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MONEY PSYCHOLOGY WORKSHOPS


Are there things you want to change about your relationship with money?

The workshop helps you discover what money really means to you. By uncovering early messages from childhood, culture, and religion, you can understand your unconscious beliefs. These beliefs are not only powerful; they are often in conflict with what seems logical.  Insights shed light on why we don’t always do what we wish we did when it comes to money. Unveiling the roots of confusion can facilitate the freedom to make clear decisions. Find some new perspectives and learn from fellow participants in a confidential group.  

Churches, school faculties, and common interest groups, even friends find money psychology groups bonding and enlightening. They can be arranged at your location as well as my office.  To get on a waiting list, get a free brochure or to inquire about setting one up for your group, click here.

It is also interesting and valuable to form a study group independent of a professional facilitator.  Click on these links for ideas about journaling about money, and a bibliography of helpful reading.

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GOOD BOOKS TO READ on MONEY PSYCHOLOGY:

Olivia Mellan.  Money Harmony, Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationships.  Walker Publishing Co, 1994
-Categorises money styles non-judgementally with lots of great ideas for exploring money and relationships.  A practical,, insightful and easy work book.

Arlene Modica Matthews. Your Money, Your Self, Understanding and Improving Your Relationship to Cash and Credit. Fireside Simon and Schuster 1991 (Previously published as If I Think So Much About Money, Why Can't I Figure It Out?).  
-An excellent study of how money brings out the "crazy" aspects of people who aren’t otherwise "crazy" describes a developmental theory of money psychology, from psyche to culture.  Clinically sound and interestingly presentation.

Jacob Needleman. Money and the Meaning of Life. Doubleday, 1991.
-Money and spiritual values, coming to terms with the paradox, makes accessible some of the concepts put forth by German philosopher Georg Simmel.

Joe Domingues and Vicki Robin.  Your Money or Your Life.  Penguin Group.1992. 
-From the perspective of “ time as money” challenges consumerism.  Tapes are also available with a workbook.

Victoria Felton-Collins, Ph.D., CFP.  Couples and Money. Published by Bantam Non-fiction.. 1990. 
-Takes a look at how your "emotional portfolio" interacts with your finances.  A little sexist in the beginning but gets better.

Michael Phillips, The Seven Laws of Money, Shambhala publications, Inc, 1974. 
-One of the best books on the subject of money that I have read.

"Barbara Ehrenreich. Fear of Falling. published by Pantheon Books, 1989. 
-An important work about the American Middle Class as a culture of risk and the political consequences of the fear of loss.

Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money, Transforming Your relationship With Money and Life. W.W. Norton& Company, Inc. 3003.
-Written by a find raiser, this sometimes fluffy but often wise book is highly recommended.

Rabbi Nilton Bonder. The Kabbalah of Money, Jewish Insights on Giving, Owning, and Receiving. Shambala Publications, Inc., 2001
-This mystical book is full of spiritual and practical wisdom. 


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Suggested journal inquiry


Free flow writing is a great way to explore what money means to you.  Here are a few ideas:

Write about how you feel about money now.  How has money played into your relationships?

How was money dealt with in your family--- did there seem to be enough?  Did “it” cause conflicts or power struggles between people? What messages were you given about money by your parents or parent figures?  Peers?  Did you get an allowance?  What messages came with this? How was it in the community—were there discrepancies, like having more or less than your peers?  What messages did you take from spiritual or religious sources? 

Make a Genogram or Family Map—include at least three generations back if you can--- and see how money and money issues traveled through the generations.  Larger system issues such as the economic times you were raised in are also good to note--- the great depression----living in a community with lay offs and unemployment--- living in a time of abundance. These all have their influence on your world-view.  When people do this exercise they often want to interview relatives about what they remember. 

List some of your values and compare the list to your check register.

Or--as suggested in Money Harmony. Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationships by Olivia Mellon--have a written conversation with your money, or let your money have one with you, or allow an imaginary interview with your money by Opera or the talk show host of your choice.  They might ask your money what it is like to live with you and how “it” is completely happy with you--or perhaps “it” wishes you would change the relationship even a little?

                
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