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Monday 9am - 5:30pm Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm Thursday 9am - 5:30pm Friday 9am - 5:30pm

Island of Men Community, Urquhart Street, Northcote (2025)

19/11/2025

ANNOUNCING AN AWESOME FACILITATOR FOR IOM #23 - SCOTT!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

WORKSHOP: “How’s Your Heart? Understanding Love in a Way That Changes Everything”

Facilitator: Scott Carson – Founder, The Business of Smiles

Most men go through life never being taught what love actually is.
Not romantic love real love.
The kind that shapes your decisions, your reactions, your peace, your relationships, and your sense of self.

Love is not big gestures.
Love is not words.
Love is a way of seeing and a way of showing up.

This workshop invites men to explore three simple but transformative pillars:

Acceptance. Understanding. Appreciation.

When we live from these three things:
• we stop fighting ourselves,
• we stop defending our pain,
• and we start meeting life with presence rather than pressure.

This is not a feelings workshop.
It’s a truth workshop.
A chance to pause, step out of performance mode, and ask the only question that cuts through the noise:

“How’s your heart… really?”

In This Session, We Will Explore
• What love actually is — and why men need a new definition
• Why acceptance is not giving up, it’s grounding
• How understanding softens conflict before conflict even begins
• Why appreciation builds connection faster than any “relationship tool”
• A guided check-in that reveals what your heart has been carrying

You won’t leave with rules.
You’ll leave with clarity — and a way of seeing yourself that feels spacious instead of heavy.

ABOUT SCOTT

Scott Carson is a heart-centred community leader, speaker, and founder of The Business of Smiles, a grassroots movement helping men reconnect to themselves and to each other through courage, conversation, and presence.

From growing up on the streets at 14 to running a not-for-profit supporting men in crisis, Scott’s life has been shaped by one truth:

Love is a choice.
And life changes when we choose it.

He has walked with hundreds of men through storms that can break a life open or shut a door permanently.
He has sat with blokes who have never spoken their truth.
And he has helped create spaces where men rediscover something they thought they had lost:
their heart, their hope, their inner smile.

Scott doesn’t teach theory.
He teaches lived experience, backed by presence, honesty and the belief that every man deserves a place where he can stop holding his breath.

His work and this workshop are grounded in the three foundations of real love:

Acceptance. Understanding. Appreciation.

And it all begins with one question:

“How’s your heart?”

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

19/11/2025

ANNOUNCING AN AWESOME FACILITATOR FOR IOM #23 - JUSTIN!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

WORKSHOP SLOT: "Focussed Sharing Circle , Ignite your Purpose". facilitated by IOM committee members Justin de Leeuw and Richard Healey.

Men sharing in circle has been a powerful tool in the mens work community, over the years a few basic guidelines have developed to help make this a safe space. For men to share from the heart and to witness other men, is both a humbling and empowering experience .In this circle we will be sharing around the subject of Purpose in your lives.

ABOUT JUSTIN
Justin is an Artist who is passionate about service, you may have seen him in the kitchen at Menergy or building a Bird Man Rally entrant for IOM . Justin is IOM commitee member and completed the "Common Ground " program and Facilitaor training and Co facilitated common ground assisting men to form thier own continuing mens groups .

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

18/11/2025

ANNOUNCING AN AWESOME FACILITATOR FOR IOM #23 - LEE!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

WORKSHOP: The Awakening
Fasten your seatbelt as you transcend the dream spell, revealing the unfiltered truth of your existence—empowered, sovereign, and free.

Peel back layers, shedding fictions that kept you feeling small. This breathwork haven releases burdens of the past, bidding farewell to negativity, self-criticism, and judgments, allowing reconnection with your authentic self. Inspired by themes of acceptance, gratitude, self-belief, and courage,

The Awakening sparks a potent personal rebirth, creating space for emotional resilience, inner peace, and restored balance. This revitalizing expedition fortifies sustained growth, guiding you toward a life illuminated by authenticity, self-discovery, and the empowering truth of your sovereignty.

ABOUT LEE
Lee, the founder of , is a passionate Breathwork Facilitator devoted to guiding others through transformation. As a Certified 9D Facilitator, Certified Wim Hof Instructor, and member of the International Breathwork Foundation, he brings a diverse toolkit of healing modalities to his work.

With qualifications as a Reiki Master, NLP Life Coach, Trauma-Informed Coach, Sound Healer, and facilitator of Human Forest and Men’s Circles, Lee holds a nurturing yet powerful space. His approach integrates science, spirituality, and embodied wisdom, creating an environment where participants feel safe, supported, and empowered as they explore their inner landscapes.

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

17/11/2025

A big shout out to the 'Green Flag' people in your life!

At the next Island of Men - 'Ignite your Purpose', we are discussing the topic of how brothers can lift eachother up. Green flag men in your community that can help support you to identify / take action on your purpose.

Join us! https://events.humanitix.com/iom23
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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

16/11/2025

JUST 7 DAYS TO GO!

IoM #23 - 'Ignite your Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up' is happening on Sunday 23 November! It is going to be another epic event!

Join us! https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

15/11/2025

ANNOUNCING AN AWESOME FACILITATOR FOR IOM #23 - BEN!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

WORKSHOP: Ignite Your Purpose through Unshakable Presence
Unshakable Presence for Your Inner World

When you intentionally choose Presence, you slow down.
You bring calm and quiet to a busy mind — the endless stream of thoughts about what you haven’t done, or judgments about what you have.

In that calm, space is created.
And in that space, the quieter voices emerge — your intuition, the guidance of your heart.

From here, insights can arise —
✨ What is my purpose?
✨ What truly matters to me now?

If you already have a purpose or mission, Presence helps you reconnect to the original fire that sparked it — and to the fuel that sustains it.

Without Presence, even the most meaningful mission can lose its warmth. Presence allows you to:
- Hear the whispers of your inner guidance
- Reignite your spark
- Feel your inner fire
- Create and serve from a place of alignment

How would your relationship feel if you brought full Presence — so your partner felt seen, heard, and felt?
What would it mean for your children to know that Dad is fully with them?

This workshop is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and ignite your purpose through Presence — so your inner fire fuels every part of your life.

ABOUT BEN
Ben Komisars, founder of Roar Impact Coaching.
His journey started with the awareness of the patterns of being withdrawn, disconnected. Seeing the impacts and costs of on his life! In many social situations and in relationships he would put up a wall and cut off connection.
The physical impacts were experiencing numbness and feeling of powerlessness.
At that time, he made a decision to do whatever it takes and look for something that takes him so far out of his comfort zone, to break the cycle of the withdrawn pattern and gain a new experience of
life! That first thing led to becoming an Or****ic Meditation Practitioner, then to ISTA retreats and many other personal growth courses and training including Warriors of Love program and the Coaching Institute.

Fast forward to now,
“I am so grateful to myself for taking that first step, what my body can do now is incredible!
My Purpose is to pass on my insights and learnings to other men to have a new experience of life.”

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

14/11/2025

ANNOUNCING AN AWESOME FACILITATOR FOR IOM #23 - JAKE!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

WORKSHOP: MENprovised Comedy: Making It Up As We Grow

Laughter is one of the most powerful ways men can connect, release, and discover new parts of themselves. In this playful workshop, we’ll use the tools of improvisational comedy to explore spontaneity, creativity, and authentic self-expression. Together, we’ll make it up as we grow, using improv games and group exercises to ignite our playfulness.

ABOUT JAKE
Jake is a PhD Candidate (Clinical Psychology) and provisional psychologist with over 8 years of experience doing improv comedy and clowning.

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

13/11/2025

'Ignite Your Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each other Up.'
Is our theme for the next Island of Men on Sunday 23 November. Join Us!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

12/11/2025

We are exploring purpose at the next Island of Men! Let's see how we can lift each other up - to find and move forward with our purpose.

Join us on Sunday 23 November. https://events.humanitix.com/iom23
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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

11/11/2025

ANNOUNCING AN AWESOME FACILITATOR FOR IOM #23 - DIARMAID!
https://events.humanitix.com/iom23

WORKSHOP: Igniting the Flame of Your True Purpose
“A single spark can light a fire — but only if lands in the right place.”

Before that spark can ignite, it must find something ready to catch - a tinder bundle. Once there, all it needs is a gentle breath - nurturing, focused attention - to encourage the glowing ember to burst into flame.

The same is true for our Purpose.

In this 90-minute energising and interactive workshop, you’ll discover how your Authentic Self is the tinder bundle in which the spark of your Purpose can truly ignite and stay alight. Through mythical storytelling and a guided visualisation to meet “The One Who Knows” — the part of you that remembers why you are here — you’ll reconnect with the source of your inspiration, direction, and life energy.

You’ll leave this experience uplifted, inspired, and carrying the glowing ember of your
True Purpose fire — along with a 21-day challenge to tend that ember with the support of a Purpose Buddy, keeping your inner flame alive and growing.

ABOUT DIARMAID
Diarmaid Fitzpatrick is a workshop facilitator, mentor, and storyteller devoted to helping people reconnect with their authentic selves.

His work weaves together Shadow Work, Men’s Development, Storytelling, and Personal Transformation to create spaces where truth, courage, and purpose can emerge.

In his workshops, participants are invited to look beneath the surface - to meet the deeper “You” behind the masks and stories. Diarmaid believes that transformation begins not by seeking answers “out there,” but by turning inward toward the wisdom that already lives within.

Bridging the inner and outer worlds, his approach combines reflection with action and
awareness with accountability — guiding people to live and lead with authenticity, integrity, and heart, and to ignite the fire of purpose that’s been waiting within all along.

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🚩 IoM #23 - 'Ignite Purpose! Brothers Lifting Each Other Up'. Sunday 23 November on Herring Island!
Exploring unlocking understanding of your purpose and help identify actions to live it more!
🎟️ Tickets at - https://events.humanitix.com/iom23/tickets - lunch included. 🍲
Event details at: https://www.facebook.com/share/17P2R9xWWc/
✨An event filled with workshops, facilitated content and sharing to help men grow, improve, develop personal strength and connect to the IoM brotherhood

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Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
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