Deep Dives are member-led, one-hour discussions on wide-ranging topics — but always linked in some way to masculinities, gender equity, mental wellness, and/or healthy relationships.

This time we're talking about love.

While everyone wants and needs to be loved — I think we often (wrongly) assume that everyone knows how to receive love. In other words, that we can accept the love that others try to give us. 

If you've ever found yourself putting up barriers, having trouble being vulnerable, or feeling like you didn't deserve the love someone else was offering you, then you might have struggled with receiving love. The impacts might have been resentment, blame, regret, and even the end of relationships. 

Is knowing how to receive love something that we are born knowing how to do, but lose the capacity to do over time? How do some of the messages we receive about how to "be a man" disconnect us from love?

What's really holding us back from learning to give and receive love in the ways we want? Can we learn how to do this?

Some of the questions we may start with: 

• What is love? What does it mean to give and receive love? 

• What has impacted our ability to give & receive love throughout our lives?

• How can we tell if we have trouble receiving love? Once we see it, what can we do about it?

• How do our challenges with receiving love from others connect to self-love?

And we'll go from there! 

Bring your coffee and settle in for a great conversation. Or, if you've got a busy day, you're welcome to join from your phone while you're on the go!

Hope to see you there On Sunday May 21 at 10 am PT / 11 am MT / 1 pm ET! 🙌

Access to Deep Dives events and our private online community, Inner Circle are available to Next Gen Menbers only!

What is Next Gen Menbership? It’s a $5-50 monthly or $50-500 annual contribution that goes directly to our youth programs with the added bonus of exclusive discounts, free events, and more!