Cross Thread

I have found potential community, today I completed training for men's mental health charity Talk Club. They presented a structure and support network to allow me to expand my facilitation skills. It's voluntary, which means low pressure.

I felt excitement at the idea of being able to serve. Ideas about how much I could do with this started to snowball. I stopped and recognised that I have to take this one step at a time. I just need to engage with the organisational framework and run a group first.

I see alignment here, but I also see the risk of old patterns of over‑serving. I don't want to cross‑thread myself. The first steps are simple: set up a room, welcome people, and listen. No more, no less.

Going through my own struggles in life and middle age, added to the insight I have gained from my old identity as a welfare advocate, I am perfectly placed to facilitate a space for men to be able to speak up. To be heard and seen, not fixed.