I finally found a woman who holds the transmission of what I am learning more about through this podcast: how a world beyond the patriarchy could look like (and it's not matriarchy).

Let's clean up this confusion around matriarchy: matriarchy is actually often used when people are trying to describe matriculture, because matriarchy still contains -"archy" which means "rule" or "governance". We don't want a world where women rule over men.

We want to create a world, in which we create a new paradigm all together: a paradigm that puts life, and thus children at the center. And Skeena Rathor Kashmiri is one of those women, who holds this vision with me - and with all of us.

Bio:

Skeena holds 17 certificates in therapeutic practices and is recognised as a global award winning environmentalist. She has been a grass roots activist and community and political organiser from the age of nine, and also held national elected offices.

She is one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion, an environmental movement that had over 200.000 members at its peak.

She is also mother to three daughters of Jewish fathering.

Skeena is a granddaughter of the old people of Kashmir Valleys Himavat - The Kashmiri Himalayas, The Jhelum (pure water) River people and Rajastan.

Today Rajastan is home to the world’s most successful water cycle restoration project - Tarun Bharat Sangh - this project is part of realising how water cycle repairs can enable the stabilising of our climate. It is also the place of the inspiration of the Chipko people - people who circled a forest to protect their tree Kin and were massacred in their act of fierce protection.

The Kashmir Valley is the birth place of many indigenous technologies of breath, body and heart repairs

The region is also world renowned for its beauty and bio diversity.

In honour of her lineage Skeena’s endeavours are of ancient and new political Co Liberation systems designs, matricultural kinship economy and radical democracy systems designs rooted in the grandmothering frequency of unconditional love.

Her current work is of supporting paradigm evolutions located in constellations of global movements; murmurating and myceliating to restore the well life force of waters, peoples and lands for a possible future for grandchildren of all species.

She offers companionship not consultancy for leaderfull change for systems designs and body based healings for humans, waters and earth in gift economy and works with a Kashmiri cosmogram for human heart repairs.

Links:

XRUK - Extinction Rebellion

RPA where Skeena holds the Global Chair of Activism

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In this conversation Jack Becher and I talk about how the patriarchy affects ourselves, our relationships and the systems at large - and how patriarchy affects men and women differently.

This conversation is only just the beginning.

Jack Becher is a systems change facilitator working at the intersection of interpersonal and planetary transformation. With a background shaped by social-ecological movements and the recognition of our entanglement in collapsing systems, they now convene spaces for transformative learning and generative dialogue that nurture the radical alternatives emerging in the cracks. Jack is the Initiator and Co-Steward of the Generative Journalism Alliance, Beyond Patriarchy Collective and Kinstead Community.

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The Generative Journalism Alliance comprises storytellers and systems change practitioners located across the planet. Generative journalism is the act of publishing media that directly represents people’s experiences and intentions, is without interpretation, with the intention to create new life.

Beyond Patriarchy hosts collective learning journeys to explore how patriarchy shapes our lives, relationships, and ways of organising — and what it takes to ...unlearn them in practice.

The journeys are for people who want to explore how patriarchy shapes the relationship to yourself, others, and the world around us - and share responsibility for impact and harm without collapsing into guilt, shame, or defensiveness.

Kinstead community - A living experiment in different ways of relating beyond the default paths — and an open invitation as we embark on the next steps.

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This conversation reveals that egalitarian societies exist today. Egalitarian societies are societies without the hierarchies that we know in our western culture today, with a different approach to power and community, whereas no-one governs over others. This is one of the ways how a civilisation beyond patriarchy could look like. We talk about how these indigenous tribes manage this egalitarian way of living and the desire for status and power. We generally touch on the world view that indigenous tribes have that is absent in the world today - and that would change our world if we were to adopt it.

Bruce Parry is an award winning documentary filmmaker specialising in films on globalisation, climate change and indigenous peoples. He became interested in direct democracy when making films about egalitarian societies and has spent the last ten years studying how to synthesise the tools, methods, and narratives of our ancestral past into the complex civilisations of today.

His documentary series for the BBC entitled Tribe, Amazon and Arctic, watched by over 5 million people, have shown Parry exploring extreme environments, living with remote indigenous peoples and highlighting many of the important issues being faced on the environmental frontline.

Parry directed and produced his debut feature documentary for the big screen, TAWAI – A voice from the forest, released in 2017. The film takes a deeper look into some of the issues touched upon within his television programmes and the personal lessons which he has learnt from his explorations.

Watch Tawai, the movie https://www.tawai.earth/

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Rawan Roshni is a Palestinian/Balkan, Global Citizen, Arab Woman, based in Jordan, Waging Love across the world.

She uses her voice as an Artivist through her singing/songwriting and facilitation of brave spaces focusing her work in the SWANA region.
Middle East and North Africa

Her group facilitation over the past decade has ranged from issues such as reclamation & remembrance of indigenous knowledge, conflict transformation, collective liberation & decolonization, catalyzing community, conscious relating & consent work, women's work and more!

She also works with people 1-on-1 to support them with Voice Liberation.

She fuses Sound, Movement and Intuitive Rituals as tools in her work, bringing elements such as group singing, sound work through vocalization, whirling dance, and intentional nature-based practices.
She has co-founded multiple interfaith and world music projects and most recently has been touring her solo tri-lingual live-looping Music & Poetry performance Al-Tuyoor: Messages from the Birds for 2 years across 7 countries and counting!

She began her journey with plant teachers in 2019 and is a humble student of the plantcestors, in service with her voice and as a Psychedelic Mentor, for the healing of our human species as but a part of our larger ecosystem of creation

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Sivani Mata is an artist who is moved by a sensory and elemental exploration of life. She does that through practices that evoke the liminal experience of trance-like states of consciousness, and the centring of the awareness in heart.

Sivani believes in this process of deep inner work as a way to cultivate a harmonic relationship with the Earth, and feels that these practices are a path to building the relationship of self love and acceptance which is the foundation to a healing loving relationship with the land.

Sivani Mata is a student of bhakti yoga, and shares Music as Medicine (kirtan & prayersong), she facilitates Women’s Circles, where she goes deep into the cyclical nature of what it is to be woman, and offers online courses on the divine feminine, amongst other offerings.

Her website: https://www.sivanimata.co.uk/

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John Wolfstone is a Rites of Passage Guide, Initiatory Facilitator, Mythopoetic Educator, and Wilderness Ritualist, devoted to the remembrance of soul, culture, and Earth.

For over two decades, he has been guiding transformative processes that weave myth, movement, and ceremony into immersive rites of passage rooted in ancestral wisdom and animist reverence. His work is deeply informed by study and mentorship within Earth-based lineages, wilderness initiation, and regenerative community practices.

He is the co-director of the award-winning documentary The Village of Lovers, and co-founder of the School of Mythopoetics—a training ground for soul initiation, cultural repair, and ceremonial leadership.He is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies at Ubiquity University, with a focus on revitalizing rites of passage for a post-industrial world.

His facilitation invites a return to deep belonging—with land, lineage, and purpose—and offers maps for becoming trustworthy humans in this time of profound cultural transition.

Link to John’s website: https://www.thresholds.earth

Link to John’s substack: https://johnwolfstone.substack.com

The Village of Lovers https://thevillageoflovers.com

School of Mythopoetics https://www.schoolofmythopoetics.com

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Mac Macartney is the founder of Embercombe, a 50-acre estate with charitable status on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in the UK. Embercombe’s mission is to inspire, and empower people to live in close relationship with nature and co-create a regenerative, flourishing future for all species.

He is a speaker and mentor, as well as the author of two books.

"The Children's Fire" reveals Britain’s tribal past and the animate world we once inhabited and calls to remember the ancient ways and to making our decisions based on the future generations.

"Finding Earth, Finding Soul: The Invisible Path to Authentic Leadership" vividly asserts the power of imagination, the joy of walking our own way and the profound intimacy of finding relationship with others and with life.

Learn more about Mac's work here: https://macmacartney.com/

Here is Embercombe's website: https://www.embercombe.org/

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Since 2012, Gayatri has been devoted to guiding men on the path of Erotic Empowerment - awakening their sexual energy as a force of vitality, confidence, and truth. She has seen how many men feel cut off from their erotic power, or uncertain how to embody it with integrity. In a culture that often shames or suppresses masculinity, Gayatri’s work offers an initiation into full-spectrum embodiment - where sex, heart, and purpose unite.

Blending Tantric wisdom with grounded, practical tools, Gayatri supports men to strengthen presence, deepen intimacy, and harness erotic energy as fuel for love, leadership, and liberation. At the heart of her work is a single intention: to guide men back to their essence - so they can stand in their power, live from the heart, and move through life awake, aligned, and free.

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