A MODERN PATH OF REMEMBRANCE · RELATIONSHIP · PRACTICE · INTEGRATION · THE WORLD IS OUR CLASSROOM
MODERN CHIEFTAIN · THE WORLD IS OUR CLASSROOM
Learning to live
in reciprocity.
With the Earth. With God. With family, community, food, culture, the elements, and all our relations.
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AN INVITATION TO REMEMBER
A life of relationship is a life of responsibility, wonder, and belonging.
Modern Chieftain is an invitation to learn from the world around us. Through wilderness, story, ceremony, the hunt, and rites of passage, we practice showing up more fully for the people and places to which we belong.
Remember ✦ Practice ✦ Integrate ✦ Return
01 / THE PATH
The practices that
bring us back.
Not something to master. A way of remembering how to be in relationship with life.
01 / PRACTICE
Wilderness
Remember the Earth.
02 / PRACTICE
The Hunt
Remember your food.
03 / PRACTICE
The Altar
Remember reciprocity.
04 / PRACTICE
Pilgrimage
Death & Rebirth.
05 / PRACTICE
Myth
Remember the stories.
06 / PRACTICE
Rites of Passage
Honor life's thresholds.
THE WORLD IS OUR CLASSROOM
02 / OUR STORY
A path lived,
not prescribed.
From wilderness and rites of passage to gathering, pilgrimage, and remembrance - discover the life experiences that shaped Jere and the creation of Modern Chieftain.
03 / CIRCLE UP
Come gather.
Circles, ceremonies, pilgrimages, and the wild places where we remember together.
GATHERINGS · EXAMPLE CATEGORY
Men’s circles & rites of passage
Places to listen, reflect, witness, and grow.
WILDERNESS · EXAMPLE CATEGORY
Pilgrimage & wilderness journeys
Learn from land, threshold, and lived experience.
These represent categories from Jere's brief, not confirmed scheduled events.
04 / THE HEARTH
Every journey
leads home.
The stories and reflections we bring back. Letters on relationship, the Earth, fatherhood, food, culture, faith, and the everyday work of integration.
“Experience becomes wisdom. Wisdom becomes practice. And practice becomes the way we live.”
CONCEPT LINE FROM THE CREATIVE BRIEF
MODERN
CHIEFTAIN
LEARNING TO LIVE IN RECIPROCITY
The world is our classroom. A living practice of relationship, remembrance, and return.