An 18-Month Transformation Experience for Men

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The question isn’t, “Are you sober?”
The question is, “Who are you becoming?”
Most recovery programs are built to help a man stop. REFORGED is built to help him become. Because stopping a behavior is not the same thing as becoming whole.

Built To Help Him Become

A man can be sober and still feel fragmented. He can attend therapy, participate in groups, answer the hard questions, and do everything that is expected of him—and still know that something deeper has not changed.

REFORGED is an 18-month transformation experience for men who are ready to go beyond managing recovery and begin building a life, identity, and character that can sustain it.

Five Retreats. One Brotherhood.

Five private residential retreats. Live work between retreats. A small, committed brotherhood. Eighteen months of becoming.

The cohort is limited to eight men so that trust, accountability, honesty, and brotherhood can develop at a depth that isn’t possible in a large program.

You Don’t Need Another Program To Manage. You Need a Process That Changes Who You Are.

Many men become very good at looking recovered. They know what to say. They know what not to do. They know how to meet expectations. They may even have years of sobriety behind them. But underneath the progress, they can still experience a painful sense of disconnection—a gap between the man they appear to be and the man they actually are. REFORGED addresses that gap.

The goal isn’t simply compliance. It isn’t learning to perform recovery better. The goal is wholeness. Over 18 months, you will be challenged to develop the physical, emotional, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of your life together—not as separate pieces, but as parts of the same man. Because lasting change happens when your private life and public life no longer tell different stories.

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Program Overview

Program Overview

The Whole Man. Four Dimensions. One Integrated Life.

Physical & Emotional

Physical: Build the physical capacity that supports everything else. The program incorporates structured movement and nutrition, biometric tracking, and lab work, with DEXA body-composition scans recommended as part of the process.

Emotional: Learn to recognize, experience, regulate, and communicate emotion rather than being controlled by it.

Ethical & Spiritual

Ethical: Develop a life in which your choices, values, commitments, and behavior become increasingly aligned.

Spiritual: Reconnect your life to purpose, meaning, responsibility, and something larger than immediate gratification.

This Is Not Just About Stopping. It’s About Becoming Someone For Whom The Old Life No Longer Fits.

REFORGED works from the belief that lasting transformation cannot happen by focusing on only one part of a man’s life. Your behavior doesn’t exist in isolation. Your emotional life affects your relationships. Your physical health affects your capacity. Your ethics shape your decisions. Your spiritual life influences your sense of purpose and meaning. So the work addresses all four. The objective isn’t to become better at managing four separate areas. It’s to become a more integrated man.

There is an important difference between behavior change and identity change. You can stop doing something because you’re afraid of the consequences. You can stop because someone is watching. You can stop because your marriage is at risk. You can stop because you don’t want to lose your career or your family. Those reasons can get you started. But lasting transformation requires something deeper. REFORGED asks a different question: Who are you becoming?

The work is designed to move beyond external compliance toward a level of internal alignment where your choices increasingly reflect the man you are committed to becoming. That is the path from fragmentation to radical integrity.

Clinically Serious. Deeply Human.

The Approach

REFORGED brings together a higher-order framework for transformation with evidence-informed clinical approaches and the depth of a highly intentional cohort. The work draws from approaches including:

  • DBT and RO-DBT
  • Attachment-based work
  • EMDR-informed practices
  • Emotional regulation and interpersonal skill development
  • Physical health and biometric tracking
  • Ethical and values-based formation
  • Spiritual purpose and meaning

REFORGED does not replace individual therapy. It gives the larger transformation a structure.

Early Results From The Work Behind REFORGED

REFORGED builds on the work of the Ascent to Integrity beta, a six-month predecessor experience. In that cohort, approximately 15 of 18 men completed the program, with participants assessed at intake and six months across measures of resilience, personality traits, emotional intelligence, and attachment.

Men who began in the lower half of the resilience measure moved from approximately the 19th percentile to the 64th percentile over six months. Measures related to emotional regulation, attachment, and maladaptive personality traits also showed positive movement.

These findings are early data from a small beta cohort, not published clinical proof. But they provide an encouraging signal of what can happen when men are given the time, structure, challenge, and community to do deeper work. REFORGED is built to take that work further.

The Question Isn’t Whether You Can Stop. You’ve Probably Already Learned How To Stop.

The deeper work is discovering what happens when you build a life in which integrity becomes the organizing principle. When your private life and public life begin to align. When you can experience emotion without being ruled by it. When your physical life supports your emotional and spiritual capacity. When your relationships are built on honesty rather than performance. When your choices increasingly reflect your values. When recovery stops being something you’re doing and becomes part of who you are.

That’s what REFORGED is built for.

The men who belong here aren’t all starting in the same place. Some will be starting strong. Some will be rebuilding after years of failed attempts. Some will be coming directly out of residential care. Some will have years of sobriety but recognize that sobriety has not answered the deeper questions. What they have in common is not their history. It’s their willingness.

The Value

REFORGED delivers more than 200 hours of direct, facilitated contact across 18 months — an effective rate of just under $200 per hour. And that already includes your lodging and meals at every retreat, so the cost of the professional guidance itself is lower still. By comparison, a single private residential stay of 30 to 45 days commonly runs $25,000 to $45,000, and luxury residential treatment centers can exceed $90,000 for a 30-day program — after which a man returns home to maintain his change largely in isolation. REFORGED invests a comparable sum in eighteen months of structured formation, biometrics, and an ongoing brotherhood — deep transformation that is built to last for the rest of your life.

Your Investment
Pay in full: $38,000 (save 5%) | Pay over time: $40,000

What’s Included

  • Five in-person residential retreats — lodging, meals, and programming included (travel not included)
  • 64 weeks of live online group work: a weekly coaching group throughout, plus a weekly skills class in the first two phases
  • Two online monthly closing meetings following the final retreat
  • 200+ hours of direct, facilitated contact
  • Biometric tracking, genetic testing, and lab panels (DEXA body-composition scan recommended but not included)
  • A fixed cohort and brotherhood of no more than eight men
  • The Beyond Recovery framework, tools, and materials

Payment Schedule
Structured so the program is paid in full by your final in-person retreat.

WhenPayment
Enrollment (at signing; includes Retreat 1)$12,000
Each non-retreat month – 12 payments$1,000
Retreat 2 (≈ Month 4)$4,000
Retreat 3 (≈ Month 8)$4,000
Retreat 4 (≈ Month 12)$4,000
Retreat 5 (≈ Month 16)$4,000
Total$40,000

Your two closing meetings after the final retreat are included at no additional cost.

Terms
The monthly plan is offered as a convenience; full tuition is committed upon enrollment. A payment method is kept on file for scheduled payments, and enrollment is confirmed with a signed agreement and initial payment.

How do I participate in REFORGED?

REFORGED is limited to eight men. Applications open November 1, 2026 for the January 2027 launch.
Become the man you’re capable of becoming.

18 months · Five retreats · Eight men · One brotherhood
From fragmentation to radical integrity. You GET TO rebuild something worth having.

Daring Ventures expert providing therapy and coaching support

About Dr. Jake Porter LPC, CSTAT-S, CCPS

Dr. Jake Porter is a relational psychotherapist, peak performance coach, and the founder of Daring Ventures, a counseling practice with a laser-like focus on clinical excellence with authentic care. After more than a decade in pastoral ministry, he now leads a rapidly growing clinic and an interdisciplinary team grounded in the belief that we are created for connection—and that in connection we reach our full potential.

Having been on the other side of the therapy office many times himself, Jake knows the relief and hope of finding a place safe to be known. His transdisciplinary model draws from performance psychology, developmental neuroscience, affect regulation, attachment theory, and spirituality to build men’s capacity for connection with themselves and others.

You can learn more about Dr. Porter here.