Beyond Patriarchy is a collectively-run organisation and network with trans-local hubs. We explore how patriarchy shapes our lives, relationships, and ways of organising — and what it takes to unlearn them in practice. Read more about the work we offer here.
Elise
(she/her)
Elise is a facilitator and Gender Studies scholar. She has worked as a project manager on a variety of gender-related topics, including
gender finance, menstrual health and patriarchal organisation structures. Her focus lies on understanding how patriarchy, in intersection with other systems of oppression, shapes the way we think, feel and relate to the world. She is passionately committed to creating open spaces, especially for cis-men, to reflect, question, unlearn and redefine our societal understanding of partriarchy and gender dynamics.
Jack
(he/they)
Jack Becher is an experienced facilitator and movement builder working at the intersection of interpersonal and planetary systems transformation.
Shaped by years of practice in social-ecological movements – from migrant struggles to climate justice, to broader grassroots political organising – they now focus on convening spaces for generative dialogue and transformative learning.
Jack is the Initiator & Steward of the Beyond Patriarchy Collective, Generative Journalism Alliance and Kinstead Community.
Jana
(she/her)
Jana is an experienced facilitator and organizer dedicated to creating transformative learning spaces to build power and collaboratively strategize for systems change.
She holds spaces and accompanies groups exploring working across differences, fostering unlikely alliances and (re)building strategic agency. As an activist rooted in social, migrant, labour and climate movements across Europe, she has years of experience in organising and intersectional coalition building. Steadily pushing towards new imaginaries, Jana is associated with a range of collectives. Keeping it up with the grassroots; Berlin based.
Jörn
(he/him)
Jörn is a democracy practitioner and member of the leadership team at Democratic Society with twelve years of experience working on participation,
civic infrastructure and social justice at grassroots and institutional level. Beyond Patriarchy is personal for Jörn because he believes that democracy does not only happen in institutions, but also in how we share power, take responsibility, care for each other and show up in our relationships. He is interested in creating spaces where people can learn together, question inherited ideas of masculinity, and work on a future beyond patriarchal structures.
Jörn works in English, French and German and loves to practice his Italian.
Joshua
(he/they)
Joshua is a designer, researcher, writer and facilitator helping organisations increase their regenerative impact.
He currently works with Dark Matter Labs enabling city transitions through peer-to-peer learning, coalition building and cross-sector collaboration, and with a particular focus on building resilient food systems.
He participated in the first ever learning journey, and supports the team in designing future journeys, ecosystem weaving, and reaching broader groups of people. Across his work he seeks to build bridges, depolarise, and transform conflict into generative material for change.
He is a budding food grower, currently studying and applying permaculture practices and feels most at home by the ocean.
Joshua works in English.
Matí
(no pronouns/they)
Matí (aka Max Werdenigg) brings a rich background in social work, coaching, and organizational development, with a deep
focus on gender justice and healthy masculinities.
After years spent in various social support roles, they now guide individuals and teams through transformative change.
Currently living in the Sieben Linden eco-village, Matí connects their hands-on work with biological composting to social change through their unique “Composting Patriarchy” workshops. Here, they create a space to dismantle rigid gender norms and cultivate new possibilities together.
Outside of their work, Matí practices Zen Buddhism, loves spending time in nature, and founded a fair-trade olive oil cooperative. They offer supervision and workshops in both German and English.
Photo by Marat Videira
Mo
(they/them)
Mo Klosow facilitates, sometimes cooks (vegan) or takes photos of naked bodies. With roots in antifascist, feminist and queer movements
in Poland their current work focuses on political education, reproduction rights and no border struggles. A while ago they published a book about genderbending, which combines their interests – anti-patriarchal praxis, questioning the institutions and experimental methodologies.
Paul
(he/him)
Paul is interested in how patriarchy, capitalism and other systems of domination shape the ways we relate to ourselves, each other and the wider world.
After spending some years within freedom of movement and migrant solidarity spaces, he is currently exploring these questions through the lenses of political ecology, Degrowth and community organizing. He is also a summer camp director, working with youth of diverse backgrounds to form a consensus-based community living experience. He is particularly interested in collective forms of care, interdependence, and the role men can play in reimagining gender roles and building community-based cultures of care.
Paul is based in Barcelona and works in English, German, Italian and some Spanish.
Sveta
(they/them)
Sveta is a researcher and educator in the field of Gender Studies and Urban Studies. They are a co-founder of the Feminist Spaces Collective
which works in anti-sexist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist ways to unlearn oppressive patterns of living in cities. Sveta combines in their work intersectional feminist approach, decolonial practices, artistic methods and collective action. They have experience in conducting workshops, moderating discussions and developing educational programs.
Sveta works in English and Russian.
Will
(he/they)
Will is a socio-spatial designer and researcher, with curiosities converging around commoning, regeneration and intersectional justice.
He brings experiences in designing, organising and holding spaces for (co/re/un)learning across academic and political contexts, drawing upon intersectionality, decolonialism, earth-based spirituality and participatory methods. After participating in the second learning journey, Will surfaced a deeper desire to contribute more to the gender justice landscape, to shift divisions of labour and nurture relationships of care.
Will works in English and German.