Return to Your Center
A Place of Safety, Refuge, and Companionship in Uncertain Times
Join Matt Licata’s
Spirituality & Healing
Inner Work Group and Community
A Place of Safety & Refuge in Unprecedented Times
Spring / Summer Mentorship 2025
“It is the shared love of the truth that fuels the entire journey of deep psychological healing and embodied spiritual transformation. Coming together with friends and fellow travelers to honor the unfolding of this love is the essence of this path. To be accompanied on our journey of individuation – where we can feel felt and understood – is the secret doorway into the Heart.”
– MATT LICATA
A Special Invitation to Make a Healing Journey Together This Spring/ Summer
Dear friend,
I’m sure it’s no surprise to any of you that we’re living in unprecedented times. It can feel as if the center is lost and that thing are going way too fast, where the ground is slipping away underneath us.
It’s as if there were a slow drip of cortisol and adrenaline emerging out of the collective and falling into our shaky, tender bodies, hearts, and nervous systems. The high levels of arousal on the planet right now will inevitably take up residence in psyche and soma, and it can burn and ache, as we long for connection, safety, and ground.
As difficult and challenging as these times can be, they also offer a unique opportunity to (re)commit to our healing and spiritual paths.
It’s not easy to navigate on our own, and many of us these days feel so alone.
As open, sensitive human beings, we’re wired to tend to the wounds of the heart and turn toward the mystery of Being within a supportive and dynamic relational field, with the help of kind-hearted companions and fellow travelers.
To be together in an empathic, non-judgmental, open, warm circle of friends.
As a way to respond to this deep longing and to the unique liminal times we find ourselves in, I wanted to find a way to open my Spirituality & Healing community so that more of you could participate – with a lesser commitment, of both time and financial resources, in this period of uncertainty.
During our time together, we’ll explore the mysteries of a contemporary path of spiritual discovery, individuation, and personal healing, where together we’ll enter into the aliveness of the relational field itself, a mandala of healing presence in which we can not only transform the wounds of the heart, but open into the direct experience of communion, union, and unity with the Ultimate Mystery itself.
Together, we’ll explore an embodied, grounded, and emotionally-attuned path of the heart that weaves together the wisdom of the psychotherapeutic and meditative traditions, in a way that’s experiential and interactive, an approach to spiritual unfolding that is sensitive to trauma and relational wounding.
***SPECIAL QUARTERLY OPENING – historically, the community has opened only once each year, in February, requiring a yearlong commitment. Due to the uncertainty in our world and the fast-changing transitional times we’re living in, I wanted to make it easier to come into the group for those who are interested.
Between May 1, 2025 and through July 31, 2025, we’ll meet live 9 times, on (most) Thursdays, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time (5pm in London).
It’s not necessary for you to attend sessions live. You can participate fully in the group and community – and most importantly, in the healing relational field itself – through watching the session videos and engaging the meditations in whatever way feels most natural and resonant for you, at a time that is convenient and fits into your life.
There will also be an optional Facebook group so that you may be in further connection with others around the world who are part of the community.
Each session will include meditation and other experiential exercises, teachings, and live interaction, where you can share your experience, ask questions, and dialogue with me (via video or text). During the sessions, we’ll also be able to support and hold one another as we, too, are being held and contained within the field and the mystery of Being.
I look forward to seeing you inside the community soon and making this journey together. And in this way, we can each prioritize, recommit to, and revision our commitment to our healing and spiritual paths.
You can learn more about the group and community here on this page and if you have any questions, please write to us at support@mattlicataphd.com.
Warmly,
Matt Licata
Here’s How the Mentorship Group Works
Over three months, we’ll meet a total of 9 times, for 90 minutes, on Thursday mornings in the US/ afternoons in Europe. During each session, we’ll:
- Engage with easy-to-follow meditations and guided imaginal journeys, designed to tend to the wounds of the heart and to open to the Mystery of Being itself
- Explore teachings from the fields of embodied, somatic, and relational psychotherapies; meditation and the spiritual traditions; all in a trauma-sensitive way that integrates psychological, neurobiological, and contempative perspectives
- Have time in each sesson where you can share your experience, be seen and heard and held by others in an open, warm, safe, nonjudgmental space; and ask any questions you might have about your own path of healing and spiritual transformation
Please remember that it’s not necessary, nor required that you attend the sessions live; many are not able to do so due to previous life commitments. You can fully participate in the group – as well as in the healing power of the relational field – through watching the video replays of each session and engaging in the meditations and exercises, as you’re drawn.
“Matt’s understanding of the subtleties and nuances of the healing journey, and how meditation and psychological work fit together were a key for me which unlocked the door to a part of myself that I had forgotten about. The way he held my experience and contained it with such love and kindness allowed me to end the war with myself and to begin to perceive even my most challenging emotions and sensitivities as allies and just how he’s right when he says that the path really is everywhere. Spending time with him was a real fork in the road in my life, a true turning point that opened up a whole new way of being for me.“
–J.R., London
Themes We’ll Explore Within the Group
Over the course of our time together, we’ll explore the various facets of the diamond that comprise the spiral path of embodied transformation and healing. It is through this shadow-informed, emotionally-sensitive, alchemically-alive weaving together of psychotherapy and spirituality that our perception will be cleansed and our hearts will be polished.
THEME 1: Initiation and the Contemporary Path of the Mystic: Union, Relationship, and Tending the Mystery
Living in the Experiential Discovery That the Path is Everywhere
Many of us interested in spirituality and healing have been wounded in our lives – physically, emotionally, or at a deep soul level. Whether this wounding takes form as relational or attachment trauma, narcissistic misattunement, or through any other number of forms of personal betrayal, it has a way of coloring our perception and affecting our capacity to feel safe, connected, and that we truly belong here.
For some, initiation occurs only by way of transition, dissolution, and loss, through an embodied confrontation with the unconscious and the unlived life. These experiences are not signs of error or mistake, but calls to depth and evidence of how our wounding can serve an initiatory function.
Whether or not we identify as being a “healer” in some professional sense, we are each touched by the living reality of “the wounded healer,” as open, sensitive human beings. In this way, we’re all “healers” as we engage and interact with others and the world each and every day, offering the gifts of our own presence, empathy, consciousness, caring, and compassion.
Even though it may seem as if we are alone – and in part we must walk this path by ourselves – we are never truly alone, as unseen helpers, friends, and companions are always nearby.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- How our wounding serves an initiatory function into deeper layers of spiritual and soul-awareness
- A deeper understanding of our unique wounding and sensitivities and how these are not obstacles to our path, but the very path itself
- The nature of a contemporary, embodied, emotionally-sensitive approach to the felt experience of wholeness and aliveness
- How even our most difficult experience is a unique portal into the heart, connection with others, with the Divine, and with all of life
THEME 1: Initiation and the Ongoing Journey of the Wounded Healer
Living in the Experiential Discovery and Reality That the Path is Everywhere
Many of us interested in spirituality and healing have been wounded in our lives – physically, emotionally, or at a deep soul level. Whether this wounding takes form as relational or attachment trauma, narcissistic injury, or through any other number of forms of personal betrayal, it has a way of coloring our perception and affecting our capacity to feel safe, connected, and that we truly belong here.
For some, initiation occurs only by way of transition, dissolution, and loss, through an embodied confrontation with the unconscious and the unlived life. These experiences are not signs of error or mistake, but calls to depth and evidence of how our wounding can serve an initiatory function.
Whether or not we identify as being a “healer” in some professional sense, we are each touched by the living reality of this dimension of experience, as open, sensitive human beings. In this way, we’re all “healers” as we engage and interact with others and the world each and every day, offering the gifts of our own presence, empathy, consciousness, caring, and compassion.
Even though it may seem as if we are alone – and in part we must walk this path by ourselves – we are never truly alone, as unseen helpers, friends, and companions are always nearby.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- How our wounding serves an initiatory function into deeper layers of spiritual and soul-awareness
- A deeper understanding of our unique wounding and sensitivities and how these are not obstacles to our path, but the very path itself
- The nature of a contemporary, embodied, emotionally-sensitive approach to the felt experience of wholeness and aliveness
- How even our most difficult experience is a unique portal into the heart, connection with others, with the Divine, and with all of life
THEME 2: Trauma and the Sacred: Exploring the Link Between Spirituality and our Wounding
How the Path of Healing Unresolved Trauma and Wounding is Itself a Spiritual Practice
We’re all given more experience in this life than we can process. Unresolved trauma, which is held in subcortical and somatic circuitry, shapes our perception and deeply impacts our capacity to feel safe and connected, with ourselves, others, and also with our spiritual nature.
There is a powerful, yet mysterious link between healing early emotional wounding and the spiritual path. These two streams are not separate and intertwine together in the body and the heart.
It is through a unique kind of holding environment that we are able to access, verbalize, make sense of, and thereby integrate psychic, emotional, and somatic material that has fallen out of embodied, conscious awareness.
Through the establishment, together, of a safe and surrounding container, we’ll explore the realities of trauma and how it is an experience of de-linking and disassociation; how it is healed, and how the felt sense of safety and connection are re-established.
Relational psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, somatic psychology, neuroscience, and the clinical aspects of mindfulness and meditation each have something to contribute to this journey. Each will be lens through which we will deepen our understanding and experience, as we open to the reality that tending to trauma is in itself a deep and merciful spiritual path.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- The nature of trauma and how each of us has unmetabolized and unlived experience which affects our perception and how we’ve come to imagine ourselves
- How trauma organizes in the body, psyche, and nervous system; and how it is unwound and untangled
- The felt sense of safety and how safety is the ultimate medicine and “neural scaffolding” for healing and deeper layers of self-discovery
- The link between trauma and the sacred and the relationship between our deepest wounding and our spiritual lives
THEME 2: Trauma and the Sacred: Exploring the Link Between Spirituality and our Wounding
How the Path of Healing Unresolved Trauma and Wounding is Itself a Spiritual Practice
We’re all given more experience in this life than we can process. Unresolved trauma, which is held in subcortical and somatic circuitry, shapes our perception and deeply impacts our capacity to feel safe and connected, with ourselves, others, and also with our spiritual nature.
There is a powerful, yet mysterious link between healing early emotional wounding and the spiritual path. These two streams are not separate and intertwine together in the body and the heart.
It is through a unique kind of holding environment that we are able to access, verbalize, make sense of, and thereby integrate psychic, emotional, and somatic material that has fallen out of embodied, conscious awareness.
Through the establishment, together, of a safe and surrounding container, we’ll explore the realities of trauma and how it is an experience of de-linking and disassociation; how it is healed, and how the felt sense of safety and connection are re-established.
Relational psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, somatic psychology, neuroscience, and the clinical aspects of mindfulness and meditation each have something to contribute to this journey. Each will be lens through which we will deepen our understanding and experience, as we open to the reality that tending to trauma is in itself a deep and merciful spiritual path.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- The nature of trauma and how each of us has unmetabolized and unlived experience which affects our perception and how we’ve come to imagine ourselves
- How trauma organizes in the body, psyche, and nervous system; and how it is unwound and untangled
- The felt sense of safety and how safety is the ultimate medicine and “neural scaffolding” for healing and deeper layers of self-discovery
- The link between trauma and the sacred and the relationship between our deepest wounding and our spiritual lives
THEME 3: Meditation, Psychotherapy, and the Creation of an Internal Holding Environment
Discovering a Spirituality of Your Own and the Way of Empathic Attunement
There are many types of inner work, forms of meditation, inquiry, yoga, and therapy. What’s vital is that we begin to discover a spirituality of our own, one that is unique to our own bodies, hearts, nervous systems, and souls.
There is an image and metaphor given to us by D.W. Winnicott of a “holding environment,” a warm and poetic description of a relational configuration rooted in empathic attunement, resonance, warmth, and presence.
It is from such a matrix of experience that we can explore ourselves and the world around us, resting and playing in unstructured states of being, such as awe, wonder, and the joy of true Being. From this ground of safety, we are able to take risks, lead with our vulnerability when appropriate, privilege our own integrity and autonomy in other situations, and stay embodied to the full range of human feeling.
We’ll explore together the nature of this holding environment and how both meditation and psychotherapeutic inquiry can help us to cultivate new layers of insight, wisdom, and compassion for ourselves and others.
In this, we’ll discover the reality of how all healing is relational in its essence, and what that truly means: intimacy with self, others, and with the Mystery itself.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- The importance of a daily self-attunement and compassion practice and what is most important when it comes to deep transformation and healing
- How to include in your “alchemical toolkit” insights and practices from the meditative and psychotherapeutic traditions
- How to rewire the way the way you have come to organize and work with difficult and challenging experience, and encode new neural (and soul) circuitry
- Engaging your own path with heart while at the same time not turning your life into one “unending self-improvement project”
THEME 3: Meditation, Psychotherapy, and the Creation of an Internal Holding Environment
Discovering a Spirituality of Your Own and the Way of Empathic Attunement
There are many types of inner work, forms of meditation, inquiry, yoga, and therapy. What’s vital is that we begin to discover a spirituality of our own, one that is unique to our own bodies, hearts, nervous systems, and souls.
There is an image and metaphor given to us by D.W. Winnicott of a “holding environment,” a warm and poetic description of a relational configuration rooted in empathic attunement, resonance, warmth, and presence.
It is from such a matrix of experience that we can explore ourselves and the world around us, resting and playing in unstructured states of being, such as awe, wonder, and the joy of true Being. From this ground of safety, we are able to take risks, lead with our vulnerability when appropriate, privilege our own integrity and autonomy in other situations, and stay embodied to the full range of human feeling.
We’ll explore together the nature of this holding environment and how both meditation and psychotherapeutic inquiry can help us to cultivate new layers of insight, wisdom, and compassion for ourselves and others.
In this, we’ll discover the reality of how all healing is relational in its essence, and what that truly means: intimacy with self, others, and with the Mystery itself.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- The importance of a daily self-attunement and compassion practice and what is most important when it comes to deep transformation and healing
- How to include in your “alchemical toolkit” insights and practices from the meditative and psychotherapeutic traditions
- How to rewire the way the way you have come to organize and work with difficult and challenging experience, and encode new neural (and soul) circuitry
- Engaging your own path with heart while at the same time not turning your life into one “unending self-improvement project”
THEME 4: Providing a Home for the Lost Orphans of Psyche and Soma
Holding the Pieces of Soul with Illumination, Presence, and Compassion
Much of our wounding occurs prior to the acquisition of language and is not able to be healed through the questioning and reorganization of patterns of thinking. In other words, we can’t think our way out of trauma, attachment, and relational wounding.
When our capacity to process unbearable terror, panic, shame, and rage is overwhelmed, undigested pieces of experience are held subcortically and in our cellular circuitry, unreachable by thinking which is a layer removed from the fires of the alchemical body.
Encouragement to “just get over it, that’s totally irrational, you can’t really believe that, you know that’s not true” and so forth is experienced by an inflamed nervous system as the activity of violence and aggression.
It’s like an autonomic form of gaslighting and reflects a deep misunderstanding of trauma and the workings of implicit memory, and only contributes to re-traumatization, in personal, cultural, and collective networks.
In addition to shattering and unendurable experience – which is painful and terrifying enough – there is a profound sense of aloneness that goes with this, the sense that no one can understand, that there is no companionship into the dark night. I am alone in this. This is devastating to the soul.
When that raging alive little boy or aching little girl cries out longing to be held, known, felt, and heard, they’re really not all that interested in our clear cognitive analysis, rational inquiry, thoughts on the matter, or even our powerful spiritual insights.
They’re yearning for something else… for you, your heart, your holding. To know that you will stay near, not abandon or shame them, that you will do your best to provide sanctuary and safe passage for them to return Home, to be allowed to come out of that crystallized, frozen state and live and play and breathe once again.
In this way they don’t even want or need to be healed, but to be held. And to feel safe.
Together, we’ll open to the reality of the inner family and enter into a new relationship with the richness of our inner world. In this way, we start to discover that things may be a bit more alive, open, spacious, loving, and even magical than we thought.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- The importance of establishing a caring, containing relationship with the inner parts of ourselves that have fallen out of awareness – and how to do this
- The true nature of “inner child work” and why it is so important (and misunderstood)
- The life-giving practice of giving a voice to the voiceless and making sense of our experience in a new, more integrated and cohesive way
- How, in the end, true transformation and healing is not so much about insight and clarity, but really about love, and what this means
THEME 4: Opening a Temple for the Lost Orphans of Psyche and Soma
Much of our wounding occurs prior to the acquisition of language and is not able to be healed through the questioning and reorganization of patterns of thinking. In other words, we can’t think our way out of trauma, attachment, and relational wounding.
When our capacity to process unbearable terror, panic, shame, and rage is overwhelmed, undigested pieces of experience are held subcortically and in our cellular circuitry, unreachable by thinking which is a layer removed from the fires of the alchemical body.
Encouragement to “just get over it, that’s totally irrational, you can’t really believe that, you know that’s not true” and so forth is experienced by an inflamed nervous system as the activity of violence and aggression.
It’s like an autonomic form of gaslighting and reflects a deep misunderstanding of trauma and the workings of implicit memory, and only contributes to re-traumatization, in personal, cultural, and collective networks.
In addition to shattering and unendurable experience – which is painful and terrifying enough – there is a profound sense of aloneness that goes with this, the sense that no one can understand, that there is no companionship into the dark night. I am alone in this. This is devastating to the soul.
When that raging alive little boy or aching little girl cries out longing to be held, known, felt, and heard, they’re really not all that interested in our clear cognitive analysis, rational inquiry, thoughts on the matter, or even our powerful spiritual insights.
They’re yearning for something else… for you, your heart, your holding. To know that you will stay near, not abandon or shame them, that you will do your best to provide sanctuary and safe passage for them to return Home, to be allowed to come out of that crystallized, frozen state and live and play and breathe once again.
In this way they don’t even want or need to be healed, but to be held. And to feel safe.
Together, we’ll open to the reality of the inner family and enter into a new relationship with the richness of our inner world. In this way, we start to discover that things may be a bit more alive, open, spacious, loving, and even magical than we thought.
Throughout the course, we’ll explore:
- The importance of establishing a caring, containing relationship with the inner parts of ourselves that have fallen out of awareness – and how to do this
- The true nature of “inner child work” and why it is so important (and misunderstood)
- The life-giving practice of giving a voice to the voiceless and making sense of our experience in a new, more integrated and cohesive way
- How, in the end, true transformation and healing is not so much about insight and clarity, but really about love, and what this means
“I’m not sure I’ve ever been with a teacher or therapist who saw me so transparently and so lovingly. At first it was uncomfortable, scary, and I wasn’t sure if this was for me. But the kindness that came from Matt and his insight and presence into my wounding and vulnerability melted something within me. It was like years of conditioning came crashing down and I felt real love for myself and compassion for the little girl that was raging alive inside me. There is a way that I finally felt safe, to unravel and fall apart and be fully empowered, with him there next to me. After all the healing I had “thought” that I had done, Matt helped me to see that there were always deeper realms of the body and heart to excavate and open to the light. Also, just how human and real and authentic he is meant so much to me. He wasn’t “trying” to be someone he wasn’t, honest about his own biases and brokenness, and that just made it so much more natural for me to open.”
– J.P., New York
When You Join the New Quarterly Program, Here is What You’ll Receive
1) 9, LIVE interactive sessions with Matt and the comunity
Between May 1 and July 31, you’ll meet live with Matt and a kind-hearted group of friends and fellow travelers, for 90 minutes (sometimes a bit longer). The purpose of these live sessions is to provide an empathic, sensitive, and safe holding environment in which we can explore the mysteries of healing and spiritual transformation together.
Don’t worry if you’re unable to attend the sessions live, as many are unable to due ongoing commitments. Full participation in the course and training does not require that you attend live.
2) Lifetime Access to All Video & Audio
Shortly after each session, you’ll receive a link to view the video, and listen to and download the audio. You’ll have access to this content indefinitely and will be able to refer to it at any time for further study, reflection, and contemplation.
3) Monthly Readings, Inquiry, and Writing Exercises
Each month you’ll be invited to engage with selected readings to study, reflect upon, and write about, as a way to deepen experiential connection with the material we’ll be covering. Through engaging and weaving together self-reflection, emotional attunement, body awareness, and journaling, you will be able to engage with course material in between the live sessions in a way that fosters deeper integration.
Please note that participation in these readings and exercises is optional.
4) A Private Member Portal [Website, Tablet or Mobile Phone Accessible]
All of the course video, audio, and exercises will be available in a private member portal for easy access. You can watch, listen, and access all course materials on your desktop computer, iPad, or through a mobile app which you’ll be able to access anywhere. You will be able to view the video and download the audio, save them on your device, and watch them as many times as you’d like.
5) A Private Member’s Only Facebook Group
When you become a member, you’ll receive an invitation to join us on Facebook for our private members’ group where you can connect with others around the world who are making the journey with you. Please note that the Facebook group is totally optional and you will not miss any of Matt’s teachings, meditations, Q&A’s etc. if you do not join.
Plus You’ll Receive These Special Bonuses:
BONUS #1
Audio Webinar
Somatic Wisdom, Trauma, and the Healing of the Human Nervous System
Embodied Healing in the Here-and-Now
Many of our contemporary self-help, personal growth, and even spiritual teachings have disregarded the body and the nervous system in their approach to the journey of transformation and healing. While we see some evidence that this is starting to shift, it’s important to remember we’re working against thousands of years of the marginalization of the body’s intelligence, including the diminishing of non-rational modes of inquiry and perception.
BONUS #2
The Practice of Embodied Attunement
Illuminating the Unlived Life
Webinar
We all have aspects of our experience that we’ve had to push out of awareness, as a way to avoid anxiety and overwhelm. Through a (lifelong) alchemical process of embodied attunement, we can create an inner temple, or sanctuary in which this material can return home – be felt, metabolized, and integrated – which can help us to live in a way that is more meaningful, whole, loving, and joyful.
BONUS #3
Trauma and the Sacred Wound
Liberating the Lost Orphans of Psyche and Soma
eBook
For many of us, our deepest sensitivities and vulnerabilities are intimately linked to our paths of transformation and experiences of “the holy.” In ways that may seem paradoxical, there is a sacred component to our wounding – a profound connection between trauma and the sacred – a discovery we need to unpack as it’s nuanced and subtle, and easily misunderstood.
In this short eBook, though we’ll only be able to scratch the surface, we’ll open up into a conversation and landscape where we can begin to explore some of the nuances of this very subtle (and heartbreaking) territory.
BONUS #4
An Integral Spirituality:
Vulnerability, Nonduality, and Illuminating the Unlived Shadow
Video Webinar
Even if our primary interest is in spiritual transformation, we can’t separate out any unresolved relational trauma, attachment insecurity, and narcissistic wounding we may have experienced. There just isn’t a bright line separating these things. They intertwine in the body and mind and weave in and out of the cells of our nervous systems.
If we fail to include in our inquiry the entirety of what we are – the shadow, the sore and hurt places, the betrayals, the unfelt grief, the disavowed rage, and a relationship with the orphans of psyche and soma – we won’t be able to live here fully, in a way that guided by wisdom and compassion.
In this webinar, we’ll explore these and related issues as we open into the nature of an embodied, integral approach to spirituality and healing.
Who is this group for?
- Those looking to make a (re)commitment to their healing and spiritual paths this spring and summer
- Those who are seeking a warm-hearted, empathic, safe, nonjudgmental community in which to engage the mysteries of healing
- Those who are unable to find (or afford) the opportunity to engage with deep psychological work that is vital in the times we’re living in
- Those who want to deepen their process of spiritual awakening and transformation, in a way that’s embodied, relational, grounded, and sensitive to emotional and somatic wounding
- Those looking for a welcoming, warm, open, sensitive holding environment to rest your nervous system, calm you mind, and ground your body in times when it can seem like so much is falling apart inside and around us
What You’ll Receive as a Member
Matt Licata’s
Spirituality & Healing
Inner Work Group and Community
An In-Depth Immersion into a Healing, Relational Field: An Experiential Journey of Individuation and the Unfolding of the Soul
As a member you’ll receive…
1) 9, LIVE interactive sessions with Matt Licata
2) Monthly Readings, Inquiry, and Writing Exercises (optional)
3) Lifetime Access to all Course Videos, Audios, and Bonus Materials
4) A Private Member Portal
5) A Members-Only Facebook Group where you can connect with others around the world who are making the journey with you
Plus you’ll receive these bonuses:
BONUS #1: Somatic Wisdom, Trauma, and the Healing of the Human Nervous System (audio webinar)
BONUS #2: The Practice of Embodied Attunement (video)
BONUS #3: Trauma and the Sacred Wound (eBook)
Total Quarterly Value: $697+
PLEASE NOTE: Your membership will renew automatically every 90 days, unless you let us know otherwise. We’ll send out reminders before the recurring charge goes through.
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Our Promise and 100% Guarantee
Thank you for taking the time to read about my 2025 group and community.
My sincere intention is that you will benefit from our time together. You may ask for a full refund after the first live call session from your purchase date. Simply email us at support@mattlicataphd.com to request your refund.
If this is something that resonates with you at this time in your life, I’d love to have you join us!
-Matt Licata
Meet Your Teacher
Matt Licata, Ph.D.
Matt Licata, PhD is a psychotherapist, author, and spiritual mentor, who was trained in the psychology of religion. Over the last 35 years, he has been involved in the dialogue between psychological, contemplative, and meditative approaches to personal growth, emotional healing, and spiritual transformation.
He is the author of A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020), and The Path is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You (Wandering Yogi Press, 2017). His next book – The Path of the Wounded Healer: A Soulful Spirituality and the Alchemy of the Heart – is scheduled to be published in 2026.
Matt’s Featured Books:
Praise for Matt’s book, A Healing Space
“A Healing Space is a brilliant weave of Jungian and Eastern contemplative wisdom. In this powerful new offering, Matt Licata guides us to a place of sacred refuge, where we can meet even our greatest moments of confusion and suffering with compassion and grace.”
– Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Compassion
“Matt Licata pinpoints a space within us where healing, awakening, and a vibrant reckoning of who we actually are can be realized. The wisdom hidden deep within our darkest experiences comes from not turning away from these, but by directly tending to them with gentleness, love, and compassion. This book depicts a way of genuine freedom.”
– Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness
“In A Healing Space, Matt Licata serves as a compassionate and insightful guide to the transformative task we all must face: how to forge our pain and sorrow into remedies of Spirit that can illuminate our way. With the soft clarity of a magnifying glass, Matt brings into view the many things that inhabit our nature, though they are seldom easily seen. Stay in conversation with this book and you will be a better friend to yourself, those you travel with, and to life itself”
– Mark Nepo, author of The Book of Soul and Drinking from the River of Light
“Weaving the wisdom of reflective practices, the insights from Carl Jung and the alchemists, and the relational truths of attachment research and psychotherapy practice, Matt Licata offers us a beautiful tapestry of truths to transform trauma into healing and strength. Adversity can constrain us, but with this wonderful book, we can find the perspectives and courage to embrace the reality of life’s innate uncertainty to guide us on a journey of growth and discovery—moving from post-traumatic imprisonment to liberation.”
– Dan Siegel, MD, clinical professor at UCLA School of Medicine, director of Mindsight Institute, and author of Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence and Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
“If you are looking for a book to be a companion to you during this extraordinary time, it’s this one. A Healing Space is a robust guidebook into the inner territory of yourself, assisting you in the exploration of deep and rich personal and life questions that lead, always, to wondrous realizations and growth. What a treasure to find in these times of great change.”
– Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Intimate Conversations with the Divine
“Tender, profound, and deeply useful, this book is gem. Remarkably, Matt Licata weaves together self-compassion, depth psychology, and radical acceptance into a beautiful, passionate, soaring exploration of all that it means to be human.”
– Rick Hanson, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
“A Healing Space is a beautiful, insightful, and moving contemplation of the journey of healing we all undertake as human beings. It illuminates how self-compassion—holding our own pain with love—transforms our experience in a profound way so that we can learn the lessons life offers us moment by moment.”
– Kristin Neff, PhD, associate professor, University of Texas, and author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
“This inspiring book invites us to trust the intelligence of whatever is unfolding in our lives, especially when it hurts, and to meet it in a deeply compassionate way. Matt Licata is a cartographer of the human heart. He knows the ineffable space where healing occurs and offers us a map for getting there, right up to the threshold. The rest is alchemy. We have been waiting for a long time for a book like this.”
– Christopher Germer, PhD, clinical psychologist and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, author of The Mindful Path ot Self-Compassion
Frequently Asked Questions
Are the sessions live or pre-recorded?
All sessions will be held live, on three Thursdays each month, at 9am U.S. Pacific Time (5pm in London for most of the year). Video and audio recordings of each live session will be available in the membership site within 48 hours.
What are the days and times of the live sessions?
Most months, we will meet on the first, second, and fourth Thursdays, at 9am U.S. Pacific Time/5pm London Time.
To see what time this will be in your time zone, please reference this time zone converter tool.
***Please note that it is likely that we’ll need to make a change to the schedule a few times during the year to account for illness, travel, etc. We’ll update you as far in advance as possible about this.
You will receive automated reminder emails one hour before each live event with the Zoom link and passcode to join.
What materials are required for this course?
Each month, Matt will assign readings to complete and reflect upon. Although not required, the reading list for the course are Matt’s two books. It is recommended that you engage with the readings, but not mandatory.
The Path is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You
How can I get technical support?
We are here to support you along the way with any questions you may have about the course, accesssing content, joining the live calls, etc.
*For support please email: support@mattlicataphd.com
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Does Matt’s Spirituality & Healing community involve or provide individual or group psychotherapy?
No. While we’ll discuss issues related to psychology, health, and well-being in a general way, the community is educational in nature and created for a general audience. Matt will not provide any assessment, diagnosis, or treatment of psychological issues and any individual conversations with Matt will be educational, motivational, and non-clinical in nature.
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