Upcoming Programs 
Weekends  
BreakThrough 
Weekend
Feb 20 - 22
Apr 24 - 26
Jun 5-7


Wisdom Years 
Weekend
Mar 6 - 8
May 1 - 3 


Shadow Weekend
Oct 2 - 4, 2015

Intro 

Introduction to Victories

(general info session)

2015 Dates TBA 

 
Workshops  
CEU Workshop 
Feb 2015  
(Date TBA) 

Events 
A Day of Victories:
Building Connections
2015 Date TBA


Open Circle

(every Monday - more info here)

 


Trainings

Wisdom Years Leadership Training

Jan 17, 2015


Facilitating Psychodrama

Jan 30 - 31, 2015

 

 

Facilitating Personal Growth Groups

Jan 31 - Feb 1, 2015 

 

Weekend Celebrations

BreakThrough

Dec 11 
News & Announcements
BreakThrough Weekend Celebration
Thursday  
Join us in celebrating the participants of the December BreakThrough Weekend with their family and friends. We congratulate the leadership team of Tom Ostler and Ron Rooth, as well as all their staff for a wonderful weekend.

BreakThrough Weekend Celebration

Thursday, December 11 2014, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Location: Evanston Ecology Center
2024 McCormick Blvd
Evanston, IL 60201

See more information on Celebrations here.
2014 Annual Appeal in Progress
A little help from everyone will make it the most successful appeal ever! 

Like most nonprofit organizations, Victories can meet only a portion of its expenses through earned revenues. To make up the difference and to continue providing weekend scholarships, we rely upon the generosity of our community. We hope you will consider making a tax-deductible donation to Victories today. Whether your contribution is $1-50/month or a larger gift, every donation helps Victories reach more men. You may read the 2014 Annual Appeal letter in our last enews here.

Please consider Victories for your end-of year giving through one of these options:   
  • One Time Gift
  • Monthly Automatic Contribution
  • Multi-Year Pledge
  • Sustaining Membership ($200/year)
  • Personal Growth Group Adopt-A-Scholarship
  • Participation in or Hosting of a Social Gathering 
Learn more about the ways you can support Victories here

For your convenience, a pledge card is available here. 
Register for a Training in January  
Three trainings are being held in January, and they provide an excellent opportunity to learn skills that you can bring back to your group. Register today to reserve your space on one or more of these trainings!

Facilitating Small Groups:
Wisdom Years Leadership Training 
Saturday, January 17 
8:30am - 4:30pm 
Little House of Glencoe, Glencoe, IL
 
More information here

Facilitating Psychodrama 
Friday, January 30 at 6pm - Saturday, January 31 at 3pm
This is an overnight training 
Techny Towers, Techny, IL 

More information here 
 
Facilitating Personal Growth Groups 
Saturday, January 31 at 6pm - Sunday, February 1 at 3pm 
This is an overnight training 
Techny Towers, Techny, IL 

More information here 

You can register online via the links above or by calling the Victories Office at 312.604.5013.  

CEUs are being offered for these trainings, and if you would like the credits, please let the Victories Office know when you register. 
Social Gatherings 
The Victories community is rich in talent, passions, and experiences, and there are never enough opportunities to share them with each other. We hope to change this with Victories Social Gatherings, which will foster meaningful experiences within the community while raising money for the organization. 

Attend a Gathering! 
Four Gatherings are currently available in early 2015 and make the perfect gift for yourself and/or your partner for this holiday season. Come out and meet new friends and celebrate Victories in the process.
  • Celebrate Storytelling Through Poetry: only 2 spaces available
  • Winter Warming Spa Evening: only 12 spaces available
  • Movie & Discussion, Four Friends: only 5 spaces available
  • Greek Village Fare': only 8 spaces available

See more information on these gatherings and the hosts here. Registration for each Social Gathering is $50 per person. You can find out how to register here or by calling the Victories Office at 312.604.5013.   


Host a Gathering!
Victories is looking for Alumni and their Significant Others and friends to host Social Gatherings and to share their talents, passions, and experiences with the community. These Social Gatherings will be hosted throughout 2015, so whenever you can host, we'd love to have you! Find out more here.
Recommended...

 

Embracing Self-Compassion: A Woman's Journey to Wholeness
A retreat in Nosara, Costa Rica from February 28-March 7, 2015. More information at thewomenscircle.com/retreat.htm

Renewal In The Wilderness. Renewal in the Wilderness offers spiritual retreats in nature mostly for adults. They take people from all faith traditions (or none) out of their normal environments for a week (or weekend) of wilderness living. For more information visit www.renewalinthewilderness.org

Woman Within Training Weekend. The next Midwest retreat is April 24-26, 2015 in Racine, WI. Learn more about the weekend here:     www.womanwithin.org/woman-within-training-weekend

Other resources for women's programs in metro Chicago:

      NOTE: Victories announces these program(s) as a service to our community. The presenters are known to us as professionals or volunteers with expertise in the subject matter of their workshops. However, their programs are neither sponsored by nor affiliated with Victories. 

 

If you would like your program or event listed in this section, please submit to 
tim.winkler@victoriesformen.org

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Victories transforms the lives of men through weekend and group programs which lead them to deeper self-awareness, greater self-confidence, and stronger relationships. Our weekends and group programs are designed by professionals, supervised by licensed practitioners, and based on widely accepted clinical principles.

  

BreakThrough Weekend 
The BreakThrough Weekend is a decisive and vital step towards removing the barriers that stand between the lives we lead and the lives we seek.

Wisdom Years Weekend 
The Wisdom Years Weekend helps men over the age of 50 begin to answer a challenging and profound question: How do I want to live the rest of my life?

Shadow Weekend: Discovery, Acceptance & Empowerment 
The Shadow Weekend helps men achieve greater wholeness, increased power, and improved relationships by guiding them to discover and own unacknowledged parts of themselves.

BreakThrough Weekend II: The Best Self                     |
The BreakThrough II weekend offers an advanced opportunity for BreakThrough alumni to continue their personal work, reconnect with their initial weekend, and discover and celebrate their best selves. 

Personal Growth Groups 
Victories Personal Growth Groups offer weekend participants a place to continue their growth with the support of their peers and the larger Victories community.
 

Victories Open Circle 

(www.meetup.com/victories)
This is a weekly, drop-in, support group. The purpose of this meeting is to provide a safe place for men to share, find support, and offer support to other men. 

 

A Day of Victories (Annual Event) 

For Mental Health Professionals 
Victories programs accelerate men's progress in therapy by helping them build an increased capacity to engage openly and effectively in the therapeutic process.


Our organization and its founders, Bob Mark and the late Buddy Portugal, have been honored by The American Family Therapy Academy with its Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy award. Bob and Buddy also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Family Institute at Northwestern University.

Victories of the Heart, NFP is an Illinois not-for-profit organization exempt from federal income tax under Sec. 501 of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations (but not weekend registrations) are deductible under IRS rules. Victories of the Heart, NFP does not offer professional services that require its regulation or registration by any state or professional licensing body.