#11 | From Crisis to Coherence with Ian Mackenzie

In this reVillager episode, Jasper Sircus sits down with Ian MacKenzie, a successful filmmaker, writer, men’s mentor, cofounder of ⁠The School of Mythopoetics⁠, and the host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast⁠. He’s also a long-time friend and more recently a collaborator on our upcoming course in the reVillager Academy.

In this conversation, we chat about his newest film, “⁠The Village of Lovers⁠”, which is a documentary film about an ecovillage in Portugal named Tamera. The film took him and his two other co-directors 7 years to complete and is finally now going to premiere globally online, by Self-Determined Payment on February 7th, 2024.

Ian shares more about not just the film, but also the upcoming summit he is hosting in unison with the film’s release around the same themes, “⁠A Cry from the Future”, which will be a visionary online gathering, hosted from Feb 10-14th. This summit will bring together amazing leaders and activists of our times to discuss how we can transform our culture and move from global crisis to group coherence.

In this episode, Jasper and Ian go into depth about the philosophies and practices that make a community strong and relationally solid, both within the context of an ecovillage as well as in the broader community. Ian shares about what he learned while living in and documenting Tamera, and lays out some of their key ways of thinking about relational harmony and communal structure, including a modality they created for group processing called “Forum”.

We also explore what “village-minded” really means and how we can use the wisdom and practice of intentional community living to create more accountable, transparent, and compassionate systems and leadership.

Thanks so much for listening and if you want to see Ian’s new film, you can register for free at www.thevillageoflovers.com!

Watch on Youtube at https://youtu.be/rPkugsNkz7I?si=BJNlY5s9QGjBfNGy.