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Category: men’s business

A ceremonial approach (guiding community rituals in a time of collapse)

Jul 4, 2026 | Artist as Family online event, ceremony & ritual, community education, health, lifemaking, men's business, mother goddess, reculturing, regenerative culture, relationships, revillaging, sacred country, social warming, storytelling, the commons, women's business | 2 comments

 

We hosted the first of our four weekly online sessions, on Thursday. Thank you to all those who joined the call, asked goodly questions and brought along your warming presence.

Please find a clearing and enjoy our latest offering, A ceremonial approach. 

Here is the audio only version (1hr presentation + 30mins question time),


and here is the video.

We have three more sessions in July, so if you haven’t yet booked a spot here are the links.

Ecological participation – guiding community forest education and wild play groups for children
Thu 9 Jul 7pm – 8:30pm AEST

Community sufficiency – living within gift, non-monetary and subsistence economies
Thu 16 Jul 7pm – 8:30pm AEST

Joyful resistance – online house and garden tour (the nuts and bolts of our systems)
Thu 23 Jul 3pm – 4:30pm AEST

A big hearty thanks to all who have purchased tickets so far, or sent us donations for our upcoming trip.

Meg, Patrick and Blackwood

Men’s business – rites of passage and the maturation of men (with Yin Paradies and Patrick Jones)

Apr 28, 2026 | ceremonial species approach, ceremony & ritual, colonialism, ecological economy making, eldership, family, fatherhood, First People, gender-lopsidedness, Indigenous knowledges, kinship, men's business, men's health, modernity, post-industrial thought, radical homemakers, raising boys, reculturing, relationships, revillaging, rites of passage, transitional communities, wounding | 6 comments

 

We hosted our friend Yin Paradies at Tree Elbow over the weekend and before Yin left he and Patrick recorded a conversation focussed on their encounters within the ecology of men’s business.

Whether experienced in this subject or entirely new to it, we hope you enjoy their yarn on rites of passage, sacred economics, personal accountability, ‘fallen patriarchy,’ and reclaiming indigenous and peasant masculinities.

Listen (1hr, 6mins)

 

In their conversation Yin and Patrick refer to a previous dialogue Patrick had with Yin and his partner Victoria: Bridging, on the way back to indigeneity, and Patrick mentions drafting an annual ceremonial calendar as the next stage of our community’s revillaging.

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