FORMATION FOR MEN · BUILT FOR GROUPS
You already know your men. Hero Journey gives you a framework for leading them somewhere meaningful. We provide the teaching, Field Guides, discussion plans, practices, and leader resources. You lead the men entrusted to you.
EXPLORE THE PROGRAMS ↓THE PHILOSOPHY BENEATH THE WORK
The hero’s journey is not a foreign myth Christians have borrowed and baptized. It is part of our Christian inheritance because it names the pattern revealed in Jesus Christ. In him we see the true journey: the Son descends in love, gives himself in sacrifice, passes through death, rises into new creation, and returns bearing life for the world. Christ is not one example of the pattern. He is its source, center, and fulfillment.
The great myths and legends endure because they echo this reality, however faintly: life is found through self-giving love; the old must die for the new to be born; what is received in transformation must be carried home as blessing. By grace, Christians are not merely spectators of Christ’s journey. We are joined to him. He calls us beyond familiar ground, leads us through surrender, conforms us to his risen life, and sends us into the world to love God and neighbor and participate in his work of making all things new.
Hero Journey receives the hero’s journey as a Christian pattern of formation and rests on four convictions about entering the pattern of Christ with the whole of our lives.
God is telling a story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, and every man’s life unfolds within it. Our desires, wounds, relationships, responsibilities, and circumstances all belong to this larger drama. A man begins to live differently when he recognizes his life as a calling and accepts the part that has been entrusted to him.
Every meaningful change asks a man to leave familiar ground. He must enter uncertainty, face what he has avoided, and surrender ways of living that can no longer carry him forward. The hero’s journey gives this process a shape: departure, initiation, and return. Each man crosses the threshold himself, accompanied by brothers and guides who help him remain faithful to the road.
God calls the whole person. Intellect, body, desire, imagination, relationships, work, authority, and spiritual life all belong to the work of formation. Hero Journey brings theology, psychology, philosophy, story, and embodied practice together so that growth can reach the foundations of a man’s life and take visible form in the way he lives.
God draws a man deeper into the romance of his own life because the man himself matters to God. His healing, freedom, joy, desire, and capacity to love matter. But the life he receives is never his alone. As he becomes more fully alive in Christ, that life overflows as presence, courage, creativity, protection, service, and blessing. His renewal and his participation in God’s renewal of the world become one movement of grace.
DEFINED JOURNEYS UNDERTAKEN OVER TIME
Choose the journey that fits the work your men are ready to undertake. Each program has a defined focus, duration, and path.
90 DAYS · STORY, IDENTITY, CALLING, AND QUEST
For those who want to understand the story shaping their lives, recover a sense of calling, and move into the future with greater clarity and intention.
30 DAYS · INHERITANCE, FREEDOM, AND LEGACY
For those ready to examine what they have inherited, take responsibility for what they will carry forward, and become a redemptive presence within their families.
60 DAYS · LEADERSHIP, DOMINION, AND MATURE RESPONSIBILITY
For those who want to inhabit their God-given authority with greater courage, humility, discipline, and care.
12 MONTHS · THE COMPLETE PATH
For those ready to undertake the full rite of passage through spiritual, personal, relational, and leadership formation.
EVERYTHING YOUR LEADERS NEED
Hero Journey is designed to strengthen the leaders already inside your community—not replace them. No specialized coaching background is required.
Cinematic video lessons establish the ideas and framework so your leaders do not have to become subject-matter experts.
Practical exercises, reflection prompts, weekly challenges, and rhythms turn ideas into lived practice.
Clear meeting plans, discussion prompts, and suggested rhythms help your leaders facilitate meaningful conversations.
Every program has a beginning, a progression, and an end, so leaders know where they are taking their men.
FIND THE RIGHT PATH
Choose the journey that fits your men and your calendar. Hero Journey equips your leaders with a proven framework while leaving room for the relationships, wisdom, and context only they can bring.
REQUEST GROUP PRICING →WHAT THE WORK DEEPENS
A more integrated conviction, joining faith with work, family, leadership, and responsibility.
A deeper capacity to carry authority with courage, humility, clarity, and care.
Greater relational presence with the people already entrusted to them.
A richer moral imagination for recognizing what love and faithfulness require in complex moments.
Brotherhood with the depth to hold truth, remember commitments, and sustain a shared calling.
A durable framework for meeting change, suffering, opportunity, and vocation as part of one coherent story.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Group programs range from 30 days to twelve months. Live experiences can take the form of a keynote, workshop, leadership intensive, or multi-day retreat. We’ll help you choose the right path for your group.
Hero Journey can work for an existing small group, a leadership team, a church-wide initiative, or a large event. The right format depends more on your goal than your headcount.
No specialized background is required. We provide a clear path, discussion guides, participant materials, and leader resources so capable leaders in your organization can guide the experience.
Yes. Hero Journey can serve as a focused entry point, a seasonal initiative, or a deeper formation track within the ministry you already lead.
No. While many Hero Journey experiences have been designed with men’s formation in mind, the core framework applies equally to women. It can be a strong fit for women’s groups and for mixed-gender leadership teams that want to integrate faith, character, relationships, work, and responsibility.
No. Hero Journey is rooted in Christian discipleship and also serves businesses, leadership teams, schools, nonprofits, retreats, and other communities.
Yes. We can emphasize integrated leadership, responsibility, character, brotherhood, and the connection between a man’s inner life and the way he leads.
Ian accepts a limited number of speaking, retreat, and leadership-intensive invitations each year. These are separate from the group programs, which are built to be led by your people.
Ian accepts a limited number of speaking, retreat, and leadership-intensive invitations each year.
EQUIP THE LEADERS ALREADY IN THE ROOM
Give your leaders a complete framework, excellent teaching, and the practical tools to guide men through work that matters.