Creative Practice in Men’s Work in The Listening Room HQ

Ralf Peters, Sweets edition, 2025

My latest post in The Listening Room HQ is about what happens when creative practice enters the space of men’s work.

Creative practice has a way of loosening what words alone can’t reach. It’s not about art as product, but about opening. A way men can meet themselves, each other, and others differently.

It’s not theory or performance, it’s a way of grounding, disarming, and opening what’s otherwise hard to reach.

In spirit, it sits not far from Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files, a place where correspondence becomes a kind of soul map. The Listening Room HQ works in a similar way though with men’s practice: gathering fragments, gestures, and creative practice into a field of shared soul work.

You can read it here: Creative Practice in Men’s Work.

Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig 2025 – photolog 1

© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman

We’ll be bringing you the 2025 Wave-Gotik-Treffen photologs over the next few weeks. As usual, Gustavo Hochman captured the festival for us.Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the world’s largest gothic festival, celebrating gothic, Victoriana, steampunk, and related subcultures. The festival happens yearly in Leipzig, Germany.We will return to cover the festival next year.

© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman
Totentanz Strumpfsockig © Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman
© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman
© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman
© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman

2025 photolog 2

2025 photolog 3

2025 photolog 4

Other Years:

Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024 coverage connection

Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2023 coverage connection:

Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2019 coverage connection

The Listening Room HQ – Early Notes

Van Gogh Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh, Three Sunflowers, 1888

A couple of days after the first anchor, the Listening Room HQ is quietly taking shape.

Sunflowers and Van Gogh, my favourite painter, continue to be an inspiration. Each Sunflowers painting subtly shifts in light and energy — each one different.

The maps, the sessions, this craft is a side of me many of you haven’t seen before. A new way of holding presence, listening, and connecting, blending intuition, somatic practice, and knowledge from neuroscience and neurobiology.

Read the first post on the Listening Room HQ on Mondo here.