A Special Application of Life House
To Men's Recovery Homes
The Cave Project
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
2 Samuel 22:1-2
What Is The Cave Project?
The Cave Project is a unique ministry to men. Our Life House Coach, Roman Bravo, takes core Life Model principles and builds real-life relationships with the leaders in your men's home, improving the success of their leadership and decreasing burn-out and relapse.
We support this project because of our special heart for Gen Z men and their need for healthy home life. Pseudo-maturity, coping mechanisms that replace true attachments, and the lack of healthy identity through multigenerational community, are setting Gen Z men back in significant ways. In our Life House coaching program, we actively support men to take adult responsibility in relationships, work, and community involvement; Roman takes our principles into already-existing men's home programs.
As Gen Z gets older, we anticipate The Cave Project to impact them directly. Please support Roman as he pioneers a new way of change for men in recovery.
Genesis Process Coaching
I work with leaders to encourage and equip them to maintain their lives of recovery in the high stress of men's leadership. With proven Genesis Process Relapse Prevention program training, I will help get to the heart of men's addictions and relapse patterns.
Life Model Training
Brain science has proven that joyful attachments over time lead to greater transformation. During visits, I cultivate joy and model effective relational strategies to boost morale and increase the success rates of your program.
Local and Beyond
I make weekly visits to men's homes that are local (Central Valley of California). If you are outside our area, I can come for a week-long visit to build relationships and train your men in Life Model Leadership strategies.
Support For Organizations
I value every organization that seeks to bring wholeness to men. I will honor your programs and your policies and enhance the care you already provide to men by providing care to their leaders.
(Lower left corner: Me at age 19 in my first men's home.)
What does The Cave Project have to do with Gen Z?
We see The Cave Project impacting Gen Z in the following ways:
1. Gen Z is now entering their 30s. Gen Z is no longer the "youth" generation; some of them already have children of their own and are getting serious about their own recovery from addictions, trauma, and consequent lack of emotional health. Many men in Gen Z find themselves in need of men's ministry such as the kind we are targeting.
2. The Gen Z story calls for a relational approach. Since many of the addictions in Gen Z are rooted in the technology and history of the past 20 years, addictions for Gen Z men can frequently be traced to a lack of emotional, relational, and social maturity. While this is true for any generation, it is disproportionately true for Gen Z men, even those who seem to have had all the necessary economic, educational, and relational advantages. As more and more Gen Z men seek the kind of relief and healing that your men's ministry is set up to provide, we offer a robust understanding of Gen Z that heals and resets the negative impact of several decades of isolation.
3. Many of the older men in recovery or sober living homes have Gen Z children. And Gen Z children are now adults, and are seeing their own need for reconciliation and relationship with their dads. We come alongside in the process to support the Gen X and Boomer fathers of Gen Z, so that our mission to Gen Z can be completed full-circle in the healthy and healing communities that we all depend upon.
About the Cave of Adullam
The Cave of Adullam is the biblical location where David trained his men (who were originally outcasts, debtors, and distressed individuals) into an elite army of warriors (1 Samuel 22:1-3).
David wrote Psalm 142 from this cave:
1 With my voice I cry out to the LORD;
with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD.
2 I pour out my complaint before him;
I tell my trouble before him.
3 When my spirit faints within me,
you know my way!
In the path where I walk
they have hidden a trap for me.
4 Look to the right and see:
there is none who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for my soul.
5 I cry to you, O LORD;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”
6 Attend to my cry,
for I am brought very low!
Deliver me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me!
7 Bring me out of prison,
that I may give thanks to your name!
The righteous will surround me,
for you will deal bountifully with me.