You've Got Male Grief: Collective Healing from Patriarchy

Grief is a natural and necessary means to process loss, reconnect with aliveness, and move forward with resilience. Yet for something so necessary to our well-being, grief is often avoided, leaving us traumatized and stuck in psychological holding patterns. A key reason for this is due to gender roles under patriarchy. By creating toxic defenses against loss, patriarchy tricks men into hiding our vulnerability and avoiding healthy grief, and all people suffer the consequences.

So what are male-conditioned people to do? We gotta grieve!

In this 90-minute interactive workshop, you'll:

• Gain practical tools for understanding grief, loss, and transformation
• Recognize how male conditioning under patriarchy makes us avoid processing loss and grief
• Learn how to reconnect with closeness and vulnerability
• Practice alleviating shame around grief, and encourage each others' wellbeing

Together, we’ll weave theory, personal experiences, and practices to help you create more space for grief & care for yourself and others in service of transforming oppressive gender roles.

*Please note: this event is designed to center the experiences of male-conditioned people as a means to support us in healthy healing and in taking responsibility to stop perpetuating patriarchy. No one of any identity will be turned away. Please contact Ari Simon at ari@ari.fyi if you have any questions.

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Tuesday, January 25 2021 4pm PST/7pm EST

Zoom link to be provided

Participation cost is $25 (on a sliding scale). Click the RSVP button at the top of the page to secure your ticket. If the price is a barrier for your participation, please request a no-cost ticket by signing up here.

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About the Facilitator:

Ari Simon (they/them) is a facilitator, personal coach, community engagement practitioner, and artist. Ari leads various programs on grief, loss, and transformation such as Grief at Work, a staff training workshop for learning key skills to recognize and respond to loss and grief in the workplace. In 2020, they started Queering Death, a community learning series exploring intersections of death, dying, and grief with queer identity and queer theory. With a background in public policy and management, Ari runs Inner & Outer Engagement, a practice offering workshops, planning processes, and transformational coaching and more to explore topics such as environmental policy, organizational change, personal geographies, and grief, death, and loss. Alongside this, Ari facilitates a monthly men's consciousness-raising group in Los Angeles.