Free Webinar
Imagining a New Emperor – Writing Prompts for Inspiration, Imagination and Hope
Nov 30, 2026
7:30 PM (EST)
1 hour
In this free one-hour Zoom webinar, explore the writing genres of hopepunk, solarpunk, soilpunk, and symbiopunk through the lens of a fairy tale. We will look together at “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and consider how retellings might be inspired by a shift in genre. Attendees should walk away with a few seeds and story ideas, new inspiration, and a renewed sense of creative optimism.
Online Workshop
How to Have a Mythopoeic Midwinter and Next-Level New Year
December 14, 2026
8 PM (EST)
4 weeks
Do you enjoy the holiday season, but wish there were a different way to honor it? Are you interested in a deeper approach to the concept of the “New Year’s resolution”?
Have you tried to make New Year’s Resolutions and they don’t stick? Frustrated by having the best of intentions but no clear way to follow through? This course will help support your mid-winter resolution-building by exploring the science behind how and why our goals do or do not work, and suggest techniques and embodied practices for bringing your goals to fruition.
Using the mythopoetic lens of the seasons and the new year, this course will marry the elements of midwinter mythology into a new kind of personal celebration of the season focusing on personal rituals, meditation, and goal-setting exercises.
Through this course, we will explore the time of mid-winter as one of hibernation; important for dreaming, for reflection, and for intention setting. Like bears hibernating to preserve their energy, mid winter’s early nightfall give us time to focus inward on the light in our hearts and lives.
Morbid Anatomy
About The Host
Morbid Anatomy was created as a blog by Joanna Ebenstein in support of a photo exhibition in 2007. Since then, it has expanded to include the Morbid Anatomy Library, lectures, exhibitions, classes, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films.
Find more at MorbidAnatomy.org
Asynchronous Learning at Thinkific
Ritual Theory and Ritual Design
Now Available
2.5 hours
In this on-demand course about Ritual Theory and Ritual Design, I cover the key elements of rituals, altars, and how to incorporate these concepts into your daily life for a more rich and rewarding dialogue with your own unconscious. Video lectures are self-paced with Pdf downloads, as well as a downloadable audio of a grounding meditation you can keep.
What You’ll Learn:
– How rituals work with the psyche
– How to design rituals on your own – The key elements of an altar
– Tips for creating zoom rituals and rituals for large groups of people
Thinkific
About The Host
Thinkific is an online learning platform that allows creators like me to upload our own asynchronous learning platforms. It includes a community forum, and other interesting tools that allow us to collaborate online, without having to be in a live class.
Downloadable Recordings
The Unicorn
Available for Download
5 hours
Alicia will be sharing the recordings of classes about the history and symbolism associated with unicorns. This spans eras from second century BCE all the way through Brie Larson’s 2019 film “The Unicorn Store.” With all of the tapestries and Lisa Frank Trapper Keepers in between.
What You’ll Learn:
– Basic tools for working with images of the unconscious (like dreams!)
– Historical and modern meanings and interpretations of unicorns
– How you interpret the unicorn for your own psyche
Morbid Anatomy
About The Host
Morbid Anatomy was created as a blog by Joanna Ebenstein in support of a photo exhibition in 2007. Since then, it has expanded to include the Morbid Anatomy Library, lectures, exhibitions, classes, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films.
Find more at MorbidAnatomy.org
Downloadable Recordings
Meeting the Monstrous Feminine and What it Means in the Modern Psyche
Available for Download
5 hours
Over five recordings, Alicia will be amplifying and discussing the Monstrous Feminine. Sirens… Medusa… The Sphinx… The Baba Yaga… Harpies… Lilith… Succubi… The Furies… The Rusalka… What is so appealing and powerful about the monstrous feminine? Why are these figures and symbols so fascinating and? More importantly, if these archetypes are alive in our psyches, how do we honor and work with them?
This class will explore these questions, and more.
What You’ll Learn:
- What the “monstrous feminine” means in our daily lives and current culture
- What various incarnations of the monstrous feminine mean to us as individuals
- How to engage with symbols of the unconscious in a meaningful way
Morbid Anatomy
About The Host
Morbid Anatomy was created as a blog by Joanna Ebenstein in support of a photo exhibition in 2007. Since then, it has expanded to include the Morbid Anatomy Library, lectures, exhibitions, classes, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films.
Find more at MorbidAnatomy.org