Re-storying Masculinity

Re-storying Masculinity

How can we reroute and reroot masculinity into a paradigm of serving and regenerating life?

What is the current state of contemporary masculinity and what sociocultural forces, historical events, psychological patterns, mythic stories, and rigid constructs shape(d) it?

How do we look into the heart of patriarchal masculinity and heal the wounds of today? In re-storying the future of masculinities, how do we embrace a diversity of expression and forms, and make space for each one as they come into being? Let us embark on the journey of re-storying.

The journey begins with diagnosing and contextualising contemporary masculinities and men’s work. Moving into psychological realms we explore how we might heal the inner child, and the Mother Wound often seen to be at the heart of patriarchal masculinity. Continuing along the lines of reparenting, we look at rebuilding fathering cultures and the role of community. We look towards possibilities for liberated futures, examining the intersections of masculinity and sexuality, and masculinity and coloniality. The journey concludes with new-old mythological frameworks for restorying masculinity.

Guided by Ian MacKenzie, re-storying masculinity featuring a collective of storytellers, culture workers, wisdom carriers, and more.

Facilitated by Ian MacKenzie

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Course modules

Contemporary Masculinities and the Renaissance of Men’s Work

Adam Jackson and German Villegas lead our journey with a diagnosis of contemporary masculinities within a historical, social and cultural framework, with a focus on how wider sociocultural forces shape men’s relationships.

Meeting our Monsters: Patriarchy’s Mother Wound

How can addressing the Mother Wound allow men to (re)establish a profound sense of connection to this earth, and to others, that they are deeply, and naturally longing for? How can we repattern through remothering, thereby restoring the feminine within the masculine and being in right relationship?

In a Time with No Fathers: Forging Intiatatory Pathways

What does it mean to father a culture, and how can we, regardless of where we are on the spectrum of masculinity, participate in this fathering? What happens when there are few initiated men, and an absence of holding? How might we collaboratively, life-givingly, initiate and liberate generational men’s work?

Liberating Gender: Queer and Trans Futurities

What sorts of healthier masculinities can emerge from widening the spectrum of gender, and breaking the binary? Is there a role for navigating the distinction of “femininity” and “masculinity”? What are ways we can conceptualise and understand the distinction? And how do we do so while embracing fluidity?

Decolonising Masculinity through Indigenous Thinking

How do the ghosts of an imperial past haunt us in the present? In the spirit of truly decolonising masculinity, we ask: if the solution is not to supplant an oppressive universalism with another, what might we learn from re-storying masculinities back into place and culture? Is rootedness the antidote, the...

Rewilding Masculinities and Embodying the Future

How do we reroot and reroute masculinities, in service of healing the earth? If masculinity has become a monoculturing myth within a dominator paradigm, how do we feed it as compost, back to the earth, and encourage its regeneration in a diverse, flourishing form? How do we develop and rediscover mythologi...