Workshop Information
In this one-day course you will explore how you relate to money. From the start, there will be surprises: money is not what you've been led to believe, and there are good reasons why we find it hard to make sense of the money world and our interactions with it.
The course tutors are psychotherapist John Witt and Chris Gilchrist, financial author and commentator. Together, we will look at how we deal with money individually, what we mean by wealth, and what prevents us from experiencing ourselves as wealthy.
We will explain why you can't separate the way you deal with money from everything else in your life. This means that the idea of a secret that will lead you to wealth is a fiction - a profitable one for people who want to appeal to your fear of not having enough. That fear underlies a lot of our behaviour, and often causes us to overvalue cash and things above people and relationships.
Among the questions we will ask are:
- Do we use money as a tool, or do we feel as if it uses us?
- How much money is enough? Can money ever make us feel secure?
- What makes us feel wealthy? Is it just cash in the bank, or does the idea of wealth imply something about our connections with others?
The challenge comes in the form of exercises we have designed to explore how we relate to money, and to find out what wealth really means for each of us.
There will also be an opportunity to discuss some of the theories that affect not just our own thinking but the whole financial system, and the consequences that emerge from their use.
By the end of the day you will have had practical experience of what your attitudes to money really are, and how they shape and at times limit how you live your life.
Next workshop: Saturday July 11th, Bristol.