Famous for Five Miles
A place-based learning journey for young men, exploring belonging, purpose, identity, community, creativity and relationship with the living world.
Famous for Five Miles is a new action learning offering from Becoming Crew for young men (18-25 yrs) starting in the Bath, Bristol and Avon Bioregion.
A place-based learning journey for young men, exploring belonging, purpose, identity, community, creativity and relationship with the living world.
We are inviting young men into honest conversation, time on the land, creative practice and deeper relationship with community.
It arrives after nearly three years of inquiry into youth focussed, Earth-centered learning.
Which has led to our focus on intergenerational regeneration experiences.
We are starting here because we are hearing a need for spaces where young men can speak honestly, build trust, explore identity and purpose, spend time in nature, and be supported by peers, elders and community.
At the same time, this work is not limited in spirit to one gender. The deeper invitation is for people of all identities: to reconnect with place, community, creativity and response-ability. As the project grows, we intend to develop future journeys that are open to wider groups.
You can read the full story here
We are currently working on outreach, conversation and gatherings starting this process with several months of co-design with young men and those supporting them.
This is about meeting organisations, projects, mentors and community spaces working with young men across the bioregion.
We are hoping to build a village around this project and all of our intergenerational regeneration work, so we have an immediate ask for you.
If you know of projects that are working with young men that might be interested in getting involved, please share and follow this link to connect from the web page
If you know a young man in our bioregion who might want to join a conversation, attend a gathering, or be part of the longer journey, please follow this link to connect
We are also seeking partners, funders and supporters to help resource this work with young people going forward.
Supporting place-based youth work, intergenerational learning spaces, land and place regeneration and growing more hopeful futures. To help us host gatherings, offer bursaries, pay guides, support transport and build a wider village around the work.
Please share with anyone who might be able to help with the above and do message if you’d like to explore more.
If you’d like to stay up to date with the Famous for Five Miles journey, we plan to share our learnings openly as we go - which we’ll post here in this Famous for Five Miles section, if you don’t want to receive them then please unsubscribe from this in your substack settings
Blessings to you
Dan and Crew
