Owen Marcus
Tools & Resources for Men
There is more information available to men than ever before. The harder task is finding what is useful. These are current resources I believe are worth exploring—programs, groups, teachers, research, and practical tools that can help men become more present, connected, capable, and alive.
Men's Programs
Experiential programs and communities where men can do real work with other men—not just consume more information.
MELD Programs & Retreats
Body-based training for emotional capacity, relational skill, deeper connection, leadership, and lasting change. Includes Core, Prime, Forge, Integrated Training, and coaching.
EVRYMAN — programs and facilitators moved to MELD
The work I helped create at EVRYMAN has continued and developed at MELD.
ManKind Project
One of the longest-running modern men's organizations, offering the New Warrior Training Adventure, men's groups, leadership development, and community.
Essentially Men
New Zealand-based experiential programs centered on self-awareness, vulnerability, personal growth, relationships, and men supporting men.
Boys to Men Mentoring Network
Mentoring programs connecting boys and young men with healthy adult male role models who practice integrity, accountability, compassion, and respect.
Men's Groups
Men need places where they can move beyond small talk, tell the truth about their lives, practice new skills, and build real friendship and community.
MELD Men's Groups
Facilitated and peer-led men's groups built around somatic awareness, emotional skill, relational practice, accountability, and authentic connection.
EVRYMAN — groups are now being supported by MELD
For men looking for the continuation and evolution of this group work, MELD is the current home.
MensGroup.com
A large online men's community with facilitated groups, topic-specific meetings, discussion forums, social gatherings, and peer support.
ManKind Project Men's Groups
Free and ongoing local and online groups focused on honest conversation, support, accountability, connection, and integration.
Illuman Men's Circles
Contemplative men's circles built around deep listening, speaking from the heart, authenticity, and the practice of Council.
Tips & Resources for Men
Practical places to learn, reflect, and strengthen how you show up in work, relationships, health, and life.
MELD Resources
Guides and tools for emotional and relational growth, men's groups, somatic awareness, connection, fatherhood, and practical development.
Quotes for Men
A collection from this site for reflection on becoming your own man and building a more conscious life.
The Art of Manliness
A broad, long-running resource covering practical skills, relationships, character, fitness, fatherhood, work, and the life of men.
Man Therapy
A men's mental-health resource that uses humor and plain language to help men recognize when something is wrong and take the next step toward support.
Leadership, Business & Inner Work
Success puts pressure on a man's patterns. The more responsibility he carries, the more his ability to regulate himself, stay connected, tolerate uncertainty, communicate directly, and act rather than react affects everyone around him. These resources approach leadership and business as places for both performance and personal development.
NEUROS — a subsidiary of MELD
NEUROS brings MELD's physiology-first, relational, and communal principles into leadership, teams, culture, and organizational performance. It focuses on how human state under pressure affects decision-making, trust, repair, coherence, and the capacity of a team to perform.
Art of Accomplishment — Joe Hudson
Leadership as self-discovery. Joe Hudson's work connects ambition, emotional awareness, relationships, decision-making, aliveness, and high performance rather than treating inner work and business effectiveness as opposites.
The Conscious Leadership Group
A practical approach to leading from presence rather than reactivity, built around responsibility, curiosity, emotional awareness, candor, integrity, and creating cultures where people own outcomes.
Reboot — Jerry Colonna & Team
Executive coaching and leadership development that combines practical business skill with radical self-inquiry. Reboot's core premise is that better humans make better leaders and work can become a path toward becoming more fully ourselves.
Hoffman Institute
Deep experiential work for identifying and changing long-standing emotional, behavioral, and family-of-origin patterns. Not primarily a business program, but highly relevant for leaders whose personal patterns shape how they lead, relate, and make decisions.
Fatherhood
Fatherhood asks more of us than providing. It asks for presence, steadiness, emotional availability, responsibility, and an ability to keep growing alongside our children.
MELD Resources for Fathers
Resources for fathers who want to be more present, connected, regulated, and intentional in family life.
Fathers' Forum
Bruce Linton's long-running work supporting new and expectant fathers through articles, fatherhood development resources, groups, books, and education.
Be A Super Dad — Help for Dads
Current, practical guidance for pregnancy, new fatherhood, mental health, relationships, separation, and everyday parenting questions.
National Fatherhood Initiative
Programs, research, and practical resources designed to help fathers become more involved, responsible, and connected.
Raising Children Network — Fathers
Evidence-informed guidance for fathers on babies, parenting, partner support, mental health, bonding, and family life.
Daddy Dialectic
Preserved as an older contribution to the conversation about caregiving, work, family, culture, and fatherhood.
Digital Dads / C.C. Chapman
The original Digital Dads route now resolves through C.C. Chapman's current site. Preserved here as part of the earlier online fatherhood conversation.
Relationships & Couples
Our closest relationships reveal patterns that individual growth can hide. These resources focus on attachment, communication, conflict, intimacy, repair, and the capacity to stay connected when things get hard.
The Gottman Institute
Decades of couples research translated into practical tools for communication, friendship, conflict, intimacy, parenting, and long-term relationship health.
Emotionally Focused Therapy / ICEEFT
The home of Emotionally Focused Therapy, founded by Dr. Sue Johnson, with attachment-based resources for couples and a worldwide therapist directory.
Esther Perel
Thoughtful work on intimacy, desire, conflict, infidelity, eroticism, and the tensions that emerge in long-term relationships.
Jayson Gaddis
Relationship work focused on married men, conflict, connection, communication, and the personal development required for stronger partnerships.
Terry Real / Relational Life Therapy
Direct, practical relationship work addressing disconnection, accountability, intimacy, power, conflict, and how partners repair recurring patterns.
Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt
Founders of Imago Relationship Therapy and authors of Getting the Love You Want, with tools centered on dialogue, connection, and relational healing.
Divorce Busting
Michele Weiner-Davis's practical, solution-oriented work for couples in serious relationship distress and for partners trying to interrupt destructive patterns.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is not just knowing the names of feelings. It includes recognizing, understanding, expressing, and regulating emotion—and using that information more skillfully in relationship and action.
MELD
MELD approaches emotional awareness through the body: learning to notice physiological signals, stay regulated under pressure, and turn experience into clearer choice and action.
Psychology Today — Emotional Intelligence
A useful overview of emotional intelligence, its component skills, self-awareness, regulation, empathy, and the debates around the concept.
Greater Good Science Center
Research-based quizzes and resources on emotional intelligence, empathy, mindfulness, gratitude, trust, forgiveness, and well-being.
Men's Mental Health
Growth work is not a substitute for medical or mental-health care. These are credible places to learn more and find professional support when it is needed.
Man Therapy
A male-specific entry point for mental-health education, self-assessment, and finding support.
NIMH — Men and Mental Health
Current information from the National Institute of Mental Health about symptoms, treatment, warning signs, and getting help.
Psychology Today Therapist Directory
A large directory for finding licensed therapists by location, concern, therapy type, and specialty.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
In the United States, call or text 988 for immediate crisis support. If there is imminent danger, call emergency services.
Men's Health
Our emotional lives, relationships, stress, sleep, movement, sexuality, and physical health are not separate systems. Use credible health information and qualified professionals when making medical decisions.
Men's Health Network
A nonprofit resource covering physical, mental, sexual, and preventive health for men and boys, with guides, educational materials, and screening information.
F3 Nation
A peer-led community built around free outdoor workouts, fellowship, and leadership. Different from men's work, but valuable for embodied community and regular connection.
Use Your Experience as the Test
There is no perfect teacher, program, book, group, or method. Do your due diligence. Pay attention to who is leading. Notice whether an approach helps you become more yourself or asks you to conform to someone else's idea of what a man should be.
Then notice what actually happens. Does the work make you more aware? More capable of feeling without being controlled by what you feel? More honest? More connected? More responsible for your impact? Better able to create the relationships and life you want?
Information can point you somewhere. Experience tells you whether it works.