About

What is Men At Work Healing?

Men At Work Healing is a brotherhood where we explore and reimagine manhood through the lenses of Story, Purpose, Healing, and Play.

This is where the divine masculine, awareness, and the process of self-realization are explored to become embodied.

We understand that as men this process is internal, vulnerable, and essential. We are offering a community of support to collectively guide men on a journey toward true freedom and integration.

We offer community engagement opportunities including The Medicine: A potluck conversation and The Men At Work Healing workshop. The former is a free monthly standalone event, and the latter is a paid experience over a full weekend and a Tuesday evening.
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Our objective is to offer tools and systems of accountability for reflecting and unpacking stories and trauma on our collective commitment to growth. All men are welcome to Men At Work Healing events. Please join our mailing list below and check back here to see when we are offering new opportunities to support and further this healing journey.
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Let’s heal, together.
-Men At Work Healing

The Facilitators

Webster’s dictionary defines brotherhood as an association for a particular purpose. Rasu, Daoud, Dahkil, and Dashaun, the founders and facilitators of Men At Work Healing, experience a bond of brotherhood that fits this very definition. Their particular purpose is self-development.

Various paths brought them together, the first 3 meeting in Syracuse for college followed by Dashaun joining later back in Brooklyn. All four found an inner need to develop and define themselves independent of the status quo. Over the years a consistent practice of checking in and getting checked, formed an indelible bond that allowed for friendship, shared entrepreneurship via Coup D’etat Brooklyn and Sunshower films, and the collective training and teaching of the Filipino martial art, Kuntaw.

After a request came from the women in their community, this brotherhood was made an open practice for the benefit of all men. Men At Work Healing is now a community, where men explore and reimagine manhood through the lenses of Story, Purpose, Healing, and Play.

Daoud

Daoud has been surrounded by martial arts and healing practice since childhood, where spiritual awareness was also commonplace. His mother first introduced him to reiki in 1991 and after years of searching he found his reiki master in 2005. He is dedicated to inspiring people to embrace choices that reinforce healthy living.

Daoud trains with indigenous South and North American Medicine people and utilizes techniques from these traditions in his healing work. He is also a black belt in Kuntaw, a Filipino Martial art. He feels that people are suffering from a spiritual disconnect from self and ancestors and believes that with an embrace of the traditions, wellness will be restored to many who are suffering.

Dashaun

Dashaun Simmons is a certified level 2 Reiki practitioner, copywriter, artist manager, intuitive counselor, martial artist, mentor, and initiated priest. All these ways of being or as Dashaun likes to call them, “games” are informed by his sense of play. He sees play as a way to directly access joy and a place to stand in when facing life challenges.

He lives in his place of birth, Brooklyn, NY and currently finds joy and life lessons by dancing, divining, watching old cartoons, and playing old video games.

Dahkil

Born into a family of storytellers, Dahkil Hausif evolved into the griot he is today as a mentee of the great orator and artist Micere Githae Mugo as a student at Syracuse University. For the past 25 years Dahkil’s storytelling prowess has been a part of the media culture as a film editor for commercial brands (Beats, Bvlgari, Samsung), a voice over artist on all platforms (ESPN 30 for 30 “What If I Told You…”) and as a writer and director with creative partner, Daoud Abeid (Shades of Brooklyn on HBO). Today, he is using his abilities as a storyteller to help men heal through his work with Men At Work Healing.

Rasu

Rasu Jilani is a self-described Social Sculptor, Cultural Producer, and an expert at convening people, designing cultural experiences, and building synergy around shared values and practices. His practice investigates the intersection between art, culture and innovation, justice, purpose, and civic engagement as a way of generating creative ecosystems.