Men Raised as Men Dialogue Series: Session 1
When: July 24th from 12pm to 2pm Eastern
What: This convening is the first in a 3 part series that will offer opportunities to explore the complex and specific experiences of wounding, healing, belonging, and becoming as adult men who were born and socialized to be men.
Context: Maleness and Masculinity are beautiful and potent parts of life and creation. At the same time, some of the great harms in the world are expressions of wounded, imbalanced, and untended male identity. Navigating this emotional and experiential landscape can range from traumatic to liberating, from hilarious to sad, with a healthy dose of brilliant and stupid. Exploring these dynamics takes vulnerability and courage. The Men Raised as Men Dialogue Series and Jam are intended as spaces to delve into these dynamics with others who have shared roots in how they were raised and common choices about how to be men in the world as adults.
Who: The heart of what this group wants to explore is life born in a male body, being raised and socialized as a man, and continuing to identify as a man.
Put simply – this is a gathering of Men raised as Men.
Note: Finding the right words to accurately describe gender is difficult, especially because people can understand words differently. We ask that you let us know if we have used language that is confusing to you, makes you wonder if this is the jam for you, causes you pain, or makes you feel excluded.
Greater Context: The Men Raised as Men Jam was the first in a new category of Jams on Men and Masculinity, where we’ll explore the full reality we see of the spectrum of masculinity. (Click here to read more about the full Men and Masculinity Series).
Organizer
Nour Elkhattaby Strauch is a community organizer and facilitator from Casablanca, Morocco, currently living in Western Massachusetts. Nour has been organizing and facilitating YES! Jams since 2012, including the Middle East Leadership Jam, the North America Leadership Jam, the Men Raised as Men Jam and others. He is currently serving as Executive Director of YES!, and hopes to continue growing the impact of this organization that works with social changemakers at the meeting point of internal, interpersonal and systemic change to co-create thriving, just and balanced ways of life for all.
Nour has also worked with many other notable non-profits in Morocco, the U.S., and beyond including Neighborhoods Association Idmaj, LifePath, Seeds of Peace, CorpsAfrica, Casablanca-Chicago Sister Cities, among others. He is a former member of the National Administrative Council of Amnesty International Morocco.
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