MAN MAKER EXPERIENCES
SMALL BATCH, TRAJECTORY CHANGING ADVENTURES FOR DADS & SONS
boys are born.
men are made.
A boy cannot become a man on his own. He needs guides—fathers, mentors, men who will call him forward. As Chris Bruno writes in Man Maker Project, every man is formed in the crucible of story and shaped through initiation. A son stepping toward manhood longs for the strength, wisdom, and presence of his father to show him the way. It is not enough to simply hope he figures it out; he must be invited, challenged, and blessed into his identity as a man.
Man Maker Experiences are designed for exactly this journey. They’re born out of Chris Bruno’s vision of a father’s intentional engagement of his son, laid out in his book The Man Maker Project: A Father’s Guide to Initiating His Son Into Manhood.
These intentional spaces allow you to step in as guide, to call out courage, to name identity, and to offer your blessing to your son. Through adventure, shared struggle, and meaningful conversations, your son experiences what only his father can give: the assurance that he belongs, that he has what it takes, and that he is not alone.
Each of these experiences is an opportunity to walk with your son on the path of becoming, where your strength and your presence help shape him into the man he was made to be.
FOR DADS AND 8-11 YEAR OLD SONS
MAN MAKER BASE CAMP
July 17-19, 2026
Take your son on an adventure you’ll never forget. Make memories. Deepen your relationship. Lay the foundation for his passage to manhood
For Dads with 12-15 Year old Sons
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Man Maker Backpacking
July 20-24, 2026
Bucket-list backpacking adventure in the Coloado Back Country
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Man Maker Canoe Canada
June 2-6, 2026
Epic float plane and canoe trip in the Canadian Northwoods Wilderness
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Man Maker Rafting
July 6-10, 2026
Whitewater rafting down the world famous Arkansas River in Colorado
FOR DADS AND 17-20 YEAR OLD SONS
TREK: AMAZON + ANDES
Trek is a powerful, bucket-list experience for fathers and their sons and daughters who are emerging into adulthood. Trek is carefully designed to provide an opportunity to serve together, play together, and build a powerful and lasting bond as father and adult-child.
This book is a guide for fathers to intentionally usher their sons into godly manhood. Now more than ever, the reality of unfinished men confronts us at every turn. Without intentional fathering, a boy's core question--Am I a man?--forever echoes in his soul. Every boy needs to hear his father's clear "yes" in response. While many fathers know they should do something for their maturing sons, they have little idea how to create such an initiatory process.
Man Maker Project offers a practical roadmap that equips fathers to create a unique, modern-day masculine initiation experience for their sons. Rather than a single event or ceremony, fathers can guide their boys through a yearlong process, with the support of a cadre of hand-selected men. This book also challenges fathers to investigate their own stories, as God's mutually redemptive design is for us to be fathered ourselves as we father our sons.
Through this modern-day rites of passage process, fathers fulfill their calling, sons find their footing, and society receives solid men ready to strongly and kindly restore the world.
