MAN UP — Men’s Support Space (Online Sessions Dec/Jan + In-Person Workshop)

MAN UP — A New Men’s Support Space
Hosted by The HOPE Movement

If you’re a man struggling with loneliness, numbness, fatherhood challenges, relationship breakdowns, or the weight of life, you don’t have to hold it alone.

Across December, January and February, we’re opening a grounded, real, supportive space for men who need connection, clarity and community.

Reclaiming “MAN UP”

“MAN UP” is usually thrown at men as a shutdown:
“Don’t feel.”
“Don’t cry.”
“Don’t struggle.”

We’re changing that.

Man Up = Move Up, Rise Up, Speak Up, Show Up

(for yourself, your mental health, your children, and your life)

Man Up = Helping you navigate the reality of being a man today.

Man Up = Find grounding, belonging and direction.

This space is for men who’ve been carrying too much for too long. This space gives men a place to breathe, speak, be supported, and find direction again.
No judgement. No pressure. No performance.

WHY WE CREATED THIS PROGRAMME

MAN UP was created because we kept seeing the same thing across our work with adults, young people, mixed groups, families and men:

people carrying too much, too quietly, with nowhere to take it.

We noticed how many men were struggling with loneliness, fatherhood pressures, intrusive thoughts, separation, identity loss, and emotional shutdown, but also how many men had no safe, grounded space to talk honestly without judgement.

This programme is about offering connection, clarity, stability and support at a time of year when things often feel the hardest.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Weekly online sessions via Zoom (first is FREE)

Grounded, real conversation

Support for men navigating

• Loneliness

• Numbness

• Fatherhood challenges

• Relationship breakdown

• Identity

• Overwhelm

• Intrusive or dark thoughts

Guidance on emotional regulation & coping skills

A sense of belonging with other men

Option to continue to a February in-person weekend workshop (details announced soon)

You choose when to start.

You choose how much you attend.

Get on the path wherever it’s right for you.

SESSION DATES (Online via Zoom)

December: Wed 3rd, Wed 17th, Sat 27th (8pm–10pm)
January: Wed 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th (8pm–10pm)
February: In-person workshop (Details TBC)

COST

First session FREE

£8 +BF per session afterwards

If you need it completely free, message us privately.

Jordan: 07474 247 773

Dave: 07768 720 362

LIMITED SPACES/HOW BOOKING WORKS

To keep the space safe and supportive, this programme is limited to 10 men only.

Spaces will fill on a first-come basis.

You can join this programme at any stage, December, January or February, and your first-ever session is free, no matter when you begin.

To keep the space grounded, safe and personal, every session is limited to 10 men, and each session needs to be booked individually.
This means spaces are offered first-come, first-served.

• Each week requires its own booking

Sessions aren’t held automatically, so if you want to continue, you simply book into the next date to reserve your space.

• Book early to secure your space

With only 10 spaces each week, sessions can fill quickly.

This structure keeps the group consistent, supportive and focused, and ensures every man who attends gets the time and space he needs.

MEET THE FACILITATORS

Jordan and Dave are co-founders of The HOPE Movement, and together they have facilitated therapeutic and community spaces for adults, young people, men and mixed groups across a wide range of settings.

They bring a blend of clinical training and lived experience, rooted in approaches and training such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Compassionate Inquiry, ClearMind International, Integrative Counselling and trauma-informed practice. Their work focuses on emotional regulation, nervous-system support, relationship dynamics, and helping people reconnect with their own internal resources.

What shapes their work most, though, is their humanity: navigating separation, blended families, rebuilding life after difficult periods, managing intrusive thoughts, and, for one of them, restarting life after prison. These experiences inform the way they hold space, with warmth, groundedness, compassion, and respect for the complexity of being human.

Although this programme is focused on men, their wider work spans all genders and ages. The heart of their practice remains the same:

To offer people a space where they can be met, heard, and supported, without judgement.

Jordan Quinn

Trainee Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, founder of Brum Circle & co-facilitator of Wild & Wise Group Therapy.
Jordan works with men, fathers, young people and adults, specialising in trauma-informed group work, nervous system regulation, and supporting men through breakups, identity loss and overwhelm.

Dave Redfern

Men’s facilitator, therapeutic practitioner, co-founder of The HOPE Movement.
Dave brings deep lived experience, grounded presence and years of men’s work, supporting men through fatherhood challenges, relationship breakdowns, young men without fathers, and the emotional weight men often carry alone.