MEMOIRS BY HIM
MEN IN MOTION
Stories, reflection and community by Memoirs By Him.
Men in Motion is the community and initiative growing around Memoirs By Him. It brings men together through reflection, honest conversation and shared experience, creating space to slow down, think clearly and talk about the things that often go unsaid.
The journal is one place that work can begin. Men in Motion is what happens when it moves beyond the page.
THE INITIATIVE
Putting journals into the hands of men who need them
Each month, Memoirs By Him gifts a limited number of journals to men who feel they could benefit from one.
You can nominate yourself or nominate someone you care about.
There is no requirement to have the hardest story or the perfect reason. The initiative exists simply to remove one barrier and give someone a place to stop, reflect and begin.
Selected applicants receive a journal at no cost and are invited to stay connected with us as they use it. Some also choose to sit down with us and share part of their experience.
Apply / Nominate
20
Journals gifted through the initiative
Every number represents a person who put their hand up,
or was nominated by someone who cares about them.
The number will keep moving. So will the stories behind it.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Why they put their hand up
There is no single reason someone applies for the initiative. These are some of the words people have shared with us.
Reflect
Slow down long enough to hear what is actually going on.
Share
Find language for the things that are difficult to hold entirely in your own head.
Connect
Realise that your experiences are often less isolated than they feel.
Move
Take what you have learned about yourself and do something with it.
THE COMMUNITY
This was always meant to exist beyond the page
Memoirs By Him started with a journal, but the goal was never to create another product that sits on a shelf.
The conversations around it became just as important.
People began sharing what they were writing about. Friends compared answers.
Men who had never met found themselves talking openly about relationships, purpose, habits, family, work and the direction of their lives.
Men in Motion is the space growing around those conversations. A community for men who want to reflect more honestly, connect with other people and keep moving forward.
MEN IN MOTION IN REAL LIFE
Conversation changes when people are in the room together
Conversation
Reflection
Connection
WHERE IT STARTED
The first gathering
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NUMBER
Real people. Real conversations.
Men in Motion is not just about giving someone a journal and sending them on their way.
We want to hear what happens next.
Some participants choose to sit down with us and talk about where they are in life, what brought them to the initiative, what they have been reflecting on and what they are beginning to understand differently.
These are not polished success stories. They are honest conversations with people who are still figuring things out.
PARTICIPANT
Ron
On putting his hand up, the discomfort of asking for something for himself, and finding a way to make reflection part of his life.
MEN IN MOTION ONLINE
A private space to keep the conversation going
Men in Motion includes a private digital community for Memoirs By Him journal owners.
It is a place to continue reflecting, connect with other men and build more consistency around the things you want to change in your life.
Rather than another endless social feed, the platform is designed around reflection, conversation and accountability.
Reflection
Prompts designed to make you stop and think.
Community
A place to share ideas, questions and experiences with other men.
Accountability
Tools for keeping track of the habits and intentions that matter to you.
Continuity
A space to keep the work moving between the journal, conversations and everyday life.
Access to the Men in Motion community is currently available exclusively to Memoirs By Him journal owners.
THE JOURNAL
One place to start
The Memoirs By Him journal contains more than 200 guided prompts exploring different areas of life.
It is designed to help you slow down, ask yourself better questions and put things into words that might otherwise stay in your head.
For some people, the journal stays completely private.
For others, it becomes the start of a bigger conversation.
Explore the journal