Weekly Course Overview
Week One: Connecting with Self
This first session centers on the relationship with yourself, and your habitual ways of responding to personal needs, wounds, and desires. By understanding how you relate to your interior world, you can learn to self-correct and heal antiquated stories, beliefs, and judgment.
Week Two: Connecting with Family
In this second session, you focus on the relationship to family and the complex dynamics of building and sustaining bonds with individuals in your kin group. How do you cultivate support and affection among those to whom you might never have chosen connection — but whom you value, nevertheless? This is a confusing area for many of us, and ripe for insight and transformation.
Week Three: Connecting with Friends
In the third session, you explore the critical, frequently overlooked impacts of platonic connection on your emotional health. How can you sustain long-term bonds, honor non-romantic intimacy, and avoid the common pitfalls that can sabotage relationships with friends? Strengthening non-romantic connections is an essential step to emotional wholeness.
Week Four: Connecting with Partners
In this final session, you turn your attention to connecting with lovers and romantic partners (both present and past), and the distinct challenges of intimate relationships. How does Eros impact your emotional life, for better and worse, and how can you bring wisdom into this complex emotional zone? Do you define yourself through romantic love, and how does this conspire against happiness, if so?
Taken together, these four sessions provide a framework for illuminating and healing, the heart-connections that sustain you.
What to expect in this course?
Mark will begin each 90-minute session with an overview of the relationship-type and its challenges — drawing on time-honored psychological and spiritual principles — and guide you through two Writing to Awaken practices designed to prompt insight into where you may be blocked, resistant, or unaware of your patterns. Each practice is followed by a small-group breakout (optional) and Q&A, when Mark will provide you with personalized deepening prompts for deepening your self-inquiry practice.
Known for insightful, provocative questions, Mark creates a safe, supportive, confidential environment for engaging with this deep, transformative practice. Writing to Awaken has helped countless people around the world to achieve their personal and creative goals, and it would be great to have you with us!
“Mark Matousek is an insightful, compelling and incisive teacher – truthful, direct, compelling, open, and compassionate. He takes students on a provocative journey to places we need to go if we are to live and create from our deepest selves. His deeply spiritual center and his generosity of spirit combine to make his being, his writings and his teaching magical transformative experiences.” ~ Marcia, Photographer
Register now and secure your spot in this inspiring class starting Monday, November 3rd
