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The Map Encounter

Apply for a Map Encounter.

The Map Encounter is a guided conversation and embodied reflection designed to help a man see what his life is currently communicating. A live encounter can also include consent-based embodied work — guided movement, breath, and hands-on contact through clothing. It is always optional and always described in full before it begins. It is not therapy, diagnosis, medical care, physical therapy, or crisis support. Please answer honestly. There are no ideal answers — and the health questions are what keep the embodied work safe.

Section IBasic information
Preferred format
Section IICurrent season
Section IIIBody, words, and action
Section IVFormation readiness
9.Are you willing to be reflected honestly, without needing to be fixed or defended?
Section VHealth & movement screening

A live encounter can include guided movement, applied pressure, instrument-assisted work along the back, sides, and front of the body, and light sustained contact — through fitted briefs or compression shorts, with only the area being worked uncovered and the rest draped. These questions keep that work safe and let me tailor it to your body. Answer for how your body is now. If your encounter will be virtual, answer what you can; the physical items may not apply.

12.Do any of these apply to you now, or recently? Check all that apply.
Section VISafety & support
15.Are you currently in acute crisis, experiencing thoughts of self-harm, or needing clinical mental health support?

Thank you for being honest — that takes courage. The Map Encounter is formation work, not crisis or clinical care, so it isn’t the right first step when something urgent is happening. That doesn’t mean you’re turned away; it means support that fits the moment matters more right now.

If you’re in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please reach out now: in the US you can call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), available 24/7, or call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. Reaching a trusted person or a clinician you already work with can help too.

You’re welcome to still submit this — it will be read with care — but please don’t wait on a reply for anything urgent.

16.Are you currently working with a therapist, counselor, physician, or other clinician?
17.Focused bodily attention and touch can bring feeling to the surface. Do you have a history of trauma, PTSD, panic, or dissociation that this work might surface? Knowing in advance helps me hold it well. There are no wrong answers, and you choose how much to share.

Applications are read personally. Fields marked * are required.

Your application has been received.

Thank you for the honesty it took to fill this out. Applications are read personally, and you’ll hear back by email about next steps for your Map Encounter.

If anything urgent is happening in the meantime, please reach the resources noted above rather than waiting on a reply.

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