About this event
⚔️♥️ The Fellowship of the Heart ♥️⚔️
When you stop doing it all alone,
you can finally be met.
A 3-month (6 evenings) embodied journey for men who are done doing it alone, ready for heart-opening brotherhood, and want to grow into deeper truth, expression, and heart-led leadership, held by women.
This is for men who are done overthinking, performing, and doing it all alone.
Men who long for real intimacy, but notice that when it gets real, they tighten, go quiet, perform, or pull away.
Men who want more truth.
More aliveness.
More brotherhood.
More of themselves actually there.
💜 This is for you if...
- You often keep the peace and leave yourself out
- You live in your head more than you want to admit
- Intimacy pulls you into pleasing, performing, or shutting down
- You are tired of carrying everything alone
- You want more truth, more aliveness, and more brotherhood in your life
- You know there is more available in you than the version that keeps adapting
💜 Why a brotherhood matters
You may be brave enough to do the inner work, but still be doing too much of it alone.
Many men were never taught how to stay with their own needs, emotions, and longing.
So they learned to suppress them, or to look outside themselves for relief, validation, and connection.
And often, relationship becomes the place where they hope to finally receive everything they have been missing.
That is a lot for one relationship to carry.
The Fellowship offers something many men have never truly had: a place with other men where they do not have to perform, compete, or pretend.
A place to soften and let go of the performance, competing, and proving.
A place to be seen.
To be met.
To belong.
Because when shame is shared, it begins to lose its grip.
And when you see you are not the only one, something in you can finally relax.
💜 What makes it unique
Most men’s groups are led by men.
This one is held by women, and that is part of what makes it powerful.
Because intimacy is relational, part of what you receive here is the presence of the feminine, not to perform for, but to be witnessed by, met by, and receive honest reflection from, while also being held in brotherhood with other men beside you.
💜 The journey: 6 evenings over 3 months
Stage 1: The Call to Presence
You start with nervous system regulation, breathwork, and consent-based practices to drop from your head into your body and feel what is truly alive.
Stage 2: The Trial of Truth
Through inner child and shadow work, you meet fear, shame, and the parts you’ve hidden. This is where honesty becomes healing.
Stage 3: The Rite of Connection
In co-regulation, conscious touch, and emotional expression, you begin to trust, soften, and let yourself be seen in brotherhood.
Stage 4: The King’s Reckoning
You reclaim the parts of yourself you thought you had to hide: your longing, your vulnerability, and your heart.
Stage 5: The Temple
A Temple Night where experienced women are invited into the space for sacred practice and embodied relational experience. This is where presence, intimacy, and leadership are practiced in real time, with support, structure, and consent.
Stage 6: The Sovereign’s Return
You integrate what has shifted and begin to carry it into love, brotherhood, and the way you move through life.
💜 What you’ll walk away with
- A deeper connection to your body, emotions, and desire
- More self-love, self-compassion, and inner peace
- More honesty around what you feel, need, and want
- Less shame and more freedom to be real
- Tools to stay present with fear, intensity, and vulnerability
- The lived experience of brotherhood and not doing it all alone
- More confidence rooted in presence instead of performance
- More openness, safety, and depth in intimacy and connection
💜 Practical
Dates:
Wednesday: September 2,
Wednesday: September 16,
Tuesday: September 29
Wednesday: October 14
Wednesday: October 28
Wednesday: November 11
Time: 19:30–22:30
Location: Diemen, Amsterdam (free parking, adres after purchase)
Group size: max. 10 men
More info:
https://www.denisekooij.com/fellowship-of-the-heart
💜 Investment
Early Bird: €699,80
Regular Bird: €749,80
Late Bird: €799,80
Payment plans available.
If money is the only thing standing in the way, reach out. No worthy man is left behind for financial reasons.
💜 How to join
Secure your spot by purchasing your ticket.
After checkout, you’ll be guided to fill out a short application form, and I’ll personally reach out before we begin to answer your questions and make sure this journey is the right fit.
You can also start with a free discovery call if you’d like to meet first.
Book a discovery call here:
https://www.denisekooij.com/book-appointment
💜 About your guide
I’m Denise, and I guide men from performance into presence, from overthinking and shame into embodied truth and intimacy.
My work brings together somatic practice, trauma-aware facilitation, and relational depth. I don’t just talk about change, I guide men to feel it, move it, and live it in their bodies.
Website:
https://www.denisekooij.com/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/denise_kooij/
Spoken language
Dutch, English