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“A life-changing
experience!"
“The most
significant weekend of my life.”
“An opportunity
to get authentic and genuine with 30-plus other men. It was
liberating!”
“A profound
experience.”
“It enabled me
to create friendships that have turned into life support for me.”
“The Journey
Into Manhood weekend saved my life.”
Journey Into Manhood is a 48-hour immersion in intensive emotional-healing
work, specifically for men who are self-motivated and serious about
resolving unwanted homosexual attractions.
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2010
More Information
What Journey Into Manhood IS
Journey
Into Manhood is a 48-hour immersion in intensive emotional-healing
work, designed specifically for men who are serious about resolving
unwanted homosexual attractions.
As a “journeyer,”
you will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of group
and individual exercises – including journaling, visualization,
group sharing, safe healing touch and intensive emotional-release
work – all in a very supportive yet challenging environment.
Journey Into
Manhood is an experiential-learning weekend. We limit the use of
classroom-style lectures. Instead, we create opportunities for you
to experience healing, not just learn about it.
One simple example:
You won’t just talk about what it is like to look another man in the
eyes – you’ll stand eye to eye with another man while we help you
process whatever feelings might arise.
All of the
exercises are designed to help you identify and process the
underlying issues that may be alienating you from your authentic
heterosexual masculinity – and, ideally, to help you experience a
deep emotional breakthrough.
What Journey Into
Manhood is NOT
Journey Into
Manhood is not a religious retreat, although many men find it
spiritually rewarding. Men of all faiths (or no faith) are welcome.
We do teach the principle of “surrender” to a Higher Power or
Greater Good. But we do not advocate a specific faith, nor will we
intentionally challenge your religious beliefs.
Journey Into
Manhood is not professional therapy.
It is not a
gay-bashing weekend.
It is not a
place to meet potential sex partners.
It is not a
place for shaming. Quite the contrary: we affirm your inherent value
as a man, just as you are.
Journey Into
Manhood is not appropriate for anyone who feels pressured to change
against his will.
It is
only for men who already are sincerely self-motivated
to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions, in accordance with their
intrinsic values, beliefs and personal life goals.
About the Staff
Journey Into
Manhood is staffed by about 20 men who volunteer their time because
they care deeply about supporting men’s healing and personal growth.
Most of the staff
have overcome a past homosexual struggle themselves. Some are men
who have always been heterosexual but have significant experience
mentoring SSA men or facilitating men’s emotional healing work
generally.
Staff members
either are not professional therapists or are not serving in that
professional capacity in the course of the weekend.
About the Participants
All are men at
least 18 years old who are actively working to overcome unwanted
same sex attraction. The maximum number of participants per event is
32.
Since the first
Journey Into Manhood in January 2002, more than
1000 men from a dozen
countries and 40 states have been through the program.
Typically, they
range in age from their early 20s to late 40s, but men in their late
teens to their 50s and 60s also participate.
Usually, more
than a third are married (often with children) and working to keep
their marriages intact. Most (but not all) attendees are religious.
Most are Christians (of every denominational variety), Jews and
occasionally Muslims.
Most have
struggled relatively secretly with unwanted same sex attractions
over a period of years. Some have been sexually active, but others
have not. A minority were openly gay before opting to leave a gay
lifestyle.
Cost and Accommodations
The cost is
US$650.
People Can
Change, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit in the U.S., raises funds
for partial sponsorships
or other financial
assistance for men who are highly committed to the change process
but unable to afford the full fee.
JIM
is held at retreat centers or group camps with
temperature-controlled rooms that usually bunk at least six men to a
room (no one- or two-man rooms). Nourishing hot meals are provided.
We help arrange carpooling to and from the site.
Apply for a Sponsorship
People Can Change raises donations to pay for
financial assistance for men who are highly committed to the change
process but unable to afford the full fee.
Two types of financial assistance are available –
sponsorships (or grants), and a pre-approved payment plan.
Sponsorships are at least US$100
and at most US$400. Alternatively,
you might be approved for a payment plan instead of – or in addition
to – a partial sponsorship.
For details, see
FAQs
About Sponsorship
and Payment Plans.
To apply for either a sponsorship or payment
plan, you will need to fill out an online application AND make an
initial REFUNDABLE deposit of US$250.
To do so, go to
Payments and
click on the “financial assistance” link under the weekend you want
to attend.
If you do NOT receive the financial assistance
you need, and you therefore need to withdraw your registration, your
deposit can be fully refunded to you, on request.
Sponsorship applications must be received by PCC
4 weeks before the weekend you hope to attend. Our intention is to
advise you of our sponsorship decisions 3 weeks in advance.
We will also consider applications received less than 4 weeks
in advance, but all funds available for that weekend may already
have been distributed.
Donate to the Sponsorship
Fund
Your
tax-deductible donation to People Can Change (registered in the U.S.
as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) enables men to experience
the Journey Into Manhood weekend – a life-changing turning point for
many – who otherwise would not have the resources to participate.
Donations are
increasingly necessary to meet the growing need for Journey Into
Manhood events as word of mouth about the success of our program
spreads, and as we expand to meet the growing need. In 2007, for
example, we presented Journey Into Manhood in England – our first
time outside the U.S. We are also taking the program to new parts
of the United States, such as Florida and Texas.
Fees and
donations cover such expenses as:
·
Renting group camps or retreat centers with large
meeting rooms
·
Providing meals and accommodations for up to 32
“journeyers” and 20 or more volunteer staff
·
Airline tickets to fly in certain
volunteer staff
·
Purchasing and shipping necessary materials
·
Administration
Our goal is to
have at least US$2,000 in sponsorship funds available for every
training, to partially fund at least 5 participants per training.
You can
make a donation online or mail a check to:
People Can Change
P.O. Box 412
Ruckersville, Virginia (VA) 22968
USA
To discuss your
donation with People Can Change, contact Richard Wyler, Executive
Director, at 1-434-985-8551 or rich@peoplecanchange.com.
Thank you for
helping people reach their goals for change!
Ask a Question
Write to
lynn@peoplecanchange.com or call 1-434-985-8551.
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