Reclaiming the Man — Men's Mental Health

A Word from Malik

I’m going to talk to you man-to-man. Not as a therapist. Not as a program. As someone who has lived inside the same trap most men live in, and who spent years not even knowing it was a trap.

The system that claims to be built for men doesn’t actually serve most men. It gives us a badge — the badge of manhood — and with that badge comes all the blame and none of the power. We become providers, protectors, shock absorbers for everyone around us. We regulate the room before we ever check in with ourselves. We learn to read the temperature of a situation faster than we learn to name what we’re feeling. And then we wonder why we’re exhausted — or we stop wondering and just keep going.

This curriculum is not about making men weak. It’s about making men whole. It’s about naming what’s actually happening so we can stop suffering in silence and start building something real — with each other, with the people who love us, and inside ourselves.

You deserve to feel the full range of what you are. That’s not weakness. That’s what was taken from you. Let’s go get it back.

— Malik Yusef

The Practice

What do you use to feel?

Not “how are you doing?” — everyone lies about that. Not “how do you feel?” — most men haven’t been trained to know.

This question asks for the mechanism. The drink. The work. The silence. The music. The anger. The running. Whatever you’ve built across your exterior life and your interior one.

There is no wrong answer. The point is to start locating feeling in the body instead of in the room.

Three Formats. One Truth.

Three ways into the work.

Choose what fits where you are. The fundamentals stay the same; the format meets you where you live.

01 · Weekly Check-In

Real Talk on Zoom

A recurring online gathering. Free. Hosted by Malik. Clinicians and allies in the room. Men check in with each other, practice the core question, and build real community across time and distance.

Weekly · Friday evenings
Free · no cameras required
No clips, no judgment

02 · Live Events

The Gathering

Fully facilitated in-person sessions. Multiple touch points in one day or across a weekend. Slower work. Deeper bonds. The room with the door closed.

Multi-session, single-day or weekend
Facilitated by Malik with clinicians
Dates announced as scheduled

03 · The Curriculum

Nine Sessions

The full Reclaiming the Man curriculum. Nine guided sessions on the work of becoming a whole man in this moment. Taught by Malik, by clinicians, or worked through in small peer groups.

Nine sessions, structured arc
Host-led, clinical, or peer use
Companion materials in development

This Friday

Real Talk: A Night for Men

A free online conversation. Hosted by Malik Yusef. Clinicians in the room. No therapy, no judgment — just real talk and putting some weight down.

Next Session

Friday, June 12

8:00 PM ET · Free Zoom

Featured Facilitator This Week

Dr. Andre Anderson, BCBA

Board Certified Behavior Analyst, poet, educator. Founder of the Win Win Anti-Bullying program. Returning to the room this Friday.

Prefer email? hello@unparti.org

Resources

A school of what already exists.

Reclaiming the Man aggregates mental health resources from organizations doing the work, so men can find what already exists in one place. The base resources are free. Accelerated services — one-on-ones, private discussion groups, the full facilitator-led curriculum — are in development.

If you are in crisis, please reach 988 — the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can call, text, or chat. It is free and confidential.