New Class with Dr. Marc Gafni:
Identifying your unique wound
This 3-week course will guide you to:
Confront the wounds that shape your life.
Trace your wounds back to their root.
Recognize the false core sense of self your wounds have created.
Begin the heroic work of transforming pain into power, shame into insight, and contraction into love.
Course begins in:
There is no human being who is not wounded.
your wound is not an accident.
your wound is the intention of Cosmos.
there are 3 steps to expereince the purpose of your pain:
1. Identifying Your Unique Wound
Every human being carries a wound. It is not a mistake or a punishment—it is the intention of Cosmos to be wounded, that through the wound we may awaken.
2. Transforming Pain into the Wounds of Love
The wound, says Marc, is not meant to be erased but transfigured. Every wound carries within it the encoded possibility of love. When we meet the wound—not as a problem to fix but as a portal—we begin to move from pain into power, from self-pity into service, from despair into devotion.
3. Ten Portals of Wounding as gateways to awakening
Each portal is a doorway into a specific dimension of the human experience—loss, betrayal, shame, isolation, failure, desire, and more. These are not obstacles to overcome but sacred invitations to awaken. Each portal asks a question: will you turn away, or will you enter? Will you contract in fear, or expand in love?
Our Schedule
3 Core Sessions
With Dr. Marc Gafni
Class 1: Identifying Your Unique Wound - Sunday, November 16
Class 2: Transforming Pain into the Wounds of Love - Sunday, November 23
Class 3: Ten Portals of Wounding - Sunday, November 30
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: Identifying Your Unique Wound
Sunday, November 16
This class explores how the wound shapes our perception of reality, how it becomes the foundation of the false core, and how its transformation is the beginning of our unique purpose. To recognize your wound is to say yes to your destiny—to the precise way the divine lives as you.
Key Themes:
- The wound as the intention of Cosmos
- Your unique wound and your unique self
- The false core: how the unrecognized wound creates the false self
- The relationship between pain, shame, and desire
- The beginning of transformation through recognition
Class II: Transforming Pain into the Wounds of Love
Sunday, November 23
This session explores the alchemy of transformation: how the same energy that creates breakdown can be turned toward breakthrough. The wound becomes the womb of new creation—the place where the human and divine meet in intimacy. To transform the wound is to enter into the mystery of the wounded God, to participate in the healing of the Cosmos itself.
Key Themes:
- The wound as portal: from pathology to purpose
- The transformation of pain into the energy of eros
- The wounded God and the wounded hero
- Shame as a unique expression of distorted desire
- How love metabolizes suffering into wisdom and creativity
Class III: Ten Portals of Wounding
Sunday, November 30
In this culminating session, we map the terrain of transformation through what Marc calls the Ten Portals of Wounding. To walk through the portals is to become a wounded hero: one who no longer denies their pain but claims it as the site of their awakening. Every insult becomes a wound of love, every shadow a hidden teacher.
Key Themes:
- The Ten Portals of Wounding as gateways to awakening
- The unique risk required for healing
- From false core to true essence
- The wounded hero and the wounded God
- Becoming a lover through the transformation of pain
Digital Campfire I
Saturday, November 22
Practices / discussion theme:
- Reflective journaling: tracing your earliest experience of rupture or separation
- Guided inquiry: where do I feel the wound in my body and story?
- Campfire sharing: speaking your wound in sacred community
Digital Campfire II
Saturday, November 29
Practices / discussion theme:
- Meditation: entering the wound as a sacred space
- Writing practice: narrating your wound as a story of love
- Campfire dialogue: how does my pain serve the evolution of love?
Digital Campfire III
Saturday, October 18
Practices / discussion theme:
- Contemplative mapping: identifying your primary portal of transformation
- Reflective writing: where is eros asking you to enter?
- Campfire dialogue: witnessing the wisdom born of your wound
PRICING
This course is part of our World Philosophy and Religion Academy
By joining the academy, you will get this course AND tons of other BONUS benefits:
$100/month
join World Philosophy and Religion Academy
Get this life-changing course plus:
Identifying your unique wound course ($300)
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!
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.