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If you heard about our two events, in November (Decatur) and December (OUTWrite)

you may wanna check out...

Our first great weekend in Atlanta!

COMING THIS SPRING!

Cost: $95 *

"This work seems so simple, but incredibly profound.

I haven't felt such a sense of optimism

for us in a very long time." - Edward

THIS SPRING, the Atlanta team will host the first Manifest Love weekend. YAY!

Gay men have pioneered social experiments involving ethics of love and nurturance, non-violence and sexuality, intimacy, friendship, bliss, and community.

Yet we often enact public gay cultural habits that do violence to our hearts, fostering attitude and distance, competition, exclusion, and isolation.

We learn to compete, that attitude makes sense, that being loving is uncool, that we cannot publicly embrace our most loving natures, and that we are somehow a danger to one another.

So we are often left hungry for intimacy, confused by sex, betrayed by community, and grow to distrust our fellow gay men.

At this millennial moment in culture, our most radical act is no longer just to claim our sexuality, but to reclaim our hearts for and with each other.

Many of us are hungry for another way of being with and for each other.

We aim to change that.

Our weekends are unlike anything you have experienced. We focus, simply, on crafting the lives- social, intimate, communal, voluntary, sexual, ethical - we want to enjoy with each other.

Through individual and collective experience we help gay men reflect on, experience, and practice values of care and nurture in new ways.

A weekend is the first step to envision and create for ourselves a more nurturing and loving public gay world, one to better manifest our most loving values with and for each other.

We believe we can invent a new kind of world with each other that publicly supports the values of heart we share.

There's no simple box for us -- we're part social movement, part applied spirituality. Manifest Love links ethical analysis to action, to foster creative forms of beloved community among gay and queer men. Call it a great gay experiment in applied affection-- in the largest possible sense.

Our local team charts and creates the more nurturing affectionate gay world we want to live in, to learn and practice more sustaining patterns with each other.

We do in-depth exploration, individual reflection and collective public action.

We cover topics like:

Manifest Love: An Inquiry Toward a More Loving Gay Male world
Reconnecting to our hopes for each other
Our gay fantasies: Asking for what we really want, creating our vision
Ouches, gifts, and burning demons -- how we treat each other
Requiem for a Bitchy Queen
Languaging our Loves
How we learned to be queer men/ sexual mentorship
Bliss Seeking and how we Dance with Each Other
Our ethics with each other
Beyond Cruising: Using Your Eyes in Whole New Ways to get what you really want
Loving Disturbances -- new ways to be with and for each other

Weekends bring together 20-35 men together over two days.

(To keep costs down, it's not a residential retreat.

Who you sleep with that weekend ... is up to you.)

Join the Atlanta team to bring together this change into our daily shared lives. With other guys of like spirit you can do "loving disturbances" - fun, public, collective actions.

They are our way of helping nudge the patterns and practices of gay world into more humane directions. Plus you meet men in new ways, and having fun doing it.

"I really enjoyed the workshop.

It validated a lot of my feelings about who I want to be as a gay man.

I now know theat there are others out there like me."

-- Tom, Madison, WI

Curious? Here's what guys say...

"I'm eager to introduce my friends to this program. I believe there is a real hunger among us for stronger and more authentic connections with others as gay men, and this may very well be the answer. I believe this program has the potential to be the next Stonewall in the gay community's history. If this sounds like hyperbole, I invite you to experience it for yourself and to draw your own conclusions. - Joe

"After the Chicago Manifest Love weekend, I'm excited about its potential for the community. I joined a room of 18 strangers for a potluck dinner on Friday night and left the weekend with 18 new friends whom I will continue to keep in touch with. - Will

More reaction from guys about our work

You may never see yourself - or other gay men - the same way again.

What critics say about Soul Beneath the Skin

word from: The Atlanta Journal Constitution

For the location, to register, or for more info...

click to our Atlanta poo-bah, RUSS!

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