Each of Kayleen's online courses below integrates history, art, music and poetry with creative and contemplative practices to bring insight to your own inner process and seeds of inspiration for your own authentic creative expression.
Mornings with Vincent: A Creative Writing Course Inspired by Van Gogh's Life and Art
$75.00
A three part creative writing course weaving together art, music and poetry. In each class, cultural historian and composer Kayleen Asbo guides you through Van Gogh's life and art, setting the stage for you to explore your own inner world through the writing prompts offered by poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer that explore the universal themes of time, loss, vulnerability, chaos and order, meeting darkness, paradox and love.
A fascinating, insightful, heart opening and inspiring journey that can unlock your own creative potential and transform the way you perceive art.
Through the Dark Nights With Dante: A Three Part Writing Class
$90.00
A three part writing workshop connecting our inner lives with Dante as we Find Our Way Out of Hell, Climb the Mountain of Hope and Come Home to Ourselves in Paradise. Each episode begins with cultural historian Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D exploring the Divine Comedy through storytelling woven with centuries of stunning art and music. In the second half of each class, renowned poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer helps connect where this imaginal landscape meets your own life through guided writing practices. A truly inspiring and unique series that was called " incredibly insightful, hopeful and even transformational" and "a light that unleashed my own creativity" by students this past year.
Mary Magdalene and the Foundations of Early Christianity
$400.00
A foundational eight part course on the treasury of sacred texts, history, art and legends that present many different stories about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Early Christianity. Beginning with the Greco-Roman and Jewish roots of Christianity, we explore the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with an ear tuned to nuances of the Aramaic language and the contextual culture in which Jesus lived. We then turn our attention to the Gospels that did not make it into the Canonical Bible where Mary Magdalene is portrayed as having a significant role in leadership within the early Christian community: The Gospel of Mary and The Gospel of Thomas. We explore the mytho-poetic Valentinian tradition, which traces its roots to Magdalene's teachings and read several key early Christian texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in which feminine wisdom is deeply valued: the Odes of Solomon, Thunder Perfect Mind and the Hymn of the Pearl. The course concludes with an introduction to the contemplative traditions of the Desert Mothers and Fathers of Egypt of the fifth and sixth centuries which formed the foundations of Western Monasticism.
Mary Magdalene and the Foundations of Early Christianity
$400.00
A foundational eight part course on the treasury of sacred texts, history, art and legends that present many different stories about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Early Christianity. Beginning with the Greco-Roman and Jewish roots of Christianity, we explore the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with an ear tuned to nuances of the Aramaic language and the contextual culture in which Jesus lived. We then turn our attention to the Gospels that did not make it into the Canonical Bible where Mary Magdalene is portrayed as having a significant role in leadership within the early Christian community: The Gospel of Mary and The Gospel of Thomas. We explore the mytho-poetic Valentinian tradition, which traces its roots to Magdalene's teachings and read several key early Christian texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in which feminine wisdom is deeply valued: the Odes of Solomon, Thunder Perfect Mind and the Hymn of the Pearl. The course concludes with an introduction to the contemplative traditions of the Desert Mothers and Fathers of Egypt of the fifth and sixth centuries which formed the foundations of Western Monasticism.