Return to Self – A Day for Men
June 28th - Sunday
9.30 -4.30
Buddhi Shala
389A Maunganui Rd
Mt Maunganui 
 
There is a growing number of men walking around looking successful on the outside while feeling completely disconnected on the inside.
They get up, go to work, pay the bills, support their families and carry responsibilities that rarely ease and to the outside world they appear to be coping. Yet beneath the surface, many feel exhausted, flat, disconnected and strangely absent from their own lives.
 
The passion that once drove them has faded.
Their relationships have become functional rather than fulfilling.
Their health may have begun to decline.
Their dreams have been replaced by obligations.
Many have become so accustomed to carrying the weight of life that they no longer recognise the man staring back at them in the mirror.
Return to Self is a day designed to explore what happens when men slowly drift away from themselves and, more importantly, how they find their way back.
 
Drawing on nearly two decades of working with thousands of people, trauma specialist and healing arts practitioner Penny Green will explore the hidden pressures shaping modern men, the patterns that keep them stuck, and practical ways to reconnect with purpose, direction, vitality and a genuine sense of engagement with life.
This is not a day of chest-beating motivation, forced vulnerability or recycled self-development clichés.
It is an honest conversation about what has happened to modern men and what can be done about it.
If life has started to feel more like a responsibility than an adventure, this day was created for you.
Your family deserves more than a man who is merely surviving.
You deserve more than that, too.