BreakThroughCircle.com & the Wildmen of Asheville present
HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE
Express Your Healthy Masculine Power
A playful & fun opportunity to heal old trauma patterns from masculine aggression from fathers, authority figures, peers, and other wounded humans.
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 1-6pm
A Kansas City-based Wildman Event for Men
Have you experienced unhealthy expressions of masculinity?
It’s likely that you’ve experienced intimidation, bullying, fear for your physical safety, fear of being humiliated, shaming and emasculation...simply for expressing authentic parts of yourself.
These experiences create unmet needs around the SAFETY, CONNECTION & POWER that boys and men require in order to truly thrive. These unmet needs cause unintended negative consequences in how men think and behave in relationships.
These needs can be identified and addressed in healing ways that shift how we think, behave, and live our lives.
The SACRED COMBAT BreakThrough Circle is a FUN opportunity to somatically heal and repattern the Fight - Flee - Hide - Fawn - Freeze - Collapse patterns that arise with such exposure to unhealthy masculine energies.
This is NOT a martial arts training.
We will NOT teach you HOW to fight.
We will offer you a safe and fun place to push and to be pushed…
...and invite you into processes that heal the wounds caused by masculine aggression from fathers, authority figures, peers, and other wounded humans.
Our ancestors dealt with physical resistance daily. Today, there aren’t many healthy containers where this can be expressed. Even many martial arts studios express toxic elements of combat. Many men are missing healthy physical expression from our lives, so it tends to come out in unhealthy ways.
There is tremendous healing potential in men connecting, pushing, pulling, and being resisted physically. This process includes movement games, physical engagement, and wrestling. All interactions are optional, with expressed consent, and intended for healing.
You will engage in one-on-one sacred combat with allies who will work WITH you, not against you.
You will experience the joy and freedom of using your masculine assertiveness and even your masculine aggression in healthy, respectful ways.
This 6 hour event includes sacred combat opportunities led by Joshua Zamrin. Joshua will use his training to guide us safely into hand-to-hand combat experiences.
When the testosterone boost that results from this type of playful athletics meets encouragement, honoring, support, and emotional safety, it has a healing effect on many men...particularly men who still carry wounds around masculine aggression.
When we co-create felt-sense experiences of inner safety while relating with other men in physically assertive ways, something truly magical happens.
The nervous system begins to settle into a deeper sense of security.
New inner strength and surprising levels of inner power become accessible.
It can be healing to the nervous system to wrestle playfully, with men who respect you and mean you well.
These embodied sacred combat interactions are accompanied by group and individual BreakThrough processes led by James Mayfield Smith.
James will use his Somatic BreakThrough Facilitator expertise to guide us towards healing opportunities as needed before, in between, and after the sacred combat rounds.
These experiences will address what comes up during the sacred combat, including:
- Fear of the aggression of boys and men & fear of our own aggression
- Healing around being bullied or contributing with bully energy in the past
- Inner child work & inner teenager work
- Healing around how the masculine has shown up in our lives.
- Creating new ways to be with and express our own Power
When you have precision support to guide you closer to your felt-sense somatic experience, you will usually discover a deeper layer of personal truths that can heal trauma and conditioning and bring more ease and confidence in how you experience yourself.
When we work through enough of our core trauma and get close enough alignment with our purpose, we also gain access to powerful new energy to fuel our missions of service in the world.
Don't let your negative past experiences of unhealthy masculinity limit your full expression as a man.
Feel CONNECTED in your heart and POWERFUL in your body so you can bless the world in more amazing ways that only YOU can offer.
Space is limited for this unique opportunity.
Register now to attend the
SACRED COMBAT BreakThrough Circle
Important HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE
Dates, Links & Logistics
NOW:
Enrollment is OPEN for the HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE
NOW:
Enrollment is open for the Sensitive Wildman Individual Coaching Program (which includes a free ticket to the HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE, for men who seek emotional healing around relationships or who want healthier ways to experience fear, anger, or shame. Contact James at [email protected] or text 816-645-2600 for details.
WED AUG 3, 2022 7:30-8:30pm CT
Optional Zoom-based Meet Your Shieldmates Pre-Gathering Check-in. Open to any man who has registered or is considering registering. Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8166452600
THUR AUG 4, 2022
Enrollment CLOSES for the HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE.
SAT AUG 6, 2022 1-6pm CT:
HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE at a retreat center in Tonganoxie, KS, near Kansas City.
TBD, 7:30pm-8:30pm CT:
Optional Zoom-based Post-Gathering Integration. Zoom link to join (for registered attendees only): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8166452600
Your Guide for this Journey is
James Mayfield Smith
James Mayfield Smith
BreakThrough Coach. Facilitator. Adventurer.
James Mayfield Smith is a Somatic BreakThrough Coach and founder of BreakThroughCircle.com. James has staffed and co-led advanced-level men's work for the past 15 years, has led 50 transformation-focused retreats in the US and abroad and has facilitated over a thousand clients to transform key emotional dynamics in their lives.
James discovered the healing power of men's work and highly-attuned somatic facilitation during a time of deep grief and shame in his own life. A healing community of men helped him to heal and to recover his power.
He's spent over 20 years of serious inner work healing the anxiety, insecurity, loneliness, physical abuse, bullying, trauma, and negative conditioning of his childhood and teenage years.
These tools changed his experience of himself at depth. He now moves through life with curiosity, aliveness, and a more embodied sense of connection that brings greater power to his unique gifts.
James facilitates men and women through their own initiatory journeys of connection and empowerment. He utilizes mythic, imaginal, shamanic, somatic, and bio-energetic tools, along with powerful, intense journey work experiences to create positive shifts in how we perceive and experience ourselves and our outer circumstances. His specialty is working with a client’s central nervous system and deeper somatic wisdom to cultivate a BreakThrough Moment.
James has a 30 year old son and a 20 year old daughter and is deeply committed to helping the world become a safer and more magically adventurous place for them and for all men, women, boys, and girls...one BreakThrough Moment at a time. His work lives this mission.
HEALING COMBAT CIRCLE Packages
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Sacred Combat BreakThrough Circle
or other Wildman Gatherings and BreakThrough Circle Events
Watch this 3 minute video to hear from men in our amazing community
This was filmed right after one of our Wildman Gatherings...so you get to hear from participants about their individual experiences with our events
The Healthy Wildman
The healthy Wildman is a powerful, healing archetypal energy that a man has access to when he feels at his best. For his Wildman energy to become accessible, a man needs 3 essential things:
SAFETY
CONNECTION
& POWER
This Wildman work creates safety, connection, and empowerment so that you can access the healing energy of your inner Wildman.
A man in touch with his Wildman is deeply connected to nature and to himself.
He belongs in this world and he knows it in his bones.
He feels safe.
He feels connected to Mother Earth, to other men, to women, and most of all, to himself.
This brings him great courage.
This alignment allows him to show up in an authentic way, with his full power and sovereignty.
And this brings him great freedom.
Wounded Masculinity
When a man's early family environment and life circumstances interfered with getting any of these essential needs met, then his behavior as an adult will display manifestations of an unmet need.
When a man has unmet emotional needs around one of these areas, his life will show emotional dynamics such as these:
Insecurity Anxiety Fear Isolation Playing Small Defendedness Rage Shame Addiction Loneliness Regret Mistrust Relationship Issues Sadness
Find your unmet emotional needs and you'll find the most direct path for effective inner work.
If these dynamics are showing up in your life, then they are invitations to look at your unmet needs and begin to meet them.
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As with any of our Wildman programs, you'll experience powerfully facilitated experiences that cultivate a state of deep safety, connection, and empowerment so that your healthy Wildman energy can flow freely.
Unfortunately, our western society doesn't support this kind of power and sovereignty. That's a big part of the problem.
Our cultural and family conditioning get in the way.
Family, school, careers, and society all attempt to domesticate us and diminish our powerful masculinity.
Those in authority often try to inhibit our full range of options and make us feel disconnected, guilty, and ashamed, so that we become easier to control or easier to sell products to.
Our "leaders" rarely encourage us to claim our full power.
The authority figures in our lives...parents, teachers, and well-meaning adults are themselves captives of a civilization overflowing with wounded, toxic masculinity.
They perpetuate the patriarchy and often shut us down in our earliest attempts to stand up for what is right.
And then we turn around and do it to our own kids.
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Most men never learn how to channel our masculinity in healthy ways.
We learn from a very young age to hold back, to play small, and to not shine too brightly, or else risk being humiliated.
Or worse, we adopt the overcompensatory strategies of toxic masculinity, and we lose our authenticity or our depth and we become unsafe for others.
As we get older, the peers we grow up with often shame us in similar ways to how they were shamed at home. So we get the social conditioning from all sides...
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All this shame and effort to contain our free spirit and wild nature costs us dearly.
Our health, our passion, and our vitality all suffer when we dim our light and hold back the genius that resides within.
Why Gather with other Wildmen?
You can access your Wildman in nature, with a safe, healthy community of brothers.
By experiencing peak physiological states of connection and empowerment, we cultivate non-ordinary states of consciousness that connect us back to the earth and to ourselves.
We utilize playful, fun ways to recover your sovereignty and connect to a place within you that is already healed.
When you learn how to presence yourself from this healthy masculine, rather than from the wounded masculine or the limits of your conditioning, your options expand.
Such work brings tremendous personal power that we can use to say no to things that don't serve us and to instead live a life that is meaningful for our unique path.
Our Wildman events provide intense initiatory experiences designed to get men CONNECTED and EMPOWERED.
These unique offerings are not available elsewhere. Wildman events are the result of many decades of intense inner work and facilitation training from a deeply bonded group of powerful men's work leaders and facilitators.
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It really is possible to heal the cultural conditioning and personal family wounds that keep you feeling disconnected and disempowered, so that you can begin to give your full gifts to the world.
This work helps you to accomplish that.
COVID-19 Policy and Agreements:
To reduce COVID risks, we are holding this program outdoors.
If the Sacred Combat BreakThrough circle is cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions on large gatherings, we'll refund your full payment.
The pandemic requires greater consciousness from every one of us, including respectfully disagreeing on opinions, recognizing early symptoms, and preventing community spread. Voluntarily choosing to adhere to the agreements below protects all of us, regardless of opinions on COVID and respective vaccinations.
1. Illness Policy
Please refrain from attending if any of the following are true:
- You have been exposed to anyone with COVID-19 within the last 15 days.
- You or anyone in your household has had a fever within the last 72 hours.
- You or anyone in your household has had flu-like symptoms (including fever, cough or shortness of breath) within the last 72 hours.
- You have a fever of 100.4°F or above or other signs of illness upon arrival.
If you begin to experience fever or flu-like symptoms (including cough or shortness of breath) while at the retreat, we will ask that you head home.
Facilitators and support staff will be following the same illness policy as participants.
2. Hand Washing
Wash your hands frequently throughout the day. We encourage you to bring your own hand sanitizer and wet wipes with at least 60% alcohol to use when necessary, including at the following times:
- Arrival and Departure
- Snacking or food prep
- After going to bathroom
- As needed
3. Social Distancing & Masks
This program is maskless. However, we honor your sovereign choice to wear a mask for your own or others protection.
By registering for this event, I acknowledge that I understand and agree to these terms.