Matthew Fox
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Can’t make it live? After each class, video and audio recordings are available to download and watch anytime.
Delve into beloved theologian Matthew Fox's thought-provoking tradition of weaving spirituality, science, and the ancient wisdom of the mystics who hold answers to humanity's needs — and receive vital information we need now more than ever to help solve the problems of the present by looking into our past.
How do we create waves of enduring positive change for ourselves, each other, and our planet?
Will understanding how spirituality and science are, in fact, two sides of the same coin help weave together answers that are at the very core of humanity’s survival?
Mystic wisdom contends that we must bridge the divides within and between us. This encompasses all that makes us human — including our divine spirituality and the science that supports our biosphere, which hangs in the balance.
Moving Beyond the Patriarchy
Moving Beyond the Dark Night of the Soul
Spiritual Implications of the Webb Telescope
During this profound journey on recovering the sacred through the wisdom of creation mystics, you’ll:
- Reclaim the sacredness that exists within you, others, and our planet — and be led back to health and your deeper humanity through the profound wisdom transmissions of creation mystics
- Learn to fall in love with work again as an extension of your calling
- Bring an awakened spiritual consciousness to your work by arriving at the crossroads where work becomes prayer
- Explore how bringing wisdom into education is synonymous with bringing the Divine Feminine back to education and culture itself
- Explore why we can and must move beyond patriarchal consciousness
- Uncover the alchemy of turning darkness into humor through creativity
- Learn why creativity and art as meditation are expressions of the feminine side of God, which is crucial to our quest to forge a new creation story that’s based on wisdom and compassion
- Explore healthy masculine archetypes that we can develop — including the Green Man and the Spiritual Warrior
- Delve into what the mystics teach us about suffering and nothingness — and the dark night of the soul
- Discover 17 themes common to all religions, including the sacredness of creation, meditation, creativity, compassion, spiritual warriorhood, and deep ecumenism (unity)
- Learn why knowledge is not enough for the survival of our species — we also need wisdom
- Examine whether a re-centered chakra can become an antidote for evil
- Explore a grounding and inspiring approach to science and spirituality by Rupert Sheldrake, which can deepen the meaning of your life and the living out of your values
- Discover how art helps develop the mystic and the prophet within you — to serve society with moral imagination
By allowing ourselves to be led by the greater depths of our humanity, our wise, compassionate, and collaborative selves inherently know how to forge our lives individually and with each other from the divine sustenance that is always available to us.
By examining the gaps between us, which for too long fostered destruction, competition, and self-complacency, the choice is ours to allow a new story to evolve…
… as we embody our sacred humanity, ultimately becoming agents of divinity and the world that we truly want to live in.
This idea may feel far removed from the self-serving take, use, and dispose-of model for living that has long impeded the evolution of our true selves and humanity.
But as theologian and prolific author Matthew Fox teaches, it's not too late — there is still time for us to grow into our sacred selves and change our trajectory.
During this inspiring 12-week course with Matthew, you’ll be blessed by the deep wisdom transmissions of seven profound mystics and be guided on how to awaken and embody your sacred humanity.
Understanding where we’ve been and where we’re going will help us live and treat others with compassion, with reverence, and as agents of healing.
We believe that spiritual awakening lies at the heart of how we can birth a new era for humanity. These mystics offer some of the most relevant, timely, and penetrating wisdom for how to awaken your deepest self and love and act on behalf of our planet.
Matthew will guide you into a new story of humanity by calling on the wisdom of the mystics to help bring an awakened spiritual consciousness into all areas of your life.
You’ll uncover how we can ease humanity’s existence out of a singular gender suppression into an expression that embraces tenderness — shifting from the patriarchal consciousness and its power-over-others to a consciousness of outward love and compassion.
Come explore how to convert the evil that exists in the world into good by harnessing the power of your creativity to heal, recycle pain, and anchor beauty, truth, and insight into the world.
You’ll experience meditations that awaken the sacredness of creation, expand your consciousness, heal your archetypal wounds, and reveal that we are so much more than our thoughts — thereby ushering more joy and wonder into your life.
Discover why showing up as a whole sacred being — through your life and your work in the world — is the most healing thing you can offer yourself and others…
… and how embodying your Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine energies is an invitation to a new future for humanity and the Earth.
Are you ready to awaken the sacredness of creation that exists within you, others, and our planet? Ready to become an agent of divinity and the world you truly want to live in?
Join Matthew on this profound journey to reclaim the sacredness of life and forge a new human story through the wisdom transmissions of creation mystics.
— Bestselling Author Mirabai Starr: “Matthew Fox Will Go Down in History as One of the True Spiritual Geniuses of Our Age”
— Bestselling Author Andrew Harvey: “Matthew Will Illumine Your Life as He Has Illumined Mine”
What You’ll Discover in These 12 Weeks
In this 12-week transformational intensive, Matthew will guide you through the profound wisdom transmissions of the mystics who hold answers to humanity’s needs — so we can create enduring positive change for ourselves, each other, and our planet.
The Power of Livestreaming Video
You’ll connect with Matthew and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Matthew’s transmissions. Or you can listen to just the audio by phone.
(Can’t make it live? No worries! After each class, the video and audio recordings will be available for you to download or stream in a high-quality format at your convenience.)
Weekly Sessions Tuesdays at 5:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Matthew. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to reclaim the sacredness that exists within you, others, and our planet. Join us and be led back to balance and your deeper humanity through the wisdom transmissions of creation mystics.
Module 1: The Webb Telescope & the New Creation Story Looks to Our Past to See the Future, Helping Us Understand Our Connections (August 16)
Class opens with cosmologist Brian Swimme and a discussion on how today’s science offers a new creation story, examining planetary origins 13.8 billion years ago and bringing humanity together in wonder and gratitude.
Brian is the author of a forthcoming book, Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe. His previous books include The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry).
Matthew will also share how we can harness the wisdom of the mystics as our own telescope into the past and future of humanity…
… forging a new creation story with compassion, collaboration, and conscious intention.
During the opening class, you’ll explore:
- What the new James Webb Space Telescope means — and what it can awaken in us as we look into the past and our origins
- How to harness the wisdom of the mystics as our own telescope into the past and future of humanity — forging a new creation story with compassion, collaboration, and conscious intention
- How bringing humanity together in wonder and gratitude can awaken hope — and the great work of saving the planet as we know it
Module 2: How Science & Spirituality Contribute to Earth’s Survival as We Apply Our Faith in Creating a Better World (August 23)
How can science and spirituality enrich each other — and aid in the survival of our species and planet and the forging of a new human story?
How does science validate the practices that underpin all major world religions… and illuminate the evolution and origins of our spiritual and religious traditions?
This week, you’ll explore a grounding and inspiring approach to science and spirituality that’ll deepen the meaning of your life and open you to possibilities that have yet to be discovered.
You’ll also learn new ways to integrate good habits and virtues into your daily life.
This week, you’ll:
- Explore a grounding and inspiring approach to science and spirituality by Rupert Sheldrake to deepen the meaning of your life — and open you to new possibilities
- Learn how Sheldrake’s approach supports your values and how you can live them by way of good habits and virtues
- Consider the next steps in human evolution
- Learn new ways to integrate spiritual practices and good habits and virtues into your daily life (another chapter of retrieving the Sacred Masculine)
Module 3: Finding Value & Joy in Our Work and Deepening the Work We Do for Ourselves & Others (August 30)
How do we re-sacralize our work? What do the mystics and the world’s spiritual traditions teach about the holiness of work?
This week, you’ll learn how to find value in what you do and how that relates to who you are as an individual — and culminates in serving your community and society.
Ultimately, you’ll discover the crossroads where work becomes prayer.
Matthew will cull insights from his book, The Reinvention of Work, and provide you with a map for bringing your sacred self into all you do in your work and professional worlds.
As you rediscover value and joy in the work that you do, you’ll:
- Learn to fall in love with work again as an extension of your calling
- Explore how to bring an awakened spiritual consciousness to your work and professional worlds
- Learn how waking up your work world also wakes up our culture
- Apply the 4 paths of creation spirituality to reground your work as a spiritual practice in itself
- Remember how to experience joy in your work — and help others do the same
- Discover the crossroads where work becomes prayer
Module 4: Wisdom From World Faith Traditions — Developing a Deeper Humanity by Finding Common Ground Among World Spiritual Traditions (September 6)
Humanity’s survival demands that various religions work together, and not in competition or antagonism.
This week, you’ll explore the wisdom of various spiritual traditions (which Matthew refers to as deep ecumenism) and the dimensions involved in developing the deeper humanity that all religions teach.
Matthew will share the many themes that are common to all religions, as described in his book One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths.
He’ll share the different names of God, as acknowledged through world religions, to open up your understanding of divine names — including new ones from today’s science.
This week, you’ll:
- Address the common questions of all world religions — and learn 17 themes common to all religions, including the sacredness of creation, meditation, creativity, compassion, spiritual warriorhood, and deep ecumenism
- Learn how different religions address the various names of God — including the feminine side of God
- Explore how the archetype of the Cosmic Christ or Buddha Nature or Image of God is a perspective that can be integrated into how you see and live in the world
Module 5: Creation Spirituality & the Divine Feminine Archetypes of Gaia, Wisdom, Mothering and Compassion (September 13)
Whether man or woman, we all have the Divine Feminine within us.
Matthew will share multiple archetypes of the Divine Feminine this week — from Gaia to wisdom, from mother and mothering and birthing, to mysticism itself.
You’ll also learn why creativity and art as meditation are expressions of the feminine side of God, which is crucial to our quest to forge a new creation story based on wisdom and compassion.
This week, you’ll:
- Explore how mystics like Julian of Norwich deeply develop the theme of God as Mother
- How wisdom, compassion, Gaia, and Mother Earth are all expressions of the Divine Feminine
- Why creativity and art as meditation are expressions of the feminine side of God, which is crucial to forging a new human story
Module 6: Returning the Divine Feminine to Culture — Balancing Knowledge With Wisdom in Education (September 20)
Physicist David Bohm once said that “science is not enough.” Einstein said that we must bring intuition alive in education, for that is where values come from.
You’ll explore the practicality of both ideas this week, and the notion that bringing wisdom into education is synonymous with bringing the Divine Feminine back to education and culture itself.
This includes honoring intuition and articulating values that humanity as a whole can strive for.
Matthew will also share his book, The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human, to offer guidance on how to bring the joy of learning back to education.
This week, you’ll explore:
- Why knowledge is not enough for the survival of our species — we also need wisdom
- Why bringing wisdom into education is synonymous with bringing the Divine Feminine back to education and culture itself
- Examples of how to bring the feminine into education — for children, adolescents, undergraduate students, graduate students, and professional academics
- Art as meditation to unleash your creativity, center the Self — and develop the mystic and the prophet inside you to serve society with moral imagination
- How a balanced education can herald the joy of learning, and the hope and empowerment that gives
Module 7: Awakening the Sacred Masculine & Moving Beyond Patriarchy (September 27)
Humanity has suffered under distorted and toxic masculinity preached by patriarchy for centuries.
The price has been immense for the health of Mother Earth and for women and children, both boys and girls. as well as for men.
This week, you’ll explore how we can and must move beyond the reign of empire-building, power-over dynamics, the unleashed reptilian brain, dualism and domination, and self-hatred — all of which are so common to patriarchal consciousness.
You’ll also learn alternative and deeper interpretations of the Sacred Masculine.
This week, you'll discover:
- How many young men are confused and resort to violence — and many of our institutions are distorted due to a patriarchal philosophy of dualism and the objectification of others
- How to move beyond uber-masculine notions of what it means to be a human being
- Why values and virtues are part of true masculinity and authentic virility
- What constitutes healthy values, habits, and virtues
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How we all have the Sacred Masculine within us — which needs to be developed for us to become stronger and more grounded
Module 8: Breaking Free of Patriarchy’s Uber-Masculine Games to Embody Deeper Archetypes of Father Sky, the Green Man, Spiritual Warrior, Hunger Gatherer, the Blue Man (October 4)
Ancient archetypes of the Sacred Masculine such as Father Sky can displace the distorted and toxic masculine that has existed for thousands of years…
… and help us forge a new human story where the masculine and feminine coexist in harmony within us — and the world.
This week, you’ll explore healthy masculine archetypes and learn how to integrate their qualities into your being and life.
This week, you’ll:
- Apply the archetype of Father Sky as a living cosmology
- Learn how Father Sky relates to the Webb Telescope — and can help us move beyond male depression, anthropocentrism, and narcissism
- Explore healthy masculine archetypes that we can develop — including the Green Man and the Spiritual Warrior
- Learn how to apply the archetypes of the Hunter-Gatherer, the Blue Man, Fatherhood, and Grandfatherhood (the role of elders)
Module 9: Returning to the Essence of Humanity Freeing Our Creativity & Giving It the Attention It Deserves (October 11)
At the heart of our deeper evolution as a species and our very survival as a species lies creativity.
This week, you’ll learn how creativity heals, recycles pain, and bestows beauty, truth, insight, and solutions.
You’ll also explore the anthropological view of what constitutes a human being and the idea that creativity is synonymous with life.
An artist lies inside all of us, and as poet M.C. Richards once said, “it will give us no peace until we get out of its way.”
This week, you’ll discover:
- The anthropological definition of a human being
- How to elicit creativity more fully — and give it the value and attention it deserves
- How creativity heals, recycles pain, and bestows beauty, truth, and insight on communities
- Why we are essentially dead inside until we embrace creativity
- The alchemy of turning darkness into humor through creativity, and how moral imagination and creativity can turn climate change around
Module 10: Suffering & the Dark Night of the Soul Are Real: What the Mystics Teach Us About Uknowing, Nothingness, and Loss (October 18)
Suffering is real and getting more real due to climate change, wars, indifference, and injustice.
The mystics talk about the “dark night of the soul,” and today, as a species, we are journeying through a collective dark night called the “dark night of our species.”
Does a dark night precede dawn? You’ll explore how a dark night trains us to stay alert and never give up.
You’ll also explore why nothingness is a real experience that’s integral to feminist spirituality, according to Carol Christ, a foremother of the Goddess movement. You’ll delve into how there is something in nothing, according to Meister Eckhart, and “if you want the kernel, you must break the shell.”
You’ll also discover why Rabbi Zalman Schachter believed that “there’s more good than evil in the world — but not by much.”
You’ll also learn:
- What the mystics teach us about suffering and nothingness — and the dark night of the soul
- The valuable lessons that the dark night can teach us — such as how to undergo unknowingly and emerge from it wiser and more whole
- Why in the darkness there is light — and how the experience of nothingness can be a good thing
Module 11: Evil — How to Convert Its Energy Into Good You Want to See in Humanity & the World (October 25)
Mystics have much to teach about evil.
This week, you’ll explore an intercultural approach to evil, integrating teachings from the East on the seven chakras and teachings from the West on the seven capital sins.
You’ll delve deeply into comparing and contrasting Thomas Aquinas’ idea of sin as “misdirected love” with the love centers of the chakras to ascertain whether misdirected love may correspond to an off-centered chakra.
Matthew will also share how unhealthy religion often oversells sin and renders us unprepared for dealing with evil.
This week, you’ll explore:
- Perceptions of evil through Matthew’s book, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh — offering a perspective beyond just “sin talk” that can lead to a deeper understanding of evil
- The 7 capital sins of the West and the 7 chakras of the East
- Whether a re-centered chakra can become an antidote for evil
- How to strengthen the heart and other chakras to keep evil at bay
Module 12: How Creation Mystics From Yesterday & Today Offer a New Future, a New Creation (November 1)
During the final class, you’ll consider how the creation mystics — yourself included — can propel us in our evolution and make our species and Earth more sustainable.
You will:
- Consider what this journey of science, cosmology, spiritual practices, and your search for values and virtues means for our future
- Learn how the return of the Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine introduces a new future for humanity and the Earth
- Learn how creativity can be ignited to heal ourselves and the planet
- Explore how best to learn from the dark night — and also defend ourselves from evil in soul and society
The 7 Mystics Bonus Collection
In addition to Matthew’s transformative 12-week virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox
Many people are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, saint and doctor of the church (1225-1274), has as much to say to us today as he did to the people of his own time. In this 2-hour recorded lecture and Q&A with a Zoom audience, Matthew discusses his book The Tao of Thomas Aquinas. A deep mystic and a courageous prophet, Aquinas incorporated Aristotle’s wisdom into the heart of his teaching, and was committed to bringing science into spiritual awareness.
Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic & Beyond
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox
Julian of Norwich (1349-1415) was a profound thinker and the first woman to write a book in English. In this 2-hour recorded lecture and Q&A with a Zoom audience, Matthew discusses his book Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic — and Beyond. Julian lived through the worst pandemic in European history — the bubonic plague — so she has much to teach us today about creation spirituality, the sacredness of nature, goodness as God, and more. She also developed, most profoundly, the idea of the Motherhood of God and of Christ.
Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times — Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox
Hildegard of Bingen warns us of the consequences of the mistreatment and marginalization of women, the oppression of the poor and powerless, the destruction of our environment, and the dangers of a patriarchal system running wild. In this 2-hour recorded lecture and Q&A with a Zoom audience, Matthew discusses his book Hildegard of Bingen, a Saint for Our Times. Hildegard urges us to “be useful,” to nurture nature, and to speak up against injustice wherever we find it. She also reminds us to sing, dance, be creative, celebrate life, and “wake up.”
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Times
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox
Meister Eckhart (1260–1329) was among the most popular preachers of his time and is considered a profound teacher of mysticism. In this 2-hour recorded lecture and Q&A with a Zoom audience, Matthew discusses his book Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times. Meister Eckhart’s teaching not only focused on deep contemplation, but on deep action, which ultimately led to him being put on trial and condemned by a corrupt papacy. He took on the vested power interests of patriarchy, economic privilege, and religiosity in his day. In Matthew’s book, he puts Eckhart in the room with Rabbi Heschel, Teilhard de Chardin, and Thomas Berry; Adrienne Rich; Rumi, Hafiz and Ibn Arabi; Black Elk; Carl Jung, and more.
What Graduates of Matthew’s Courses Are Saying…
— Carol Vaccariello: “Thank you, Matt, for Being the Great Soul That You Are”
— Amy Van Linge: “Matthew Is an Amazing Scholar, a Mystic, a Prophet, and a True Visionary”
— Steve Mortimer: “Matthew Fox Is a Spiritual Obi-Wan Kenobi”
— Dominic Flamiano: “Matt Has Walked His Talk. He Has Preached and Paid the Price.”
“We highly recommend this opportunity to experience a mystical journey with Matthew.”
We appreciated Matthew Fox's knowledge, enthusiasm, and passion. The course is deeply engaging on many levels. We highly recommend this opportunity to experience a mystical journey with Matthew.
— Tim and Linda, Long Beach, California
“This course oozes the spaciousness and wisdom I have desired.”
I so appreciate the feminine being valued. This course oozes the spaciousness and wisdom I have desired.
— Dr. Carol Joyce, New York City
“... this course will help you see the bigger picture in how we are meant to live our lives and co-create with nature and the Universe.”
If you are a truth seeker and disenchanted with religion, then this course will help you see the bigger picture in how we are meant to live our lives and co-create with nature and the Universe.
— Carmelina, United Kingdom
“Matthew Fox is an excellent teacher, bringing the life, art, and teachings of Hildegard alive.”
Matthew Fox is an excellent teacher, bringing the life, art, and teachings of Hildegard alive. Inviting other teachers enriched the course, especially when they dialogued with Matthew. I will miss being with him each Tuesday night.
— Carolyn, Bluffton, South Carolina
“This course is much needed in a world that is quickly killing itself.”
This course opened my eyes to a female warrior who spoke and acted on truth. I have been given a great gift of St. Hildegard to begin modeling a new (old) way of living. Thank you, Matthew Fox, for bringing this to the masses. This course is much needed in a world that is quickly killing itself.
— Claire, Sonora, California
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Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Matthew Fox will share in this powerful training.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Twelve 90-Minute Class Sessions With Matthew Fox
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from renowned spiritual pioneer Matthew Fox from the comfort of your own home. Each class includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to reclaim the sacredness that exists within you, others, and our planet through the wisdom transmissions of creation mystics. Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Twelve Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the digital video will be available for you to download or stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Twelve Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in a high-quality MP3 format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Twelve Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Twelve 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The 7 Mystics Course Bonus Collection
- The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox - Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic & Beyond
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox - Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times — Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox - Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Times
Video Lecture From Matthew Fox
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Training, 7 Mystics on Recovering the Sacred & Forging a New Story for Humanity
We feel honored that Matthew Fox has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a renowned spiritual pioneer whose powerful insights and transformational work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about reclaiming the sacredness that exists within you, others, and our planet, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for Matthew Fox…
“[Matthew is] a major teacher and guide.”
I think of Matthew Fox as “God’s Talent Scout” for all the pivotal figures and ideas he has reclaimed for the reform of Christianity. He knows the sources and translates them into modern idioms for the rest of us! What he has done with Hildegard, Eckhart, and Aquinas makes him a major teacher and guide.
— Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Matthew Fox is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of spirituality.”
Matthew Fox is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of spirituality. He has redefined what healthy spirituality is, and what it is not. We should place him at the same level of cultural importance as Thomas Berry, Gandhi, and Dr. King.
— Steve Mortimer, Black Chapel Collective
“If one person deserves credit for the great Hildegard renaissance in our time, it is Matthew Fox.”
If one person deserves credit for the great Hildegard renaissance in our time, it is Matthew Fox. Here in the long-lost legacy of Hildegard of Bingen, Fox found blindingly beautiful paintings, radiant writings overflowing with fresh insights of the deepest kind, prophetic wisdom, and engaged political spirituality. Here was a mystical genius who could help to illuminate the human soul spirituality, ecologically, politically — in every dimension of life.
— Mary Ford-Grabowsky, author of Sacred Voices
“History will name Fox one of the great Christian spirits of our age.”
— John Shelby Spong, author of A New Christianity for a New World
About Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox is a prolific author of books dedicated to renewing the ancient tradition of Creation Spirituality, including Original Blessing, A Spirituality Named Compassion, and Christian Mystics. This earth-based mystical tradition is feminist, welcoming of the arts and artists, honors Indigenous wisdom, works with science, and is committed to interfaith approaches and eco, social, and gender justice.
Matthew’s effort to reawaken the West to its own mystical tradition has sparked awareness of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, and the mysticism of Thomas Aquinas, as well as the wisdom tradition that nurtured Jesus. His work helps reconnect science and spirituality by honoring the sacredness of the Cosmos and interacting with contemporary scientists who are also mystics. He believes that “by reinventing work, education, and worship, we can bring about a nonviolent revolution on our planet.”
Matthew received his doctorate summa cum laude in the History and Theology of Spiritualities from the Institut Catholique de Paris. A member of the Dominican Order for 34 years, he established an Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality that operated for seven years at Mundelein College in Chicago, and for 12 years at Holy Names University in Oakland.
He founded the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland in 1996 and was president and professor until 2005, when he left to create a pilot project to reinvent the educational experience for inner-city teenagers.
Matthew is a recipient of many awards, including the Gandhi King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, which is awarded for dedication to peace, unity, nonviolence, and justice. He also received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award; other recipients have included the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
“I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever...”
I had never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion, and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon within which to participate. I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is August 30, 2022. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to your problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
