“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 Classes
The Story of Your Life:
Making Sense of the Past and Present
A Six-Week Online Writing to Awaken Class
January 19 – March 1, 2026
Every life is a creative act, an improvisation from start to finish. We create meaning from our life experiences and then imbue them with value, shape, and purpose. The significance you give to what happens to you defines the story of your life.
In this new online writing class, you’ll focus on identifying and exploring your central life narrative, the story that lies hidden within your life situation. Whether you’re writing a memoir or using personal reflection as a path of insight, this new class can be of great benefit.
Every Life is a Hero’s Journey:
The Healing Power of Spiritual Memoir
Thursdays at 2:00 pm EST/19:00 GMT
January 22 – February 26, 2026
Presented by Alternatives U.K.
Writing is an extraordinary tool for liberating the mind, healing the heart, and empowering the human spirit. In this illuminating six-week course, award-winning writer and teacher Mark Matousek introduces participants to the power and practice of spiritual memoir. Viewing your life as a soul’s journey, he teaches — from wounding to wisdom, and ignorance to insight — reveals the mythic dimension of your personal struggles, confusions, affinities, and longings. This increases your spiritual aliveness and creative power.
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.
