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Our second great weekend in CHICAGO!!

"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

January, 2004 (exact date to come)

Cost: $90 *

Our weekends are unlike anything you have experienced. We focus, simply, on crafting the lives- social, intimate, sexual, communal, voluntary, 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.

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 create 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 Chicago 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? Chicago 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

"We were a real cross section of the gay community -- a couple of Latino men, two African Americans, young and old, people in recovery and not. All of us shared an interest in our spiritual journey. We cried together, laughed a lot, and all of us experienced a breakthrough in understanding how to connect in a more positive way with others. The weekend does an excellent job of translating ideas of nuturing and creating family into actionable steps." - Tom

More reaction from guys about our work

For info about the weekend,

email our Manifest Lovin' Chicago man, Marc

Register here

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