Beyond Patriarchy: An Introduction

What if some of the struggles men face aren’t personal failures — but patterns we’ve been trained into?

Many men are already doing inner work — learning to listen more deeply, relate more honestly, and show up with greater care in their relationships and communities. At the same time, many of the patterns we struggle with aren’t just personal habits or individual behaviours — they’re shaped by wider social systems we’ve inherited and learned to live inside.

In this session, we’ll explore patriarchy as a system — one that shapes all of us, often unknowingly. Rather than focusing on 'fixing' masculinity or becoming a better version of ourselves within the same old rules, we'll explore how patriarchal patterns show up in our lives, relationships, and bodies — and what it might take to loosen their grip, together.

Based on the practices developed through the Beyond Patriarchy Co-Learning Journey, the session will be experiential, reflective, and conversational. It will begin with an embodied arrival, followed by a short theoretical input, before opening up for rounds of personal sharing on the topic. There will be an open space towards the end to reflect and find out how to get more involved.

You don’t need any prior knowledge to join this session — this is an invitation to get curious, to listen, and to explore what becomes possible when we stay with these questions collectively.

For this workshop, we invited an external speaker: Jack Becher. He is an experienced facilitator and movement builder working at the intersection of interpersonal and planetary systems transformation. He's done several iterations of the Beyond Patriarchy program where he takes a group of men on a journey to explore what feminism and patriarchy means to them. With the workshop he will bring a part of this to the Berlin Men's Group.