We Meet Each Month on The Second Saturday.
Online and In Person
We are now meeting in hybrid form – with video from a laptop, and in person.
We’ll meet from 9 am to 12 noon – Pacific Time.
We meet in the American Legion Hall – the main hall
21920 State Route 9 S.E., Woodinville, WA 98072
Monthly Gathering
Men have few places where they can meet in a friendly, inclusive and non-competitive setting. All men are welcome in our Monthly Gathering – and everything a man brings is welcome and safe.
Here a man can share in confidence that his story won’t travel about, or that other men won’t try to “help” him. We set a safe space here and guard it as sacred to the earth.
Singing and drumming fires our spirit. Our stories spark more stories in faint echoing of old myths and inherent truths as handed down through the ages. Each man experiences this in whatever way that guides him to reflect or share.
Sacred Circle
A Gathering of Men hosts two retreats each year, spring and fall, out in nature. Any man of any background may join this Sacred Circle where we focus on authenticity, connection, and personal growth.
These retreats are experiential, inviting men to explore their genuine masculine qualities—power, fierceness, and compassion—in a community free of shame, judgment, misogyny, and patriarchy.
Men share their stories, support one another, and deepen their self‑understanding within an inclusive, accountable masculine community.
Men create in the Sacred Circle a space of transformative experience for each other.
Fall Sacred Circle 2026
- Why the modern male is struggling,
- What to do about it.
- Why it matters, and
The retreat is an exploration of the dance of life, the process of looking for influences between the above three factors. We will explore how to strengthen our self-awareness, self-management, and self-motivation to increase our personal power.
- Power with – How many other relationships do I have?
- Personal power – starts with an “I” for responsibility!
- Where are my sources of stress?
- Where are my resources for stress management?
Journey Men
Journey Men gather in groups on a regular basis for deep inner work and personal growth. We come together and set a container to explore, with honesty, courage, and respect, our own inner landscape, confronting issues that challenge us, to access our authentic power to better ourselves.
Any man who has attended our August retreat or who has been thoughtfully vetted by members of the Journey Men community – may join in this process. In this way every man coming into this group has a readiness and shared understanding of the depth we Journey Men take on.
We support men in their meaningful inner work – unpacking old patterns, engaging difficult issues, healing wounds – in time cultivating their own grounded and empowering personal presence.
In this safe and confidential space, we men acknowledge our shadow sides, speak with honesty, and grow in ways that strengthen our lives, relationships, and communities.
If you feel called to this work and want to learn more about Journey Men, please email: administrator@agatheringofmen.org.
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Folktales Prose Personal Stories and Poetry
At A Gathering of Men, we explore who we truly are through stories, prose, poetry, and shared reflection. When a man speaks a story—whether a folk tale carried through generations or a personal moment from his own life—we listen with the full weight of our own experience. Each of us hears the same words differently. The way a story lands in us reveals the part of our soul that is ready to be stirred, healed, or awakened.
It may seem unusual to use stories to uncover our best selves. Why not rely on something faster, more direct, more “efficient”? Because the ego—rooted in fear, judgment, and old conditioning—cannot interpret our inner truth clearly. Who we are lives beneath the ego, beneath the expectations of society, beneath the messages we absorbed from caregivers who were doing their best with what they knew.
Stories, folklore, fables, fairy tales, and parables bypass the ego and speak directly to the deeper self. Poetry and music help us resonate with something larger than our individual lives. These ancient pathways of imagination and meaning guide us gently back to the inner being that has been waiting for us all along.
At AGOM, we gather not to analyze ourselves, but to remember ourselves—through the timeless human practice of listening, sharing, and being present with one another.
