Tending What Is Near, the new post on The Listening Room HQ
, my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site, speaks of how in a restless world, strength often begins with simple acts of attention. A reflection on tending to the people and responsibilities closest to us, and the quiet discipline of noticing what is within reach and can be read here.
Why Sessions at The Listening Room HQ Matter. Reading can open a door, but insight needs a place to live. The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – sessions offer men a rare space to speak freely and discover clarity through deep, attentive listening. You can book a session at: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/p/sessions.html
Returning to the Practice of Listening, the new post on The Listening Room HQ speaks of listening, of strength for men coming through disciplined listening, noticing what is said and unsaid, before acting or reacting can be reax on The Listening Room HQ site.
When the Arrow Becomes a Body – The Art of Listening the new post at The Listening Room is about embodied listening in men’s and as presence: when the body holds truth, attention, and awareness, reorganising what matters without narrative or fix and can be read here.
The Listening Field: Creativity as Navigation is the new post on The Polymath.
A luminous, subtle guide to creativity as navigation. Learn how artists, polymaths, and creators can open, listen, and translate inspiration without forcing output. Presence, resonance, and subtle alignment guide the process. You can read it here.
The Listening Field: Creativity as Navigation pairs with The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard at The Listening Room HQ.
The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard is the new post on The Listening Room HQ.
The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard is about deep listening, emotional clarity, and grounded presence, how men heal when they are truly heard. You can read The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard here.
The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy the new post at The Listening Room HQ pairs with The Sieve Year – Field Notes a reflection The Polymath on 2025 as a sieve year. However The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy is addressed as guidance for men in the sieve year, a season of filtering, listening, and quiet recalibration, while The Sieve Year – Field Notes is a broader reflection. You can read The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy here.
Sometimes a new voice rises from the quiet. Like Luminous Robin, here on its The Listening Room HQ version as a presence in men’s practice.
Luminous Robin pairs with its essence on Luminous Robin, The Moon and Mercury on The Polymath.
Alongside the interview with Juliana Ferreira, we invite you to visit, read and explore The Polymath and The Listening Room HQ, me two new vessels that live on another frequency, and to read their recent twin posts.
Presence, Listening, Creation – A Polymath Manifesto where I write in The Polymath about being a Polymath in this time and age, creating a Polymath Manifesto.
And Listening Beyond the Noise, on The Listening Room HQ, that unveils the currents behind and beyond the relentless noise we are surrounded with. Here on a men’s practice vision, but that is transposable for everyone.
I close my four-part series on male midlife thresholds and midlife crisis with a practical, diagram-style guide
in The Listening Room HQ : Mapping Midlife: A Practical Diagram of the Male Midlife Crisis.
This final note gathers the series’ language and tools into an easy-to-scan map of stages and fork points — intended as a practical aid for noticing where you are, what choices appear, and how to move through midlife with clearer intention and integrity.
Earlier Mondo Bizarre Magazine notes in this series:
The full series as published on The Listening Room HQ:
For the complete set and ongoing notes from the practice, visit The Listening Room HQ.
Mondo Bizarre Magazine 