
Each session has three essential elements: social gathering over a meal, DVD presentation, and small group (where the men discuss the content of the presentations in the context of their own lives, sharing their challenges, struggles, failures, realizations, and new commitments going forward-supporting one another and helping to hold each other accountable). The vast majority of the programs run from 6:00am to 7:30am on a weekday morning. It meets once per week, for 13 weeks in the fall and 13 weeks in the spring. That Man Is You! is designed as a 26-week interactive multimedia men’s program capable of appealing to men in a media-dominated culture.

Year 1, “Becoming a Man After God’s Own Heart,” focuses on man’s relationship with God.The three base years of the program cover the three main relationships man has: Men attending That Man Is You! typically consider the content to be the program’s greatest strength, rating it 9.4 on a 10-point scale. It is particularly indebted to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and St. The program harmonizes current social and medical science with the teachings of the Church and the wisdom of the saints to develop the vision of a man fully alive.

The program honestly addresses the pressures and temptations that men face in our modern culture, especially those relating to their roles as husbands and fathers. That Man Is You! is one of the premier men’s leadership and formation programs in the Church today-running in 475 parishes across the country as of fall 2014 with about 20,000 men attending each week.
