Brotherhood: Sharing our Vulnerability and Celebrating our Power

A weekend for men who want to stand in their strength without losing their openness or heart. A space to drop the armor and share vulnerability, to celebrate power, and to feel fully alive in your body.

In this workshop, we go beyond the familiar roles many of us men carry – the one who keeps going, holds it all together, or takes responsibility no matter what, or just starts to solve the problem for someone else. And we explore the question that sits right under that:
What comes up when I stop doing the thing I always do?

Do I feel fear? Emptiness? Relief? Anger? Desire?
Sharing this with the other men in the group, truth reveals itself – and real brotherhood begins.

What to Expect

During this weekend we engage with the foundations of Core Energetics – connection, support, power, consciousness, energy, and expression – explored through the lens of manhood, brotherhood, and personal truth.

Expect a combination of:

• Bodywork that activates breath, pelvis, voice, shoulders, and arms so your natural life force can move more freely through your body.
• Practices that engage your healthy inner drive, helping you experience boundaries, direction, and the ability to reach out or stand your ground with clarity.
• Brotherhood in action, where you are seen, supported, challenged, and celebrated in a way that strengthens your sense of belonging.
• Conscious touch and presence, creating moments of contact that are grounded, respectful, and rooted in honesty.
• Explorations of joy and pleasure, inviting you into a wider range of aliveness than the usual “sports and beer” version of male connection.
• Deep inquiry into your patterns, especially around strength, vulnerability, sexuality, tension, shame, and the beliefs that shape how you show up.
• Sharing circles where you speak and listen in a simple, unpolished, and authentic way.

The entire journey is built to awaken your vitality and reconnect you with the full range of your aliveness, so you can show up more grounded, clear, and fully yourself.

Unique Setting: NICE Community & Training

This workshop is hosted within the community of NICE: the Netherlands Institute of Core Energetics. NICE is not just a school; it’s a vivid community of people committed to personal development and embodied awareness.

You don’t need any prior experience with Core Energetics, and it’s not limited to professionals. Men (and women) from all walks of life come to this community to grow, explore, and meet themselves more honestly. What you can expect here:

• A safe and solid container with clear facilitation
• Trainers with years of experience in body-oriented work, energy, and presence
• A community that supports depth, honesty, and genuine human connection

It’s a place where you can land, open up, and explore yourself more fully.

Why Attend

• Embody Your Strength
  Learn to stand firmly in who you are, not through effort or toughness, but through grounded presence and inner clarity. Here you learn that softness and openness are not the opposite of strength, they are expressions of it.
• Meet What Lives Underneath
  Explore the fears, tensions, and expectations that drive you, and discover what happens when you stop doing the thing you always do.
• Connect in Brotherhood
  Connect with men in a way that is honest, supportive, and direct, without competition or performance.
• Reclaim Your Joy
  Rediscover playfulness and pleasure in a way that brings energy, ease, and aliveness back into your system.
• Root into Your Body
  Drop into the physical truth of your body and work with the places that hold tension, energy, or emotion so they can open and move again.

About the Trainers

Klaus Stinshoff, MD

Coming from a background in surgery, where his work focused on removing what was diseased, he shifted in the late 1980s into psychotherapy, placing far greater emphasis on the healthy aspects and the inner potential of his clients. In his unique way, he supports men in opening up to their shadow with compassion and without judgment.

Through his guidance, destructive and negative patterns can be transformed into greater self-acceptance. Ultimately, he helps his clients expand their capacity to love.

Bouke Broeren

Bouke leads from a simple principle: heart first. His trainings invite people to drop from the mind into embodied experience, where emotions can move, truth can land, and connection can emerge. As a Core Energetics therapist, he is known for his clear presence, grounded energy, and ability to bring lightness into deep work. He combines a gentle invitation with direct truthfulness and weaves bodywork, meditation, and a non-dual lens into an approach that is both precise and deeply human.

Time schedule
Start: Friday 10 am
End: Sunday 4 pm

Where
EIGENTIJDSERF
Westelbeers
The Netherlands

Tuition fee
€ 400 (€ 350 Early Bird, paid before May 10)

Lodging expenses
Room and meals about € 300 – 385, depending on room type

To enroll click here