Step towardyour loved ones.

As a boy I heard loud and clear from the adults around me: real men don’t talk about their feelings. As an adult building close friendships with women, I started to hear something different: “What is wrong with men? Why can’t they just talk about their feelings?” Women were hurt, men were stuck, and the people I love were drifting apart. The problem grew, and many of the men closest to me asked me if they should be here at all.

I was stuck and drifting apart from them, too—and I didn’t know what to do. What do you do when the people you most look up to in the world don’t want to be in it anymore?

What if playing, and bringing more fun to hard conversations, could close the distance between us? I started making a game and made myself the first player. I wanted to build bridges of dialogue between men and women. From what I’d seen, I knew that lecturing men to open up wouldn’t work—we needed to be invited into real relationships. A good question is the ultimate invitation.

I found guidance from others who looked for these good questions. I joined a men’s support group facilitation training to learn how to help men open up and feel more connected. We learned how to build trust, share parts of ourselves we didn’t know we could show, and have each other’s backs through it all. I spent 3 years organizing more support groups, teaching my friends and family what I’d learned, and infusing all of my insights into this curious game of connection, Man of His Word.

A man of his word says where he’s going and goes there. With this game, we’re going toward a world where we care and are cared for; where we’re seen and understood; and where we turn towards each other rather than away. We hope you’ll join us on the way there. Thank you.