An invitation into our first all-gender* online learning journey

We’re entering a new phase of Beyond Patriarchy, shaped by two years of sustained practice, reflection, feedback and collective learning. Some of this learning was shared at the end of 2025 in these blog posts:

1. What we are learning through Beyond Patriarchy: Harvesting two years of practice
2. What’s emerging through Beyond Patriarchy: An invitation into the next phase

One of the next steps that emerged was all-gender* learning journeys — not to replace the men*-only journeys, but to expand the scope of the learning and include more people in this shared inquiry.

* By ‘all-gender’ we mean any relationship to gender — including those for whom gender feels distant, fluid, or not central.

The first all-gender learning journey will begin this February. The core elements of the journey will remain the same as before:

A small, practice-based learning space for people who are curious about engaging patriarchy not only as an idea or critique, but as a set of patterns shaping our relationships, bodies and ways of organising — and who want to stay with those patterns long enough for something different to emerge.

However, as this is the first all-gender journey we’re facilitating — and our first online journey — it will also be somewhat experimental. Moving into all-gender learning raises important questions we want to hold explicitly rather than gloss over.

We start from the understanding that patriarchy lives in all of us, albeit differently — shaped by gender, history, power and lived experience. For some, engaging this work may bring up questions of responsibility, complicity or unlearning. For others, it may touch directly on experiences of harm, marginalisation, or exhaustion from having had to carry the emotional and relational labour of these conversations before.

In this context, we’re holding questions such as:

• How do we share learning space when people are differently affected by patriarchy — without collapsing difference or reproducing silence?
• How do we support accountability and learning without placing the burden of care, explanation or emotional labour back onto women* or gender-marginalised participants?
• What kinds of facilitation, pacing and relational commitments help people stay present and engaged, while also honouring limits, boundaries and uneven capacity?

Rather than arriving with fixed answers, this journey will treat these questions as part of the learning itself. We’ll be paying close attention not only to what we explore, but how we explore it together — noticing patterns as they emerge in real time, and adjusting the container with care as we go.

What the journey looks like

This is a held, multi-session learning journey. Over several weeks, the group builds trust, continuity, and enough relational safety to move beyond surface-level reflection. Participants are invited to move from noticing patterns, to staying with discomfort, to experimenting with different responses — both in the group and in everyday life.

Each session begins with time to properly arrive — closing tabs, making tea and settling into the space — before moving into shared inquiry, reflection, and embodied practice.

Between sessions, participants are invited into gentle ‘home-weaving‘ practices: small experiments that help integrate learning back into our everyday lives, relationships and wider systems.

At the end of the journey, participants are invited into one or more follow-up pathways, supporting the transition from the learning space back into everyday life:

• a generative interview, published on the Beyond Patriarchy blog
• an online follow-up session one month later
• and/or, for those in Berlin, an invitation to join an in-person harvest session with the expanding team on Thursday 9th April (exact date TBC)

Key info

• 🗓️ Thursdays, 19:00 – 21:00 (CET)
• 📍 Online
• 🌀 26 February – 26 March (5 sessions + 1)
• 💛 Pay-what-you-can (sliding scale)

Participants will include several people who are currently being ‘onboarded’ to the Beyond Patriarchy collective, alongside a small number of people who pre-registered earlier. A few additional places are open for those who feel drawn to learn and experiment with us.

The invitation

This first all-gender journey is one step within this next phase — a way of learning together while the collective itself is still forming, and while the shape of the work continues to emerge.

We’re offering this journey as a living container: one that invites attentiveness, shared responsibility, and the willingness to stay with what is unfinished. What we learn here will inform how (and whether) we continue all-gender work, how future online and in-person journeys are shaped, and what kinds of support and structures are needed as the community grows.

If this invitation resonates — whether as a participant, a future facilitator, or simply someone curious about this approach — you’re warmly welcome to reach out, stay in conversation, or join us for this first experiment.

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