KEYNOTES AND SEMINARS

SEAN CASEY LECLAIRE is a provocative, experienced speaker. He is noted for his humor, open-heartedness, passion and provocative inquiry. The power of his presence has moved audiences for 25 years.

Each of the presentations below is grounded in the guiding principle, love or fear, you choose. Sean's body of work can be shaped to accommodate the needs of your group, organization and/or conference. Each is a body-centered and interactive presentation offered as an evening talk, lunch & learn, seminar, workshop, keynote and/or conference presentation.

Sean Casey LeClaire's Speaker's One-Sheet

PRESENTATION THEMES

Well Being at Work
Freeing the Power of Your Presence

Living Life on Purpose

Embodying Your Values

Managing Male Anger

Meditation for a Mad World

Addiction, Creativity & Work Performance

*special 2008 event


The Arjuna Conference - Inspiring inner peace and right action

Arjuna is a man of action, living in the midst of a society confronting essentially the same problems that challenge us today. His story, told in the Bhagavad Gita is timeless. It is our story… the ongoing transformation of character, conduct, and consciousness.

Using wisdom principles, awareness-based coaching, conversation, movement and meditation we will explore and engage the mind, body and spirit of men. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a good boy (who says yes to a woman before he even knows what the damn question is), a gay man, a straight man, a walking-man crying, a movie-going middle-aged man, an old man, a young man, a raging, rocking, no-stopping, truck-driving, boiler-making, metal-shaping, saxophone-playing man. We don’t care if you’re a pit bull problem solver, a CEO, a salesman, a soldier, a scientist or a priest. Men who want to get honest with themselves and live more authentic, passionate and intimate lives are invited to join us.

To register: http://www.arjunaconference.com

An article by Sean Casey Leclaire

How Men Heal

The most powerful way for men to heal is through honest and vulnerable sharing with other men. Then they are able to fully embody and ground the vulnerability that they cultivate with other men and bring this quality of intimacy to those they love.

Most men don’t even know the extent that they have been hurt by the lies of our western, warrior culture. Male betrayal by men runs deep—in the bones and blood and bodies of men. The language of "I feel" is hard for men, especially; when telling another man that their feelings have been hurt, men are, rightfully, afraid of ridicule. I know men who have experienced close male friends actually get up and leave the room when they have expressed sadness or a desire for support and intimate connection.

Many men are afraid that once they begin to feel, to release the strong and often suppressed energies of sorrow, hurt, terror, rage, betrayal, rapture, joy, and unbridled passion that they will be overwhelmed. Men need to learn how to channel strong emotion and to see, understand and experience in a safe and provocative setting, exactly how fear manifests in their lives. Men need to begin to change habits of attention and focus on love. The fear and anger that fuels and fills many men’s lives, whether in the marketplace or the bedroom, on the basketball court or board room, in the yoga studio or the zendo can be transformed into a slow, beautiful blues song.

How each man sings his song is his own choice. Choice implies awareness and responsibility. Some men hide anger behind wit and sarcasm, becoming black belts in passive-aggressive behavior.

Other men remain problem-solving pit bulls, focused and furious. Many men strike out, clumsy and inappropriate with strong emotion. Underneath the anger are tears, buckets of tears. Some of the toughest guys to work with are men who have bent over backwards most of their lives trying to please women. If you hug an angry man, you will see he is crying and longing for heart connection.

My colleagues and I engage men with one principle: love or fear, you choose. How we do this is key. We attend to ourselves and each other. We dance the difficult and stunning dance of male intimacy. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a good boy, a gay man, a straight man, a walking-man crying, a movie-going middle-aged man, an old man, a young man, a raging, rocking, no-stopping, truck-driving, boiler-making, metal-shaping, saxophone-playing man, we support you to learn new habits of attention. Men discover qualities long repressed and longing for expression: stillness, physicality, fluidity, kindness, passionate purpose, courage, laughter, joy, and generosity. Men open to the beauty and strength of the male spirit by being with men who won’t hurt them. Together, we uncover aspects of being, and get inside, underneath the surface attitudes that guys present to the world.