“I recently finished an online writing course with Mark Matousek.
After 30 years of seeking, I found Mark to be someone who gently,
and consciously, offers feedback, teaching, and healing that gave me
permission to safely peer into my inner world. In six weeks the insights
and doors to deeper creative potential were wide open.”
~ Lisa Marie, USA
Upcoming Online Class
Origins:
Lineage, Legacy, and Blood Relations
A Nine-Week Online Writing Class
March 17 – May 19, 2025
Uncover the Wisdom Passed Down to You Through Generations
Each of us exists on a family tree, connected by blood and lineage to the first people who walked the earth. We cannot escape our heritage any more than an apple can deny the tree. If memory exists in the blood, what lessons were you given at birth? Do you view your own heritage as positive or detrimental? What is the nature of your emotional and spiritual inheritance? How has this legacy shaped who you are and informed your personal narrative? In this nine-week online class, you’ll be guided through a series of thought-provoking lessons concerning legacy, origins, and family dynamics. By grasping the connection to your origins, and their effect on who you are today, self-awareness deepens tremendously along with the potential for happiness and meaning.
The Spiritual Power of Resilience
How to Stay Sane in Crazy Times
with Carolyn Myss
Four 90-minute live webinars
Tuesdays & Thursdays, March 18-27
1 pm ET / 10 am PT
In this four-part course, Mark Matousek offers time-tested principles for remaining balanced and sane in times of extreme adversity, change and emerging opportunities. Drawing on the wisdom of some of the most renowned writers throughout history, including Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Montaigne, and Emerson, he links this ancient stream of practical philosophy to the challenges of our tumultuous times. Many of these great teachers and leaders taught that spirit is tested in periods of apocalyptic — apocalypse stems from the Greek for “reveal or uncover” — and that wakefulness leads to transformation.
Self-Study Guided Writing Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson taught that originality, nonconformity, self-trust, and spiritual perspective are the keys to an awakened life. When you take the time to know yourself, he taught, you discover how interesting you actually are, and the vastness of your innate potential.
In this six-week Guided Writing Series, we examine Emerson’s extraordinary insights into flourishing on the path he called Self-Reliance. This visionary way of life combines the practical genius of the ancient Stoics with the soul-stirring beauty of Transcendentalism, the pioneering movement he helped to found for people seeking direct spiritual experience outside the bounds of churchly authority.
Emerson’s timeless wisdom is precisely the medicine we need today to help address our contemporary problems. His focus on authenticity, cooperation, truthfulness, and radical optimism make him a powerful teacher for our these difficult times, as you’ll experience in this timely new course.
In this six-week Guided Writing Series, we continue to examine Emerson’s extraordinary insights into flourishing on the path he called Self-Reliance. This visionary way of life combines the practical genius of the ancient Stoics with the soul-stirring beauty of Transcendentalism, the pioneering movement he helped to found for people seeking direct spiritual experience outside the bounds of churchly authority.
These six transformative lessons are designed to increase well-being and deepen your insight and connection to your inner voice.
Emerson’s timeless wisdom is precisely the medicine we need today to help address our contemporary problems. His focus on authenticity, cooperation, truthfulness, and radical optimism make him a powerful teacher for our these difficult times, as you’ll experience in this timely new course.
The Bright Side of Living:
How Optimism Changes Everything
A Six-Part Guided Writing Series
Are you tired of the cynicism and pessimism pervading the world today? Do you despair of the hopelessness and doomsday thinking that dominate these challenging times? Do you wonder why precious little attention is paid to what’s right in a world where so much has gone so terribly wrong?
In this paradigm-shifting series, you’ll explore optimism as a life-saving human trait that comes naturally when you practice insight. Optimism is a philosophical choice, in fact, that is available to every one of us when we open our eyes to our human potential, and the goodness of the people around us. This radical, uplifting way of seeing is the antidote to the catastrophic worldview so fashionable in these troubling times.
