Men’s Mental Fitness: Redefining Strength from the Inside Out
Friday, December 12, 2025, 1-2:30pm EST / 12-1:30pm CST / 11-12:30pm MST / 10-11:30am PST
1.5 CEs included for LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, and CMSW through Florida CEBrokers.
Cost: $39.00 Early-bird until 11/30, then $69.
This training explores the unique challenges men face in accessing mental health support—and the powerful role they can play in prevention and healing. Through engaging stories, practical tools, and emotionally grounded strategies, participants will learn how cultural norms, personal history, and relational dynamics shape men’s emotional wellness. The training offers a realistic and attainable model of emotional strength—one rooted in vulnerability, recovery, and consistent relational effort.
But it’s not just for men. It’s for anyone who identifies as a man, and for anyone who cares deeply about one—a partner, a friend, a son, a colleague. Whether you’re navigating your own journey or supporting someone else’s, this experience invites you to spot emotional weight, interrupt harmful cycles, and help build safer homes and communities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how cultural norms and emotional conditioning shape men’s mental health
- Recognize the diverse experiences and barriers men face in accessing emotional support
- Learn to identify common behavioral signals of emotional distress and respond with care
- Offer a practical model for building emotional strength through vulnerability, repair, and consistent relational effort.
Presenter:
B.J. Develle, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Trinity, FL with over 20 years of experience serving children and families throughout North and Central Florida. His work spans diverse settings—including Community Mental Health, Residential Treatment, Child Welfare, and School Social Work—supporting individuals with severe behavioral health challenges, chronic medical conditions, grief and loss, and post-adoption transitions. B.J. currently balances his time between school social work, professional training, and his private psychotherapy practice, which specializes primarily in men’s issues and couples counseling.