Men AND Christina

Christina is an Executive Coach and Consultant who specializes in helping men who are outwardly successful but inwardly unfulfilled. Additionally, she helps male-dominated teams reinvent their workplace cultures.

Christina is bringing the conversation about men to real, live men in Chicago through bi-weekly, intimate, family-style dinners. Her intention is to create a safe space for men to connect with each other and to receive support from her. Together, we will hold space for men to be celebrated and celebrate one another, and to allow for men's voices and hearts to be heard in a different way.

Each dinner will be prepared by a local, Chicago-based chef. The chef's background, contact information, and menu will be provided 2 weeks before each event. Due to the nature of private catering, refunds will only be provided on a case-by-case basis.

What guests can expect:

- A delicious meal by a private chef.

- A safe and inclusive space for people who identify as men to connect, listen, and be listened to.

- A couple of simple question prompts from Christina to facilitate community-building.

- A goodie bag of resources to take with them.

Christina's philosophy:

While building her coaching practice over the past few years, she has developed a passion for working with men. Through working with men, she has gained clarity around the struggles and pressures that men - especially outwardly successful men - deal with from their partners, friends, families, and society as a whole.

From a young age, men are taught that a “real man” is financially successful and provides for his family, good at (or at least knowledgeable about) sports, emotionally stoic and “ungettable,” attractive to women, and expected to be “the best” at everything he does. In his book, The Mask of Masculinity, Lewis Howes describes how these expectations cause men to wear a mask, covering up who they really are and what they really want and need. He writes that “almost every man has a story in which he learned - through pain, humiliation, or even force - how he does not measure up. When that happens to him, masks become more than a way to hide; they become armor.”

Through Christina's work as a coach, she has seen what happens when men are able to take off their armor - and the results are truly remarkable. Taking off one’s armor leads to better and more authentic relationships, the release of burdensome and even depressive thoughts and feelings, greater business and career success, and a deep sense of personal fulfillment. These changes not only impact the men who are making them, but they also impact the people in their lives and society as a whole.

Christina is uniquely positioned to work with men. In a society that vilifies men (especially cis, heterosexual, white, successful men), she separates herself from the pack. She does not relate to men as being bad or people who need to be “fixed.” She relates to men as whole, good human beings who have grown up in a patriarchal system that actually hurts them more than it helps them. Men deserve to be nurtured, cherished, and loved; and, in turn, they will do the same to others.

https://www.christinarowlandconsulting.com/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

3144 W Carroll Ave, 3144 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, United States