with Gregory Kramer and Joe Loizzo
Overview
Patriarchy robs us all of our life-giving relational capacity. While it mainly oppresses women and children, it insidiously harms every one of us. Its polarizing gender roles objectify and exploit women, isolate and emotionally stunt men, and target LGBTQIA+ people for attack. Because it was designed to give a few uber-powerful men control over how the rest of us live and who and how we love, it cuts to the heart of the caring relationships that enable us to thrive, individually and collectively. So how do we dismantle this archaic system inside and out so we can all heal together?
This daylong retreat is for all men willing to explore and transform their patriarchal conditioning. It will offer participants both a better understanding of the history and structure of this oppressive system as well as relational meditative experiences that reveal, disrupt and heal its harmful impacts on our capacity to connect with ourselves and others.
Co-led by two dharma teachers who have been working together to understand and interrupt their own gender conditioning, the retreat explores key insights about how patriarchy works within and around us through a Buddhist lens. Greg and Joe bring these insights to life by offering key practices of Insight Dialogue, self-compassion, and silent meditation that they have found help us break free of the “man-box” of repressed fear, shame and rage. We trust that this day of shared inquiry and practice will help prepare participants do the work of disrupting patriarchy by learning to liberate their native capacity for relational wisdom, social emotional competence and generative humanity.
If you’ve been struggling with the conditioning that has blocked your capacity to connect more deeply with yourself and others and are looking for a community of fellow-travelers on the way to a post-patriarchal, awakened humanity, please join us!
This event is co-sponsored with Tibet House US.
Details
Instructors: Nalanda Academic Director Joe Loizzo and Insight Dialogue Community Founding Teacher Gregory Kramer
When: 10am – 4pm ET, Sunday, November 1, 2026
Location: In person at Tibet House US (22 West 15th Street, NYC)
Fee: Free, $55 supported or $108 regular fee