New Class with Dr. Marc Gafni:
The Path Of The Wounded Hero
A live online course to transmute your deepest pain into rocket fuel towards your greatest possibility
Course begins in:
At the heart of every great human life lies a wound.
The QUESTION IS: How do you transform your pain into power?
1. FACE YOUR WOUND
Wounds, left unattended, devolve into despair, breakdown, and eventual evil. But the same wounds, engaged properly, can become the birthplace of heroism, love, and transformation.
2. EMBRACE YOUR WOUND
We often confuse trauma with the wound. Trauma contracts us, freezes us, and poisons our experience. The wound — or heartbreak — when fully felt, opens us to depth, tenderness, and transformation.
3. ALCHEMIZE YOUR WOUND
Discover how your wound is the very source of your unique gift and your capacity for outrageous love and heroicism. The ultimate alchemy is to have the lived experience that your wound is your greatest blessing, and to share that blessing with humanity.
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Our Schedule
3 Core Sessions
With Dr. Marc Gafni
Class 1: Evil comes in the wound - Sunday, September 28
Class 2: Trauma and Heartbreak - Sunday, October 5
Class 3: The Wounded hero - Sunday, October 12
Location:
Each class will be a live 2 hour zoom call with Q&A (recordings provided too)
Time:
11am PST (Los Angeles), 2pm EST (New York), 8pm CET (Paris)
3 PRACTICE SESSIONS
TO EMBODY EACH LESSON
3 PRACTICE SESSIONS
Every Saturday we will host a digital meetup space to discuss and practice the teachings from the prior Sunday's class with Dr. Marc Gafni.
The Saturday practice sessions are led by Andrew Sweeny of Parallax and Claire Molinard of the Unique Self Institute, two brilliant guides who can help you bring the teachings into every day life!
Location:
Each practice session will be a live zoom call (recordings provided too)
Dates:
Saturday October 4th, Saturday October 11th, Saturday October 18th
Time:
11am PST (Los Angeles), 2pm EST (New York), 8pm CET (Paris)
Class I: Evil comes in the wound
Sunday, September 28th
In this opening session, we explore how wounds, left unattended, devolve into despair, breakdown, and eventual evil — and how the same wounds, engaged properly, can become the birthplace of heroism, love, and transformation.
Key Themes:
- The origin of evil in wounding
- Understanding the wound
- The demonic self vs the daimonic self
Class II: Trauma and Heartbreak
Sunday, October 5th
We often confuse trauma with the wound. Trauma contracts us, freezes us, and poisons our experience. The wound — or heartbreak — when fully felt, opens us to depth, tenderness, and transformation. In this session, we reclaim heartbreak as one of the most profound and necessary experiences of being alive, and learn to distinguish it from trauma.
Key Themes:
- Trauma and Heartbreak
- Exploring limitations of the psychological model
- Alchemizing the wound
Class III – The wounded hero
unday, October 12th
To be the wounded hero is to embrace the wound as the very source of our unique gift, our unique self, and our capacity for outrageous love and heroicism.
Key Themes:
- Why we need not just the wounded healer, but the wounded hero
- The heroic path: alchemizing the wound into trust, service, and love
- The wounded hero is the human with the power to rebirth humanity
Digital Campfire I
Saturday, October 4
Practices / discussion theme:
- Inquiry into the nature of evil and the wound
Digital Campfire II
Saturday, October 11
Practices / discussion theme:
- Inquiry into Trauma and Heartbreak
- Inquiry into the original wound
Digital Campfire III
Saturday, October 18
Practices / discussion theme:
- Inquiry into the highest possibility of our unique wound and unique heroism
- Inquiry into the major myths of the wounded hero
PRICING
You have 2 options of how to sign up for this course!
1. Pay full price ($300) by purchasing this as a stand alone course through Parallax
2. Get this course for free by joining World Philosophy and Religion Academy, where this course is part of our larger curriculum.
$100/m
join World Philosophy and Religion Academy
Everything in the single course option plus:
Weekly live philosophy teachings with Dr. Marc Gafni ($1,200)
Weekly workshops to integrate the teachings into your daily life ($200)
10 on-demand self-study courses ($2,500)
bi-weekly book club ($200)
Monthly speed friending events to meet like-hearted people around the globe ($75)
Daily prayer and chant practice ($500)
Total value: $4,675
No contract, cancel anytime, so this course is a perfect opportunity to check out the academy!
$300
Buy as single course
Path of The Wounded Hero Course
3 Live Teachings with Dr. Marc Gafni
3 Practice Sessions
World Philosophy and Religion Academy
The European Renaissance emerged in a time of crisis.
The Black Plague had devastated the population...
Political instability was widespread.
Long-standing institutions were breaking down, and the people had lost faith in the old systems.
In the midst of that upheaval, a small group of thinkers, artists, and philosophers gathered in Florence under the banner of what became known as the Florentine Platonic Academy.
For the first time in centuries, science, religion, art, and philosophy were brought together into one place of study.
And slowly, the members of the academy began to piece together a new vision for what it means to be a human.
That new vision for humanity became the map that guided the European Renaissance and renewed global culture.
We are living in a similarly unstable moment today.
But it’s not just in Europe…
Humanity is now a global civilization, with global problems.
The old visions for humanity that built our society are outdated and failing to solve today's challenges.
We need A New Renaissance.
Renaissance means rebirth in French.
And just like in the European Renaissance, the current ways of life are unsustainable and unethical, and humanity must recreate ourselves again.
In order to do this successfully, we need a new guiding vision that can meet the challenges of today and generate a better future for humanity.
Renaissance Academy is an online philosophy school led by Dr. Marc Gafni where we study and co-create this new guiding vision for humanity.
At Renaissance Academy, you learn philosophy that gives you the tools, practices, and community to align with your purpose and create a life of meaning, impact, and connection — all while helping to shape a thriving next chapter for humanity.
This Path of The Wounded Hero course is a perfect way for you to test out the academy for a month and then choose if you'd like to stay.
The Academy costs $100/month meaning that this course will only cost $100, which is a AMAZING price.
Normally a class like this would cost over $300.
Sign up for Renaissance Academy and join this course for $100!
Renaissance Academy
HEAR FROM OUR STUDENTS
Kristina Amelong (Entreprenur, United States)
I knew right away that these teachings were different because they didn’t ask me to transcend my humanity or deny my desire — they asked me to bring all of it, raw and real, into the holy work of love.
In Marc’s words and presence, I experienced a depth of intimacy with Reality that no other path had offered.
These teachings don’t float above the world; they demand we love outrageously in the concrete, in every act and relationship.
Alexandre Lenoir (Life Coach, France)
Finding Marc's teaching has been a relief and has solved a number of complex equations that I was faced with trying to make sense of life and its purpose.
It is an anchor that help me evolve towards a humanity that I like better, that resonates more, stands more firm, loves more...
There are many levels to this teaching and I think anyone who wants to see the world change for the better and wants to start with themselves could benefit from his influence and go as deep as they wish.