online course and cohort.
you will have lifetime access to all course materials.
all modules include a live online session and a variety of home play exercises including:
recorded guided practices, exercises, journal prompts, and reading materials.

module 1
Listening to the Body

connecting to your
breath, belly, muscle and heart.
slowing down and simply being.

Tuesday, November 1 @ 5:30 PST

module 2
Moving like Water

exploring your movement and flow through dance, somatic release, and embodiment practice.

Tuesday, November 8 @ 5:30 PST

module 3
Igniting the Flame

stoking your passion and harnessing it.
releasing anger while protecting yourself from being consumed by

Tuesday, November 15 @ 5:30 PST

module 4
Opening the Floodgates

releasing the dam of emotions that want to bring waters.
letting grief flow freely.

Tuesday, November 22 @ 5:30 PST

module 5
Holding Space

practicing and committing to self care.
creating loving and supportive presence for your relationships & communities.

Tuesday, November 29 @ 5:30 PST

module 6
Tending the Hearth

receiving guidance from your lineage, ancestry, culture and ritual.
honoring and nourishing through food.

Tuesday, December 6 @ 5:30 PST

module 7
Embodying the Vision

setting intention and charting a course towards your growth & desire.
living out your prayer.

Tuesday, December 13 @ 5:30 PST

module 8
Cultivating Gratitude

celebrating yourself for walking your path with care and courage.
expressing appreciation and love.

Tuesday, December 20 @ 5:30 PST

kinhood is a “men’s care” organization.
we are committed to growing the care that men experience, receive, and give.

we envisions a world where all people live beyond toxic masculinity, in liberated, nurturing and interdependent expressions of self and community. kinhood is a place for men to explore and become their most authentic and expressive selves.

kinhood is holding a wide and brilliant spectrum of what it means to be a man, and our community and offerings are for any person who carries experience or identity as a man.

meet your guides

Dor Haberer (he/him)

Dor will be your lead guide on this journey of the self. He has been facilitating groups in men’s work, self care, and cultural & ancestral reclamation for 6+ years and brings his expertise and passion in these areas to our course. Dor incorporates somatic modalities into his work and is trained in Shiatsu Therapy, Qi Gong, and 5 Rhythms dance. Dor brings together his connection to his ancestral Arabic Jewish Roots, his love of ecology, and orientation towards simplicity and pleasure.

Ophir Haberer (he/him)

Ophir is a Jerusalem-born facilitator, educator, mediator, ritualist, storyteller, and organizational consultant. He has been guiding men’s work for over 4 years and has facilitated for numerous organizations all over the country. He is a certified Esalen Massage practitioner and in the process of certifying as a somatic trauma therapist through the Hakomi Institute of California. He is passionate about working with clients to move trauma through the body.

Alex Voynow (he/they)

Alex is a facilitator, outdoor educator, nature connection mentor, community historian, and community organizer. Alex moves through and helps others move through processes of self/collective healing and liberation. They have been facilitating men’s groups for 3 years and bring a passionate relationship to the work of inner and outer ecological healing.

2022 guest educators & facilitators

Oren Shai
Oren is a coach, consultant, and advisor to change making leaders and teams, working to help individuals and groups to further their inner work and outer impact. “If we wish to evolve, we begin by returning to our authentic selves. In this way, we stand grounded in who we are in relationship to our ecosystem. In this way, we become truly present. We relate with our world and our work with alignment and aliveness, ease and joy, beauty and genius. The games and illusions fall away. And what's left is space for creation.”

Jordan Trujillo
With a reverence for ancient Traditions, Breath, Movement, and Ceremony have become the foundations of Jordan’s personal and spiritual practice. He humbly weaves together his time spent with wisdom keepers and way-showers from across the Americas and shares different healing modalities to open safe and sacred spaces for release, prayer, transformation, and integration.

Vincent Brown
Vincent is a grassroots social activist specializing in watershed management, multiple species habitat restoration, environmental education, and regenerative agriculture. He has a master’s degree in Transformative Leadership, and a PhD in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. Vincent integrates leadership studies, consciousness studies, spirituality, psychology, masculinity studies, environmental studies, neuroscience, feminism, critical scholarship, phenomenology, and other philosophical frameworks in his social activities. Vincent’s professional goals are aligned with teaching in programs that focus on environmental science and management, leadership, and interdisciplinary humanities.

Vincent loves untamed Nature, piloted a raft down the Colorado River, backpacked across the northwest wilderness of Alaska, lived in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest with the Achuar natives, helped create a cultural monument to the Ixil Maya in northern Guatemala, and helps to deliver Chorro sheep wool to Navajo and Hopi weavers at Big Mountain Reservation to help them maintain their traditional weaving tradition.

For the past nineteen years, Vincent has been studying with Joanna Macy, Buddhist Scholar, Living Systems Scholar, ecophilosopher, and is a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects, her life’s work. Inspired by insights gained through this involvement, Vincent is dedicated to helping create authentic human relationships through education, dialogue, reverence for nature, and the expansion of consciousness toward an inclusive integral worldview.

Scott Ferreter
Scott is a singer, songwriter, and producer, and half of the musical duo known as The Feelings Parade. Scott lives by the motto of “Feel deeply and love fiercely”. He is dedicated to developing practices of care for self, others, and community, and has brought transformational insights of self-care to the kinhood community.

Tyger
Tyger is a Gate Keeper, teacher, mediator, spiritual guide and mentor.  Over his years on our planet he has cultivated skills and talents in the realms of spirituality, holistic healing, theater, and personal and professional development. Tyger has spent this last decade working with inspiring and notable teachers, Malidoma Some, Sobonfu Some, Resmaa Menachem, Francoise Bourzat and Drs. Joanna Macy, Ibrahim Farajeje and Joy DeGruy.  The work with these teachers has spanned a West African spiritual cosmology, trauma of various types, Sufism, Buddhism, Earth based medicines and healings, and Joanna Macy’s “The Work that Reconnects”. Tyger and Joanna most recently have offered dharma teaching at San Quentin State Prison on the Tibetan Shambhala Prophesy. Those dharma teachings for the incarcerated ones, himself and for those of the lives he touches encourage using the tools of insight, wisdom and the heat of compassion.

Coby Leibman
Coby has 25 years of experience mentoring youth and supporting adults in developing their gifts and supporting their healing journey. He has worked in outdoor programming since I was a teenager, facilitating young peoples’ connection to the natural world at summer camps, community projects and outdoor programs. He has been a  personal chef for many years has included tending to peoples’ healing journeys using food as medicine. My family grows and wild harvests a large portion of our food.

Coby trained in Somatic healing modalities for seven years with, The Somatic Experiencing Institute, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Gabor Mate. His areas of specialty include trans-generational trauma, anxiety & depression, adolescent development, trauma & PTSD, grief & loss, life transitions, communication skills and examining power.

Coby has had the honor of working with many esteemed spiritual teachers that inform his work. He has attended Bolad's Kitchen, an International school based in New Mexico with Martin Prechtel (Keres/Mayan Spiritual Leader) since 2009, a school focused on revitalization of living culture, ancestral crafts, stories, and ritual.  Other long-term teachers and mentors include Malidoma Some (Dagara tribe), Sonbonfu Some (Dagara tribe), Keith and Shane Pashe (Dakota Tipi), and Eda Zavala (Wari tribe). He has cultivated a long-time relationship with these teachers and traditions and have been given permission from my teachers to share certain practices alongside my work.

the path ahead is already within you.
are you ready to follow it?

frequently asked

  • When you sign up for The Wisdom Within you are getting an 8-week program dedicated to your personal growth, joining a cohort of men who are on parallel paths of self knowing, and becoming a part of the larger kinhood community.

    As a member of the course you will have access to a collection of learning materials including readings, reflection exercises, recorded meditations and guided practices.

    Each course session will center around a live 2-hour call, with “home play” exercises before and after.

  • This course is for any and all men who want to deepen in their self knowing, in their pursuit of personal growth, and in building supportive, meaningful relationship with other men on the same path. This course and cohort will support and nourish you whether you are new to men’s groups or have been participating in them for years.

  • At kinhood, when we say men, we are including everyone who identifies as a man, has been conditioned or socialized as a man, or has experienced life as a man. Our community is made up of a wondrous spectrum of experience and identity, including queer and trans men.

    We find that many of the men’s groups we see are bound by certain ideas of masculinity. We are not so concerned with the topic of masculinity, and are more focused on providing support, nourishment, and care for men without regard for how we choose to express our gender or sexuality.

  • For each module, you will receive materials and exercises to work with before a live call. These materials will help you to prepare for the session in a way that is personally relevant and meaningful to you.

    The main part of each module is a 2-hour live call with the entire cohort, your cohort guides, and guest educators/facilitators. During this time you will be learning and sharing alongside a dedicated group of men.

    Following each live call you will receive a set of readings, journal prompts, and exercises that will help you to embody and integrate the week’s learnings.

  • All of the calls will be recorded and available to you on the course cohort page to watch or review after the live session.

    You will have lifetime access to these recordings and all of the course materials to use whenever you’d like.

  • Regular price for the 8-week program, cohort, and course materials is $360.

    Early sign-up is available until October 1st and is just $240.

  • kinhood is committed to ensuring that nobody is unable to participate in our programs due to financial limitations.

    If you would like to sign up at a subsidized rate, please email us at community@kinhood.org and we will send you a discount code to enter when purchasing.

  • As soon as you sign up you will receive a welcome e-mail with a link to the cohort page. From there you will have immediate access to the course syllabus, cohort network page, and pre-course “home play” assignments. You will also receive a link to a course member online community forum where you will be able to interact with other course participants.

  • Yes!

    We are in the planning stages of a winter retreat in January and will likely have at least one summer retreat in 2023. There will also likely be another course offering in the spring.

    For now we encourage you to join our online network at kinhood.mn.co and connect with us on instagram @kinhood.community. From there you will be able to learn about all program offerings as well as online gatherings and in-person meetups.