In-club
Sessions + talks
Training-night workshops, parents' evenings, AGM keynotes. Measured, practical, and built for a clubroom.
Mentoring + coaching · Melbourne + country Vic
Building fathers.
Building sons.
Quiet, measured mentoring for football clubs and community orgs across Victoria. Fifteen years across education, hospitals and psych clinics — now helping boys and their old men show up, together.
Fifteen years on the ground
- 15 YRS
- Education
- Hospitals
- Psych clinics
- Community
Three ways in
Whoever you are on the team sheet, there’s a way to start.
For clubs
Bring Ruory into the room
Workshop nights, season-long partnerships, keynotes at community events. Built for football clubs and local initiatives across Victoria.
For families
Mentoring for dads and sons
Cohort programs, weekend retreats and one-to-one work — for the long run, or for the turning point.
For supporters
Help keep this work moving
Sponsors, partners and community orgs who want more boys showing up — with their old men beside them.
What the work looks like
Four shapes of work, one ethic.
Every engagement starts the same way: a quiet call to understand the situation, then a recommendation for the shape of work that actually fits.
Cohort
Multi-week programs
Six to twelve weeks with a small group of father-son pairs. Structured work, honest rooms, lasting kit.
Retreat
Weekend camps
Friday to Sunday away from the noise. Country bush, good food, and the kind of conversations that land.
1:1
Personal mentoring
Ongoing work with individuals or dad-son pairs. Discreet, consistent, and paced to the life you're in.
Why this work, from this man
Quiet authority, earned in the rooms that matter.
Ruory Kirkby spent fifteen years in the settings where young men and their families are most stretched — classrooms, hospitals, psych clinics. The Rollie Project is what he’s built from that ground.
- Fifteen years
- working with young men and their families
- Education
- classrooms, schools, wellbeing programs
- Hospitals
- acute paediatric and mental-health settings
- Psych clinics
- clinical support teams and therapeutic groups
Start here
A quiet call, then a clear plan.
Fifteen minutes with Ruory. He’ll listen first, then tell you honestly whether The Rollie Project is the right fit — or point you to someone who is.