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A SOCIAL MOVEMENT
FOR THE HONOURING
OF BOTH THE FEMININE
AND THE MASCULINE
©Culture of Honouring
You are invited to take part in
COMMUNITY INTERCOURSE
A Not-Just-Words Dialogue of Deep Authenticity
THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE WILL MEET SEPARATELY,
TO EACH DEEPEN THEIR OWN EMPOWERMENT,
AND THEN WE WILL COME BEFORE EACH OTHER
(NOT DENYING OUR INHERITED CONDITIONING, BUT NOT BEING CONTROLLED BY IT)
TO EXPERIENCE THE UNION OF THE ARCHETYPAL MASCULINE AND FEMININE
These are quartely events (at the solstices and equinoxes),
for the nourishment of the UK Culture of Honouring Community.
They are only open to people who have worked with and been touched by its vision.
Next Dates: Sunday September 26th 2010, December 19th 2010,
March 27th 2011, June 19th 2011
Times: 10am – 8pm
(followed by an - optional - celebratory shared meal)
Venues: September 2010 - The Foxhole, Dartington.
December 2010 - The Foxhole, Dartington.
March 2011 - The Foxhole, Dartington.
June 2011 - To Be Confirmed.
Cost: £35.
Please bring a very light lunch and a delicious contribution for the evening celebration.
You can reserve your place here: Book now
or by cheque made out to ‘The Culture Of Honouring' and sent to the address below.
E-mail us at info@cultureofhonouring.com if you have any questions at all.
With love and respect for us all!
Joseph & Elisabeth.
COMMUNITY INTERCOURSE
A Not-Just-Words Dialogue of Deep Authenticity
THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE WILL MEET SEPARATELY,
TO EACH DEEPEN THEIR OWN EMPOWERMENT,
AND THEN WE WILL COME BEFORE EACH OTHER
(NOT DENYING OUR INHERITED CONDITIONING, BUT NOT BEING CONTROLLED BY IT)
TO EXPERIENCE THE UNION OF THE ARCHETYPAL MASCULINE AND FEMININE
These are quartely events (at the solstices and equinoxes),
for the nourishment of the UK Culture of Honouring Community.
They are only open to people who have worked with and been touched by its vision.
Next Dates: Sunday September 26th 2010, December 19th 2010,
March 27th 2011, June 19th 2011
Times: 10am – 8pm
(followed by an - optional - celebratory shared meal)
Venues: September 2010 - The Foxhole, Dartington.
December 2010 - The Foxhole, Dartington.
March 2011 - The Foxhole, Dartington.
June 2011 - To Be Confirmed.
Cost: £35.
Please bring a very light lunch and a delicious contribution for the evening celebration.
You can reserve your place here: Book now
or by cheque made out to ‘The Culture Of Honouring' and sent to the address below.
E-mail us at info@cultureofhonouring.com if you have any questions at all.
With love and respect for us all!
Joseph & Elisabeth.
MEN
MAN: LIVE AT THE CENTRE OF YOUR REALITY
The last opportunity to take part in this weekend before the Initiatory Journey will be:
September 17th - 19th 2010
A LETTER FROM JOSEPH:
"Dear Men,
I would like to invite you to a weekend that marks a turning point in the journey of masculine self-development and self-knowledge.The weekend is called Live At The Centre Of Your Reality.For some of us there is a pivotal moment of commitment-to-self when we know there is no option left other than to Live At The Centre of our realities, our lives...
For most of us it is a gradual process, a hero’s journey, a return home to Centre which deepens with the years, and solidifies, until we are unmoveable, unshakeable – nothing else matters other than to respond to every moment with heart and dignity.
I would like to invite you to be part of this weekend in which a group of men will study various skills to support the journey of Homecoming To Self, and, above all, will witness each other – each man offering his own depth and longing and strength, and receiving the affirmation and respect of his brothers...
I hope you will feel inspired to come and stand in this brotherhood of a weekend, and re-affirm your commitment to yourself, and perhaps, in the mirror of the circle, lodge that commitment at a new depth of soul...
With love and respect for us all,
Joseph."
The weekend includes physical exercises to connect with centre, and not be tossed about by the masculine conditioning we have received (confused messages about power, sexuality, vulnerability, etc), exercises to manage this conditioning that carries us away from centre, handouts with 'maps' of these understandings, brotherhood, and (as always) the unexpected...
The atmosphere is relaxed, but focussed; conscious, but unpretentious.
You will be able to integrate the exercises you learn into your everyday life, and definitely benefit - whether you go on to do The Initatory Journey (or any further work with Joseph) or not.
Full cost is £150 (£135 members).
Payment is by 50% deposit, the remainder on the day.
Times are Fri 7pm - 10pm, Sat 10am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 6pm.
Download a leaflet HERE
To reserve your place online:
Book now
Or if you have any questions.
Contact us
This weekend is an in-depth introduction to the whole landscape of Third Man Menswork.
The weekend is a prerequisite for this year's INITIATORY JOURNEY: BROTHERHOOD, AND THE PATH OF SACRED MANHOOD' (begins November).
Alternative prerequisites are: attendance on a previous Culture of Honouring weekend, or private sessions with Joseph.
THE INITIATORY JOURNEY 2011: BROTHERHOOD, INITIATION,
AND THE PATH OF SACRED MANHOOD
November 2010 - July 2011
with Mark Josephs-Serra ('Joseph') and Friends
A nine month long journey of power, humility, brotherhood, an explosive new vision, homecoming, brokenness and joy
Weekend workshops, Conference Calls, Ongoing Buddying, And A One Week Summer Retreat
A series of gatherings in a group of men committed to un-shaming male power / to no longer being spun out by our grief, anger and confusion / to making choices from a place of wide-awake awareness / to owning the dignity of our masculinity / to ourselves becoming the radical men who need to emerge in our times ~ men who are individuated and self-honouring enough to be able to truly honour the women.
A journey of discipline, brotherhood, tender challenge, deep honesty, and spiritual expansion ~ it will equip you to quietly (or loudly) walk your boldest, most heartfelt talk.
The only extensive Men's Initiatory Journey in the UK.
Maximum 12 men.
Dates of weekends: 5-7 Nov 2010, 3-5 Dec, 14-16 Jan 2011, 18-20 Feb, 18-20 March, 8-10 April, 6-8 May, 3-5 June, 1-3 July
Dates of summer retreat: 25-31 July 2011
Cost: £175/weekend, £450 summer retreat, £10/conference call (between weekends)
10% discount for Culture Of Honouring members
FLYER (2 pages)
Book online now, or arrange a time with Joseph to discuss whether this journey would be right for you.
"Words can't fully describe the transformation I have experienced in going through the Initiatory Journey. It is fundamentally the most important thing I have done in my life. It is the time that I finally came out of the darkness and stood up for myself and began reclaiming my power, wisdom and heart. I can now choose to step into life rather than be tossed around by it. I am now proud to be a man."
Gavin Barnett, IT Programme Manager - Initiatory Journey 2009
"This course is not just about a group of men coming together doing 'manly' things, talking about our wounds and struggles, doing rituals and drumming round a camp fire (although some of those elements are there), nor is it just another series of workshops to be added to the list of other great experiences that may have been had. This is a path that doesn't begin and end with the timetable of events. It is a path of commitment, truth, brotherhood, honouring of both the masculine and feminine and a deep intimacy with oneself. It has been challenging, painful, exciting and profound and such an important landmark in my personal evolution."
I. H., Local Businessman – Initiatory Journey 2009
2011 will be the fifth year of The Initiatory Journey.
Book now
Contact us
PREVIOUS WORK WITH JOSEPH (A WORKSHOP, PRIVATE SESSIONS, ETC - ARE A PREREQUISITE FOR THIS JOURNEY. PLEASE ENQUIRE. THIS INITIATORY JOURNEY IS THE LAST ONE CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR THE UK.
WOMEN
'SHIVA SHAKTI' EVENT
With Elisabeth Josephs-Serra
See the Women's page for more information on the Shiva-Shakti dance-meditation itself.
Dates: September 24th & 25th 2010
Place: near Totnes, Devon
Times: Friday night from 6.30pm to 9.00pm (an extra, introductory session for women who have not danced the Shiva Shakti dance-meditation before).
Saturday from 10.00am to 5.30pm (for everyone)
Cost: £47 (£39 concession) - Saturday only (for those who have been to this dance before)
£62 (£54 concession) - Friday night and Saturday
£15 (£12.50 concession) - Friday night only (the extra session for newcomers, in which I introduce the dance).
10% discount on all of these prices for members.
Full info. on the Women's page, but if you have any questions, please feel free to contact Elisabeth
THE INITIATORY JOURNEY (women)
Dear Sisters,
Next autumn (September 2010) I am going to be gathering a small group of women to walk together a journey of recovering the dismembered sacred feminine mandala. This Initiatory Journey will be a re-membering of the different faces of the divine feminine that have lain dormant for millennia. In these times of change and crisis we are invited more than ever to hear Her calling, and to gracefully move through the onslaught of conditioning that paralyses our radiant hearts.
As women we have an affinity with the feminine universal principal, and we are invited to listen and be guided by Her fierce tender message of the heart. This journey will guide women as to how to keep choosing and embracing the ancient-future empowered sacred feminine.
The journey will consist of a series of 6 weekends and one five day retreat, stretching over 9 months. We will be creating individual and personal initiations into maintaining the choice to live as empowered feminine women in the world. The journey will be associated with a Men's Initiatory Journey, and at some point we will be joining with them.
Through each weekend we will explore specific personal and archetypal themes - Mother ('The Ground', Self-Love, relationship with body as woman), The Warrior (anger, power, boundaries, fear), The Lover (sensuality, sexuality, love, vulnerability, feeling textures and how we conduct energy), The Shaman / Priestess (intuition, the empowered feminine and relationship with the sacred). We will be looking into the mirrors of both the pure and distorted archetypes we have inherited through the feminine line. We will learn to see the journey of the feminine from both the individual and the collective perspective. In other words, the enquiry into the personal will be embedded in the collective. We will learn tools and practices to develop choice, to stand in the centre, and to embody the Whole Woman who is able to express and feel all the faces of the feminine that we have been cut off from.
In this time together we will enter our enquiry through tantric dance, creativity and dialogue. Alongside the weekends there will also be experiential 'home tasks', and throughout you will be supported by the community of self-initiating women - weaving each other into wholeness once again. If you feel moved to join us, please contact me. There will be places for twelve women (so with me, we will be thirteen).
Please e-mail me to find out dates, costs and places on this Initiatory Journey.
Amor,
Elisabeth.
COUPLES
THE ADVENTURE OF INTIMACY
An Inspirational Weekend For Couples
with Joseph & Elisabeth Josephs-Serra.
October 1st - 3rd 2010
This weekend introduces a New Vision of Relationship...
beyond romanticism, beyond 'growth-work...
Relationship as a Path of Archetypal Masculine and Feminine Empowerment and Union.
You might believe that your relationship isn't as it could be because of you, your 'stuff', or because of your partner's stuff, or 'baggage', or difficult childhood, or difficult previous experiences, and so on...
Actually, the vast majority of relationships now end in separation and divorce (whereas a few hundred years ago NONE did!) because the old relationship paradigm has broken down...
We need to pioneer a social vision of authentic masculine and feminine empowerment - going beyond patriarchy, and beyond feminism...
We need to weave communities of people who are willing to support each other - beyond this epidemic of isolation...
This weekend will offer you a new vision, and daily practices you will be able to integrate into your home life to begin living this vision. There is no sexual contact. The atmosphere is respectful, relaxed - and exciting!
This weekend is also a 'taster' for the 9-month 'Tao of Relationship' series which begins in the autumn.
Click here for the LEAFLET(2 pages)
Cost: £360/couple
10% discount for members
Book now
Click on the 'feedback' button to read the experiences of people who've been on previous events.
For more information please call or e-mail us.
Contact us
THE TAO OF RELATIONSHIP (couples)
A Journey.
A Community.
A Paradigm Shift.
A Series Of Weekends with Joseph and Elisabeth
In The Tao Of Relationship we share our full vision and understanding of the potential of relationship. We explore ‘the path of relationship’, in other words - how relationship itself can become an dynamic, intimate, erotic, sacred shared path of self-realisation.
The masculine path and the feminine path are not the same. Each must find their own power - and bring it to the relationship.
Their alchemy takes them both into a heightened intimacy, and a delight in being alive - awake, together, in the joy, the pain, and the mystery.
LEAFLET(2 pages)
Beginning at the end of October 2010, the series consists of 6 weekends, conference calls between the weekends, and a one week retreat in the Summer.
MAN: LIVE AT THE CENTRE OF YOUR REALITY
The last opportunity to take part in this weekend before the Initiatory Journey will be:
September 17th - 19th 2010
A LETTER FROM JOSEPH:
"Dear Men,
I would like to invite you to a weekend that marks a turning point in the journey of masculine self-development and self-knowledge.The weekend is called Live At The Centre Of Your Reality.For some of us there is a pivotal moment of commitment-to-self when we know there is no option left other than to Live At The Centre of our realities, our lives...
For most of us it is a gradual process, a hero’s journey, a return home to Centre which deepens with the years, and solidifies, until we are unmoveable, unshakeable – nothing else matters other than to respond to every moment with heart and dignity.
I would like to invite you to be part of this weekend in which a group of men will study various skills to support the journey of Homecoming To Self, and, above all, will witness each other – each man offering his own depth and longing and strength, and receiving the affirmation and respect of his brothers...
I hope you will feel inspired to come and stand in this brotherhood of a weekend, and re-affirm your commitment to yourself, and perhaps, in the mirror of the circle, lodge that commitment at a new depth of soul...
With love and respect for us all,
Joseph."
The weekend includes physical exercises to connect with centre, and not be tossed about by the masculine conditioning we have received (confused messages about power, sexuality, vulnerability, etc), exercises to manage this conditioning that carries us away from centre, handouts with 'maps' of these understandings, brotherhood, and (as always) the unexpected...
The atmosphere is relaxed, but focussed; conscious, but unpretentious.
You will be able to integrate the exercises you learn into your everyday life, and definitely benefit - whether you go on to do The Initatory Journey (or any further work with Joseph) or not.
Full cost is £150 (£135 members).
Payment is by 50% deposit, the remainder on the day.
Times are Fri 7pm - 10pm, Sat 10am - 6pm, Sun 10am - 6pm.
Download a leaflet HERE
To reserve your place online:
Book now
Or if you have any questions.
Contact us
This weekend is an in-depth introduction to the whole landscape of Third Man Menswork.
The weekend is a prerequisite for this year's INITIATORY JOURNEY: BROTHERHOOD, AND THE PATH OF SACRED MANHOOD' (begins November).
Alternative prerequisites are: attendance on a previous Culture of Honouring weekend, or private sessions with Joseph.
THE INITIATORY JOURNEY 2011: BROTHERHOOD, INITIATION,
AND THE PATH OF SACRED MANHOOD
November 2010 - July 2011
with Mark Josephs-Serra ('Joseph') and Friends
A nine month long journey of power, humility, brotherhood, an explosive new vision, homecoming, brokenness and joy
Weekend workshops, Conference Calls, Ongoing Buddying, And A One Week Summer Retreat
A series of gatherings in a group of men committed to un-shaming male power / to no longer being spun out by our grief, anger and confusion / to making choices from a place of wide-awake awareness / to owning the dignity of our masculinity / to ourselves becoming the radical men who need to emerge in our times ~ men who are individuated and self-honouring enough to be able to truly honour the women.
A journey of discipline, brotherhood, tender challenge, deep honesty, and spiritual expansion ~ it will equip you to quietly (or loudly) walk your boldest, most heartfelt talk.
The only extensive Men's Initiatory Journey in the UK.
Maximum 12 men.
Dates of weekends: 5-7 Nov 2010, 3-5 Dec, 14-16 Jan 2011, 18-20 Feb, 18-20 March, 8-10 April, 6-8 May, 3-5 June, 1-3 July
Dates of summer retreat: 25-31 July 2011
Cost: £175/weekend, £450 summer retreat, £10/conference call (between weekends)
10% discount for Culture Of Honouring members
FLYER (2 pages)
Book online now, or arrange a time with Joseph to discuss whether this journey would be right for you.
"Words can't fully describe the transformation I have experienced in going through the Initiatory Journey. It is fundamentally the most important thing I have done in my life. It is the time that I finally came out of the darkness and stood up for myself and began reclaiming my power, wisdom and heart. I can now choose to step into life rather than be tossed around by it. I am now proud to be a man."
Gavin Barnett, IT Programme Manager - Initiatory Journey 2009
"This course is not just about a group of men coming together doing 'manly' things, talking about our wounds and struggles, doing rituals and drumming round a camp fire (although some of those elements are there), nor is it just another series of workshops to be added to the list of other great experiences that may have been had. This is a path that doesn't begin and end with the timetable of events. It is a path of commitment, truth, brotherhood, honouring of both the masculine and feminine and a deep intimacy with oneself. It has been challenging, painful, exciting and profound and such an important landmark in my personal evolution."
I. H., Local Businessman – Initiatory Journey 2009
2011 will be the fifth year of The Initiatory Journey.
Book now
Contact us
PREVIOUS WORK WITH JOSEPH (A WORKSHOP, PRIVATE SESSIONS, ETC - ARE A PREREQUISITE FOR THIS JOURNEY. PLEASE ENQUIRE. THIS INITIATORY JOURNEY IS THE LAST ONE CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR THE UK.
WOMEN
'SHIVA SHAKTI' EVENT
With Elisabeth Josephs-Serra
See the Women's page for more information on the Shiva-Shakti dance-meditation itself.
Dates: September 24th & 25th 2010
Place: near Totnes, Devon
Times: Friday night from 6.30pm to 9.00pm (an extra, introductory session for women who have not danced the Shiva Shakti dance-meditation before).
Saturday from 10.00am to 5.30pm (for everyone)
Cost: £47 (£39 concession) - Saturday only (for those who have been to this dance before)
£62 (£54 concession) - Friday night and Saturday
£15 (£12.50 concession) - Friday night only (the extra session for newcomers, in which I introduce the dance).
10% discount on all of these prices for members.
Full info. on the Women's page, but if you have any questions, please feel free to contact Elisabeth
THE INITIATORY JOURNEY (women)
Dear Sisters,
Next autumn (September 2010) I am going to be gathering a small group of women to walk together a journey of recovering the dismembered sacred feminine mandala. This Initiatory Journey will be a re-membering of the different faces of the divine feminine that have lain dormant for millennia. In these times of change and crisis we are invited more than ever to hear Her calling, and to gracefully move through the onslaught of conditioning that paralyses our radiant hearts.
As women we have an affinity with the feminine universal principal, and we are invited to listen and be guided by Her fierce tender message of the heart. This journey will guide women as to how to keep choosing and embracing the ancient-future empowered sacred feminine.
The journey will consist of a series of 6 weekends and one five day retreat, stretching over 9 months. We will be creating individual and personal initiations into maintaining the choice to live as empowered feminine women in the world. The journey will be associated with a Men's Initiatory Journey, and at some point we will be joining with them.
Through each weekend we will explore specific personal and archetypal themes - Mother ('The Ground', Self-Love, relationship with body as woman), The Warrior (anger, power, boundaries, fear), The Lover (sensuality, sexuality, love, vulnerability, feeling textures and how we conduct energy), The Shaman / Priestess (intuition, the empowered feminine and relationship with the sacred). We will be looking into the mirrors of both the pure and distorted archetypes we have inherited through the feminine line. We will learn to see the journey of the feminine from both the individual and the collective perspective. In other words, the enquiry into the personal will be embedded in the collective. We will learn tools and practices to develop choice, to stand in the centre, and to embody the Whole Woman who is able to express and feel all the faces of the feminine that we have been cut off from.
In this time together we will enter our enquiry through tantric dance, creativity and dialogue. Alongside the weekends there will also be experiential 'home tasks', and throughout you will be supported by the community of self-initiating women - weaving each other into wholeness once again. If you feel moved to join us, please contact me. There will be places for twelve women (so with me, we will be thirteen).
Please e-mail me to find out dates, costs and places on this Initiatory Journey.
Amor,
Elisabeth.
COUPLES
THE ADVENTURE OF INTIMACY
An Inspirational Weekend For Couples
with Joseph & Elisabeth Josephs-Serra.
October 1st - 3rd 2010
This weekend introduces a New Vision of Relationship...
beyond romanticism, beyond 'growth-work...
Relationship as a Path of Archetypal Masculine and Feminine Empowerment and Union.
You might believe that your relationship isn't as it could be because of you, your 'stuff', or because of your partner's stuff, or 'baggage', or difficult childhood, or difficult previous experiences, and so on...
Actually, the vast majority of relationships now end in separation and divorce (whereas a few hundred years ago NONE did!) because the old relationship paradigm has broken down...
We need to pioneer a social vision of authentic masculine and feminine empowerment - going beyond patriarchy, and beyond feminism...
We need to weave communities of people who are willing to support each other - beyond this epidemic of isolation...
This weekend will offer you a new vision, and daily practices you will be able to integrate into your home life to begin living this vision. There is no sexual contact. The atmosphere is respectful, relaxed - and exciting!
This weekend is also a 'taster' for the 9-month 'Tao of Relationship' series which begins in the autumn.
Click here for the LEAFLET(2 pages)
Cost: £360/couple
10% discount for members
Book now
Click on the 'feedback' button to read the experiences of people who've been on previous events.
For more information please call or e-mail us.
Contact us
THE TAO OF RELATIONSHIP (couples)
A Journey.
A Community.
A Paradigm Shift.
A Series Of Weekends with Joseph and Elisabeth
In The Tao Of Relationship we share our full vision and understanding of the potential of relationship. We explore ‘the path of relationship’, in other words - how relationship itself can become an dynamic, intimate, erotic, sacred shared path of self-realisation.
The masculine path and the feminine path are not the same. Each must find their own power - and bring it to the relationship.
Their alchemy takes them both into a heightened intimacy, and a delight in being alive - awake, together, in the joy, the pain, and the mystery.
LEAFLET(2 pages)
Beginning at the end of October 2010, the series consists of 6 weekends, conference calls between the weekends, and a one week retreat in the Summer.
Dates of weekends: 29-31 Oct 2010, 26-28 Nov 2010, 7-9 Jan 2011, 11-13 Feb 2011, 11-13 March 2011, 15 - 17 April 2011
Dates of summer retreat: 1-7 August 2011
Cost: £360/couple/weekend, £620/couple for the retreat
10% discount for members.
This is an in-depth journey for a small committed group of couples who will all have had some experience of working with Joseph and Elisabeth.
If you'd like to get a feel of this work you can come for a private session, an Open Evening or to an Adventure Of Intimacy weekend.
THIS IS THE LAST TAO OF RELATIONSHIP SERIES SCHEDULED FOR THE UK.
Book now
Contact us
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Dates of summer retreat: 1-7 August 2011
Cost: £360/couple/weekend, £620/couple for the retreat
10% discount for members.
This is an in-depth journey for a small committed group of couples who will all have had some experience of working with Joseph and Elisabeth.
If you'd like to get a feel of this work you can come for a private session, an Open Evening or to an Adventure Of Intimacy weekend.
THIS IS THE LAST TAO OF RELATIONSHIP SERIES SCHEDULED FOR THE UK.
Book now
Contact us
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