A registered Australian charity in formation. Built for the layer of men that existing mental health infrastructure has missed — aware they're struggling, not in clinical crisis, with no tools and no community of other men doing the same work.
Forge Foundation exists because Australian men's mental health infrastructure has a missing layer. Awareness campaigns reach the surface. Clinical care meets crisis. Between them, a generation of men — aware their lives aren't quite right, not in acute breakdown — has been left without structured tools or peer community.
The Foundation is built for that layer. The diagnostic surfaces what's actually going on. Ten structured programs address what's underneath. A community provides the witness adult men need from other adult men. A podcast does the cultural work of changing how Australian men engage with their own lives.
Forge Foundation is in the process of registering with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) as a Public Benevolent Institution.
Anticipated registration: late 2026. Founding governance documents complete. Trustee and Board appointments in progress.
A 12-minute self-assessment across 9 domains of adult male life. Surfaces what's actually going on. Generates a personalised entry point into the program catalogue.
Ten structured 8-12 week programs addressing specific domains — identity, body, inner game, relationships, work, money, routines, grief, fatherhood, meaning.
The peer witnessing layer. Small-group weekly calls of 6-10 men doing the same work. Reduces drop-out. Builds the male friendship most adult men are missing.
Forged — the free on-ramp. Long-form conversations doing the cultural work that turns the diagnostic-curious into program participants.
The Forge Foundation Diagnostic surfaces where adult male life is actually working and where it isn't — across the nine domains research and clinical experience consistently identify as the substrate of male wellbeing.
You receive a personalised report. Domain-by-domain scores. A recommended starting program. No login required to take it. No payment required to receive results.
Take the diagnostic (coming soon)Diagnostic launches alongside the program catalogue. Subscribe for launch notification via the contact page.
Each program runs 8-12 weeks. Each combines reading, video, structured workbook, daily practice, and (where requested) weekly small-group calls. Each is offered on a contribution basis — no man is excluded for financial reasons.
For men whose identity has been built from outside in. The audit, the inheritance, the values, the forged self.
Sleep, movement, food, alcohol, recovery. The physical foundations that hold all mental health work.
Emotional regulation, the inner critic, cognitive defusion, the foundational mental health literacy adult men need.
Relationships. Partner. Family. Friends. The repair work most adult men have been postponing for years.
Work, contribution, capability. For men whose work has stopped working — or never started.
Financial stability. Debt. Income. Long horizon. The money work most adult men have never sat down with.
Habits and the daily architecture. The structure that holds when motivation isn't there.
For men carrying losses they have never properly mourned. The longest and deepest of the programs.
For men who are fathers. The only program designed to run alongside another rather than instead of it.
The spiritual pillar. Non-sectarian. What is your life actually for?
~5,150 paragraphs of structured program content. 100 weeks of work across the catalogue.
Take the diagnostic to find your starting programAdult Australian men have fewer close friendships now than at any point in their lives. Many report no men they can speak to honestly about anything that matters. The isolation is not a peripheral issue — it is one of the central reasons the program work without community doesn't hold.
Every Forge Foundation program offers optional weekly small-group calls. Same group across the program. 6-10 men. Facilitated. Doing the same work alongside other men doing the same work. The witnessing is what carries men through the hardest weeks — and what builds the male friendship that holds beyond the program.
The free on-ramp. Long-form conversations with men doing the work — recovery, fatherhood, grief, identity, meaning. Hosted by Keith Kovacs. Built to shift how Australian men engage with their own lives.
Forged is the cultural work that pre-loads the diagnostic and the programs. The conversations are honest, adult, and unafraid of the topics most podcasts tiptoe around.
Launching alongside Forge Foundation
The conversations Australian men need to be having, that most podcasts won't have.
Forged podcast · In production