Find the Empowering Truth Behind Your Story
As Homo Narrans, the story-telling ape, we create a story – a personal myth – in order to make sense of our lives and the world around us. This story follows us through life, rarely questioned or examined for truth and its affect on us today. But what if this narrative is not true? Many people sleepwalk through life, never exploring the whole truth of their experience, either to themselves or to others. This six-week course is designed to initiate you into the transformative power of truth-telling. When you explore the gap between truth and story, it becomes a doorway to personal freedom. Through guided writing, deep inquiry, and honest reflection, you’ll explore where your personal story comes from and how it has – and continues to – shape your choices. Do the roles you’ve cast yourself in serve you, leading you toward your full potential? Does your story tamp or extinguish your passions, spirit, and genius?
Filled with psychological wisdom and unique exercises for self-understanding, this incisive guide to authentic living will help you see yourself – and your story – through new eyes. By cultivating these techniques, you will learn to increase self-esteem, enhance relationships, achieve life goals, and discard outdated agendas.
Purchase This Six-Week Course for $97.00 USD
Thank you Mark Matousek, accomplished author, coach, and professional extractor. Your wisdom and intuitive skills have had a huge impact on my being, outlook, and honesty with myself. Thank you for encouraging all of us to accept we are worthy. Thank you for skipping the syntax lesson and choosing the life lesson.
— Andrea Evans
In this six-week course, Why Story Matters, Mark Matousek will guide you through a process of re-evaluation and truth-telling intended to reveal opportunities, renew your sense of possibility, and restore your hope in the power to change. We often wait for crisis to shock us out of our complacency, but there’s no need to rely on catastrophe to crack us open or reveal options that are already hiding in plain sight. You already have the requisite tools to change. As Mark demonstrates in these eye-opening lessons, the power of transformation is innate in all of us and waiting to be accessed. The ability to question, reflect, re-vision, and dream is part of your natural repertoire as an evolutionary being. This course provides the “wisdom spark” that can help you kick start your latent capacity for change, revealing the vibrant possibilities hidden beneath the habits, fears, and limiting stories that hold you back from thriving.
How the Course Works
1. Purchase and Immediate Access: Upon purchase, you’ll be directed to a page that includes a Course Overview, Lesson One, a video from Mark with guidance on the Writing to Awaken method of self-inquiry, and his Writing to Awaken Guidelines.
2. Lesson Delivery: Subsequent lessons will be dropped every seven days and we will notify you by email when they are ready to access. You will need to login using the username and password you created to access the content. This weekly delivery will continue for the duration of the course.
3. Study Pace: Students are encouraged to complete each lesson within a week. Following this weekly schedule will help maintain learning momentum.
“Mark started our first class with the words: 'You’re all here for a reason, even though you may not know what that reason is.' Over the course of just a handful of short sessions, I’ve come to realize that not only was I there for a reason, but that this reason was more important to my well being and self understanding than I could have possibly fathomed when I first signed on for this class.”
— Brian Carr
Waking up to the fact that we are not our story changes a seeker’s life completely. We become the authors of our own lives rather than unwitting victims, and then story can serve its sacred function as a tool for enlightenment.
What you will learn in Why Story Matters
Lesson One: Secrets and Lies
In the first lesson, Secrets and Lies, you will:
- Explore writing as a powerful tool for self-excavation, capturing emotion, spiritual insight, and fresh perspectives through mindful attention and “beginner’s mind.”
- Consider crisis as a catalyst for authenticity that can break apart self-narratives and open the door to reinvention.
- Use writing to uncover your own secrets.
Lesson Two: The Life Myth
In Lesson Two, The Life Myth, you will:
- Compare your life myth with the actual facts of your situation.
- Explore how your real situation might contradict your story — and how that discrepancy does or doesn’t serve you.
- Gain perspective on how to change your story.
Lesson Three: Performance and Idealization
In Lesson Three, Performance and Idealization, you’ll look closely at:
- The values of achievement-driven cultures vs those of “being” cultures that prize spiritual development and see worthiness as a birthright.
- Your own view of competition and performance.
Lesson Four: Excitement and Anxiety
In the fourth lesson, Excitement and Anxiety, you’ll learn about:
- The close and often confusing relationship between excitement and anxiety, especially the ways anxiety can mask desire.
- How avoiding fears can block self-realization.
- The possibility of integrating fear and desire to create a more fulfilling life.
Lesson Five: The Wisdom of Uncertainty
In Lesson Five, The Wisdom of Uncertainty, you’ll explore:
- The ways our culture prizes certainty and control, often at the expense of curiosity, exploration, and honest living.
- How our “destination addiction” — the constant push toward resolution and finality — can trap us in fear and self-deception.
- The gift of surrender and the connection between faith and uncertainty.
Lesson Six: True Intention
In Lesson Six, True Intention, you’ll uncover:
- Your own truest intention, based on the work of the previous five weeks.
- Where your truest intention is leading you.
Uncover the Truth. Transform Your Writing.
Awaken Your Life.
Discover the transformative power of self-inquiry with Why Story Matters: A Six-Week Writing Investigation. Mark’s unique and transformative course offers inspiration and guidance to deepen your connection to yourself and others.
Why Choose Why Story Matters?
- Expert Guidance: Benefit from Mark’s wisdom and decades of experience empowering others to transform their lives.
- Flexible Learning: Engage with the material at your own pace, from the comfort of your home.
- Proven Method: Mark’s Writing to Awaken method of self-inquiry has helped countless people worldwide achieve their creative and personal goals.
Transform Your Life
By diving into these lessons, you’ll tap into the life-changing power of curiosity and truth-telling. The Quest for Meaning offers an experience akin to a personalized, one-on-one workshop, providing you with the tools to reach your full potential.
Join a global community of learners who have used Writing to Awaken to elevate their personal and professional lives. Invest in yourself today and begin your journey toward a fuller, more loving life.
Meet Your Guide, Mark Matousek
Mark Matousek, MA, is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on transformative writing for personal, professional, and spiritual development. He is the founder of TheSeekersForum.com, an online community for writing and self-inquiry, as well as the author of eight books including How Emerson Can Change Your Life: Lessons From an American Stoic, Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story, When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, and Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life.
