Gil The Grid

Brotherhood doesn’t just happen, it’s actively built.

We live in a world that often tells men to isolate, to harden, and to carry their weights in silence. But true masculinity isn’t built in a vacuum.

A boy learns how to be a man by watching the men around him.

Without healthy, embodied blueprints of vulnerability, integrity, and depth, the next generation is left to navigate the dark alone.

We owe them a different vision.

I am deeply honored that Esther Perel invited me to Sessions Live for the second time, giving me the space to share and express myself throughout the program.

In addition to opening both days with somatic practices and live demonstrations, I had the privilege of closing each day by facilitating the afterparty and sharing my artistry. This created two powerful closing moments where attendees could truly feel, integrate, relax, and connect, offering a vital somatic balance to the head-focused conversations and lectures.

Sharing the stage with .logan and during the masculinity panel was another incredible highlight. It was a profound opportunity to provide a different perspective—as a Black man who grew up in the ghetto of a predominantly white country and society. I was dealt a hand of cards that I share with many others who look like me, yet who remain deeply underrepresented in these spaces.

I want to thank everyone for being so open, vulnerable, and warm. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to kick off my North American tour.

It takes more energy to suppress emotion than to express it.

​All the life energy used to bury our thoughts, desires, and intuition could instead be channeled to create:

​To create life, action, connection, and a future worth living for.

​With every suppressed action, we choose for a little part of ourselves to hide and die.

​Since energy never disappears, the choice to kill our true desired expression forces it into our subconscious, creating a reality we are blind to face—until we find the courage to face all the parts we neglected or others asked us to hide.

Healing is not hard.

Your body knows how to heal itself.
It is designed to return to homeostasis- our natural state of regulation and balance.

Healing is the process of metabolizing trapped energy of movement, breath and radical honesty- an energetic ‘completion’ of the experience.

I’m Joining Esther Perel for Sessions Live 2026.

​For the second year in a row, I am honored to join Esther Perel for her annual clinical conference. I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking and facilitating at Sessions Live 2026.

​This year, I’m stepping into several different roles:
​Masculinity Panel: Sharing insights and facilitating deep dialogue on modern masculinity.

​Artistic Performance: Taking the stage alongside my Amenti team members.

​Community Building: Hosting the official afterparty to keep the connection going.

​To be able to weave together the scientific, the experiential, the arts, and the community in one space is a profound and ongoing honor.

​About Sessions Live
​Sessions Live is a two-day gathering for therapists, clinicians, and curious minds exploring desire, connection, and the forces shaping how we relate today.

​This year’s guiding question: How do we cultivate aliveness in a time defined by disruptions?
​🎟️ Tickets + details: sessionslive2026.estherperel.com

Confidence is a practice.

Insights from 3 days of darkness…

• the mind doesn’t quiet without distraction— it reveals what’s been looping all along

• silence isn’t peaceful at first—
it’s loud, confronting, and honest

• most of us aren’t afraid of darkness—
we’re afraid of what we’ll meet in it

• awareness > control
you don’t need to fix the mind, just witness it

• the body holds what the mind repeats

• surrender isn’t passive—
it’s choosing to stay when everything wants to escape