Courses and workshops

Come do the work in good company.

Self-paced video courses you can begin any time, and a live workshop or two when a group gathers. Each one feeds the same river: the work that wants to become a book.

Heavenly LoveEnrolling soon

On demand · Nine modules · Self-paced video
A gay intellectual history, from the Greeks to now

Somewhere in you there is a love story you were never told was yours. This course gives it back.

It runs from the shared tombs of ancient Egypt to the poets of Muslim Spain to Whitman writing about the men he loved on the Brooklyn ferry, and it has always been about the same astonishing thing: people who loved their own sex, and who reached, through that love, for something holy. A warm, plainspoken tour through three thousand years of gay and queer feeling, taught not by a historian at a distance but by a depth psychologist who has spent his life in the room with this longing. We read gorgeous things together, poems and dialogues and love letters, and keep asking the question that matters most: what does this do to a soul.

What the course is really for

  • To help you rediscover your heritage, and feel the relief of belonging to a lineage older and more beautiful than the shame you were handed
  • To turn that heritage into self-esteem, the felt knowledge that your love has ancestors and a place in the human story
  • To teach real psychological principles you can use to read your own loves and longings with more understanding and less fear
  • To feed the creatives, and everyone who has felt a pull toward greater depth and did not know where to bring it

Read My Real Religion Is Gay, the free essay series this course grows from →

The nine modules

  1. Where we're going, and the image that holds it all: Diotima's ladder (free)
  2. Before anyone had a word for it: Gilgamesh, Jacob, David and Jonathan
  3. Athens I: Socrates, and the teaching of desire
  4. Athens II: the ladder, and the man too in love to climb it
  5. The medieval beloved: when the face became the face of God
  6. The Renaissance: Michelangelo pours the whole ache into his sonnets
  7. The nineteenth century: comrades, democracy, and love made civic
  8. The twentieth century: the trial, the arguments, the birth of gay psychology
  9. Now: the sacred keeps breaking through, even in our secular present
Get the free syllabus + Module 1 Modules are recording now. Join the list and the first is yours free, with the full syllabus and reading list.

Depth Psychology, in Plain LanguageEnrolling soon

On demand · Four evenings · Self-paced video
Freud, Jung, and the alchemy of change

Freud, Jung, the unconscious, and the alchemy of change, taught for the curious rather than the credentialed.

Each evening takes one big idea and makes it usable: what the unconscious actually is, why we repeat what hurts us, what the shadow wants, and how change happens. No background required.

Watch: Depth Psychology in plain language

The four evenings

  • The unconscious, and why it runs the show
  • Repetition: the patterns that keep suffering alive
  • The shadow, and the gold buried in it
  • Alchemy: how the psyche remakes itself
Notify me when it is live Recording now. Join the list to watch the first evening free.

Productivity Hacks for HealersLive · Register

Live on Zoom · New cohort forming
Recording available afterward to everyone enrolled

For therapists, writers, and soul workers. The inner work is yours. The outer work, getting seen, can be learned.

This is the practical class I wish someone had taught me: how to build a brand that still sounds like you, shoot simple b-roll, and put AI to work for healers and creatives without losing your voice. You leave with a system, not just inspiration.

What you will do

  • Shape a brand and a message that actually sound like you
  • Shoot and use simple b-roll without a film crew
  • Put AI to work for the parts that drain you
  • Leave with a repeatable system, not a one-time burst
$25per class Register
How the courses work

Watch on your own schedule, or gather live.

Video, self-paced

The courses are recorded and yours to keep, to watch whenever you like and return to as often as you need. The first module of each is free, so you can see the shape before you commit.

Live when it counts

A workshop or two runs live on Zoom, small enough that you are seen and known by name, because some work cannot be met by a recording.

A path, not a one-off

Each course opens a lifelong reading rather than closing a subject, and the strongest work has somewhere to go: the press.

Forming now

Live cohorts, when a group gathers.

These run live when enough people raise a hand. Join a list and I will write the moment a date is set. No cost to hold your place.

The Gay Hero's Journey

Live cohort · Eight weeks

A guided passage through the framework of my book, for gay and queer men who sense there is more life beyond coping.

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The Soul in the Sentence

Live on Zoom · Writing workshop

A generative workshop for memoir, fiction, and the autobiographical essay, for people ready to write the thing they have been circling for years.

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Healing Art

Live on Zoom · Dream and image

Make images from your dreams and active imagination, the way I have made hundreds of my own. No skill required, only a willingness to follow.

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Self, Democracy, Self-Esteem

Live on Zoom · Six sessions

What self-esteem actually is, how a self gets built, and why a citizenry with no working model of its inner life is easier to enrage than to persuade.

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Psychology for the People Press

The course is where the work begins. The press is where it lands.

The inaugural volume is open for submissions now, with a deadline of October 15, 2026. Take a course, shape the work, and send it where it can be read.

Read the call for submissions