Council of Kings
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Living Brotherhood For Men On The Path Of Truth
BEGIN YOUR JOURNEYWe are now welcoming new brothers to apply to join our ongoing weekly men's circles.
The Call
Are you inspired to grow and come alive alongside men you respect?
Dear Brother,
Are you longing to grow alongside a true council of good men?
Ready to commit to the slow, honest work of becoming who you truly are?
This is Council of Kings.
An ongoing brotherhood for men devoted to mature integrity, honest leadership, and a life rooted in love.
Here you'll find both a warm hearth and a steady practice, where men grow into honest leaders in their families, their work, and their world.
To walk alongside committed men, week after week, brings something quietly stabilizing and life-giving.
Some of the most wholehearted men we know are part of this brotherhood. Deep friendships have grown here, bearing good fruit, and it still feels like early days.
There is a place for you around this fire. If your heart tells you it's time to root into a long-term brotherhood, you're welcome here.
“The glory of God is a living man.”
ST. IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Fruits of the Brotherhood
What Has Grown From This Work
Some of what men have stepped into and discovered through this brotherhood.
Met beloveds and entered marriage
Grew into more present fathers and husbands
Found deep friendship and true belonging
Left misaligned jobs with courage
Built new businesses that provide their full livelihood
Launched new projects and organizations
Sharpened as leaders and communicators
Published their first books
Released their first music albums
Stepped onto the stage for first live performances
Drew in aligned clients and meaningful work
Returned to strength and physical vitality
Created lives with greater peace, freedom, and joy
Uncovered deeper purpose, meaning, and spiritual connection
Rediscovered innate wholeness, aliveness, and enthusiasm for life
Every man's path is his own. We tend the fire and hold the circle. What grows is yours.
Shared Legacies
Beyond each man's path, brothers in this council have joined hands to co-create retreats, albums, songs, books, and writings together. Shared legacies still being built, fire passed from hand to hand.
Why We Gather
Brothers Walking Each Other Home
Men come alive when they experience unconditional love — when they are witnessed in truth by brothers, in a space of real presence.
What men long for in their hearts is to come home.
Home to themselves.
Home to truth, joy, and freedom.
Men long to know they are innately whole.
And to let this wholeness move through them, for the good of all.
They long to give their lives to a love beyond understanding.
This is the heart of our practice within Council of Kings.
We are brothers walking each other home, remembering how to be free, love well, and live truth.
If your heart says yes, this space was made for you. Come sit by the fire with us, and let yourself belong here.
There's no feeling like that of rising alongside your brothers, with a shared sense of mission and purpose on Earth. When you experience this ancient primal force, something in your blood and bones awakens.
You know: This is what manhood was meant to be. None of us can do it alone. We need the support of loving brothers who have our back, believe in us, and inspire us to live the fullness of truth. Isolated we fall. Together we rise.
Week after week, building, training, and walking the path alongside men you respect
Jordan's men's work has been an indispensable resource in supporting my initiatory process in over 3 years of weekly circles. His work has helped to bring out my masculine fire, my fiscal and creative vision, my connection to sacred ground, my inner child's play, my lover and my king.
Jacob Kishere
Co-Founder of The Resonant Man
I give so much credit to our magnificent Council of Kings as a core part of my growth over the last 2 years. Pushing me, encouraging growth, welcoming discomfort. It's an absolute honor.
Alex Vidal
Health Coach & Plant-Based Chef
Council of Kings has been and continues to be a cornerstone for my personal growth as a man and human being. It has helped to accelerate my personal, professional, vocational, and spiritual progress in ways that I could not have imagined.
Trevor West
Founder of Radiant Breathwork
Being a part of this Brotherhood has transformed who I am as a person. I feel so much stronger, confident, openhearted and most importantly more truly myself. The Brotherhood embodies an unconditional love that fully accepts you where you are and as you are, but also sees your potential, holds you accountable and pushes you to be the best you can be.
Jacob Sivyer
Harvard Divinity Student
The Map Ahead
What We'll Be Exploring in the Coming Months
Here is a sense of what we'll be exploring together as we move through the rest of 2026.
Please consider this a living map rather than a fixed plan. This is our most likely trajectory, yet we'll keep things open as well, to allow for discovery and emergence.
August
Month of Aliveness, Vitality, & Strength
A perfect month to move, lift, get cut, re-vitalize, sauna, and cold plunge. It's time to form joyful long-term habits around the life-cornerstones of health, exercise, diet, and sleep.
September
Month of Wealth, Career, & Legacy
An optimal time to order your financial house, forge a long-term wealth-building plan, envision your next career moves, and discover new holistic ways of approaching work, vocation, leadership, creativity, impact, money, and wealth in our age of great change and transition.
October
Month of Relationship, Communication, & Spaceholding
Learn the foundations of great communication, relating, and spaceholding as a way of healing and improving all of your relationships. Deepen your capacity to relate authentically and soul-nourishingly with your kids, wife, parents, family, and friends.
November
Month of Grounded Pragmatism
An ideal time to handle all the practical life-stuff you've been putting off: admin, logistics, clutter, inboxes, taxes, organization, basic skill-building, and life maintenance. Not glamorous, simply essential. When you clear your space, you make room for the new.
December
Relax Like a King
As we move into winter, let yourself slow down and rest. Give yourself the gift of stillness — the kind of quiet where the deeper shifts in a man's life tend to happen on their own.
Through all these months, find real belonging and connection within a brotherhood of honest friendship, creativity, and good heart.
Enjoy the slow work of building, training, and growing alongside good men, while learning to live from a place of wholeness, freedom, and grace.
A Word From Our Founder
A Message For Men
A short transmission on the heart of our brotherhood and the call we are answering together.
Press play. Sit with it for a few minutes.
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”
The Men We Serve
This Is For Men Who Are Ignited To...
Create impactful careers.
Be outstanding fathers and husbands.
Accelerate your growth in all areas.
Build high-integrity businesses.
Take big action and step into leadership roles.
Live your mission alongside brothers who inspire you.
Get physically strong, cut, and vital.
Find purpose, peace, and fulfillment.
Serve Earth, women, and children.
Order your life and finances.
Align your life with Truth and Love.
Gather your courage and make this the year everything changed.
If even three of these hit home, you're ready.
The Brotherhood
Brothers Gathered at the Fire
From around the world we gather — week after week around the digital fire, and season after season in the flesh.
Take Your Seat at the Fire
The Foundation: What You Receive
Six steady supports, woven into the rhythm of your week.
From this hearth, retreats, albums, books, businesses, and renewed relationships have grown — built together among brothers walking the same path.
Weekly Two-Hour Council
Sunday or Tuesday
Choose your weekly council time. Each gathering is a space of presence, honest sharing, embodiment, gentle challenge, and brotherhood — the steady rhythm that quietly reshapes a man's life.
Long-Term Brotherhood
24/7 Council Space
Step into a private community of brothers who have been doing the work together for years. Receive counsel, share wins, ask questions, and build the kind of camaraderie that changes a man's future.
Core Masculine Practices
A Steady Practice
A caring, time-tested set of practices — embodiment, shadow work, meditation, prayer, and loving accountability — designed to gently soften what is false and reveal the steady man beneath.
Ongoing Accountability
Mission & Action
Together we set clear annual goals, then revisit and refine them throughout the year. Your brothers will lovingly hold you to what matters — offering steady accountability month after month, calling you back to what matters most.
Kingly Business Incubator
Included
A space for brothers building purpose-driven businesses, with resources and always open for you to bring questions, challenges, and decisions — and receive honest feedback from men walking the same path. Included for at least your first two months.
The King's Blueprint
Plan Your Legacy
A guide and workbook to plan your future, deepen clarity, and grow in life, leadership, marriage, fatherhood, career, spirituality, wealth, and well-being. A practical roadmap for building a life of purpose.
Ongoing Membership • Application Required
Bonus Included
Kingly Business Incubator
A crucible for men who are building conscious businesses. Where kings sharpen kings, with real accountability and shared mission.
Brotherhood-Wide Mastermind
A dedicated 24/7 mastermind space where business leaders from across all councils gather to connect, sharpen, and forge one another forward. Iron sharpens iron—and kings rise together.
A Living Forge for Conscious Business
For brothers building purpose-driven businesses rooted in integrity, service, and kingdom wealth. This is your council of founders—where vision meets execution and no man builds alone.
Resources & Real-Time Feedback
A dedicated space with curated resources on conscious business — and an always-open channel to bring your questions and decisions to brothers walking the same path.
Included For At Least Your First Two Months
Permission to Rise Into Your Power
Your Investment
Choose Your Path
One brotherhood. One rhythm. Rising together.
Council of Kings
Ongoing Monthly Membership
2-month minimum commitment
2-month initial commitment, then month-to-month.
- Weekly two-hour council (Sunday or Tuesday)
- Deep men's work & leadership practices
- The King's Blueprint clarity workbook
- Ongoing accountability & training
- Long-term brotherhood you grow with
- Kingly Business Incubator (2+ months)
- 24/7 Brotherhood rising together
Applications reviewed personally.
A Word From Us
Come as you are. Stay as long as it serves your soul. Many men begin here and find a home for years.
Council of Kings
Annual Membership
For the man drawn to the long path.
Save $500 vs. monthly
- Everything in Monthly
- A full year of weekly councils
- A 90-minute private coaching session with Jordan Bates
- Deeper roots in long-term brotherhood
- Priority for retreats & in-person gatherings
- Two months free vs. paying monthly
- A steady, year-long practice
- A home for the long, honest work
For the brother ready to settle in for the year.
A Personal Gift
Includes a 90-minute private coaching session with Jordan Bates.
When a man invests, he commits. He shows up fully and creates real change in his life, his family, and his world.
If finances are a genuine barrier and your heart is called, request a partial scholarship in your application.
The depth of giving that Jordan possesses is unlike most. I feel grounded deeply in my Power, I have gained great clarity on my Medicine. Through working with him I signed on my first long-term $5k client.
Brady Heath
Founder of Boundless Well-Being
These men and this space have been foundational to my growth over the last 10 months. Challenging me, encouraging expansion, welcoming discomfort, and lovingly witnessing it all. Every man should have the opportunity to regularly be with other men in sacred space!
Alex Parker-Owen
Founder of APO Coaching
Working with Jordan has gone way beyond what I expected. It's catalyzed many big shifts in my own journey of remembering who I truly am and what I came here to do.
Jonathan MacCaul
Founder of Spiritus
Founder & Lead Facilitator
Jordan Bates
Jordan Bates is the Founder of Council of Kings. He's a father, husband, co-founder of Apotheosis, men's leadership coach, and the author of six books. Jordan has been immersed in Transformational Work for fifteen years and in Men's Work for the past six years, training with respected leaders and organizations in the space. He is repeatedly humbled and honored to witness the depth, beauty, and power of this work—and to contribute to the formation of the heart-led masculine leaders our world truly needs.
More about Jordan BatesThe Medicine
The Container Holds Everything
What's missing from modern masculinity that our brotherhood restores.
Accountability
A place that holds you accountable to your mission and what you say you'll do. A mirror that shows you when you've stepped off track and helps you course-correct. Systems for setting and achieving goals.
Mission & Action
A place where you rise together with your brothers. A shared mission of building together, striving together, serving together, and creating the lives we're meant to live. Let's build the kingdom.
Being Called Up
Brothers who lovingly challenge you to rise. Leaders who see your highest self and invite you to claim it. Men who illuminate your blindspots. Noticing one hidden pattern can change everything.
Leadership Training
Men long to give their lives to something greater than themselves. Our brotherhood trains men to become responsible, solid rocks in their families, careers, and world. When a man becomes a true leader, he is unstoppable.
Brotherly Love
True connection, care, belonging, brotherhood, and good-faith challenge. A space where you can be fully yourself and be wholly accepted and loved as you are. There is real medicine here. Alchemize pain into heart-led power through Love.
Honesty & Witnessing
A place where you can drop the masks, share vulnerably, and explore the full spectrum of life. A place where your true self can be heard and seen without agenda. Through witnessing we open to the healing power of Grace.
Holistic Mastery
Our brotherhood houses healers, yogis, martial artists, and wisdom-keepers. Training body, mind, and spirit empowers men to navigate modernity and experience life's deepest gifts.
Structure & Discipline
Men deeply long for real structure and devotional discipline. Our space provides this, helping men heal their relationship with structure and embrace order in their own lives.
A Real Path
Men long for a real path to walk with their brothers. A sacramental path of commitment, virtue, and consequence. Rooted in ancient tradition, our brotherhood provides this.
"Every king in history had a council. You were never meant to build without yours."
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
CARL JUNG
Inquiries
Questions Men Ask
The Invitation
When a man finds his council, his path naturally becomes clear.
He becomes a man who is truly alive.
Honest, heart-led, and steady through life's hard seasons.
He lives with integrity, finds joy in devotion, and grows in all areas of his life.
He walks his purpose alongside his brothers, for the good of all.
There is real love here, brother. The kind that opens the heart and brings things back to life.
Our prayer is to become like the Mighty Sequoia: rooted deep to the earth, branches to the heavens, centered in the heart.
If your heart knows it's time to come home to brotherhood, to honest friendship, to your place around the fire…
This is your invitation, brother. Come walk with us.
Applications are reviewed personally. You'll hear from us within 3 days.
