California Men’s Gatherings MindSpa Series Presents:

The Healing Powers of Drag 

Date: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom/Online

RSVP: Please RSVP/Register in advance with Jamie Simmons

Cost: Requested donation of $5 to help cover CMG’s ongoing online operations.
Donate HERE! No man will be turned away for lack of funds. 

The Healing Powers of Drag 

Join special guest Kyle Celio, also known as “Sue Casa,” as we explore the healing powers of drag. On the surface, drag may have been just a funny, entertaining part of a pre-COVID night out. But dig a little deeper and we may experience drag as transgressive, liberating, a way to speak truth to power, or a direct challenge to toxic masculinity and fem-phobia.

Many of us at CMG have dipped a toe (or a high heel) into drag, perhaps dressing up at a Gathering for the first (or 1000th) time. Drag can be an initiatory experience and bring forward parts of our personality that were previously hidden. It can also be a lot of fun! Kyle, who also happens to be a psychotherapist, will share some of the positive gifts of drag—how it has given him self-esteem, stability, and healing—as well as challenges around integrating drag into his life. You will have a chance to ask Kyle questions and also share stories around the experience of drag in your own life.

About Kyle Celio/Sue Casa

Kyle is an LMFT with a private practice in San Francisco. He has been in practice for 17 years, working with all ages and a wide array of issues. In particular, he has been drawn towards working with addiction issues, bipolar disorder, adolescents and couples. He is very curious about the process of self-exploration and helping people understand themselves and further develop their own identity.

Sue Casa is best known as the village idiot. Her success lies in her ability to fail so perfectly. She performs and hosts regularly at various clubs and bars all around San Francisco and is well known for bringing Carrie Bradshaw to life in Sex and the City LIVE! at Oasis. She has also dazzled and upset audiences in LA, Palm Springs, NYC, Ptown, Hawaii, and Fresno.

The CMG MindSpa Series is committed to providing a forum for experiential workshops exploring the connections between Mind, Body, and Spirit. It is usually held on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. If you have an idea for a MindSpa workshop or would like to lead one yourself, please do not hesitate to contact CMG MindSpa Curator, Jamie Simmons, at jamie8431@aol.com.

We’d love to see you there! 

All CMG events are drug-free. This event is also alcohol-free if you so desire in your home. Sponsored by the CMG Desert Cities Local Events Committee. All persons identifying as male 18 and older, local or visiting, are welcome. If you would like to propose a local event, please fill out the form found at the Contact Local Events Page.

California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter. We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

California Men’s Gatherings presents:  

98th [2nd Virtual] Gathering!

Friday Night Oct 16th, Programming all-day Oct 17th, and 18th

Love/Diversity?

Location: Your computer or phone.

Registration will open on the 2nd of October.

We’d love to see you there!

California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter. We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

California Men’s Gatherings presents:  

“How To Deepen The Love In Your Life” with Ken Page, LCSW

for CMG Men, Statewide

Date & Time: Tues Sept. 15, 2020 at 7pm PT   (We know it’s short notice, but we’re excited to have Ken available!  Hope you can make it!)
Location:   Zoom info will be sent to those who register for this potentially capped event.
Event Cost:   Please click here to make a donation to CMG in the amount of your choosing, but if you cannot give, please come anyway!

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We are honored to have enticed New York-based therapist and author Ken Page, LCSW (“Deeper Dating“) to lead a statewide CMG version of his workshop:

“How To Deepen The Love In Your Life”

All of us, single or coupled, are on an intimacy journey − and it’s the most important journey of our lives. 

The choice to engage with our fellow men is an affirmation of love. It means we’ve chosen to be loving to both ourselves and others.  That choice, at its best, involves using tools to live in the world as men with deep, feeling hearts.  We are not meant to be alone and self-sufficient. Without lives filled with love, we wither inside. Intimacy is oxygen. We don’t need to transcend our hunger for love — we need to honor it.

In this combination of lecture and interactive workshop, renowned psychotherapist and author Ken Page will speak about the path to deeper love between GBT men. The workshop is for everyone, coupled, single, or anywhere in-between. You’ll learn:

• The great key to loving yourself first
• How your deepest insecurities reveal your greatest gifts
• Two simple exercises designed to help you bring deeper love into your life right now. 

Come join us for this powerful experiential workshop and lecture.

Ken Page, LCSW Bio:

   KEN PAGE, LCSW, is a renowned psychotherapist, and a leading voice of hope and wisdom for everyone seeking to find and cultivate healthy, lasting love. He is the host of The Deeper Dating Podcast, co-founder of DeeperDating.com, and author of the bestselling book Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy. He has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Advocate and more. Ken is passionate about helping people understand the search for love as one of the greatest spiritual adventures in life, and he celebrates the inclusion of the LGBTQ community into the banquet of wiser relationship advice.  Ken lives in Long Beach, NY with his husband, children, and their pets.

We’d love to see you there!

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All persons identifying as male (whether single, coupled, or otherwise) are welcome.

To see all events we have going on in the near future, visit the Local Events Page on our site.  If you have an idea for an event, please go to the Local Events Contacts Page.

CMG welcomes additional support for planning and carrying out the events we offer.  We are very interested in having additional homes where events could be held.  You need not join the committee to host or work on an event! If you can help in either respect, please reply to this note to learn more!

If this is your first time using Zoom, please check your system requirements prior to the session at the following link: https://zoom.us/test

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California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter. We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

California Men’s Gatherings MindSpa Series Presents:

Managing Anxiety in the Time of Coronavirus 

Date: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom/Online

RSVP: Please RSVP/Register in advance with Jamie Simmons

Cost: Requested donation of $5 to help cover CMG’s ongoing online operations.
Donate HERE! No man will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Managing Anxiety in the Time of Coronavirus 

  

The CMG MindSpa Series is committed to providing a forum for experiential workshops exploring the connections between Mind, Body, and Spirit. It is usually held on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. If you have an idea for a MindSpa workshop or would like to lead one yourself, please do not hesitate to contact CMG MindSpa Curator, Jamie Simmons, at jamie8431@aol.com.

We’d love to see you there! 

All CMG events are drug-free. This event is also alcohol-free if you so desire in your home. Sponsored by the CMG Desert Cities Local Events Committee. All persons identifying as male 18 and older, local or visiting, are welcome. If you would like to propose a local event, please fill out the form found at the Contact Local Events Page.

California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter. We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

California Men’s Gatherings – Desert Cities Presents:

Virtual Speed Friending (California edition)

Date: Sunday, September 13, 2020

Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

RSVP: Register at cmgpssocial@gmail.com.  In the subject line, write “Speed Friending.”  In the body of the message, please include your 1) name, 2) city, 3) phone number and 4) email address.  You will receive a confirmation and Zoom site link a couple of days before the event.

Cost: Please make a love donation of any amount if you can.
Donate HERE! No man will be turned away for lack of funds.

Virtual Speed Friending (California Edition)

Making new friends can be challenging in the best of times. When you can’t get out of the house, it’s SO much harder. If social isolation is getting you down or you just want to meet some new people, join us for virtual “speed friending” to meet dozens of new guys in the comfort of your own home. Gay, bisexual, and gay-friendly singles and couples are welcome to participate.  This is not a clothing-optional event and we ask that all participants be appropriately attired.

HOW IT WORKS:
After some introductory comments and guidelines, we will take all of the participants and break them up virtually into smaller groups of 3-4 guys. The hosts will provide an ice breaker question.  You will be in a private online breakout room for five minutes or so with just your small group.  The groups will then be mixed up again and you will continue to meet more people over six rounds.  You will have a chance to talk, listen, and connect on a variety of different topics.  At the end of the session, you will have an opportunity to share contact information privately with those with whom you felt a connection.   Where it goes from there is up to you.   A little like speed dating, but less awkward.

We’d love to see you there! 

All CMG events are drug-free. Sponsored by the CMG Desert Cities Local Events Committee (LEC).
ALL persons identifying as male 18 and older, local or visiting, are welcome. If you would like to propose
an online local event, please fill out the form found at the Contact Local Events Page.

California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter.  We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.