You care about being a good dad, a good man... you always have.

But lately, it's been getting harder to pretend that everything's fine.

The mornings are more chaotic.
The evenings disappear behind screens and half-conversations.
You're snapping more quickly than you want to.
Your kids get moments of you, when what they need is you, fully there.

Patience is tighter. Focus is thinner.
Presence feels like something you used to have.
You're responsible, capable, doing the work - but you can't shake the thought: 
Am I really the dad, the man I want to be?

Nothing's on fire -- but the warning signs are right in front of you. The signs are clear. The cracks are real.
And, left unchecked, these small gaps turn into lost moents that you can't get back.

If any of this hits home, you are not alone.
That's exactly why the JourneyMen's Mug Club exists.

What becomes possible when you step inside JourneyMen's Mug Club:

  • Presence Returns

    Truly 'be there' with your kids, your partner, yourself and your community. Learn how to respond rather than react. Know how to build strong, sustainable connections and relationships, even with limited time.

  • Confidence Deepens

    Become inreasingly steady, intentional and grounded at home. With less proving and more leading, you can become grounded, calm and trustworthy.

  • Strengths Emerge

    Shaped by fatherhood & partnership, you can bring humor, wisdom, creativity and more to your children, your family, community and work life.

  • Brotherhood Builds

    Your work is our work; your Journey is our Journey! The Mug club gathers men who are comitted to supporting and challenging one another to become the best men, fathers and partners.

  • Insights Activate

    Change becomes real, felt and shared - not through pressure or grand plans, but with small, steady practices you can actually maintain. What you practice in the Mug Club begins to show up in how you listen, decide, and lead at home and beyond.

You’ll Feel at Home Here If…

The Mug Club may be a good fit for you if:

  • You’re a father, male-identified, actively parenting or co-parenting, and taking your role seriously.

  • You want to show up with presence and intention—not just get through the day with your kids and partner.

  • You’re carrying a full life—career, family, responsibility—and sense there’s a steadier, more meaningful way to hold it all.

  • You value reflection that leads to action, honest connection, and building something that lasts beyond you.

This Probably Isn’t the Right Place If…

The Mug Club may not be the right fit if:

  • You’re looking for quick fixes, motivation hacks, or someone else to do the work for you.

  • You’re not ready to reflect, experiment, or take small, real steps toward showing up differently.

  • You’re uninterested in walking alongside other fathers or sharing the journey with a circle of men.

What This Work Stands On

Built on lived experience, narrative work, and modern fatherhood.

  • Anchored in the Six Foundation Stones

    Connection, Presence, Rhythm, Story, Choice, and Challenge. These aren’t theories; they’re the steady ground fathers return to when life gets loud and the moments that matter start slipping by.

  • Fatherhood isn’t meant to be done alone

    Real change happens in community. The Mug Club offers consistent brotherhood, honest reflection, and shared accountability that everyday life rarely makes room for.

  • Built on story, not diagnosis

    Drawing from narrative-based work, we help fathers understand and reshape the stories shaping their lives—because when story shifts, identity follows.

  • A healthier model of strength

    We leave behind outdated scripts of silent endurance and disconnection, and practice a form of manhood rooted in presence, honesty, and relationship.

  • Change through simple, repeatable practices

    Not grand gestures or perfection, but meaningful rhythms and rituals that bring intention back into ordinary days.

  • Growth forged in real-life pressure

    Work, kids, partnership, fatigue—the Mug Club doesn’t escape any of it. It helps you work with the weight you carry, turning pressure into clarity, steadiness, and leadership your family can feel.

  • A Place to Pause — Step Inside

    The Mug Club isn’t a quick fix. It’s a space built on community, story, ritual, and practice—drawing from generations of men’s work and relational wisdom. Here, you’re grounded in your story, your presence, your relationships, and your intentions. Step inside ready to engage with fatherhood and manhood in a way that’s intentional, supported, and sustainable.

Meet Dr. Jason Frishman

Founder and Guide, JourneyMen

I’m Jason, the founder and guide of JourneyMen. For over twenty years, I’ve worked alongside men and fathers—through groups, retreats, and conversations—to help them show up with more presence, clarity, and connection in the relationships that matter most. My work is grounded in Adventure Therapy and Narrative Therapy, with graduate and doctoral training in psychology focused on how groups shape identity and real change over time. Just as importantly, I’m a father of two sons. I know the pressure, the missed moments, and the effort it takes to stay present when life is full. JourneyMen isn’t theory for me—it’s the work that shaped me as a man and a father. The Mug Club is the space I wish I’d had earlier: a steady place to pause, honest men to walk with, and support that carries back into real life.

What We Work With at the Table

Inside the Mug Club, we focus on the real terrain of fatherhood - the places where pressure, love, responsibility, and identity meet. This isn't abstract learning. It's lived work, practiced and carried back into daily life.

Here’s what we work with together:

  • Presence under real-life pressure
    Learning how to stay steady, attentive, and emotionally available—even when stress, fatigue, and distraction are part of the day.

  • Fatherhood identity and story
    Examining the stories you inherited about being a man and a dad, and reshaping them around values, purpose, and the kind of father you intend to be.

  • Routines, rhythms, and rituals that anchor family life
    Building simple, repeatable practices that bring structure, warmth, and connection to your home—without adding more to your plate.

  • Working with stress and emotional load
    Developing ways to respond with clarity instead of reactivity, so pressure doesn’t get passed downstream to your partner or kids.

  • Relational repair and everyday leadership at home
    Strengthening trust, communication, and emotional safety by showing up as a calm, consistent presence your family can rely on.

  • Brotherhood, accountability, and shared reflection
    Walking alongside other fathers who understand the work, offering perspective, honesty, and support so you don’t have to do this alone.

  • Purpose, direction, and legacy
    Clarifying what matters most, aligning daily choices with long-term values, and shaping a legacy your children will feel—not just remember.

This is not theory or quick fixes. Over time, the work here changes how you move through your days, your relationships, and your role as a father.

How the Mug Club Shows Up for You

Ongoing Structures, real connection, and support you can actually use.

  • MONTHLY COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS: Guided sessions on presence, fatherhood, and leadership you can apply immediately at home.

  • BIWEEKLY SMALL-GROUPS: Consistent groups for honest conversation, accountability, and support.

  • PRIVATE COMMUNITY ACCESS: Ongoing connection between sessions through dedicated text threads and a community app.

  • Individual Support: Ask real-life questions and receive grounded perspective when you need it.

  • GUEST VOICES: Occasional conversations that broaden how you think about manhood and parenting.

  • PRIORITY INVITATIONS: Early access and preferred pricing for retreats and deeper JourneyMen experiences.

  • MUG CLUB GOODS: Thoughtful reminders of your commitment to presence and brotherhood.

  • A LIVING COMMUNITY: The Mug Club evolves — new resources, practices, and experiences added as the men inside it grow.

Pay From the Heart — Your Commitment

Flexible, compassionate pricing for fathers committed to growth

The Mug Club isn’t about a fixed fee — it’s about showing up, staying present, and supporting a community where fathers grow together.

Your contribution helps hold this community steady — for you and for the fathers who walk with you.  We ask you to choose a contribution that works for both you and the Mug Club’s ability to provide ongoing support:

  • Minimum: $110/month — the baseline that keeps the club sustainable

  • Sustainable: $130/month — helps the community thrive

  • Pay More: If you can, your contribution helps “hold the door open” for fathers who cannot

If $110/month would be a hardship, include this in the “Additional Comments” section of your application. We’ll discuss a plan together — because this is about connection, not exclusion.

We also offer equity seats for BIPOC fathers. Our community is predominantly white, and we are committed to learning, evolving, and creating safer, more inclusive spaces.

Paying isn’t just a transaction — it’s a commitment to yourself, your family, and the men you’ll walk alongside in the Mug Club.

The Mug Club Application Form

Are you ready?

Learn more about JourneyMen and the Mug Club @ Journey's Inn. Fill out the application form below and Jason will be in touch with you personally!

Apply and Connect with Jason

Anything on Your Mind?

Have a question, thought, or something we should know about your journey as a father and a man? This is the space to share it. Filling this out doesn’t obligate you — it’s simply a way for us to understand you better and walk alongside you if it’s a fit.

What JourneyMen are saying:

Andrew Foxwell, JourneyMen Member, Foxwell Digital

Tom Decker, JourneyMen WayKeeper, Chicago Green Insulation

Paul Burdette, JourneyMen Member

More JourneyMen experiences:

The journey was inspiring, challenging, and insightful!

Jesse, JourneyMen Foundations group member

The journey was inspiring, challenging, and insightful! To that end - your program works! It forced a look at who I am as an individual, spouse, and father. I still ask my kids about daily highlights and lowlights (and chime in with my own), and I feel that the communication link is more open within the family. I have already shared the program with many of my friends!

I was triggered at home.

Isaac, JourneyMen Foundations Group Member

I was triggered at home - by screen time, by things moving beyond debate and the easy going family atmosphere I envision. I was able to build relationships with other fathers going through similar challenges. Naming my challenges and reactivity brought them into the open in my family and made it part of the family dynamic. I’ve been able to walk into the house after work and remain chill.

It's social, it's introspective, and it kicked my butt!

Chapin, JourneyMen Foundations group member

Joining the Journeymen was time dedicated for me. It's social, it's introspective, and it kicked my butt so that I could be a better person, parent and partner. I'm one of those reluctant guys that wouldn't call a therapist until my whole life fell apart. Journeymen seemed more approachable. It was an opportunity to connect with other men, learn from their similar challenges, and support one another to go deep and develop skills to more skillfully paddle through the rapids of life.

I now have tools that help me calm down, become present and parent from a place of connection and guidance.

Jay, JourneyMen Foundations group member

Doing the work with a group of like-minded men was so helpful and reassuring. "I'm not the only one" that finds being a dad challenging. Now I have tools that I can use in the moment with my son that helps me calm down, become present and parent from a place of connection and guidance, rather from frustration and overwhelm. Jason is a brilliant, funny and caring guide that I wish all men would use to make their parenting experience more enjoyable, more loving and more connected.

I now consider all of them close friends.

Paul, JourneyMen Foundations group member

I wanted to be a better father and husband, to be more present in my everyday life. I loved the structure of the program and the group in general. Although I've never met them in person, I now consider all of them close friends. I feel calmer and more present in everything I do. I have learned to live with my challenges and obstacles. I have up-leveled my character and found ways to actively live in that mindset. I am excited and committed to continue using the tools and actions that I have developed. I’m also excited to see how I can continue to grow as a man, father and husband.

I was struggling to connect with my wife and kids.

Jim, JourneyMen Foundations group member

I was struggling to connect with my wife and kids. I got flooded really easily during those important points in our week and I was not doing my best. It was not creating the family culture I wanted for us. Stressful moments stressed my relationship with my wife. Connecting with other guys was key. Sharing experiences and insights was powerful. I definitely feel like more of a leader in my family. I take time to play and plan fun things. I also feel like I am having more constructive conversations with my wife - a nice change! I look forward to ongoing connections with the guys!