This is the 9th Hologram course, and the first course aimed towards “familiars,” or people who are already practicing. The Hologram is a peer-to-peer conversation protocol that distributes care differently. It doesn’t replace professional care but goes underneath it. Through forming and activating community ties, the Hologram aims to create a network of people who feel stable and healthy, who can survive and thrive during the current and upcoming crises. This course is free to attend.
Lucien Spect and Lark Lyra Lou Hill are facilitating this course, and Florence Freitag is administrating. We are Hologram familiars who have been facilitating MVHs, courses and workshops since 2021. Lucien and Lark co-created and began facilitating Masculiminal, a bimonthly open, experimental, online reading/discussion group and Hologram practice space, in 2024. The intention of Masculiminal is to explore, ease into and evolve our own masculinities, leaving behind patriarchal masculinity and working to heal its heavily policed boundaries.This course has grown out of Masculiminal and our varied experiences guiding Hologram sessions.
COURSE THEME
The theme of the course is consistency through conflict, and our approach is playful. We experience the Hologram as a tool that helps people build interpersonal skills, stay connected and dream outside of capitalism; we hope this course will promote and develop the Hologram as a tool to help communities persist through disagreement and discomfort (though not necessarily as a conflict resolution tool).
In this course we will follow the irresistible friction within both our multi-dudes and our individual Hologram practice. What are the personal and societal frictions that arise from our manifold masculinities and how can we meet them? How does our Hologram practice take place and space (or not) in our lives and why now?
Having seen the Hologram protocol take many practice shapes over the last 6 years, we are curious: how do our lives shape our practice and vice versa? How can friction, in our personal identities as well as in our relational practices, fuel and support us in times of massive change?
WHO IS THIS FOR
For familiars of the Hologram across the gender spectrum who wish to explore their masculinities and/or self-identify as masculine. We believe that all genders can coexist in all people. We understand you may disagree; wonderful! Please join us. If you are not familiar with the Hologram, you are still welcome, just reach out so we can catch you up.
DATES OF COURSE
The course will take place on Zoom, on six consecutive Sundays, starting May 10th, 2026 and finishing on June 14th. Session Dates: May 10, May 17, May 24, May 31, June 7, June 14. Please only apply if you can commit to attending 5/6 sessions.
START TIMES
Each session will run online for 2 hours, including a short break, from from 10am-12pm pacific time. Other time zones listed below:
12-2pm CDT (Chicago, New Orleans, Mexico City)
1-3pm EDT (Toronto, Detroit, New York City)
6-8pm BST (London, Glasgow, Lisbon)
7-9pm CEST (Berlin, Athens, Prague
ACCESSIBILITY
We will be using Zoom to meet, email and Whatsapp to communicate between classes, and Google Drive to access and upload materials. Participants will need a computer with functioning video and audio, and decent internet connection. Participants are asked to be together on video most of the duration of the class. Different levels of bodily mobility are welcomed. It is not necessary but usually preferable to have a private, comfortable space for the call. This course will be conducted in English.
As the bulk of our curriculum is participatory and intimate, sessions will not be recorded.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply for a place in the course, fill out this application form. The next page explains more about the application process, but google forms insists on asking for your email before we can go any further.
