Who runs the Kaizen Men's Weekend
Most event sites answer this question with a wall of headshots and credentials. This one does not, and the reason is the client's own: the men who run this weekend say plainly that their resumes are not what is important. So here is the truthful version of who is in the room holding it, and how to talk to a real person before you decide.
The staff of the Kaizen Men's Weekend are volunteers
Nobody on staff is paid for the weekend.
They are men who did this work themselves, some of them years ago, and came back to hold it for somebody else. They take the Friday off, they cook and clean and carry chairs, they stay up later than the participants do, and on Sunday they go home to their own jobs and families.
Asked about their qualifications, the men who run the weekend answer this way: their resumes are not what is important. What is important is what the man walking in already carries. The staff's job is to hold the room steady enough that he can get to it.
That is a real answer, not a dodge, and it is worth understanding why. In peer men's work the person holding space is not an expert delivering a method to a client. He is a man who has been in the same chair, which is a different kind of authority and in this setting a more useful one.
What that means practically, and what it does not
It means the room is held by people who have been on the other side of it.
It also means this: the staff are not clinicians and the Kaizen Men's Weekend is not treatment. No one there is qualified to manage a mental health crisis, and nobody pretends otherwise. If you are in one right now, this weekend is not the right first step. That is not us turning you away, it is us being straight with you about what three days in a hall can and cannot do.
Kaizen Community, the nonprofit behind the weekend
The weekend is run by Kaizen Community, a nonprofit limited liability company doing business as Kaizen Dojo.
That is worth saying out loud, because the honest question underneath "who runs this" is usually "who profits from this." The answer is a nonprofit staffed by volunteers, charging $497 for three days including nine meals. You can reach the organization directly at kaizendojocommunity@gmail.com.
Janjua, and the man who answers the phone
The number on this site is Janjua's, at 770-851-7368, and a man answers it.
Call it. That is genuinely the fastest way to get a feel for whether this weekend is for you, and it is the reason the number is on every page rather than buried in a contact form. Ask him the question you are embarrassed to ask. He has heard it.
Samir Janjua found men's work through Kaizen Dojo and the Men's Weekend himself, and now facilitates men's circles around Los Angeles. He has spoken publicly about what the work has meant to him in an interview with ShoutOut LA.