Most men's mental health work today has two settings — awareness campaigns and clinical care. Between them, a generation of men is missing. FORGE exists for that middle.
A premium-licensed Year 10-12 program built into the curriculum. SACE-aligned through EIF and AIF. Australian Curriculum V9.0 mapped. Delivered with facilitator training, full teacher resources, and assessment scaffolding.
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A registered Australian charity in formation. A 12-minute diagnostic. Ten structured programs. A community of men doing the work alongside other men doing the work. A podcast as the on-ramp.
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of Australian suicides are men.
leading cause of death for Australian men under 50.
the rate has barely moved despite awareness campaigns.
Twenty years of speeches, posters, podcasts. The men keep dying. Something else is needed.
The old stoic version — real men don't cry — has cost too much. The suicide statistics are partly its legacy.
The reactive version — masculinity as inherently suspect — has made men small, hesitant, and quietly ashamed of being male.
FORGE offers a third path. Not stoic suppression. Not apologetic minimisation. Forged. Strong AND vulnerable. Confident AND accountable. With voice. Without apology for being men. Without weaponising it either.
A three-year secondary school curriculum delivered to Years 10, 11, 12. SACE-aligned through EIF (Stage 1 compulsory) and AIF (Stage 2 compulsory from 2026). Australian Curriculum V9.0 mapped. Premium licensed.
Identity, emotional regulation, habits, relationships, physical foundations, mental health literacy, meaning — woven into 30-40 modules per year with facilitator training and assessment scaffolding.
For schoolsA registered Australian charity for adult men in the middle layer — aware they're struggling, not in clinical crisis, with no tools and no community of men doing the same work.
A 12-minute diagnostic. Ten structured 8-12 week programs. A community. A podcast — Forged — as the free on-ramp. ACNC registration in progress.
For menWellbeing Leader at Kidman Park Primary School. South Australian teacher. Property investor. Self-managed super fund trustee. Father. Partner. Marathon runner — running the Gold Coast Marathon this year to launch FORGE.
FORGE is built from the inside — by someone who has done the work it teaches, in his own life, across his own seasons. The work isn't theoretical.
Read the full storyWe don't fix men. We help them forge themselves back.
The FORGE Mantra