Where Love Is the Ladder
A 6-Week Embodied Writing & Life series exploring Agape, unconditional love.
Wednesdays at noon EST · February 4, 11, 18 & March 4, 11, 18
What We’ll Explore Together
The word agape (pronounced uh-GAH-pay) is often described as the highest form of love. Unconditional, selfless, sacrificial, it’s also considered the hardest to achieve—more a divine love than a human one.
In this series, however, Agape is a divine love learning how to live a human life.
In ancient Greek philosophy, agape sits at the highest rung on Plato’s ladder—a point to ascend toward. In The Ladders of Love & Friendship, it’s where we begin.
Rather than climbing toward Agape, we explore what it means to bring that love down, rung by rung, into all of our relationships and into the way we live our daily lives. This is not a practice of virtue or self-improvement. It is a practice of becoming the ladder itself—agape in the base, agape in what we lean into, agape in what we hold, and agape in every rung of our existence.
A lofty goal? Maybe. But what if agape is already what animates us? What if it is our source—not only the wood the ladder is made of, but the tree, and the seed, and the soil it grows from?
As with all Embodied Writing & Life classes, we approach this work through the body. We ground our inquiry in somatic practice, guided journeying, and generative writing, alongside simple ways of noticing how love moves, tightens, releases, or gets stuck. We practice learning how to let love move—rather than trapping it, controlling it, or deciding in advance who deserves it and how it should be delivered.
Friendship is one of the central frames in this course. Even in romantic love, friendship is the stabilizing ground—the place where care, trust, humor, disagreement, and choice are practiced over time.
Friendship matters here because it rests almost entirely on presence and willingness. Without vows or scripts, friendship reveals whether love can remain open without possession, faithful without obligation, and enduring without guarantee. It is one of the clearest places where Agape learns how to live.
The Ladders of Love & Friendship is an invitation to see love not as something higher to reach for, but as something already holding us—asking to be carried, carefully and attentively, rung by rung, into the lives we are actually living.
Please join us! If you have questions you can email Jackie.
Want more? Consider a Monthly Membership:
The Ladders of Love & Friendship is part of the Embodied Writing & Life series. If you're interested in a membership, our rate is $44/month.
It includes the following series:
- The Ladders of Love & Friendship (Feb-March
- ForGiveNess: Acts of Joyful Giving (April-May)
- Embodied Memory (June-August)
- Fear as Muse (September-October)
- Embodied Awakenings: Life, Death & Rebirth (November-December
Individual courses, which range from 6-8 weeks each will be offered at $96 each, so the $44 monthly membership is the most generous way to walk the year with me. Each month will include 3-4 live classes, with access to the class portal lessons, audio meditations and class replays.
For the monthly membership click HERE
ABOUT JACKIE
Jackie Moloney is a writer, poet, and instructor in writing and the healing arts. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and her teaching is rooted in the belief that creativity is a sacred, transformative force. A Reiki Master, Somatic Life Coach, and certified Kundalini and Ashtanga Yoga instructor, Jackie helps others explore the connection between self-expression, spirituality, and wellbeing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, and a Certificate in the Teaching of Writing & Rhetoric from Stony Brook University, which inform her gentle, integrated approach. She also volunteers as a Reiki practitioner for hospice, offering care and presence to those in transition. Her courses and coaching sessions invite participants to engage fully—mind, body, and spirit—and cultivate a lasting sense of joy and ease.