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MEN OF DEPTH & SOUL: Rooting Into Sacred Activism
A Depth Container for Men
with Alexandre Jodun and Carl Rabke
begins Tuesday, March 24th until June 16th 2026
with Guest Elders/Teachers Francis Weller & Kedar Brown (each guest teacher will come to host one session each throughout our time together)
(Applications opening January 2026)
“If your soul is on fire to serve in a way that scares you to death. And you don't feel worthy, ready, able. And the burning will not leave you alone. Congratulations. You have your calling. Bless you. Your life is not for you. It is for the world. This is an ancestral arrangement. You've already been promised as an offering. If you can follow your heart and spirit, even through fear, not only can you fulfill your own soul and harvest a profound peace, you can also be medicine for all living things. All your relations.” - Jaiya John
[Click on one of the above images to listen to our conversation with Francis Weller or Dr. Jaiya John]
Brother, we invite you to join us in a circle of men as we reflect deeply on our lives, and how we are being shaped and called to respond to these unprecedented times.
It comes with no surprise: these are mythic, initiatory times. Years of a global pandemic, war in many areas of the world, deepening cultural divides and a looming, pervasive background of the climate crisis. We are at a point in history where our choices over these next decades will determine the viability of life on this planet. This is a time where men who have ripened into adults and elders are desperately needed in this world.
How are you holding up with all of this? Are the conversations you are having with other men matching the profundity, the urgency, the great mystery of this historical moment?
At other challenging points in human history, men would be gathering together in council, in ritual, in ceremony, around the fire to support each other, to listen for what is being asked of us, and how we are each called to uniquely respond. As men, we need containers to help guide us into greater depth and authenticity with each other, to inform our sacred activism in the world. Many of us don’t experience this particular support of community in modern life, and this is where we feel moved to steward a depth container for us men. Not to be fixed. Not to obtain a kind of mastery. Not to necessarily “improve.” And not to follow some vanilla version of masculinity - but instead, to live into the emergent masculinities calling us, a version of mature adulthood (and elderhood), and as a result, respond soulfully to the needs of our communities and the world.
In this 3-month group council, we will hold a container that follows the rhythm and patterns of soul, and collectively venture into the deep waters of our being. We will be moving through some of the essential terrains of soul - exploring them in an embodied, experiential, and relational way. Some themes we will delve into over the 3-month will include:
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Stewarding Our Inner-Life
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Cultivating Village-Mind & Ritual Intelligence
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Tending Our Wounds, Confronting Predatory Forces
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Grief, Gratitude & Praise
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The Art of Creative Embodiment (Music, Movement, Poetry, Art, Etc.)
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Tracking Genius & Mythopoetic Medicines
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Full-Bodied Participation & Ensouled Activism
During our weekly calls, we will spend time deepening in our primary satisfactions: drumming and singing together (even if you think you can’t sing), soulful inquiry and deep listening, sharing dreams and the workings of imagination, moving and getting into our bodies, ritual practice, and engaging in the sacred teachings of our guest teachers and elders.
This depth container may be suited to you if you are willing to stir and be stirred. To shape Soul and be shaped by Soul, in community. This is for men who are willing to become the futures we are longing to experience. This is for men who are committed to becoming houses of remembering that make way for a more beautiful world for future generations. This is not a place to be fixed or to become special, but a place of warm encouragement to fully step into the one precious life you've been given with a sense of dignity, authenticity, maturity, and devotion to contribute meaningfully to this immense world. If this is you, we invite you to join us.
COURSE DETAILS
Space is limited to 25 participants.
This is open to men of any cultural background, skin color, or sexual orientation. If you are non-binary or a trans man, and are drawn to this work, you are most welcome to apply.
Weekly Zoom Calls, Tuesdays 4pm-6:30pm (Mountain Time) / 3pm-5:30pm (Pacific Time). Check your timezone conversion here. The session dates are:
1. March 24th
2. March 31st
3. April 7th
4. April 14th
5. April 21st
6. April 28th
7. May 5th
8. May 12th
9. May 19th
10. June 2nd
11. June 9th
12. June 16th
13. July 7th (Integration call)
Guest Teaching Sessions with elders Francis Weller & Kedar Brown (Times and Dates TBC)
A Day Long Zoom Retreat (Time and Date TBC)
An online space (Ruzuku) for connecting with the community, sharing any reflections, feasting on poetry, and other wisdom teachings.
Cost: $1600 (upfront) / $400 (monthly x 4 months)
Click here to fill out an application.
Please read our cancellation policy here before signing up. And please feel free to contact us if you have any questions at menofdepthandsoul@gmail.com.
We look forward to our rich time together.
- Alexandre and Carl
ALEXANDRE JODUN
Alexandre Jodun is an integrative psychotherapist, group facilitator, ritualist, and writer, with a creole and afro-asian diasporic ancestral heritage. He has been working with men and diverse folks from all over the world for over a decade, and is passionate about the process of remembering the essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge to carry the future ones. Alexandre has mentored and facilitated alongside Francis Weller, and learned from various wisdom keepers, indigenous elders, and communities around the world. He has been traditionally initiated in Gabon into Dissumba, the men's-only branch of Bwiti. Alexandre is a facilitator and admissions team member for AWE's Ecstatic Mysticism 3-year initiatory program, and has been involved with their sacred activism work of preserving the ancestral knowledge and mystical traditions of indigenous communities. He is also an apprentice tabaquero, working specifically with sacred tobacco (Nicotiana Rustica) and tree-teachers in the mamancunawa lineage - which deeply informs his sacred work, approach, and life in general. He lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru, where he co-facilitates soul-work and retreats in collaboration with his dear wife, Alyona. You can find out more about Alexandre here.
CARL RABKE
Carl Rabke is a Somatic Naturalist, Embodiment teacher, and a tender of soul and living culture. For the last 25 years, he has practiced and taught where the streams of somatics, soul-work, and a deep love of this living Earth meet. He is a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Rolfer, and loves to support people in returning to, and remembering our natural, inherent intelligence in movement, meditation, ritual, song, rhythm and community. Carl has studied at Bobby McFerrin’s Circlesongs School and is a Musica do Circulo practitioner. He has mentored with Jozef Frucek of Fighting Monkey, and has been on the Care Team for Bayo Akomolafe’s We Will Dance With Mountains gatherings. Carl has mentored with and taught with Francis Weller, and he also hosts the Embodiment Matters Podcast with his beloved wife, Erin. You can find out more about him here.
