“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
How to Stay Sane in Crazy Times:
Stoic Tools for Countering Fear and Anxiety
A Six-Week Online Writing to Awaken Class
September 2 – October 13, 2024
Stoic philosophy was created as an antidote – a psychological treatment – for times of difficulty and uncertainty. Its lessons have endured for two thousand years because they are eminently practical, grounded, and inarguable.
In this new online writing course, you’ll explore six time-tested Stoic principles to help you stay balanced and focused with resolve in this period of enormous political, moral, social, and spiritual challenges. Incorporating the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Montaigne, and others, Mark will guide you on a Stoic journey of mental health and self-understanding intended to stabilize your mind, heart, and spirit, with the wisdom to prevent being overwhelmed by events in the world.
Journaling for Hope & Guidance:
The Power of Witnessing Your Life
A Four-Week Writing to Awaken Course with IAJW
September 10 – October 1, 2024
Journaling is a powerful practice for cultivating hope in challenging times. As humans, we have a unique capacity to transform hopelessness through ingenuity and imagination, and to brighten our lives with the power of insight.
In this inspiring four-week course, Mark guides you through a series of Writing to Awaken practices aimed at catalyzing the spirit of hope within you. Shifting your perspective on personal experience – including fearful predictions about the future – helps to release vital optimism and move you from victimhood toward self-empowerment.
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Home 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.
