What is Gender Reconciliation?
Gender Reconciliation is a burgeoning new field of transformational healing and reconciliation between women and men. D.H. Lawrence once remarked that “The future of humanity will be decided not by relations between nations, but by relations between women and men.” Gender reconciliation recognizes the profound wound in the human family constellated around cultural conditioning relating to gender, sexuality, and relational intimacy. The ‘gender wound’ is manifest in myriad forms in virtually every society across the planet.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasized that societal transformation does not take place by keeping injustice and corruption hidden, but only by bringing them into the light and confronting them with the power of love. This is the purpose and method of gender reconciliation. Both women and men are afflicted by gender injustice, and each needs the other for a true and complete healing. Domestic violence is the leading cause of death for women aged 15 to 44 worldwide. Men have higher death rates than women for all 15 leading causes of death. The premise of gender reconciliation is that women and men can and must work together to jointly transform these tragic conditions. Gender reconciliation embraces all sexual orientations, including heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender.
Join us for an impactful weekend exploring the ways that we have been conditioned to see ourselves and the opposite sex. Develop more appreciation for the ways both women and men have been wounded and tend to operate out of that limited way of seeing and feeling. This retreat is a unique opportunity to heal divisions and come to appreciate our common humanity.
Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Cynthia Brix have shared this healing process in India, Columbia, Austrailia, South Africa as well as in the USA. Last year they teamed up with the Desmond Tutu foundation to reach more people in Africia where violence against women is a huge problem (as it is most everywhere).
Archbishop Tutu emphasised the role of women in society and spoke about how they are treated. “For goodness’ sake, for our sake, women have to be acknowledged for who they are. We have to recover the humanity of women. We undermine our own humanity if we undermine women,” he said.