What happened
A busload of Sydney men headed down to Croajingalong National Park in East Gippsland for three days of hiking along the coast and camping off-grid.
Between the walking there were workshops: deep listening, rock running, ecstatic dance, yoga, and one afternoon where everyone painted the man they want to be. Grown men, paintbrushes, a lot of laughing, then some very honest pictures.
At night it was the fire, and the conversations that only happen when everyone's tired, a long way from home and has nowhere else to be.
"I knew I was in a slump, a proper downturn mentally before this trip. It wasn't till I was on the drive home that it truly hit me how important this trip was to the trajectory of my year."Croajingalong participant
