The stereotypical mid-life crisis in men includes fast cars, younger women, risk-taking, a second boyhood. These actions were often ways to buoy a man’s diminishing sense of strength, power, and significance. The reality of a mid-life crisis, while it may include some of these things, involves a bit more soul-searching.
Society’s expectations of men have changed over time as have traditional roles and rules. In the new millennium, courageous and thoughtful men embrace the aging process with dignity and move into deeper reflection and transformation. And although some men seem to traverse these changes in mid-life with relative ease, for others, mid-life holds more confusion than promise.
The Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan provides a number of programs and services designed to help men navigate the sea of change around them. Mid-life is a good time for re-invention and evaluation. We encourage men to embrace changes that result in improved self-esteem, healthier relationships, decreased problematic behavior, and improved management of thoughts and feelings. How do you want to play the “Back Nine”?
In-Person Counseling and Therapy
Comprehensive in-person counseling and therapy programs tailored to meet your needs.
Intensives and Extended Counseling Sessions
Get to the core issue with intensive counseling so you can move on to a more fulfilling life.
Phone Coaching
Save time, energy, and travel. Phone and Skype coaching sessions can be done from the privacy of your home or office.
Male Socialization: The Training that Kills
This workshop provides participants with a more holistic definition of masculinity so they can help men experience greater intimacy, real strength, and wholeness.
Understanding the Dynamics of Sexual Orientation
Understand how where a person identifies himself on the sexual continuum can affect how he expresses himself on the job, at home, and in other aspects of his life.
Working with Men in Counseling
A new type of therapy that allows human service professionals to re-think our diagnoses and treatment plans, and re-vision the goals for our clients.
Birth, Death and The Places in Between: How to get where you want to go
Explore the various routes and landmarks of your life. We discuss where we are on our individual paths, while discovering and processing barriers that interfere with our progress.
The New Frontier: Men and Soul Work
We are responsible to make the changes necessary to reclaim our humanity and nurture our souls. Explore the costs of living and maintaining the masculine mystic while re-visioning and exploring what it means to be man in the new millennium.
Contact the Men’s Resource Center for our fee schedule and more information.