The KI Weekend is about you reflecting on the man you are and choose to be.

Deep in the heart of the natural world of South Australia's Kangaroo Island (KI), un-plugged and away from routine life the weekend is an opportunity to engage with other men and experiences that lead you to reflect on your sense of who you are as a grown man or as a young-fella on the road to manhood.

Though the time is short, the experience is full and engaging as it invites you to connect as a group, learning about yourself and others through shared stories of the everyday and the profound.

Contemporary Initiation

Safe and thoughtful Initiations which mark a young male's passage from boyhood to manhood are largely missing from our culture, so at the centre of the Weekend is a ceremony that challenges and affirms the young men taking this step in their lives.

For the adult man the ceremony is about consciously claiming this transition into manhood even though it may have occurred many years ago. It is also about owning the man you choose to be and about transition into Eldership .

The weekend is for men of all ages, backgrounds and experience. There are fathers with teenage sons, fathers and men without sons and sons without fathers. For fathers accompanying and supporting sons the Weekend is just as much for you as it is for your sons.

Please note that whilst the purpose of the KI Men’s Weekend is for men and boys to separate themselves from family and daily life for a short while we consider that family, loved ones and people close to us have a valuable place in the lives of each of us be it past, present or future. To this end we encourage you, where appropriate and possible, to share the information on this website with the loved ones in your life.

Take a look around the website and if the ideas you find here inspire you, join us for our next weekend away.

““A boy cannot change into a man without the active intervention of the older men.””
— Robert Bly (from Iron John)