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Masculine Pathways

Are you a man looking to deepen your connection with loved ones?

Join this 8 week Series: Engaging Masculinity with Attention and Care

 Masculine Pathways is a space for men to get collective attention and care. This gathering asks what discourse and relationship can look like when privilege is not a barrier to connection, but an honest and curious foundation for discussion. Masculine Pathways invites a non-hierarchical learning environment while cultivating relational intimacy between participants and facilitators. This course is designed for men’s flourishing in connection with their loved ones. Too often, barriers like childhood sexual abuse, bullying, and culturally prescribed masculinity keep men from exploring their identities safely. Whether you are cis or trans, if you identify on the spectrum of masculinity and are seeking some attention and care around how to love your masculinity this space was thoughtfully designed for you.


8 Week Series

Each week will include two and a half hours of integrated teaching and group practice. This is a virtual group that has the option for attending the processing sessions in person if you live locally in Seattle. The Series Arc is listed below.

Week 1 - March 6th 10:30am-1:00pm. PST

Community Agreement, Facilitator and Participants Intro’s, 

  • The Multiplicity of Masculinity 

  • Listening 101: Practice listening to reflect vs. listening to respond. 

Week 2- : March 13th 4:30pm-7:00pm PST

Masculinity & Embodiment

  • Non Hierarchical Understanding of the Nervous System -Poly Vagal awareness

  • How has masculinity or someone’s expectation of your masculinity been harmful to you? What do you notice in your body as your reflect on these questions. 

  • What do you notice in your body as you have listened to your loved ones and or each other this past week.

Week 3: March 20th 10:30am-1:00pm PST

Processing Groups

The processing groups are a space for participants to reflect with care on what has been stirring in them in the previous weeks session.

Participants will be invited into open discussion that includes readiness for conflict as well as potential for reparative connection.  The processing groups provide a unique opportunity to give and receive the care you are learning to embody during class time. 

Week 4 March 27th 10:30am-1:00pm PST

Sensation, Emotions, Narratives around Masculinity    

Week 5: April 3rd 10:30am-1:00pm PST

The processing groups are a space for participants to reflect with care on what has been stirring in them in the previous weeks session. Participants will be invited into open discussion that includes readiness for conflict as well as potential for reparative connection.  The processing groups provide a unique opportunity to give and receive the care you are learning to embody during class time

Week 6: April 10th 4:30pm-7:00pm PST

Attachment Degendered. A framework for recognizing the impact of attachment wounds when they are happening and how reframing masculinity can help tend to those wounds. 

  • How have you been taught to bypass Attachment wounds? What traits of masculinity have taught you to bypass your attachment wounds? Have you withheld care from yourself or had care withheld from you in the name of masculinity? 

Week 7: April 17th 10:30am-1:00pm PST

The processing groups are a space for participants to reflect with care on what has been stirring in them in the previous weeks session. Participants will be invited into open discussion that includes readiness for conflict as well as potential for reparative connection.  The processing groups provide a unique opportunity to give and receive the care you are learning to embody during class time

Week 8: April 24th 4:30pm-7:00pm PST

Completing Care Together!

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Meet Your Facilitators:

  • Sunnie(them/them)Sunnie Townsend (They/Them) is an intimacy infuser for generative collective care. They partner with individuals, organizations and groups to provide liberated frameworks through an anti-oppressive lens. They are a passionate psycho-educator and facilitator specializing in IFS Parts Work for Sex and Money, Polyvagal and Relational Trauma. Sunnie specializes in Complex Trauma and provide individual and group care for LGBTQIA folx who have suffered trauma surround gender, sexual orientation, religious trauma, and childhood sexual abuse. They are the founder and lead provider of QueerCareConnections.com. Sunnie lives and works in Duwamish Territory in the land also knows as Seattle, WA.


  • Billie Bloom (they/them) is a queer, non-binary licensed therapist who works in the intersections of relationships, neurodiversity and gender. The therapeutic niche they have developed through an interdisciplinary lens serves many different kinds of relational structures, including poly, kinky queer and trans folks, and mono straight folks building intentional bonds in a shifting world. They are a licensed counselor, as well as a vocal coach and performer living and working on Duwamish land.


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If you would like to schedule a free 15 min call to learn about the Masculine Pathways Course. Please fill out the form below.