Seasons of Change
Seasons of Change
A Seasonal Men's Accountability and Mastermind Group
One of the greatest obstacles to making changes in one’s life is the feeling that we’re alone on the journey. Maybe not physically alone, but spiritually. The realm of self-work, self-transcendence, manifesting the person we’re meant to become or the things we’re meant to do can be a mysterious and lonely path.
Sure, many of us have large networks of friends, family, and professional contacts. Many of us belong to a church or club of some sort. But these relationships can feel largely casual, obligatory, or even performative. Often, they are simply a means to some financial or recreational end: making money, being entertained, or feeling good.
When it comes to the work of Being, of building one’s life in the direction of right-ness, of striving towards what we find good and beautiful and true, we usually find ourselves without team mates. There’s a mountain we must climb, but the path is cold, disorienting, and scary. We look side to side and wonder, “Where are the others? Where are my brothers in virtue, truth, and transformation?”
Seasons of Change (SOC) is not thee answer to this existential problem, but it exists in the spirit of addressing that lack of spiritual fellowship that hamstrings so many of our ideas, projects, and things we aspire to become. SOC is a both a group and a ‘sprint’: a temporary squad that comes together and provides each other with the kind of structure, accountability, and interpersonal activation we primally need to enact transformation in our lives.
SOC is seasonal—like a TV show—with a beginning, middle, climax, and end. This provides a focused arc, much like a story, which motivates participants to plug-in, commit, and accomplish something important in a short amount of time, then take a break. The seven week length is long enough to break bad patterns and create lasting change, while still short enough to feel exciting and accessible without burning out.
Additionally, SOC iterates every season, breaking the year down into quarters. People can participate every season; or maybe one season is enough and they move on; or maybe they want to take a season off and return for the next one. While ‘forever’ meetups can feel overwhelming and ontologically vague, the seasonal structure allows for clear temporal and energetic boundaries, tighter design, and ultimately yields better results with a more powerful lasting impact on those who participate.
Specifics on how a season is structured:
Each participant picks an individual project, usually something existentially salient or particularly edgy. This could be anything: “I want to launch a blog,” “I want to build an app,” “I want to switch careers,” “I want to lose 20 pounds,” “I want to go on 10 dates,” “I want to be a better father,” and so on.
The Big Group (all participants) meets weekly over Zoom. This may resemble a check-in, a discussion, or a workshop and happens 8 times over the 7 week season.
The Small Groups (4-5 participants) keep in closer contact with each other (usually through a messaging app like Telegram), sending updates, exchanging ideas, and gently holding each other accountable to their projects.
At the end of the season, participants engage in a two week max-effort ‘Final Push’ with tighter routines and negations to finish up strong and hopefully arrive at a natural conclusion of one’s project.
SOC is designed for sovereign, productive individuals looking to up-their-game and is not a replacement for therapy or real intimate relationships. It will not heal emotional scars, a traumatic past, or fill the void of an in-person community. Rather, it’s a temporary coming together of powerful people to get-shit-done and take a giant leap towards accomplishing our life’s work and becoming who we wish to become. After it’s all over we say '“goodbye,” “thank you,” and return to our respective lives with newfound energy, agency, and conviction.
It’s also important to note that the number of participants is limited and not everyone who applies is guaranteed a spot. Groups like this can be fragile, prone to disorganization and conflict, and it’s important to keep the collective energy balanced, the small groups gelling, and the workshops efficient and impactful.
If you’re interested in participating in the next season of SOC, fill out this form and I will get back to you before the start of next season. Let’s get to work!