Mindful Men: It’s not about what you know. Or about who you know.

It’s about crafting relationships around the shared intention to grow, and to share more.

2025 marks the 3rd year Free Leadership Inc has facilitated Mindful Men. In two years, over 180 men have joined a two hour, free experiential leadership training session. Two third’s of men who join one time, return again. Together, and with expert facilitation, the group focuses on how they can improve their leadership and their support of others in their community. These men are diverse in age, life-style, professional industry, economic and relational status, political and religious affiliation, and ideological attitudes. They don’t sign up. They choose to show up.

And we believe this act ripples out to create social capital, social trust and social progress where they show up next.

Meet Mindful Men…our flagship population service.

The National Institute of Health and other well established community health research findings continuously indicate that men are less likely to access, and also to benefit from, mental health and/or counseling services. Initial research suggests that role models and friends are one of the key interventions that improve men’s help-seeking attitudes, intentions, and actual actions. These peer figures often convey accurate information and key psychoeducational material, and often motivate men to persist in behavior change efforts and build on positive “male” traits (e.g. responsibility, direction and strength).  Our Mindful Men Mentoring Certification Program educates men in the community with the knowledge, tools and skills to become this type of mentor and friend to their peers, neighbors and possible clients.

Mindful Men has a free meet up every first Monday of the month (that’s a mouthful!). It’s just one of our multi-focused services to generate and nourish leadership in Tampa Bay.