“For most of my life, I’d been afraid of men and had hidden my feelings from them. Indeed, I’d repressed my feelings altogether, afraid to admit that I’d even had any! It’s very different now… I’ve not only come to feel love for myself, but also to love and to trust expressing the feelings that I do have.

It has been the single most enriching experience of my life”

David

“It was the openness and the love that I received that I did not know was possible from strangers ….. who became mates …….who became friends”

Anthony

“When I first came to a Tasmanian Men’s Gathering I felt this deep sense of ‘me again’. A release from all the roles I play as farmer, husband, father.

I found a space I could connect with my spirit and the spirit of man.

To reflect, to laugh, to cry. To just be me”

Chuck

“This is profound work. I recognise the huge loving commitment of key organisers and I am grateful beyond words for this opportunity for men to be real, thoughtful, caring, open, and loving together in a wider culture that seems to do all that it can to create wooden, closed, macho-mindless males when there’s such magnificence in each of us. Eternal thanks!”

“There had been some trauma in my life and I wasn’t seeing the world in a particularly good way. At my first gathering, I wasn’t sure what was happening but I was feeling really high and grounded... Being in this group of men opened up ways of feeling and dealing with the world that I hadn’t experienced before. There was a crack in my reality that revealed hope about the future”

Rhys