MOVING MASCULINITY
a global lab
NARRATIVE CHANGE | CULTURAL PRODUCTION | HEALING PRACTICE | CAPACITY TRAINING
This is a 10-year initiative housed within The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice. It breaks down as follows:-
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THE GLOBAL ROLL OUT
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THE NARRATIVE ARM
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THE PRACTICE ARM
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THE CULTURAL ARM
THE GLOBAL ROLL OUT
This is a global roll out of the MOVING MASCULINITY documentary followed by facilitated dialogue. It features men from Ghana, across the US and the UK exploring masculinity, loss, grief, love, shame, pain, trauma, brothahood as the foundation of the lab through the multi-media lens of poetry, scripted narrative, ceremony and audio.
THE NARRATIVE ARM
UNFOLD: notes on MOVING MASCULINITY is the narrative arm of this global lab. It features notes, essays, audio and video from contributors exploring power andthe political, the personal, the communal, the global elements of and relationship to masculinity. This is a living archive via Substack.
Read UNFOLD: unfold.movingmasculinity.com
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THE PRACTICE ARM
MM16 is innovative capacity training for male leaders in the C-Suite. We explore power from the classroom to the c-suite, ask what classrooms teach boys about power, and how it is embodied in masculinity, and then professionalized into leadership. This is for men of all races
THE CULTURAL ARM
The Dreaming Ceremony Memory Set.
This is your guide to holding THE DREAMING CEREMONY for a Black teenage boy turning 16. It is a box with full instructions for all the elements of THE DREAMING CEREMONY, a masculinity affirmation ceremony for Black boys turning 16 held with an older Black man.
With it, you hold the ceremony, capture the moment and support healing. With community, you create a lasting legacy of reflection and growth for a Black 16-year-old boy on his journey into manhood.
It is an intergenerational ceremony with Black Boys and Black men of different generations. For the teenager it is about the boy you are and the man you’re becoming; for the elder it is about the boy you were and the man you became. A ceremony of imagination, dreaming, reflection, and world-building.
