E118| Meanings of the Masculine & the Feminine w/ Adriana Forte, Aspasia Karageorge, Tom Lyons & Tim Adalin

An opening to questions, blind spots, and revelations of sexuality, biology, culture, psychology, nature, politics and metaphysics, drawn together by the meaning of the masculine and the feminine.

Welcoming Adriana Forte, a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Joining Adriana are Voicecraft members Aspasia Karageorge, clinical psychologist and qualitative researcher, and Tom Lyons (Ecofo) and Tim Adalin of the Voicecraft Network.

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  Keywords

  masculine, feminine, gender dynamics, communication, intimacy, relationships, beauty, attraction, rhythm, cycles, beauty, gender dynamics, womanhood, communication, modernity, hormones, psychosexual development, certainty, societal expectations, relational dynamics, beauty, toxicity, bitchiness, masculinity, femininity, socialization, communication, transformation

  Chapters

  00:00 Exploring Masculine and Feminine Dynamics

  06:58 Navigating Complexity in Gender Conversations

  13:50 Communication Styles and Intimacy

  20:59 The Role of Context in Relationships

  27:52 Understanding Rhythm and Cycles in Gender

  34:57 Beauty, Attraction, and Gender Dynamics

  42:55 Exploring the Nature of Beauty

  46:19 The Psychosexual Dynamics of Gender

  51:01 The Experience of Womanhood

  56:07 Navigating Communication in Gendered Spaces

  01:02:13 The Complexity of Certainty and Communication

  01:07:29 The Impact of Modernity on Gender Dynamics

  01:12:11 Understanding Biological and Psychological Constraints

  01:18:03 The Role of Hormones in Gender Experience

  01:28:23 Exploring Beauty and Toxicity

  01:31:40 Understanding Bitchiness and Anger

  01:33:56 Complexity in Socialization and Gender Dynamics

  01:36:42 The Role of Hormones in Behavior

  01:39:02 Navigating Masculinity and Femininity in Society

  01:43:18 Creating Mutual Understanding Between Genders

  01:46:11 The Dance of Masculine and Feminine

  01:51:12 Embracing the Pain of Transformation

  01:54:08 The Complexity of Female Experience

  01:57:58 Curiosity in Communication

  02:00:01 Future Conversations and Collective Growth

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• Adriana Forte

  Adriana is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. 

  Above all, she’s a mother to two amazing girls, a partner to an awesome guy, and an apprentice gardener living off-grid in a community in Australia.

  She has a substack where she posts articles, reflections and holds occasional group conversations: https://theclab.substack.com/

  Check out C-lab's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thec-lab/videos

• Aspasia Karageorge

  Aspasia Karageorge is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Australia, a qualitative researcher, and a writer of some kind. She grew up in small town New Zealand wedged between a mountain and a volcanic black-sand coast. She is curious about practice-based wisdom, the creative process, languages of the unconscious, and some intersection of wonder/beauty/mystery/connection. Her therapy approach is greatly informed by Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). As a research consultant, she is broadly focused on clinical complexity, innovation, and workforce development. Longstanding literary loves include Camus, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Anaïs Nin, Plato, Borges, Kafka, Balzac, Jung, Paz, Sartre, Nietzche, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway… a ridiculous list of names.

  In her downtime, you’ll currently find her in the water, writing something that won’t make sense until later, daydreaming with campari, and/or dancing to some wild Greek 70s pop records with her kids. She is also a core contributor at Voicecraft.

  For Aspasia’s private practice : sydneycitypsychology.com.au

  She also shares conversations on her YouTube channel here:
  https://www.youtube.com/@aspasiapsychology

• Tom Lyons

  Tom Lyons is co-founder of Ecofo, which develops digital contexts to support the sacredness of communication. He is a core contributor at Voicecraft.

• Tim Adalin

  Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. You can connect with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz

• About Voicecraft

  Voicecraft conversations deepen how the world is known across themes of psyche, culture and nature.

  The Voicecraft Project is comprised of a media & events platform, academy, and participatory membership network.

• Intro Music - 'The Big Break' by Cantrips

  Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qaj-stBL4W0

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