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Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, July 19 - August 9, 2026
5:00 - 7:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$0 Paid Patreon Members / $0 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
IIn times of collective change, it is easy to focus on one of two stories: a dystopian or “dark” narrative that frames our current personal and political polycrises as a series of losses, or a utopian or “light” narrative that sees these same events as catalysts for collective awakening and transformation. Within the healing arts, these perspectives often lead to different responses: one calls for collective grief work to honor what is being lost, while the other invites us to step into our power as creative manifestors to build a new world.
While both approaches are essential, most practices tend to emphasize one at the expense of the other. This overlooks the reality that grief work and manifesting work are not separate, but mutually enhancing. Loss itself can be a catalyst for growth; a conscious grief practice creates space for calling in abundance without spiritual bypassing. At the same time, a grounded manifesting practice helps ensure that grief does not harden into hopelessness or despair.
This course will explore how grief and manifestation can be approached as complementary practices that alchemically transform one another. Drawing on Francis Weller’s “Five Gates of Grief,” each session will focus on writing through a specific experience of loss. After collectively processing these losses, we will then engage a parallel process of drafting a manifest to invite new blessings into our lives. Between sessions, participants will be encouraged to track both losses and their corresponding emergent possibilities, cultivating an awareness of the dynamic interplay between dark and light within themselves and the world at large.
Raina Levesque, Ph.D., has been teaching writing workshops for over 15 years. After experiencing multiple losses of close family members as a young adult, she was introduced to conscious grief work and manifesting practices that changed her life and now aims to spread awareness of the power of these tools in this time of collective change. She received her BA in English Literature and her PhD in French Literature, and she currently teaches first-year writing courses at colleges and universities in the Bay Area. She is also enrolled in Francis Weller’s Grief Ritual Leadership Training and co-facilitates a monthly manifesting group in the San Jose area with Motoki Healing Arts founder Brian Rainie.
Images: “Reflection,” ca. 1900, Odilon Redon
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, July 19 - August 9, 2026
5:00 - 7:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$0 Paid Patreon Members / $0 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
IIn times of collective change, it is easy to focus on one of two stories: a dystopian or “dark” narrative that frames our current personal and political polycrises as a series of losses, or a utopian or “light” narrative that sees these same events as catalysts for collective awakening and transformation. Within the healing arts, these perspectives often lead to different responses: one calls for collective grief work to honor what is being lost, while the other invites us to step into our power as creative manifestors to build a new world.
While both approaches are essential, most practices tend to emphasize one at the expense of the other. This overlooks the reality that grief work and manifesting work are not separate, but mutually enhancing. Loss itself can be a catalyst for growth; a conscious grief practice creates space for calling in abundance without spiritual bypassing. At the same time, a grounded manifesting practice helps ensure that grief does not harden into hopelessness or despair.
This course will explore how grief and manifestation can be approached as complementary practices that alchemically transform one another. Drawing on Francis Weller’s “Five Gates of Grief,” each session will focus on writing through a specific experience of loss. After collectively processing these losses, we will then engage a parallel process of drafting a manifest to invite new blessings into our lives. Between sessions, participants will be encouraged to track both losses and their corresponding emergent possibilities, cultivating an awareness of the dynamic interplay between dark and light within themselves and the world at large.
Raina Levesque, Ph.D., has been teaching writing workshops for over 15 years. After experiencing multiple losses of close family members as a young adult, she was introduced to conscious grief work and manifesting practices that changed her life and now aims to spread awareness of the power of these tools in this time of collective change. She received her BA in English Literature and her PhD in French Literature, and she currently teaches first-year writing courses at colleges and universities in the Bay Area. She is also enrolled in Francis Weller’s Grief Ritual Leadership Training and co-facilitates a monthly manifesting group in the San Jose area with Motoki Healing Arts founder Brian Rainie.
Images: “Reflection,” ca. 1900, Odilon Redon