FATHERS

RISING

A community of fathers, to support each other to heal, grow, and live towards our individual purpose as well as our collective responsibility for the future of our children and their planet.

A community of fathers, fathers-to-be, and men who feel a father-like responsibility or calling in life.

“Masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways that patriarchy keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.”

—Bell Hooks, The Will to Change.

A community for fathers, fathers-to-be, and men who feel a father-like responsibility or calling in life.

 Many fathers these days feel overwhelmed, stuck, or confused, by all the pulls of life. Productivity, progress, and perfection always chasing us. Never finding a place to sit still, to have space to look around at where we are, who we are, and who we have become. And often perhaps also not having the courage to create that space for ourselves. Because stillness can be quite uncomfortable and even confronting.

 I believe it's through community that we can transform this external pressure into an internal space of peace, purpose, and presence.

 Family, work, and raising our children, and also the larger issues that threaten the quality of life for our children and their children, ecological destruction, and the alarming increase in mental health issues in our youth and in us men. Causing symptoms like burnout, anxiety, depression, and suicide among men to rise at alarming speeds all over the world.

 It can be hard for us fathers to see how we can start living into our truth. To feel fully connected to our family and friends, to life all around us, while also feeling a sense of meaning in our work, feeling clarity of purpose and direction in life.

“Peace, purpose, and presence, instead of productivity, progress, and perfectionism.”

 Now more than ever, it's important for us fathers, to become an inspiration to our children, to confront our shadows, reconnect with nature, reconnect with ourselves, and connect with other fathers to learn to embody the qualities our world so urgently needs for healing.

 So here is an invitation, to gather, into a place of deeper connection, and truthful dialogue, to embrace what it means to live into the responsibility we fathers have for our children, our planet, and also ourselves.

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