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Connection Circle

The front door. An open, facilitated conversation that gets past small talk — drop in any week and say as much or as little as you want.

FreeEvery week

A MenLiving gathering

Next gatherings

Free, always. No profile fee, no trial, nothing to cancel.

In MenLiving’s own words

This is a friendly, casual space for men to drop in to real conversations for support and connection. Each gathering is facilitated to move past small talk into what actually matters. You might leave with a new friend, and you’ll definitely leave knowing there are other men sitting with the same things you are.

Who this circle is for

Any man who wants a conversation that goes past the weather and the score. You do not need a reason, a crisis, or a plan. Most men who come the first time are not sure it is for them, which is the ordinary way to arrive.

What a gathering is like

A facilitator opens, names how the hour works, and the men in the room check in one at a time. You say as much or as little as you want. Nobody is going to tell you what to do about it, and nobody is going to follow up afterwards asking how it went.

What you don’t have to do

  • You don’t have to talk. Listening is participation, and plenty of men listen the first few times.
  • You don’t have to fix anyone. Nobody will try to fix you either — that is the agreement, said out loud at the start.
  • You don’t have to have a story ready. Men speak from their own experience, and “I don’t know yet” is an experience.
  • You don’t have to keep coming. Men come once, or for a season, or for years. Coming three times and moving on is the model working.
  • You don’t have to explain why you came. Nobody will ask, and nobody will follow up afterwards.

Same agreements everywhere. What changes is the room.

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Ready when you are

Most are free, most weeks of the year. You can listen the whole time and nobody will ask you why.

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Keep the door open for the men who need it

Connection should stay within reach.

Most circles are free because donors pay for them. Your gift funds facilitator training and keeps the open door open for the men who need it most.

4 in 5
U.S. suicide deaths are men — a rate nearly four times higher than women’s. CDC, 2023
15%
of men say they have no close friends — five times more than in 1990. Survey Center on American Life, 2021