Time schedule:
2025. June 28-29 (saturday-sunday) from 9:30 to 18:30 with 2 hours break
Venue
Artus, Budapest, Hungary (https://artus.hu/)
Price
Workshop price
120 euros
Join us in an inspiring and healing workshop that explores the intricate dance between the masculine and feminine sides of our being and our connection with the opposite gender in the outside world.
Through methods drawn from ritual, shamanic and archetypical work, body-psychotherapy, bodywork, and other movement methods, we will explore and work on healing the wounds shaped by the polarity between the masculine and feminine, the history of the relation between Man and Woman, and social structures that influence gender roles and possible modes of connecting. We will delve into the intersection of gender, identity, and unity, fostering understanding and healing across perceived divides.
A unique feature of the workshop is that we will work both in women-only and men-only as well as shared spaces with an emphasis on listening to ourselves and each other and uncovering how and why we defend against really hearing each other. A further unique feature will be the composition of the group with people from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and ages.
This workshop is an invitation to explore themes of connection, healing, and transformation—moving between individual and collective experiences. Through movement, touch, and verbal exploration, we will work on deepening self-awareness and cultivating authentic relationships with ourselves and others.
Key Themes• The dance and balance of masculine and feminine energies
• Loss of trust and relationship trauma
• Somatic and ritual-based explorations of gender identity
• Examining inner and outside structures upholding inequality and violence
• Examining power dynamics and institutional and internalized oppression
• Listening to each other, uncovering where we defend against hearing the other’s story
• Healing the wounds of disconnection and societal conditioning
• Finding balance: embodying both strength and vulnerability
• Healing Mother wounds and Father wounds, wounds caused by dysfunctional, physically or emotionally absent or abusive parents – realizing how these woundings shape cultural norms of how we treat each other
• Holding space for transformation in ourselves and others
• Loss of trust and relationship trauma
• Somatic and ritual-based explorations of gender identity
• Examining inner and outside structures upholding inequality and violence
• Examining power dynamics and institutional and internalized oppression
• Listening to each other, uncovering where we defend against hearing the other’s story
• Healing the wounds of disconnection and societal conditioning
• Finding balance: embodying both strength and vulnerability
• Healing Mother wounds and Father wounds, wounds caused by dysfunctional, physically or emotionally absent or abusive parents – realizing how these woundings shape cultural norms of how we treat each other
• Holding space for transformation in ourselves and others
This workshop is open to all who wish to engage in meaningful exploration, healing, and connection.
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This event is part of the project “Shared inquiry in safe places – men and women together for gender equality” supported by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission. It is born out of a collaboration between the Greek project “Selene Shakti” and the Hungarian organization “The International Moving Man Institute”, bringing together professionals working in the fields of adult education, psychoeducation and psychotherapy and ritual work – all group leaders with experience in holding men’s groups and women’s circlesThe retreat is led by Grégory Chevalier and Árpád Kántor (founders of the Moving Man Institute) and Elena Michalopoulou (founder of Selena Shakti), together with additional support of body-psychotherapists Zsuzsanna Egry, Annamária Szelelki, Veronika Szilagyi and Spyros Siamos.
About Selene Shakti
”When Women connect with the power of their womb,they heal themselves & the world”. Selene Shakti is a project created by Elena Michalopoulou in 2015. The womb is the primordial feminine symbolism, and this work is focused on the energies of the womb as a collective symbol but also as a physical cyclical organ. Through workshops, retreats and training, Elena is using somatic work, Tantric healing, ceremonial and archetypical work in order to help women heal and embrace their relationship with the feminine inside them but also as a universal energy that is much needed in a patriarchical world. Elena Is a Yoga teacher with focus on the Feminine aspect of yoga, (womb yoga) a somatic bodyworker with a focus on female trauma healing, a doula and a Shaminic womb healer. For more than 10 years she has studied and teaches various holistic modalies that honours and heal the Feminine.
More info about Selene Shakti: https://www.seleneshakti.com/
”When Women connect with the power of their womb,they heal themselves & the world”. Selene Shakti is a project created by Elena Michalopoulou in 2015. The womb is the primordial feminine symbolism, and this work is focused on the energies of the womb as a collective symbol but also as a physical cyclical organ. Through workshops, retreats and training, Elena is using somatic work, Tantric healing, ceremonial and archetypical work in order to help women heal and embrace their relationship with the feminine inside them but also as a universal energy that is much needed in a patriarchical world. Elena Is a Yoga teacher with focus on the Feminine aspect of yoga, (womb yoga) a somatic bodyworker with a focus on female trauma healing, a doula and a Shaminic womb healer. For more than 10 years she has studied and teaches various holistic modalies that honours and heal the Feminine.
More info about Selene Shakti: https://www.seleneshakti.com/
About Moving Man
Moving Man is a men’s community founded by Grégory Chevalier (independent dance artist and somatic movement educator) and Dr Árpád Kántor (clinical psychologist and former president of the Hungarian Association for Body Psychotherapy).
Moving Man is a men’s community founded by Grégory Chevalier (independent dance artist and somatic movement educator) and Dr Árpád Kántor (clinical psychologist and former president of the Hungarian Association for Body Psychotherapy).
The Moving Man’s mission is to help men get in touch and unfold their authentic self and unique masculinity. In their workshops, groups, and community they address topics that are highly important, yet mostly neglected or treated as taboo,
such as father wounds, male intimacy, ways of connecting emotionally and physically with others and ourselves, male destiny, toxic and healing masculinity, brotherhood, vulnerability, violence, and safe strength, relation with our internal feminine qualities, and the feminine in the external world.
More info about the Moving Man: https://movingman.org/en/
such as father wounds, male intimacy, ways of connecting emotionally and physically with others and ourselves, male destiny, toxic and healing masculinity, brotherhood, vulnerability, violence, and safe strength, relation with our internal feminine qualities, and the feminine in the external world.
More info about the Moving Man: https://movingman.org/en/
About the Support Team
Adding to the uniqueness of the retreat is the presence of three professionals throughout the retreat, with whom you will have the opportunity to work individually as well as in groups. All of them are trained in body psychotherapies, with many years of experience: Zsuzsanna Egry, Annamária Szelelki, Veronika Szilagyi, Spyros Siamos.
Adding to the uniqueness of the retreat is the presence of three professionals throughout the retreat, with whom you will have the opportunity to work individually as well as in groups. All of them are trained in body psychotherapies, with many years of experience: Zsuzsanna Egry, Annamária Szelelki, Veronika Szilagyi, Spyros Siamos.
Number of participants
12 – 36
We are able to accept applications in the order of registration and up to the number of participants (36 people).
Registration
1) Fill out the registration form: https://forms.gle/4vsAPNnCSYVZqzXh6
2) Transfer 50€ non-refundable deposit.
If you have any questions, write us or call us!
What does MM mean to you?
To get a better understanding about myself and leave behind what no longer serves me and my life!
What has MM given you so far?
Adult male friends who understand, accept and hold me with love. Awareness and a lot of experiences that have led me via my body and touch to my feelings of tenderness and acceptance of my vulnerability.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Challenge, development, commitment and growing in my masculinity in a supportive professional environment. The ability to be present and emanate my energies into the world.
To get a better understanding about myself and leave behind what no longer serves me and my life!
What has MM given you so far?
Adult male friends who understand, accept and hold me with love. Awareness and a lot of experiences that have led me via my body and touch to my feelings of tenderness and acceptance of my vulnerability.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Challenge, development, commitment and growing in my masculinity in a supportive professional environment. The ability to be present and emanate my energies into the world.
What does MM mean to you?
Develop self-awareness, to be part of a community, new friendships and group leadership skills.
What has MM given you so far?
Great help on my journey of self-discovery. To become a more clear-sighted and sincerely loving man. New friendships, deep, honest connections.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
True friendships based on unvarnished honesty. A providing and supportive family environment that is also very inspiring.
Develop self-awareness, to be part of a community, new friendships and group leadership skills.
What has MM given you so far?
Great help on my journey of self-discovery. To become a more clear-sighted and sincerely loving man. New friendships, deep, honest connections.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
True friendships based on unvarnished honesty. A providing and supportive family environment that is also very inspiring.
What does MM mean to you?
MM for me is a journey of self-awareness with a somatic focus and a male support community
What has MM given you so far?
What MM gave me is that intimacy exists between men, which is brotherly, friendly and has no sexual charge at all. It's actually a natural thing that has been erased from us by social prejudices and expectations. I have accepted my own masculinity, there is room for a more sensitive male character among men.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
For me, the MM community is an accepting, friendly group I can always rely on and where there are no taboos.
MM for me is a journey of self-awareness with a somatic focus and a male support community
What has MM given you so far?
What MM gave me is that intimacy exists between men, which is brotherly, friendly and has no sexual charge at all. It's actually a natural thing that has been erased from us by social prejudices and expectations. I have accepted my own masculinity, there is room for a more sensitive male character among men.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
For me, the MM community is an accepting, friendly group I can always rely on and where there are no taboos.
What does MM mean to you?
MM aims to give the world men who are mature, connected to their emotions, able to work through their own obstacles and take responsibility for their own actions.
What has MM given you so far?
MM gave me a non-judgmental, supportive, mutually respectful and accepting community of men
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
For me, MM is a second home where I can be myself without censorship
MM aims to give the world men who are mature, connected to their emotions, able to work through their own obstacles and take responsibility for their own actions.
What has MM given you so far?
MM gave me a non-judgmental, supportive, mutually respectful and accepting community of men
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
For me, MM is a second home where I can be myself without censorship
What does MM mean to you?
Emotional sensitisation, community, self-development. Manhood building and support for my fellow friends.
What has MM given you so far?
Inner transformation, working out compassion, being loved and accepted, being an important and valued member of the community.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Acceptance, retention, mutual inspiration. Improved quality of life, social sensitivity
Emotional sensitisation, community, self-development. Manhood building and support for my fellow friends.
What has MM given you so far?
Inner transformation, working out compassion, being loved and accepted, being an important and valued member of the community.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Acceptance, retention, mutual inspiration. Improved quality of life, social sensitivity
What does MM mean to you?
This is a school for people. You learn how you and others work, what you do, why you do it.
What has MM given you so far?
Emotions, honesty, inspiration.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Friends, true companions on my journey.
This is a school for people. You learn how you and others work, what you do, why you do it.
What has MM given you so far?
Emotions, honesty, inspiration.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Friends, true companions on my journey.
What does MM mean to you?
Perhaps I can best illustrate it with a metaphor: Imagine a pond, sometimes tranquil, other times rippling, concealed in profound green and a slight murkiness that hides the bottom. Standing on the shore, I face a choice: to remain dry, or to immerse myself neck-deep in the water - a conscious decision. With a powerful kick, my body propels, plunging me inside, and the joyous cry of my soul rises, my head reaching the surface once again. I catch my breath, my lungs clear, I stretch out far. As the water turns transparent and serene, the turbulence disappears, revealing my limbs as I stand firmly grounded, ready to pull myself back onto the shore with both hands, eager to dive in again. The sun emerges, casting its warm light.
Perhaps I can best illustrate it with a metaphor: Imagine a pond, sometimes tranquil, other times rippling, concealed in profound green and a slight murkiness that hides the bottom. Standing on the shore, I face a choice: to remain dry, or to immerse myself neck-deep in the water - a conscious decision. With a powerful kick, my body propels, plunging me inside, and the joyous cry of my soul rises, my head reaching the surface once again. I catch my breath, my lungs clear, I stretch out far. As the water turns transparent and serene, the turbulence disappears, revealing my limbs as I stand firmly grounded, ready to pull myself back onto the shore with both hands, eager to dive in again. The sun emerges, casting its warm light.
What has MM given you so far?
I found motion, in touch with both companions and my own self. Are we here to release trauma, or rather to confront the challenges honestly, to sit with the difficulties instead of numbing the pain? Allowing realizations to surface, this time embracing instead of running away. Tears were flowing freely, embraced by others and myself. Delving into unexplored memories, I caught glimpses of formative events, worthy of processing and transformation.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Focusing on solutions. Arriving to resilience. Srength that sustains us. A sense of brotherhood. Being together in solitude with yourself. A soul community, safe and bonded, akin to the warmth of a family.
I found motion, in touch with both companions and my own self. Are we here to release trauma, or rather to confront the challenges honestly, to sit with the difficulties instead of numbing the pain? Allowing realizations to surface, this time embracing instead of running away. Tears were flowing freely, embraced by others and myself. Delving into unexplored memories, I caught glimpses of formative events, worthy of processing and transformation.
What does it mean to you to belong to the MM community?
Focusing on solutions. Arriving to resilience. Srength that sustains us. A sense of brotherhood. Being together in solitude with yourself. A soul community, safe and bonded, akin to the warmth of a family.
How do I feel now? (after the group)
...Wonderful... Recharged, improved, motivated. A man worthy of respect and attention. With space, an individual from whom others can learn because he is unique. No less or more than others... I feel ready for what I want to accomplish. This in turn gives me doubts and headaches about how (as always), but this is somehow different. It feels like a surmountable obstacle now, which is definitely a challenge, but no longer a fear. I imagined it to be different, but it was much better than I expected. I expected more, or rather different, movement. But mentally it was much deeper than I expected and that is more valuable, especially now, here, for me. I didn't expect to go through such character development and to plumb such depths. There was no competition.. no masks needed, there was support. Seeing people express themselves after so much happening, fighting, laughing, moving. After the conversation on the last night, I felt for the first time ....in such quality and intensity when I walked back to my tent ... that I was a man of honour... I will never forget that walk, that feeling.
...Wonderful... Recharged, improved, motivated. A man worthy of respect and attention. With space, an individual from whom others can learn because he is unique. No less or more than others... I feel ready for what I want to accomplish. This in turn gives me doubts and headaches about how (as always), but this is somehow different. It feels like a surmountable obstacle now, which is definitely a challenge, but no longer a fear. I imagined it to be different, but it was much better than I expected. I expected more, or rather different, movement. But mentally it was much deeper than I expected and that is more valuable, especially now, here, for me. I didn't expect to go through such character development and to plumb such depths. There was no competition.. no masks needed, there was support. Seeing people express themselves after so much happening, fighting, laughing, moving. After the conversation on the last night, I felt for the first time ....in such quality and intensity when I walked back to my tent ... that I was a man of honour... I will never forget that walk, that feeling.
The gifts of knowing parts of my greatness, deep connection with some men. Listening to men sharing their struggle helps me get perspective on my own, as they are very similar. And feeling my own power. I'd love to bring the attitudes we had to my own relationship and spark more caring and conscious interactions. After the workshop I feel Powerful, more attuned to people and my body. I'll tell other men they'll discover powerful ways to connect to men and their own body. They'll get new perspectives and insight about how we operate and relate with each other.
More than that it exceeded my expectations, the qualities of attendees and of leading was unexpectedly high. It was quite contrary in regards of openness to what I was used in the last few years in such groups, either the mind or the body were closed, there both were opened and accessible.
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