FORMATION FOR MEN · BUILT FOR GROUPS
Bring Hero Journey to your church, men’s ministry, leadership team, or group. Choose a defined formation journey your men can undertake over time, or invite Ian to shape a live experience for your gathering.
FIND THE RIGHT PATH →TWO WAYS TO WORK WITH HERO JOURNEY
If you choose a program, decide whether your team or Ian will guide it.
THE PHILOSOPHY BENEATH THE WORK
The hero’s journey is not a foreign myth Christians have borrowed and baptized. It is part of our Christian inheritance because it names the pattern revealed in Jesus Christ. In him we see the true journey: the Son descends in love, gives himself in sacrifice, passes through death, rises into new creation, and returns bearing life for the world. Christ is not one example of the pattern. He is its source, center, and fulfillment.
The great myths and legends endure because they echo this reality, however faintly: life is found through self-giving love; the old must die for the new to be born; what is received in transformation must be carried home as blessing. By grace, Christians are not merely spectators of Christ’s journey. We are joined to him. He calls us beyond familiar ground, leads us through surrender, conforms us to his risen life, and sends us into the world to love God and neighbor and participate in his work of making all things new.
Hero Journey receives the hero’s journey as a Christian pattern of formation and rests on four convictions about entering the pattern of Christ with the whole of our lives.
God is telling a story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, and every man’s life unfolds within it. Our desires, wounds, relationships, responsibilities, and circumstances all belong to this larger drama. A man begins to live differently when he recognizes his life as a calling and accepts the part that has been entrusted to him.
Every meaningful change asks a man to leave familiar ground. He must enter uncertainty, face what he has avoided, and surrender ways of living that can no longer carry him forward. The hero’s journey gives this process a shape: departure, initiation, and return. Each man crosses the threshold himself, accompanied by brothers and guides who help him remain faithful to the road.
God calls the whole person. Intellect, body, desire, imagination, relationships, work, authority, and spiritual life all belong to the work of formation. Hero Journey brings theology, psychology, philosophy, story, and embodied practice together so that growth can reach the foundations of a man’s life and take visible form in the way he lives.
God draws a man deeper into the romance of his own life because the man himself matters to God. His healing, freedom, joy, desire, and capacity to love matter. But the life he receives is never his alone. As he becomes more fully alive in Christ, that life overflows as presence, courage, creativity, protection, service, and blessing. His renewal and his participation in God’s renewal of the world become one movement of grace.
DEFINED JOURNEYS UNDERTAKEN OVER TIME
Choose the journey that fits the work your men are ready to undertake. Each program has a defined focus, duration, and path.
90 DAYS · STORY, IDENTITY, CALLING, AND QUEST
For men who want to understand the story shaping their lives, recover a sense of calling, and move into the future with greater clarity and intention.
30 DAYS · INHERITANCE, FREEDOM, AND LEGACY
For men ready to examine what they have inherited, take responsibility for what they will carry forward, and become a redemptive presence within their families.
60 DAYS · LEADERSHIP, DOMINION, AND MATURE RESPONSIBILITY
For men who want to inhabit their God-given authority with greater courage, humility, discipline, and care.
12 MONTHS · THE COMPLETE PATH
For groups ready to undertake the full rite of passage through spiritual, personal, relational, and leadership formation.
WITHIN EVERY GROUP PROGRAM
Every group program can be led within your own community or guided directly by Ian.
Your leaders guide the program using the complete teaching, Field Guides, discussion plans, and leader resources.
Ian guides the group through the program, facilitates the central conversations, and works alongside your leaders throughout the journey.
For a single gathering, leadership event, or retreat, Ian can shape a live experience around the people you are serving and the work already before them.
FIND THE RIGHT PATH
We’ll talk about your men, your goals, your calendar, and the leadership capacity you already have. Then we’ll choose the right program, the right level of support, and the right path forward.
START A CONVERSATION →WHAT THE WORK DEEPENS
A more integrated conviction, joining faith with work, family, leadership, and responsibility.
A deeper capacity to carry authority with courage, humility, clarity, and care.
Greater relational presence with the people already entrusted to them.
A richer moral imagination for recognizing what love and faithfulness require in complex moments.
Brotherhood with the depth to hold truth, remember commitments, and sustain a shared calling.
A durable framework for meeting change, suffering, opportunity, and vocation as part of one coherent story.
ABOUT IAN PRATT
I’ve drunk blood and milk on the floor of a dirt hut in Africa and consulted for global hospitality brands from an overwater bungalow in the Maldives. I’ve been chased by elephants along the Nile and by sex traffickers in Phnom Penh. I’ve washed the feet of witch doctors in Uganda and coached CEOs in corporate America. I’ve traveled through war zones, eaten with refugees, built businesses, led community organizations, and spent twenty years leading men’s ministries and retreats.
It has been a strange and wonderful life.
Along the way, I’ve seen extraordinary courage in the face of evil, sacrificial love swallow up darkness, and God renew entire communities through ordinary men and women. I believe formation opens into mission: God forms us so that we can join him in setting the world right-side up again. My mission is to awaken and equip brothers and sisters for that calling.
These days, most of my adventures happen closer to home. My wife and I live near Nashville, where we are raising three brave young boys and a baby girl. We share life with young families who want to raise bold and audacious followers of Christ. We dream of revival beginning around dinner tables, during bedtime prayers, on family adventures, and through the ordinary work of loving one another well.
Hero Journey grew from this calling.
After all the miles and unlikely places, the heart of my work is simple: I love people. I love helping them find their way back to a deep and abiding love for God, for their people, and for the story God is inviting them to tell with their lives.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Group programs range from 30 days to twelve months. Live experiences can take the form of a keynote, workshop, leadership intensive, or multi-day retreat. We’ll help you choose the right path for your group.
Hero Journey can work for an existing small group, a leadership team, a church-wide initiative, or a large event. The right format depends more on your goal than your headcount.
No specialized background is required. We provide a clear path, discussion guides, participant materials, and leader resources so capable leaders in your organization can guide the experience.
Yes. Hero Journey can serve as a focused entry point, a seasonal initiative, or a deeper formation track within the ministry you already lead.
No. While many Hero Journey experiences have been designed with men’s formation in mind, the core framework applies equally to women. It can be a strong fit for women’s groups and for mixed-gender leadership teams that want to integrate faith, character, relationships, work, and responsibility.
No. Hero Journey is rooted in Christian discipleship and also serves businesses, leadership teams, schools, nonprofits, retreats, and other communities.
Yes. We can emphasize integrated leadership, responsibility, character, brotherhood, and the connection between a man’s inner life and the way he leads.
Yes. Keynotes, workshops, retreats, and group launches can be shaped around your setting, audience, timeline, and desired outcomes.
THE VISION BEHIND HERO JOURNEY
Every human soul longs for a life that matters.
We want more than success; we want a life of meaning. A life deeply rooted in reality, animated by purpose, and connected to some good that transcends our struggles and griefs.
The Eternal Romance explores the great Christian story—not as a collection of ideas to believe, but as the true adventure into which every human life has been invited. It is a story available to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, unfolding in every ordinary moment.
This is the vision that underlies everything we do at Hero Journey.
If you long for a faith that can make the ordinary feel enchanted, the difficult feel meaningful, and your life feel like an adventure worth living, this book is for you. If you want your days to be filled with both romance and adventure—not as fleeting emotions, but as a way of seeing the world—this book is an invitation to come home.
COMING FEBRUARY 2027
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JOIN THE WAITLIST →LET’S BUILD SOMETHING MEANINGFUL
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