Gentle Men - Masculinity Beyond the Body
Sun, Sep 14
|Maple Grove Hot Springs + Retreat Center
Introducing Gentle Men-a monthly meet up that spans age, race, class, politics & faith. Together, we’ll host a guest speaker meant to explore, express & evangelize the softer sides of masculinity over a yurt chat and poolside hangs. This month we explore life after traumatic injury and paralyzation
Time & Location
Sep 14, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Maple Grove Hot Springs + Retreat Center, 11386 Oneida Narrows Rd, Thatcher, ID, USA
About the Event
Join us for an inter-generational meet up meant to casually explore the changing and diverse nature of masculinity in the modern era.
With a guest speaker invited to guide a curious fireside yurt chat, we'll start the day exploring a theme and grounding ourselves in a dynamic discussion where no question is wrong, no answer is unwelcome, and everyone gets the chance to expand, implode, amplify, and hopefully soften, their sense of what it means to be a man amidst a moment in time that seems to offer a wild array of answers to a pretty timeless question - What is masculinity?
Join us as we invite Jared Potter, a long time guest, workshop participant and active ourdoorsman as he shares the intimate journey of moving beyond traditional definitions of masculinity in order to maintain mental health amidst the loss of his mobility following a devastating paragliding accident that left…
