The Wound is Where the Lights Gets In: Thriving on the Path of Uncertainty

The Wound is Where the Lights Gets In: Thriving on the Path of Uncertainty

Workshop
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 10:00 to 16:00
Life
Personal Growth
Wellbeing
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A Writing to Awaken Workshop
Description: 

This one-day workshop uses transformational writing and time-honored philosophical principles to help you discover the potential within challenging times, and reveal the wisdom already inside you.

Writing is an incomparable tool for awakening through the power of insight and connecting you to greater well-being.

In this inspiring program, veteran memoirist and writing mentor Mark Matousek will guide you through a series of provocative exercises designed to prompt self-awareness, dissolve harmful stories, and illuminate psychological shadows that may prevent you from flourishing.

Known for his insightful questions, Mark is expert at creating an atmosphere of gentle support and safety that accelerates the self-inquiry process. The workshop will include optional breakout groups, one-on-one time with Mark, and plenty of time for questions in addition to the writing exercises. You do not need to be a writer to benefit from this workshop. Mark’s Writing to Awaken method focuses on truth-telling, curiosity, and courage not polished prose, and on writing as a tool for healing and self-realization.

In this workshop, you will learn to:

  • Recognize your wounds as allies and teachers
  • Free yourself of obsolete narratives and a false self-image
  • Strengthen your ‘witness awareness’ and practice objectivity
  • Discover the creative potential of loss
  • Appreciate paradox and personal contradictions
  • Increase well-being through radical truth-telling

 

Let Mark be your guide on this daylong journey to psychological wellness and wisdom. His Writing to Awaken workshops and courses have helped thousands of people around the world to reach their creative and spiritual goals. As he puts it, “When you tell the truth, your story changes. When your story changes, your life is transformed.”

 

SPACES ARE LIMITED!

 

About the speaker, Mark Matousek

Mark Matousek, M.A., 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, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story,  When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life, , and Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery. 

A featured blogger for PsychologyToday.com, he has contributed to numerous anthologies and publications, including the New Yorker, Details, Harper’s Bazaar, The Chicago Tribune, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many others.  A MacDowell Fellow and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he offers workshops in self-inquiry and personal development internationally, using his Writing To Awaken method. Mark lives in Springs, New York. 

 

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09:30
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10:00
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16.00
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