People often ask me what a men’s group is, how it works…what’s it for? It can be tricky to explain in words, you really have to experience it to fully get it. Especially if you’ve never done this kind of work before, if you haven’t developed the vocabulary of feelings and emotions, let alone used it to describe your own experience.
But this music video for the Elderbrook & Rudimental track “Something About You” captures it really well.
It stars Michael Socha (who I remember from the brilliant TV series “This is England”). It conveys beautifully without words (well, there are lyrics, but they’re incidental) a real sense of how it works, how one man’s courage to express himself in a way that may only make sense to him can be the catalyst that other men need to also take that first step.
The 9,000+ comments under the video on YouTube are a good indication of how many people it has touched and of how powerful its simple message is.