The Man Cave

Quick shout-out to all the teachers who help make our programs possible - your support means the world. 🙏

We loved the Footy Photo pose from the boys at Derrinallum P-12 College 😂 🏉 We had an absolutely epic day working with this crew last week - small group, but every one of the boys leaned in.

How good to have Hawthorn LEGEND Jarryd Roughead observe a School Workshop yesterday 😍🧴 Roughy is such an authentic bloke and an awesome role model for the boys. He also happens to be a new ambassador for our mates Stuff That Matters, as they launch their new line of sun care products! Every sale puts funds towards our programs for boys in lower socioeconomic areas 🙏 https://lnkd.in/gxBM5iJV

“I’m not so trapped inside anymore.” ❤️🩹 The Board of Boys share about the impact the intensive, two-month Man Cave program, supported by Movember, had on them as individuals and as a group.

The best part of our job? When boys we've worked with years ago come up to us. 🙏 Our School Workshops see us working with teenage boys across multiple programs and often multiple years. The boy who sent us this DM first took part in a Man Cave workshop when he was in Year 9. We went back to his school earlier this year, he's now in Year 12, and recognising our Facilitators, he came up to us to tell us about all the progress he'd made in his own life and the impact it was having on the people around him. Legend.

We are hiring Casual Facilitators in Victoria! 🥳 The role of a Man Cave Facilitator is to co-facilitate full-day workshops with groups of teenage boys in high school. In this role, you will engage with young men through interactive activities and discussions, fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment. In addition, you will collaborate with The Man Cave team by participating in rigorous pre- and post-workshop conversations, where we thoroughly prepare and reflect on each session’s outcomes to continuously enhance our impact. Learn more and apply: https://hubs.la/Q02VYbCQ0

Loved this pic of our workshops taken by Trinity Grammar School, Kew - kinda looks like a heart 🫶 Pictured are two of our facilitators Leeson and Paddy running some icebreakers with the boys at the start of the day. 

The power in providing boys with positive male role models 🙏

That's a wrap on the Board of Boys (BOB) experience for 2024 🎬 Recently we closed the Board of Boys program, gathering with all of the boys and their parents and guardians, from all over Victoria, at our Headquarters in Melbourne. Funded by Movember, this 12-week mentorship program worked with 10 teenage boys to strengthen their social connections and mental health through three in-person workshops and eight online Twitch streams. Success for the boys meant improving emotional awareness, utilising the tools we use in our school programs and building stronger social bonds. For our team, it was about keeping the boys engaged, adapting to online formats, and involving parents in the process. We’re super proud of what we accomplished and where the boys ended up. They showed real growth, and parents noticed better communication and emotional wellbeing in their sons, which they shared in our closing workshop!

Our CEO Hunter Johnson joined Sky News to talk about the funding we’ve received from the Australian Government 🙏 This funding, announced last week by Amanda Rishworth MP, is enabling us to reach tens of thousands of teenage boys in high schools across Victoria and New South Wales, whom we would not have been able to work with previously due to funding constraints. Thank you to Sky News and Ashleigh Gillon for having us on!