“Our personal and social development need to be unified.
If they aren’t, our social change will be superficial,
and our self-development incomplete.”

The Culture Of Honouring is a social movement for the honouring of both the authentic masculine and the authentic feminine. We support the development of local community, and are weaving a network of communities around the world.
Wherever we go we create Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods, and bring them face to face – into deep community with each other – as well as working with groups of couples. In this way, we are contributing to the seeding of a new culture – a Culture of Honouring.

“Imagine two lovers.
Imagine the energy-field between them.
Imagine a community in that energy-field.
Imagine a whole culture in that energy-field”

This ‘energy-field’ appears when The Authentic Masculine and The Authentic Feminine meet. This is why, if we want to create a new culture together, we need to shed the layers of disempowered, conditioned masculinity and femininity that we carry.

The Culture Of Honouring began 15 years ago when it was called ‘Balance’. It was renamed The Culture of Honouring 5 years ago. We are now working mainly in the UK, USA and Spain.

To change we need each other. We need community. We need conscious, awake, heartful, empowered community. And ultimately, cultures are no more than networks of communities…

Project Founders and Co-Directors

 

Mark Josephs-Serra (‘Joseph’)

After years of pilgrimage as a young man, Joseph settled as a devotional Hindu monk for a decade. After derobing, he immersed himself in psychological and emotional healing. Eventually the exploration of the masculine and the feminine became his deepest interest. In the 1990′s he created the community-building project ‘Balance’ which facilitated men’s, women’s and couples’ groups and workshops, and community ceremonies and events. This was the precursor to the Culture of Honouring.
The author of ‘Sex, Spirit and Community’ (Carpenter, 2000), Joseph initiated The Culture of Honouring Project in 2005 – after a five year ‘break’ running a successful business. He is currently writing a second book, convinced that the path of masculine empowerment culminates in truly honouring the power of the feminine, and allowing oneself to be guided by her. He is profoundly grateful for his intimate relationship, which he feels has been his most ruthless teacher. The central question within all of Joseph’s work is how we can bridge our personal development with cultural change.

Elisabeth Josephs-Serra

After living in India and being involved in Buddhism for 10 years, Elisabeth went on to study and teach Yoga, movement and meditation before beginning extensive training in therapy at the London Institute of Psychosynthesis.
Elisabeth is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and has an M.A. in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy. She is a practitioner and teacher of an ancient women’s dance-meditation, and is passionate about the re-empowerment of women. She is commited to the journey of intimate relationship, and facilitates workshops together with Joseph. Elisabeth is Spanish by birth, and has travelled all over the world. She is a mother, and loves gardening and dancing.