The Men's Academy
The Academy

What we do.

The Men's Academy is a small, private academy for men who want to become whole: body, mind, heart and purpose working as one. We study the men who managed it, read the books they read, and do the work together, live, in cohorts that start on a date and end on one.

Men before rules

Most advice for young men is a list of rules, and a list of rules has never made anyone into anything. We start from men instead. Each cohort studies lives: how a particular man built his body, trained his judgement, handled what he felt, chose his work and kept his word, and what it cost him. Not biography as entertainment. Biography as instruction, read closely enough to be used.

The books under the lives

Every man worth studying was formed by what he read, so we read it too: Plato to MacIntyre, in order, whole, with a pencil. The list is public and free, in the seven-day course. The Academy is where it gets read among other men who are reading it, which turns out to be the part that works.

The room

A live seminar every week, on camera, where you say what you think the text means and are argued with by men who have done the reading. Cohorts are small on purpose. A seminar with one man who has not done the reading is a worse seminar for everyone, which is why there is an application and a call before anyone joins.

The path

See the role models. Understand how they got there. Join a cohort and do the work with men who are doing it too. Become, in time, the example for the next man. That is the whole programme; nothing in it is secret, and nothing in it is quick.

For you if

Not for you if

What it costs

$97/month, cancel any time. Admission is by application and a fifteen-minute call with our representative. The essays and the free course cost nothing and never will.

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Questions

Plain answers.

What is The Men's Academy?
The Men's Academy is a private academy for men who want to become integrated: body, mind, heart and purpose working as one. It shows what a whole man looks like through role models, essays and lectures, and takes men into small cohorts that meet live with a mentor. Seven tenets: body, mind, heart, character, purpose, brotherhood, integration.
How does a cohort work?
A cohort of men meets live each week with a mentor, studies the lives of the role models and the books that formed them, and does the work together for the length of the cohort. Cohorts are deliberately small.
Where does the Academy meet?
Online. The cohorts meet live, on camera; the community itself lives on Skool, and the essays and the free course are here on the site.
What does membership cost?
$97/month, cancel any time. The essays and The Foundations, the seven-day course, cost nothing.
How do I join?
Apply at https://joinmensacademy.com/apply: a short application, then a fifteen-minute call with our representative. If the fit is right you get your join link. A man who has already decided can join directly through the link beside the application.
What happens after I apply?
You get a confirmation email and a link to book the call. Applications are answered within 48 hours.
Is The Foundations really free?
Yes. Seven questions, one a day, by email, each with a primary text and one thing to do before tomorrow, and the reading list the Academy is built on. It is complete on its own; the last email says how to apply and nothing before it sells anything.
Who runs this site, and how is it paid for?
The site is the Academy's public front door, built and operated by the person who runs its admissions. Memberships that begin here pay that person a share of the fee, which is what funds the site, the course and the essays. The disclosure says so in full.
Is the Academy political?
No. It has no side, no politics and no enemies. It is about the men, the books and the work.