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Men Are Healing

The WellMen Project

We don’t fix men. We remember with them.

The Well Men Project is a return, restoring what was lost when modern culture replaced initiation with isolation.

We teach men how to live with anxiety, depression, loneliness, and anger

not by numbing it, bypassing it, or suppressing it

but by meeting it with tools rooted in ancient knowledge,

embodied practice, emotional honesty, and community healing.

Our work is not just about stopping the bleeding,

but healing the wound beneath it

the wound of disconnection, of silence, of forgotten rites.

Through weekly councils, medicine lodges, Eldership Skillshares and wisdom for different cultures.

With rites of passage anchored in integrity,

we guide men to shed shame, build emotional literacy,

and reclaim their role as protectors, feelers, and stewards of life.

This is not performance. This is remembrance.

Because when a man heals,

he doesn’t just change his life—

he shifts the legacy for generations.

This is the work. This is the way.

And it’s working.

At The Well Men Project, we gather to remember what was forgotten. To unlearn false initiations. To feel again, with honor. To break the cycle—so our sons don’t have to carry it, and our daughters know what a safe man feels like. This work is free. This work is sacred. And it’s happening every week. DM us to join our next weekly men’s circle. Check out our website: thewellmenproject.com This is where the healing begins. Not just for men—for all of us. #thewellmenproject #menswork #wilmingtonnc #brotherhood #menscircle #uncw
If you’re tired of being just “OK”… If you’ve been walking around with rage under your ribs or grief that won’t name itself… If you want brothers who won’t let you disappear into your own silence… Come. You will be met. You will be tested. You will be remembered. And you will not walk out the way you came in. Dm us for more info Wilmington NC greater area #thewellmenproject #wimington #uncw #menswork #brotherhood #healing #community
The box turtle is an Indigenous lunar map. Grandmother wisdom came to us in this turtle last week and was our skillshare teacher before our Menswork and lodge. Each scute on her back carries the memory of ceremony, harvest, rest, and return. This is a wisdom older than any watch. We’re not here to master time, we’re here to remember rhythm. Join us this Wednesday. We gather in brotherhood. We do men’s work. We sit in the medicine lodge. We sing. We cry. We learn earth wisdom. We give back to the land. We recover what was never meant to be lost. This is a skillshare from the oldest teacher we have Earth time, not market time. We’re remembering. #TurtleWisdom #EarthSkillshare #WellMen #RelationalIntegrity #MedicineLodge #MenWhoRemember #SacredFeminine #IndigenousTime
Brothers, We weren’t taught how to feel, how to stay, how to lead with our hearts. That ends here. THE WELLMEN PROJECT is a call back to the old ways where brotherhood meant truth, integrity, and showing up when it mattered. Join us this Wednesday as we step into Core Two: Relational responsibility. This is the work our fathers didn’t do, so WE HAVE To for our sons, partners and friends. no cost other then your old habits and coping skills that don’t work anymore. Bring your truth, your wounds, your willingness. DM to step in. We meet Wednesdays, 5:30. #wilmingtonnc #menswork #thewellmenproject #healing
NOT everything Deserves to be filmed. Not everything Can be. Inside the lodge, the Old Ways are ALIVE. The Breaking, the Screaming, the Tears, the Purge those are not for show. They are for the BROTHER Willing to Face Himself. You will not see the Purge. You will not see the Screaming. You will not see the moment when a man Chooses Life over Numbness. You will see the Fire. You will see the Stones Blessed. You will see Brothers Gathering different than they came in. If you are looking for COMFORT, keep scrolling. If you are looking for YOURSELF, come closer. This is not for Spectators. This is for Men and Brothers ready to be Undone and Remade back to our Birthright through initiation and men’s work. We gather Wednesdays #Thewellmenproject #menswork #brotherhood #wilmingtonnc #healing
Brother, if you’ve been waiting for a sign this is it. This Wednesday, we begin season1Core 2: Relational Integrity and open the Medicine Lodge. This is where we stop pretending our silence doesn’t hurt anyone. Where we stop handing our partners the weight of our unhealed pain. Where we finally face the father wounds, the betrayals, the numbness, the shame. This space is raw, real, and free. Not a class. Not a podcast. A living, breathing circle of men committed to becoming the kind of men our families can trust again. If you’ve been: • ghosting your own potential • feeling the edge of something deeper • secretly craving brotherhood and men’s work but not knowing where to start This is your place. This is your time. No performance. No judgment. Just the fire, the truth, and us. We hold the line for each other every week. And now, we hold it open for you. Confirm your spot now!
Men don’t bleed with the Moon to cleanse, We used the Sun to cleanse with sweat. so we must turn to sacred sweat medicine to cleanse. We sit in the dark. We call in the stones. We pour the water. And we remember. The Medicine Lodge combined with our men’s work is where we come to release what the world taught us to hold. Grief. Guilt. Rage. Numbness. The layers that don’t belong to us they melt off our skin and into the earth. This is not performance. This is not pretend. This is the place we return to when words aren’t enough and silence has grown too loud. We don’t come here to fix ourselves. We come to feel ourselves. To be undone. To be witnessed. To burn the mask, and pray with our breath. Fire. Stone. Water. Sweat. Each round is a ceremony. Each man is medicine. Each tear is holy. Join us. Every Wednesday. Medicine Lodge. The WellMen Project
At The Well Men Project, we gather to remember what was forgotten. To unlearn false initiations. To feel again, with honor. To break the cycle—so our sons don’t have to carry it, and our daughters know what a safe man feels like. This wo
If you’re tired of being just “OK”… If you’ve been walking around with rage under your ribs or grief that won’t name itself… If you want brothers who won’t let you disappear into your own silence&hell
The box turtle is an Indigenous lunar map. Grandmother wisdom came to us in this turtle last week and was our skillshare teacher before our Menswork and lodge. Each scute on her back carries the memory of ceremony, harvest, rest, and return. This is
Brothers, We weren’t taught how to feel, how to stay, how to lead with our hearts. That ends here. THE WELLMEN PROJECT is a call back to the old ways where brotherhood meant truth, integrity, and showing up when it mattered. Join us this Wedne
NOT everything Deserves to be filmed. Not everything Can be. Inside the lodge, the Old Ways are ALIVE. The Breaking, the Screaming, the Tears, the Purge those are not for show. They are for the BROTHER Willing to Face Himself. You will not see the P
Brother, if you’ve been waiting for a sign this is it. This Wednesday, we begin season1Core 2: Relational Integrity and open the Medicine Lodge. This is where we stop pretending our silence doesn’t hurt anyone. Where we stop handing our
Men don’t bleed with the Moon to cleanse, We used the Sun to cleanse with sweat. so we must turn to sacred sweat medicine to cleanse. We sit in the dark. We call in the stones. We pour the water. And we remember. The Medicine Lodge combined

How We Remember

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Medicine Lodge and Ceremony

Where the fire remembers and the stones listen.
This is where we sweat, sing, scream, and surrender.

The lodge is not a performance.

It’s where men meet their shadows, purge their shame, and rise with sacred breath.

We follow the old ways — prayer, discipline, and brotherhood.

PEER SUPPORT AND HARM REDUCTION

WellBelle tent is not a green room, a vibe tent, or a backstage nap zone. It is a sanctuary for emotional landing, peer support, and compassionate presence. We provide care for people navigating altered states, emotional overwhelm, or the quiet intensity that can arise during deeply immersive festival experiences.

At gatherings where ceremony, music, dance, breathwork, and psychedelics are present, people often open into vulnerable, expanded, or disoriented states. These thresholds are sacred, but they also require support. Without proper containment, what begins as a powerful experience can quickly become overwhelming, confusing, or unsafe.

WellBelle was created to offer the support people deserve in those moments.

We work in close collaboration with festival producers, space holders, and programming leads to ensure that emotional experience tending and aftercare are part of the event’s overall safety infrastructure. From the first drumbeat to the final tear shed on the dance floor, we’re available to meet people wherever they are — without judgment and without agenda.

Our team is trained in peer-based harm reduction, emotional de-escalation, non-coercive communication, and trauma-informed response. We are deeply aligned with the trusted practices pioneered by the MAPS, and the Zendo Project, and we bring that lineage forward in our own way blending sacred presence, clear roles, and festival-specific protocols.

We are not here to replace medical or mental health professionals.
We are here to be the layer of care that meets people before a situation escalates.

We listen without fixing.
We sit without judging.
We support without taking over.

We offer soft landings for people who are crying, shaking, panicked, euphoric, confused, or wide open — and we stay until their breath returns, their voice steadies, and their sense of self can integrate what just occurred.

WellBelle is about relational safety. Emotional dignity. Clear boundaries. And the knowing that someone trained and present is there, if needed.

When festivals or event organizers invite WellBelle into their village, they are making a clear statement to their community:
We value safety. We invest in care. We believe in a culture of trust..

Weekly Menswork

We work and process the guilt, the anger, the numbness and the many wounds we carry.

We bring it into the circle, not to be judged,
but to be worked.

Week after week, we build and heal through consistency and Menswork,
we develop the wounds to heal, instead of just stopping the bleeding by coping.

This is what your father didn’t have.
This is what your son needs you to do.

Walk with us

You’ve done hard things alone. Now do the sacred ones together. This is where initiation begins, not by force, but by choice.

We’re Not a Brand. We’re a Return.

The Well Men Project is a nonprofit movement reclaiming brotherhood, ceremony, and emotional responsibility.

We’re not here to sell you a lifestyle — we’re here to invite you back to your life.

This is where men gather to unlearn the noise, remember the sacred, and rebuild the village — together.

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