THE MENTORSHIP
For men who have completed The Initiation and
want to learn what it really takes to lead.
Nov 2026 to April 2027
The moment you step into a leadership role, something happens that no one warned you about…
Before you’ve said a word, people are already projecting onto you:
→Their unresolved relationship with authority.
→Their hopes about being guided.
→Their disappointment before you’ve done anything wrong.
→And underneath all of that, your own unhealed parts start to surface.
→The places in you that still feel unseen, or need approval, or tighten when someone challenges you in front of the group.
Most men who want to facilitate learn this the hard way:
Unprepared and with people watching.
The Mentorship is where you learn it before that moment, and what to do when it comes.
Over five months, you’ll develop your capacity to facilitate groups:
‣To read what’s happening beneath the surface.
‣To work with projection and shadow in yourself and the group.
‣To move through light and dark masculine and feminine as living leadership tools, not just concepts.
‣You’ll work in smaller groups through the obstacles and gifts of your personal material in facilitation practice, honest reflections, and genuine connection..
‣Graham and Robbie are with you throughout, facilitators who work in these spaces as a way of life.
‣You will learn to slow into those moments rather than survive or push past them. To feel the aliveness in them.
That’s where the transformation is, and it’s where many facilitators fear to go.
This is when the work you’ve lived becomes the work you lead.
When initiation becomes something you can hold for others.
When the path to transformation becomes something you see in others.
What The Journey Covers
The Mentorship builds from the inside out.
You can’t hold a group well if you don’t know what gets activated in you when the pressure rises.
So we start there.
Leadership Characteristics: how your triggers, the parts that want approval, the parts that tighten under challenge, are information rather than liabilities.
Shadow Work and Projection: what you’ve disowned in yourself will show up in the room.
The Four Archetypes: light and dark masculine, light and dark feminine, as lived leadership capacities, not theory.
Group Technologies: framing, container creation, body tracking, circle work, working with resistance. Ceremony and ritual design. Online facilitation as its own specific skill.
Each module connects to the next: the shadow work informs the necessary archetypal work and where your gifts are. The archetypal work informs how you read and respond to a group. By the end, these aren’t separate skills - they’re one complete way of being in and leading a transformational container.
The Container
↪ Ten live two-hour sessions with Graham and Robbie over five months.
↪ Pre-session videos and comprehensive PDFs to prepare the ground before each call.
↪ Pods where you bring your personal material under the group gaze, discover support in a community of brothers, and practice facilitating.
↪ A WhatsApp group and online learning portal for support between sessions.
‣Free Bonus Video Sample from the Course:
‣Free Bonus PDF Sample from the Course:
*You may request access to the files above
What The Brothers Say
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“Every week, the (course) makes me believe I can do this work. I've gained self-belief, a passion for learning this material, confidence in my ability to share this work with others and to (experience) deeper knowledge of myself.”
↪ Charles Cummings
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“Connecting with this group of brothers has given me great confidence that I am not inferior or 'not cut out' to do this work... It is beautiful to observe how much care you treat this circle with.”
↪ Flo Oberhofer
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"I feel I have a lot more tools. And then a general attunement to a field of others and reading where they are at."
↪ Adnan Malik
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"Great brothers, plenty of learnings and lessons. Your presence and support! You are enabling us to grow while providing us with excellent infrastructure."
↪ Marko Baros
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“I feel I have a lot more tools. I also see how important framing is. It’s essential. Along with the buy-in. And then a general attunement to a field and reading where they are at and tweaking the sessions accordingly.”
↪ Bob Smith
Success Stories
This is the fourth year of The Mentorship. The work travels.
Gabriel ↠ Facilitating regular temples, men’s circles, and Emergence Brotherhood New York. Organising ISTA Canada and New York.
Adnan ↠ Facilitating retreats in Pakistan. Now an official ISTA Apprentice.
Siddhartha ↠ Organising ISTA India. Facilitated at several festivals. Now an official facilitator with Awaken As Love.
Aman ↠ Facilitating retreats in the UK.
David & Charlie ↠ Running regular circles in Berlin.
Simon ↠ Facilitating regular temple retreats and men’s retreats in Berlin.
Daniel ↠ Facilitating men’s groups in Sweden.
Roel ↠ Facilitating men’s circles in the Netherlands.
Tom ↠ Facilitating breath-work journeys in the UK.
Will we be writing about you next year?
Previous Year’s Cohorts
A message from our Past Cohorts
Gentry Doane
The Mentorship Cohort 2025
Daniel Bert Anderson
The Mentorship Cohort 2025
Mark Penson
The Mentorship Cohort 2025
Tom Davies
The Mentorship Cohort 2025
If you are ready, here are the next steps:
Complete the sign-up form by clicking the Apply Now button below
Secure your spot with a deposit.
Prepare for the journey.
Investment
Super Early Bird
£3.550
↠Payment plans available. Get in touch, and we’ll make it happen.
first 6 spots
Early Bird
£3.900
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next 8 spots
Regular
£4.450
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If you are still not sure if The Mentorship is for you…
Your Facilitators
Robbie Griffin is a founding member and facilitator at Emergence Brotherhood and Faculty at ISTA. He has spent ten years working in Western and Eastern philosophical and somatic traditions, including 18 months at Highden Mystery School.
He holds rooms with warmth, directness, and a quality of presence that men return to.
Robbie Griffin
Graham Gough leads with honesty first. He combines ten years of dedicated spiritual practice with sexological bodywork, shamanism, and aspects of psychotherapy.
A 2019 graduate of Highden Mystery School, New Zealand.
He is always looking to break new ground with trust, depth, and love as the foundations of anything he offers.
Graham Gough
↠ FAQ’s
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If you’ve completed The Initiation and feel the pull to bring this work to others, in any context, men’s circles, mixed groups, your community, your profession, this training was built for that moment. You don’t need to have facilitated before. You need to be willing to work on yourself as much as you work on your craft.
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Men who haven’t completed The Initiation. Men looking for a certification to deliver a fixed curriculum without doing their own work.
If you want technique without personal material, this isn’t the right fit. -
Yes. It’s the only prerequisite. It ensures every man in the room has a shared foundation of embodied experience. The container depends on it.
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Between one and three hours a week, depending on where you are in the programme. If you want to do more, there’s plenty of opportunity to throw yourself in further.
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[Graham/Robbie to confirm recording policy]
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The Mentorship doesn’t issue a formal certification. What you leave with is demonstrated capacity, honest feedback from brothers and facilitators, and a track record of having actually done the work. That tends to matter more in the rooms you’ll be holding.
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That depends on what you bring. Men who have completed it are now facilitating retreats, men’s circles, and therapeutic spaces across multiple countries. The common thread is that they left with more than knowledge. They left with a different relationship to themselves in the room.
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Yes. Get in touch, and we’ll work something out.
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Most facilitation trainings teach you what to do. This one works on who you are when you’re doing it. The shadow work, the projection work, the personal material you bring into the pods, these aren’t additions to the facilitation training. They are fundamental to it. But there is a full curriculum here: leadership characteristics, archetypal tools, group technologies, body tracking, circle work, ceremony design, and online facilitation. The difference is that it is built on a foundation of genuine self-knowledge rather than on technique alone.