A half day capacity workshop for men
Capacity.
Expand Your Range. Build Your Staying Power.
Austin, Texas.
Saturday, December 12, 2026. 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Twelve men. $500 for the first room.
What this is
Capacity is a man’s ability to hold the range of intensity, emotion, conflict, calmness, and intimacy in his body and nervous system, without numbing out, blowing up, or leaving. It’s the difference between being in the room and being present in the room.
As men, we are builders.
We build companies.
We build teams.
We build families.
We build our reputations, our body, our bank account, and our identity.
With all that building, it can feel like there is a lot coming at you, and it can get overwhelming.
Feeling the weight of it, or a little unsure about it, is not a character flaw, and you’re not failing.
It’s a capacity issue. The life you built has outgrown your capacity to hold it.
The answer is not to start dropping things or cutting things out. Everything is amazing and you get to have it all. The answer is to build your capacity to hold it all without fear of it collapsing around you.
You built a version of yourself that created everything you have now. And there is another, bigger version that is required to hold the life that’s now in front of you.
Capacity building begins when you stop looking away.
Most men were trained to be resilient. Take the hit, get back up, keep going.
Resilience is how fast you bounce back after it lands.
They were never trained on how to hold themselves in a moment of intensity.
Capacity is how much room you have to stay centered when a hit lands.
The men who lead well in the dark aren’t the ones who recover fastest. They’re the ones with staying power.
You don’t get it from a book.
You don’t get it from a podcast.
You get it by practice, doing the reps, staying in something instead of running from it.
Who this workshop is for
The man that everyone leans on and no one checks on.
The man that can hold the boardroom and loses his center in his own kitchen.
The man that’s been told he’s resilient so many times he’s started to dislike the word.
The man that knows the people that love him are getting what’s left of him, not his full presence, and is done pretending otherwise.
The man that is willing to be seen by other men, out loud, with no story to hide behind.
This is not for the man who wants a seminar. There are no slides. There’s nothing to write down except the truth.
You will be in your body for most of the morning.
What it looks like
7:00 sharp start time.
No welcome talk.
You walk in, you sit down, and we begin building your capacity.
The first hour is capacity practice: breathwork, qi gong, stillness.
You’ll get the practices by email the week before, so nothing needs explaining in the room.
Then we dive into what capacity is, and why it’s so important.
Then we start looking, leaving no stone unturned.
We begin with four questions about where your capacity is right now, where it’s going, and what you’ve been looking away from.
You read your answers out loud to two other men.
Then you sit with the one thing you most want to avoid, in your body, while those two men hold you in it.
A second capacity practice takes you deeper.
This workshop is designed to seek out your edges, and push them outward.
Then we do shadow work. You meet the part of yourself you fight, and the part you hide. In front of men who won’t look away, reminding you that you’re not alone.
The morning closes with sharing, Q&A, and integration. What you found. What you’re taking home. Ask Sam any questions that have come up during the day.
You leave with practices, strategies, and clear next steps to keep building your capacity and your staying power.
What you leave with
- A clear read on where your capacity is being spent, drained, and built.
- The thing you’ve been looking away from, named out loud, and the lived experience of staying with it instead of leaving.
- Two capacity practices you already know, because you did them in real time.
- One commitment for the next thirty days, written and witnessed.
- A bigger capacity. Each time you stay, your edge is further out than it was.
The rules of the room
- Doors close at 7:00. No late entry.
- Phones off, not on silent, the whole morning.
- Everyone sits upright. No lying down at any point. Lying back is looking away, and that’s the opposite of what we’re here to do.
- Nothing is private inside the room. Hiding is looking away.
- No advice, no fixing, no soothing another man through his moment.
- Everything is optional. You can stop, slow down, or sit out any part of it, and no one will ask why.
- What’s said in the room stays in the room.
Before you come
- Light breakfast only. Water will be provided (bring a water bottle to refill).
- Wear clothes you can breathe and move in.
- Read the practices in the email the week before and try them once.
- If you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, epilepsy or a seizure history, are recovering from abdominal surgery, or are under a doctor’s care for anything affected by breathing, tell Sam before the day. You can still come. Some of the breathing gets done slowly instead.
- If you have a real injury or pain, say so before the day starts. Staying with discomfort is the work. Staying with an injury is not.
Details
- Saturday, December 12, 2026
- 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Austin, Texas. Venue sent to confirmed men.
- Twelve men.
- $500. This is the first room, and the price reflects it.
- Facilitated by Sam Morris.
How to apply
A few lines on why this morning and why now. Sam will reply with a time to talk.
This room is meticulously curated, and the conversation is part of how he decides who’s in it.
Twelve seats available.
If you’d rather write directly: sam@samgmorris.com.
About Sam
Sam Morris is a private capacity advisor to high achieving men when the life they have built begins to outgrow their capacity to hold it.
He played tennis through college and believed it would be his life. When it ended, so did the only identity he had. He spent the next fifteen years climbing in banking and commercial real estate while drinking more and more to fill the space tennis left. That led him to rehab six times, oral cancer twice, a suicide attempt, and several arrests from ages 33 to 38. On November 21, 2012, at four in the morning, at his own kitchen table, he stopped. He hasn’t had a drink since.
The fourteen years since have been centered on reconstruction. First his own, through somatic and nervous system work, breathwork, psychedelic medicine work, and men’s work. Then helping other men reconstruct their nucleus. He has walked through the loss of his father, the loss of his sister, and a third cancer diagnosis, and built three businesses, without collapsing under the weight of it all or going back to the drinking.
His work has taken him inside Google, LinkedIn, Uber, JPMorgan Chase, the NFL, and Amazon. He gave a TEDx talk in 2021 on the part of his story he’d spent fifteen years hiding, titled “Why You Should Stop Settling for Hope.”
Find out more at samgmorris.com.