Might 22, 2025
by Kim Trengove
In response to Males Do Discuss 2025, a brand new landmark examine by Mentoring Males, Australian males are talking — we simply must learn to pay attention.
Launched this week and primarily based on in-depth survey responses from greater than 2,000 males aged 35 to 50 throughout New South Wales, Victoria, and the ACT, the report lifts the lid on males’s psychological well being in Australia and what’s getting in the best way of significant assist.
The numbers are confronting:
– 53% of males meet the factors for loneliness.
– 50% expertise day by day stress or anxiousness.
– 66% say they’d contemplate having a mentor — however most have by no means been requested.
Men Do Talk 2025 challenges the dangerous stereotype that males are unwilling to open up. What the analysis reveals is much extra nuanced — males will speak when the situations are proper.
“This isn’t only a report,” stated one of many undertaking leads. “It’s a wake-up name.”
When Help Is Provided, Males Reply
A key perception from the examine is the untapped potential of mentoring. Two-thirds of respondents expressed openness to having a mentor, however most of those males had by no means been invited to think about one. That hole between willingness and alternative is the place significant change may start. “The best barrier shouldn’t be willingness, it’s consciousness,” state the authors.
Of the 2000 contributors:
- 33% of males need sensible information on the place/when/how they might join with a mentor.
- 30% requested for details about accessible mentors.
- 29% stated confidentiality assurance was necessary.
- 28% desire a mentor who was all the way down to earth.
- 28% wished ‘good listeners’.
- Solely 17% wished a mentor who was ‘action-orientated’.
“In the event you take nothing else from this report, let or not it’s this: males are prepared. We’re not unreachable or unwilling. We’re quietly looking for connection and extra of us than you may suppose are open to it,” writes Mentoring Males Chief Government Officer, Filipe Gama e Silva.
“I rally in opposition to the notion that ‘males don’t see assist,’ he says. “For too lengthy, this narrative has dominated the dialog. Whereas it might have mirrored previous realities, it not serves us at this time.”
“The dimensions and power of this knowledge makes it clear, the necessity is widespread, and the willingness is actual. When assist is simple to search out and freed from stigma, we males present up. We lean in.”
The findings from Men Do Talk 2025 carry a transparent name to motion: hearken to what males are telling us. They’re saying, “we’re not damaged or unwilling, we’re right here, prepared to speak, if somebody’s keen to listen to us out.”
The total Men Do Talk 2025 report gives suggestions for a way communities, workplaces, and governments can do higher — by encouraging mentoring, decreasing stigma, and coaching folks to know how one can pay attention when males do converse up.
You’ll be able to learn the complete report and learn to assist the motion at:
mentoringmen.org.au/reports
In regards to the analysis
Mentoring Males engaged Censuswide to conduct the analysis with 2000 males aged 35-50 dwelling in NSW, Victoria and the ACT. The net survey ran from 20 February to 10 March 2025.
