Brian Mattocks
Host and Founder of A Mason's Work - a podcast designed to help you use symbolism to grow. He's been working in the craft for over a decade and served as WM, trustee, and sat in every appointed chair in a lodge - at least once :D
Appears in 252 Episodes
The Guide Series Episode 4: The Systemic Level
This episode zooms out to the organizational level, examining how the function of the Guide creates the infrastructure for accessibility, risk management, and systemic...
The Guide Series Episode 3: The Relational Level
This episode explores the guide role in the context of our relationships, focusing on how to support others through adversity without overstepping or "lifting the ston...
The Guide Series Episode 2: The Behavioral Level (Guiding the Self)
This episode shifts the lens inward, exploring how the function of the Guide can be applied to our own internal "headspace" to navigate personal struggles and behavior...
The Guide Series Episode 1: The Custodian of the Future
In this episode, we move beyond the administrative view of the Guide as a simple ritualistic requirement to explore why it is the most powerful role in the lodge for i...
The Junior Warden: Noticing Before You Numb
This episode integrates the Junior Warden role through a personal struggle with self-regulation, social pressure, and the habit of “toughing it out.” The focus is on h...
The Junior Warden: Regulating Tension Before Systems Break
This episode examines the systemic role of the Junior Warden, focusing on how ongoing tension, load, and strain accumulate inside organizations, relationships, and liv...
The Junior Warden: Knowing When Progress Has Stopped
This episode explores the relational function of the Junior Warden, focusing on the ability to notice when conversations, relationships, or group efforts can no longer...
The Junior Warden: Noticing Capacity Before It’s Gone
This episode focuses on the behavioral function of the Junior Warden, centered on the skill of noticing. The conversation examines how awareness of internal signals—ph...
The Junior Warden: Capacity, Rhythm, and the Vibe Check
This episode introduces the Junior Warden by examining the role’s responsibility for managing rest and refreshment, capacity, and continuity of effort. The Junior Ward...
The Senior Warden: Preparing for the Close
This episode integrates the Senior Warden function through personal and practical examples that show what happens when closure is insufficient or avoided. The focus is...
The Senior Warden: Phase Boundaries and Information Handoff
This episode examines the systemic function of the Senior Warden as the role responsible for managing phase transitions—knowing when one body of work is complete, what...
The Senior Warden: Ending Well With Others
This episode explores the relational role of the Senior Warden, focusing on how closure (or the lack of it) shapes trust, resentment, and clarity between people. The e...
The Senior Warden — Knowing When the Work Is Done
This episode examines the behavioral function of the Senior Warden, focusing on how individuals recognize when effort should stop and closure should begin. The emphasi...
The Senior Warden: Closing the Work, Paying the Wages
This episode introduces the Senior Warden as a closure function—the role responsible for ending a phase of work in a way that honors the “contract terms,” ensures the ...
The Plumb: Stating the Objective and Acting in Alignment
This episode integrates the Plumb as a practical decision test, using the “nice guy finishes last” pattern as a concrete example. The focus is on how unstated objectiv...
The Plumb: Values as the Non-Negotiable Reference
This episode examines the systemic application of the Plumb, focusing on how durable systems stay grounded by aligning to values rather than locking themselves to fixe...
The Plumb: Grounded Behavior and Trust
This episode explores the relational application of the Plumb, focusing on how grounded, consistent behavior shapes the quality and durability of relationships. The Pl...
The Plumb: Staying True While in Motion
This episode examines the behavioral application of the Plumb, focusing on what it means to stay grounded without becoming rigid. The Plumb is used to test whether beh...
The Plumb: Grounding What You Build
This episode introduces the Plumb by explaining its operative function and why it matters for anything intended to stand upright over time. From there, it establishes ...
The Worshipful Master: Ego, Alignment, and Building the Environment
This episode brings the series together by naming what happens when the person in charge hasn’t learned how they participate in outcomes — especially when ego becomes ...