Strength with Heart:
Cultivating Awareness, Courage, and Connection in Men
What does it mean to be strong, and open?
When hardness stops working, most men don’t know what to do next.
Many men know how to push, achieve, endure, and stay in control. Fewer know how to remain open without losing strength, or grounded without shutting down.
This upcoming Spirit Rock workshop explores that edge directly: how to become more awake, steady, emotionally honest, and deeply connected without giving up clarity, power, or backbone.
I’ll be joining James Baraz and Dr. Daniel Ellenberg for Strength with Heart: Cultivating Awareness, Courage, and Connection in Men, a live online workshop for men.
Together, we’ll explore a more grounded form of masculine development through embodied practice, reflective dialogue, and grounded teaching — including the inner “boardroom” that shapes our lives, what real courage feels like in the body, and how to cultivate the stability of true center.
About the Teachers
James Baraz, MA, has a master’s in Psychology and is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. James started the Community Dharma Leader program, the Kalyana Mitta Network, the Spirit Rock Family Program and helped create the Heavenly Messengers Training Program. James has been leading the online course Awakening Joy since 2003. He serves […]
Keith Martin-Smith is an author, developmental coach, ordained Zen priest, and Northern Kung Fu lineage holder. He has been working with men for 20 years, at the intersection of leadership, identity, and human development. He brings a rare blend of psychological insight, strategic rigor, and embodied presence to his work.
Daniel Ellenberg, PhD is a leadership coach, organizational trainer, executive advisor and licensed therapist. He is a principle in Rewire Leadership Institute and Relationships That Work. He leads Strength with Heart men's groups and seminars and is incoming President of American Psychological Association's Division 51: Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinities.