Syllabus 2025/2026
A weekly online writing practice group open to all genres and levels. Each Friday, we come together to write, share, and support each other’s creative process in a focused and welcoming space. Prompts, free writing, and feedback are part of the flow — but participation is flexible and pressure-free.
This ongoing practice will culminate in a monthly literary salon and reading, where participants are invited to share their work publicly in a convivial and supportive atmosphere.
Whether you're polishing a novel, journaling for insight, or just looking for a weekly creative anchor, this group offers rhythm, community, and inspiration.
Andrew Sweeny: Writing Group + Monthly Literary Salon
Andrew Sweeny: Tarot Reading Group
This semester, we will explore the Major Arcana of the Marseille Tarot, drawing on the work of Marianne Costa, co-author (with Alejandro Jodorowsky) of The Way of Tarot (La Voie du Tarot). We will also incorporate ideas from her most recent French book: Le Tarot pas à pas.
Our sessions will include symbolic analysis, group readings, and open discussion. Rather than focusing on occult or fortune-telling interpretations, we seek to discover how these powerful images can be used as tools for reflection, insight, and personal transformation in everyday life.
All are welcome—no prior Tarot experience is necessary.
Join Andrew Sweeny for a lively and congenial reading group focused on mystical texts from both Eastern and Western traditions. This semester, we will continue our journey through George Gurdjieff’s massive, baroque masterpiece Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, alongside The Magic Dance: The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, son of Dudjom Rinpoche and a revered Nyingma master, and The Concealing and Revealing: The Wisdom of Reality Only by Traktung Khepa (T.K.).
Each session includes collective reading, discussion, and the exploration of basic practices drawn from Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and the Vajrayana tradition. Whether you're an experienced practitioner or a curious beginner, you're warmly invited to take part.
Andrew Sweeny: Dharma Reading Group
CORDULA FREI: Deep Ecology – Rewilding the Soul
A 6-week live journey starting September
Wednesdays, 7:30 PM (Berlin time), 90 minutes
Guided by Cordula Frei
In a time of rupture and great turning, this 6-week live course offers a grounded sanctuary to return to the living Earth and to ourselves as part of her body. Rooted in deep ecology, ritual, shared reflection, and poetic activism, we will read, write, speak, and co-create in a communal field of inquiry and reverence.
Together we will:
✧ Explore foundational principles of deep ecology
✧ Design nature-based practices and rituals
✧ Enchant and be enchanted by the sentient Earth
✧ Welcome guest teachers, poets, and ecological friends
✧ Remember our belonging through word, silence, and gesture
This is not just a course — it’s a remembering, a rewilding, and a collective reconnection.
CORDULA FREI: The Psychology of Selves – Voice Dialogue & Inner Expansion
Monthly Circle – Last Sunday of the Month
Starts 5 PM (European time)
Facilitated by Cordula Frei, Nadja Lind & Helmut Ebritsch
This monthly immersion invites you to explore the inner constellation of your being through the powerful lens of Voice Dialogue, energy work, and state-shifting technologies like binaural beats and deep embodiment practices. Each session offers a transformative space to meet your inner protectors, creators, saboteurs, and sages — not to fix or fight them, but to listen, dialogue, and unlock their gifts.
You will learn to:
✧ Work with archetypes and inner voices
✧ Tap into expanded states of consciousness
✧ Release blockages and deepen self-leadership
✧ Practice techniques from conscious evolution and integrative psychology
✧ Reclaim your creative energy and wholeness
This is a sacred lab for those ready to meet themselves in full spectrum — guided by three experienced facilitators in the art of inner alchemy.
Tom Amarque: Re-structuring the will for a metamodern age
An weekly examination and exploration of will in theory and practise.
Thrusdays, 7 PM (CET), 90 minutes
After the excesses of modernity, the will is avoided in psychological, philosophical, and spiritual discourse. However, the great third other to love and intelligence (cognition, emotion, and volition) still plays a central role in the question of what relationship we have to the future. In this ongoing seminar, we will renew and revitalize the discourse on the will.
You will learn to:
✧ What do we need to do to shift our attention from world/self mapping to action-mapping?
✧Three stages of will
✧ Characteristics of a will after postmodernity
✧ Can we - in the domain of psyche - find a selfevitend truth?
✧ What can we observe: What is observation; how is observation linked to action?
✧ Hegel, Fichte and Schopenhauer (and a little bit of Nietzsche).
✧ Ways of framing will: modern and postmodern forms of understanding will and volition