Mens Group | The Check-in

Step 1: Sign up

Showing up for each other

and stepping out of the manbox*

1. Sign up form

2. Choose your Meetings

Mens Group

Tuesdays... and now Sundays too!

Central city venue
New faces welcome
Koha entry from $10
Flexible attendance
Small group (max. 10)
All ages, backgrounds and identities (18+)
Experienced hosts

Join this community and explore being part of a functioning men's group. It's about connection and showing up, instead of going it alone. Attendance is flexible; you choose when you want to show up. The group hears and explores our various challenges, our highs, lows, and wins! We talk honestly, listen respectfully, and figure some things out together. Over time, it helps to grow us into better friends, partners, dads, sons and humans.

About Joseph at:

1-to-1 Check-in

Tuesdays with Joseph

Weekly, 6:30 - 8:30pm

I have been hosting regular men's groups for the last 15 years. This group is welcoming and easily- relatable. It also offers some structured process and inquiries that draw on NVC, MBSR, active listening, gratitude and more. This open Tuesday Men's Group is a community offering that was first started back in 2011. That's 100's of men and 1000's of hours! And now we're expanding into Sundays with Murray on board!

Joseph Nicholls

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Sundays with Murray

Bi-weekly, 3:30- 5:30pm

I’ve spent many years facilitating men’s groups. I have worked in community counselling and men’s stopping violence programmes, taught yoga at Remutaka prison, and run men’s community yoga. Having worked with hundreds of men of all backgrounds over many years, I’m very familiar with the terrain. My role here is simply to support men to remember the beauty, kindness and lightness that already resides within.

Murray Hemi

More about us both at the:

Home page

"It's simple and effective and uplifting. I have got so much from this group!" Aaron

We all respect the leap of courage and self-worth it can take - just to come along to a men's group for the first time! It’s not about having it all sorted, and you don't have to be a certain type of guy. It's not a boys or bros club, religious or new-age. It's also not therapy or a self-help seminar. No fixing, preaching, or pressure. And it’s not a crisis service or a substitute for professional care. The sign-up form explains this in more detail.

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