This email list for the exclusive use of the Gaia Community Twigs ’N Berries group. It is a men’s group connected to Gaia Community, an Earth-based Pagan-themed Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Kansas City.

The Brotherhood of the Twigs ’N Berries (working title) is a Gaia Community covenant group established to develop an opportunity for men, of any sexual orientation, to gather in a spiritual and non-sexual intimate working group, to further explore our sacred practice and integrating it into our life behavior. By using a variety of traditional and culture techniques, we will explore men's issues in a shared fellowship of trust, and respect that is experienced viscerally through self-realization and individual reconnection. The goal of each retreat is to give the participants a deeper understanding of values to enhance their responsibilities as men of society. The group will be exploring pagan spirituality centered on a masculine point of view. Fifty percent for the membership of this group must be Full-active members of Gaia Community as must be the covenant leader.
Membership is open to anyone that is:
• eighteen or older
• identifies as male
• practicing a spirituality that is non-inimical with pagan traditions or forms of earth-based spirituality
• affirm and promote the seven principles of the UUA.
• sign the groups written covenant and ground rules of behavior and be current to the groups obligations

Retreats will be peer-led and probably involve primitive camping when reasonable. This will focus our awareness to our earth connection. Besides spiritual growth work, "camp fire" discussions will focus on men's mysteries.

Ground Rules
1. What is said and what happens at retreat . . . stays at retreat
2. Complete confidentiality must be maintain within the group
3. Trust is earned; simple respect is a given
4. Think well of the group
5. A collection will be taken at each meeting (half going directly back to Gaia Co