Unlearning and reimagining, together
Purpose
Beyond Patriarchy hosts collective learning journeys to explore how patriarchy shapes our lives, relationships, and ways of organising — and what it takes to unlearn them in practice.
The journey is for you if you want to:
- Explore how patriarchy shapes your relationship to yourself, others, and the world around us
- Share responsibility for impact and harm without collapsing into guilt, shame, or defensiveness
- Envision and practice new ways of being and relating
- Learn alongside others through shared reflection, dialogue, embodied practice and real-life experimentation
This journey may not be for you if you’re looking for:
- Quick fixes, certainty, or techniques without deeper questioning.
- Debate or purely intellectual critique.
- A space without accountability for impact.
- Therapy or personal crisis support.
You don’t need to have the ‘correct language’ or ‘answers’ — but a willingness to engage, reflect, and stay present is essential.
While open to all, we place particular emphasis on engaging men*, where patriarchal patterns are often most normalised and least questioned, supporting responsibility, repair, and more just ways of being together.
* Open to men – cis and trans – and people who relate to and are affected by experiences of socialisation or being read as men. This is a space centered on relational and accountability work grounded in that shared experience.
Blog
Explore stories from participants, learning reflections and announcements on our blog.
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What happens when you realise the patterns you absorbed as a child – the ones that kept you alive – are the same ones now keeping you numb? In this conversation, Niels reflects on the ‘seed’ he planted during our learning journey: a commitment to finally feel patriarchy instead of just naming it, and theContinue…
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We’re hosting three new collective learning journeys later this year as an expanding team, along with a series of taster sessions and pop-up events exploring different ways of moving beyond patriarchy. Read on to find out more. The journeys Our learning journeys are 6-12 week collective learning experiences designed for people ready to do the…
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What does it mean to be a parent and partner in a world shaped by patriarchy? In this conversation, Sam reflects on the ‘seed’ he planted during our learning journey: a commitment to unlearning inherited patterns of male entitlement and emotional distance, and the slow but necessary work of tending this when it no longer…
Acknowledgments
This work stands on the shoulders of many others. It builds on generations of feminist, queer, anti-racist, Indigenous, and decolonial thinkers, practitioners, and organisers — and, more importantly, on the lived labour of those who have resisted patriarchy while bearing its greatest harms. Any clarity or possibility that has emerged here is indebted to those histories, struggles, and forms of care, even where they are only partially named.
Special thanks to collaborators at C*SPACE, Democratic Society, CitizensLab, Ulex Project and the Generative Journalism Alliance alongside several close allies and partners who support inspire and inform this work.
Beyond Patriarchy
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