Wild Magic. Life as exploration. March 28th. Hope you’ll join us. Sign up here!
Author: Fabiana Fondevila
Wild Magic 2026
A yearly journey in monthly gatherings
Wild Magic is my yearly course in English, a space for reflection, exploration, and shared inquiry into what it means to live with more awareness, imagination, and aliveness.
This year, instead of building the program around a single theme, the 2026 journey will revolve around something more open, and perhaps more essential: a way of seeing life.
A way of seeing that remains willing to be surprised.
One that refines perception, widens sensitivity, and allows us to be touched by what is happening within us and around us.
One that can meet the complexity of the world without closing down, transforming confusion into curiosity, pain into compassion, and uncertainty into movement.
And one that grows not only in solitude, but in conversation, in community, and in shared exploration.
In 2026, Wild Magic will unfold through monthly online gatherings, each one a pause along the path rather than a step in a rigid program. Together, we will explore stories, practices, and perspectives that help us inhabit our lives with more depth, freedom, and presence.
We will begin with a session called A Better Story, where we will explore the narratives we live by, and how a shift in perception can open new meanings and new possibilities without denying the past.
Free introductory talk — March 28th, 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT.
If you would like to get a feel for this year’s journey, I warmly invite you to a free open talk on March 28, where I will share the spirit of the course, how the monthly gatherings will work, and what we will be exploring together.
You are very welcome to join, even if you are simply curious.
Sometimes a whole new path begins with a small shift in the way we look at things.
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The Creativity of Love
Like all living beings, we breathe, we grow, we move. But we also carry within us the spark to imagine, transform, invent…
What we touch, we recreate: our homes, our jobs, our words, our songs. But we don’t always think of our relationships this way. We rely on what is known, we avoid innovation, we shield our vulnerability with clichés.
What would happen if we envisioned our relationships lie a garden, a fresh loaf of bread, a work of art in full progress?
In this session of The Anatomy of Love, we’ll explore the ways in which loving isn’t repeating: it’s creating. Weeding out what no longer nourishes. Composting the old so it can nourish the new. Sowing fresh ways of meeting. Watering everyday what we want to see flourish.
🌱 We will play, imagine, and give ourselves permission to reinvent love—with humor, curiosity, and joy. Every day is a great day to start over!
Format
Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after the class. It’s yours to keep for life!
When
August 30th, 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT
Tuition
U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com
Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com
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The Alchemy of Love
In alchemy, an ancient practice that speaks to us today through its symbolic resonances, the objective is not to eliminate impurities but to transmute them: to convert what seems low, impure or broken into something luminous and complete.
This is the spirit of The Alchemy of Love: a workshop in which every emotion, every contradiction, every wound and every longing will be received as part of the raw material of our becoming.
Through attentive presence, ritual and soul enquiry, we will cultivate a vessel strong enough to contain our complexity and warm enough to ignite true change.
It’s not about “fixing” what ails you, but about striking up such a deep friendship with your inner world that love becomes a catalyst for growth, integration and unexpected grace.
Some of the effects you might expect from this work:
- Transform inner conflict into deeper integration, learning to hold your contradictions with tenderness and curiosity.
- Deepen your bonds, recognizing and healing patterns that arise in connection with others.
- Discovering your inner wisdom, not as something foreign or elevated, but as a living current that already runs through you.
- Experiencing greater vitality, allowing all of who you are – not just the socially acceptable parts – to participate in your life.
- Recover wonder and joy as states of being that arise naturally when we are fully alive in the moment.
Awaiting you with warmth and enthusiasm!
Format
Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after the class. It’s yours to keep for life!
When
August 2nd, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT
Tuition
U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com
Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com
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The Courage of Love
Growing in love involves cultivating a soul connection with another person, a sacred alliance that will allow us to realize our deepest potentials.
But for this to happen, we must be willing to probe into the defenses and patterns we built around our hearts, and the distortions they create. Those defenses are formed early in life, and they have meaning and intelligence. As we mature, however, we need to update and transform them, lest they become a gilded cage, distancing us from the very people we endeavor to love.
The practices and reflections we’ll explore in this session will bring us:
🔍 Clarity: Recognizing unconscious patterns and hidden emotional dynamics.
💪 Resilience: Staying grounded through emotional discomfort and relational stress.
🧩 Wholeness: Reclaiming and integrating the parts of ourselves that we have hidden or judged unworthy.
🤝 Deeper connection: Building trust through vulnerability, honesty and compassionate listening.
🧭 Integrity: Acting in accordance with our values, even when it’s difficult.
💗 Compassion: Making space for complexity, in yourself and others.
🌱 Expansiveness: Experiencing a fuller, freer and more real love.
Working with our masks and shadows is a sacred task, which allows a deep encounter with other people; perhaps the most valuable task we can undertake. We invite you to experience it together!
Format
Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after the class. It’s yours to keep for life!
When
Jun 28th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT
Tuition
U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com
Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com
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The Body of Love. Igniting Love Within!
In this transformative workshop, we will explore the science behind love – how the brain, heart and body create a deep, intimate connection with other people – and practice science-backed techniques for entering loving states at will, and as a daily practice.
What we will explore:
💡 The science of love. How the brain and neurotransmitters, heart rhythm variability, vagus nerve and nervous system conspire for or against your ability to give and receive love.
💓 The role of the heart. Anchoring yourself in this powerful, multifaceted organ, a social, emotional and spiritual center capable of producing intuition, ternderness, calm and compassion.
🌀 Meditation, breathing and visualization practices to cultivate warmth, trust and openness.
🌍 Beyond romance; love as an evolutionary engine. How love evolved in mammals and humans to shape our relationships, communities and social justice movements.
🦎 Transcending the narrow scope of the reptilian brain, and activating the calming and binding circuits of the limbic brain.
🤸🏻♂️ The role of positive emotions to open your sight, change your physiology and help you create community.
All in all, you will receive practical tools to activate a loving attitude in your relationships, your work, and with yourself.
Here’s hoping you’ll join us for this adventure of the heart! 💗
Format
Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after the class. It’s yours to keep for life!
When
March 29th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT
Tuition
U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com
Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com
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The Creativity of Love
A Special Kind of Creativity. August 30th. Hope you’ll join us. Sign up here!
The Wisdom of Dreams. Engaging with Your Inner Dream Maker
The stories that visit us every night may seem like the work of a crazed filmmaker. In truth, they are living myths, stories filled with personal and transpersonal meaning, told in symbolic language.
If we learn to speak the language of metaphor, we can enter a rich and creative dialogue with our own Unconscious, and let it guide us and correct our path througn its insights and intuitions.
In this one-time workshop, you will:
💭 Learn why we dream and how dreams reveal our deeper truths
🔍 Explore symbolism, archetypes, and personal associations
📖 Discover a step-by-step method for interpreting your own dreams
💡 Uncover the wisdom hidden in your recurring themes, landscapes, and dream figures ✨ Incubation techniques to stimulate the dreaming mind,
🌀 Engage in active imagination to work with your dreams in waking life.
For Carl Gustav Jung, the exploration of dreams was an important foundation for Depth Psychology, which he fathered. He saw dreams as valuable creations of our psyche that acts as guideposts to our growth and evolution: “The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
Your dreams are guiding you toward something meaningful. Let’s explore where they want to take you! ✨🌛💫
When
March 1st, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT
Format
One virtual session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.
Tuition
U$D 25. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com
Questions
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The Anatomy of Love. Following the Path of the Heart
For centuries, poets, mystics and philosophers have spoken of the heart as the center of wisdom, love and connection. Until recently, science considered this a mere metaphor. But in recent years, research has revealed that the heart is an organ of perception of the highest order, with a deep connection to our emotions, and a direct line to the larger consciousness of which we are all a part.
The heart forms an essential part of the anatomy of love, along with the right hemisphere of the brain (with its holistic, sensitive and intimate mode of attention, which we learn to activate); oxytocin (the “love hormone” that creates a sense of openness and trust); the vagus nerve (which regulates our nervous system and brings us calm and empathy).
But here’s the interesting point: we cannot activate this delicate living system on our own, as if swallowing some self-prescribed pill. We can only create true resilience, purpose and joy together, creating and sustaining life-giving bonds with each other.
Whe we do so, love becomes medicine indeed. Let’s look at some of its gifts.
Living from the heart:
✅ Regulate the nervous system
✅ Develops emotional resilience.
✅ Molds the brain for openness and creativity.
✅ Protects against distress and anxiety.
✅ Expands our meaning and purpose in life.
How will we achieve this?
Here’s my invitation!
“Anatomy of love. Folliowing the Path of Heart”. A spiral journey.
I conceived this course as an organic journey, like so many we engage in throughout our lives. In other words, it’s not a linear movement from A to B, but a cyclical, spiraling, living one. More a pilgrimage than a race.
As if following a line of glittering seashells along the shore, we will explore:
- The Body of Love. Awakening the intelligence of the heart, the holistic view of the right hemisphere.
- The Ecology of Love. Connecting with Nature, and with the universe, not as a spectator but as a fully engaged participant. Being a force of Love in the world.
- The Emotions of Love. Cultivating and practicing the states that transform us: gratitude, awe, kindness, compassion.
- The Courage of Love. Exploring personal and relational shadow.
- The Psychology of Love. Transforming conflicts into opportunities; combining intimacy with differentiation.
- The Creativity of Love. Recreating our bonds with curiosity and imagination.
- The Spirituality of Love. Transmuting loss into transcendence; growing from vulnerability.
- The Wisdom of Love. Bringing clarity to our relationships, balancing compassion with discernment.
- The Presence of Love. Discovering the radiant silence within.
Poets have always beckoned us to this path of seashells and echoes from the deep.
Here is David Whyte, with his luminous invitation:
“You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
Let us walk this path together, opening our hearts wide with each step.
Format
Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after each class. The material will be available without time limit.
Schedule
Every last Saturday of each month.
Opening session
March 29th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT
Tuition
U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com
Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com
Sign up here!
Inspiring news from 2024
We are all too familiar with the bad news; we read about them everyday on the front pages of newspapers. To turn our backs on this news would be foolish and irresponsible. But if only expose ourselves to that aspect of reality, we can easily fall into discouragement and dispair. The truth is that, far from the headlines and in every corner of the world, bright and important things are taking place
In this article we’ll share eight news items, from a list of 86 carefully prepared by the amazing team at Fix the News, which highlights progress and improvement on different key fronts
This is not to underestimate the size of the challenges, but to give us the strength to fight back by focusing on the thousands of people and initiatives that are making a difference, and helping to bring about a loving and sustainable world for all. Says Kristine Tompkins, who, along with her late husband Doug, managed to protect nearly 6 million hectares of land in Argentina and Chile and reintroduce more than two dozen keystone species:
“There is a collapse taking place, and it would be happening with rapid velocity if it weren’t for the millions of people around the world who are working to slow down these trends; and they’re doing so in the force of great headwinds.“
Let’s take a look at some of these headwinds!
We fed around a quarter of the world’s kids at school
Around 480 million students are now getting fed at school, up from 319 million before the pandemic, and 104 countries have joined a global coalition to promote school meals, School feeding policies are now in place in 48 countries in Africa, and this year Nigeria announced plans to expand school meals to 20 million children by 2025, Kenya committed to expanding its program from two million to ten million children by the end of the decade, and Indonesia pledged to provide lunches to all 78 million of its students, in what will be the world’s largest free school meals program.
Millions more children got an education
Staggering statistics incoming: between 2000 and 2023, the number of children and adolescents not attending school fell by nearly 40%, and Eastern and Southern Africa, achieved gender parity in primary education, with 25 million more girls are enrolled in primary school today than in the early 2000s. Since 2015, an additional 110 million children have entered school worldwide, and 40 million more young people are completing secondary school.
And much better news on access to water, sanitation and hygiene
In what might be this year’s most invisible story of progress, a WHO-UNICEF report revealed that between 2015 and 2023, over 200 million children gained access to improved water, sanitation, or hygiene services at school. That’s not a typo. Also this year, Malaysia closed in on universal access to clean water and sanitation, Mexico announced a €5 billion investment in clean water, Nepal reported a three-fold decline in diarrhoea rates for children, a new project in Brazil gave over a million rural residents access to water and sanitation, Senegal kicked off a project to provide water and sanitation to seven million people, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo one-upped that with a project to provide access to 12 million people.
Deforestation in the Amazon halved in two years
Brazil’s space agency, INPE, confirmed a second consecutive year of declining deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. That means deforestation rates have roughly halved under Lula, and are now approaching all time lows. In Colombia, deforestation dropped by 36%, hitting a 23-year low. Bolivia created four new protected areas, a huge new new state park was created in Pará to protect some of the oldest and tallest tree species in the tropical Americas and a new study revealed that more of the Amazon is protected than we originally thought, with 62.4% of the rainforest now under some form of conservation management.
Did we save the whales?
Thanks to its groundbreaking moratorium on commercial whaling in 1985, it looks like the International Whaling Commission may have put itself out of a job. There was an upswing in humpback populations in Icelandic waters and in the South Atlantic Ocean their numbers recovered to pre-whaling levels. Scientists confirmed the comeback of fin whales in the Scotia Sea; blue whales were spotted in the Seychelles for the first time in decades; and the numbers of Antarctic blue whales also increased.
Cities got greener and cleaner
Paris continued to be at the forefront of global urban renewal efforts, implementing a ban on motorists driving through central areas of the city, announcing plans to swap 60,000 parking spaces for trees, and reporting a 40% decline in air pollution in the last decade. Kigali, Rwanda, became Africa’s cleanest city thanks to community efforts and government policies, a mass cleaning drive in the Chennai, India removed 250 tonnes of waste from parks in a single day, In Italy, Turin continued its evolution from ‘motor city’ to a cycling haven, Medellin, Colombia cut temperatures by 2°C in three years by planting trees, Berlin became a sponge city and New York opened around 60km of ‘greenways.’
Doctors gave people the gift of speech, sound and sight
Tell us this isn’t like magic. An ALS patient received treatment that allowed him to speak to his daughter again, using sound decoders in his brain and AI software, part of a new wave of brain-machine interfaces that could transform life for paralysed people. Three people with profoundly impaired vision saw major improvement in their eyesight following the transplants of reprogrammed stem cells, and an 11-year-old Moroccan boy received gene therapy for congenital deafness, and started to hear again. “There’s no sound I don’t like.”
Roads became safer for animals… and humans
Wildlife crossings are incredibly effective and this year they multiplied across the United States: Washington State added 16 to its network, Colorado recorded a 90% reduction in wildlife-involved crashes thanks to its 40 underpasses and three overpasses, and construction began on the world’s largest wildlife bridge in California that will reconnect the Santa Monica Mountains with the Simi Hills, giving threatened mountain lions, bobcats and mule deer safe passage over a 10-lane freeway, and vastly extending wildlife habitat.
The rest of this awe-inspiring list of news items covers energy, health, human rights, education and other crucial fronts.
“Hope is often misunderstood,” said ethologist and activist Jane Goodall. “People tend to think of it as simply passive wishful thinking: ‘I hope something will happen, but I’m not going to do anything about it.’ This is the opposite of true hope, which requires action and commitment.”
May these truly hopeful actions and achievements from so many parts of the world inspire us to join forces in the direction of collective progress!
Images: Flamingos in Andalusia, Mara Brandl/Getty; bicycles in Paris: Nicolas Messyasz / AP; children at school: Claudio Kbene / WFP.