BECOME THE MAN YOU WANT TO BE

UNBOUND is a 12-week online course for men caught in porn and other sexual behaviours they can't control - and who can see it is causing harm to themselves and to others.

Each week covers one principle through a short film, a book chapter and a group coaching call. The aim of the course it to build a system in your life that enables change, and gives room for God to move and transform you into His image.

UNBOUND is founded on Biblical wisdom and each week you will understand your journey to freedom through the eyes of scripture and how it connects with your broader discipleship journey in your church.

The Intensive course gives you access to the all the content, weekly group call alongside other men, and includes 1:1 therapy sessions with Maktuno.

The cost is set at standard psychotherapy or counselling rates, and is suitable for men who:

-Have complex behaviours that they want 1:1 support to better understand and change

-Have experienced broader mental health or addiction challenges

-Have very high levels of shame and need a 1:1 space to process the emotional impact of their addiction

-Have motivational challenges and want the accountability of a 1:1 space

Each week there is a live one-hour call with Maktuno and the other men in your group. It is not a lecture or a pre-recorded session - it is a real conversation about the principle you've been working on that week. 

Men ask questions, share what's coming up for them, and get honest, direct responses. You choose what you share. No one is required to disclose anything. The calls are confidential.

The UNBOUND community is an online platform where you can connect with the other men going through the course.

As you read this we have groups of men with and without faith going through the UNBOUND course ad the community connects all of you in one space.

Membership gets added automatically when you sign up to the UNBOUND course.  

After the course, there is an opportunity to remain as part of this community and have ongoing support in maintaining freedom and exploring other areas of personal growth and development.

UNBOUND East will start in our opening session host church Christ Church Mile End.

This will be held outside of normal Sunday hours on a Saturday morning - ensuring that your involvement is discrete and anonymous to others in wider church life.  

The first, middle and last sessions will be held face to face as a whole group.

Between these sessions you will connect with a specific small group in a private WhatsApp group that enables you to journey together and easily join weekly group calls.

Plan for around two hours per week. That covers the weekly film, the book chapter, the exercises, and the group coaching call.

Some weeks will feel more demanding than others depending on what the principle asks of you.

It is a commitment and one of the most important things you will ever do.

UNBOUND is designed to do exactly that - and the course is built on the clinical understanding of what actually drives compulsive sexual behaviour, not just strategies to suppress it. The course works when men work it: showing up each week, doing the exercises, and staying in the community.

No course can guarantee outcomes. What UNBOUND can guarantee is that the system is sound, the support is real, and you won't be doing it alone.

UNBOUND is designed to men to engage wherever they are in their faith. Often when you have been struggling with addictive behaviours out faith journey can be very challenging and complex.

You might be questioning your faith. You might be jaded and dejected about it. You might be passionate and involved. You might be really actively involved in church, or very loosely connected.

UNBOUND does not presume anything about your relationship with God, only that in coming on the course through a church - your faith is important and something you are trying to work out.

Porn or sex addiction is what happens when sexual behaviour - watching porn, seeking sex, or both - becomes compulsive. You use it to cope, to escape, or to manage difficult feelings. You've tried to stop and couldn't. It is causing harm to you, to your relationships, or to both - and you know it.

It is often a pattern with roots - in early experience, in how you learned to handle pain, in beliefs you hold about yourself that you may not even be aware of. UNBOUND is built on that understanding, and on what it actually takes to break the cycle for good.

Porn or sex addiction is sinful behaviour that deviates from God's vision for sex.  We recognise there is a spiritual dimension to finding freedom and the need to think about it fits within your wider discipleship journey within your church.

Because the experience of this is different for men. The way it develops, the shame that surrounds it, the reasons men don't ask for help, and what it takes to get free - all of it is shaped by what it means to be a man. A course that tries to speak to everyone ends up speaking to no one.

UNBOUND was built specifically for men, by a man who has spent over two decades working with men in the NHS, the criminal justice system, and men's charities - and who brings his own lived experience to the work. The language, the structure, and the community are built around that.