The write stuff
ROBIN has been contributing to various magazines for many years. He wrote a regular column in Connect, the most established of the region’s alternative magazines, since shortly after it appeared nearly 10 years ago. And, together with Martin Foster, Pete Hardy and Andy Gooding, he is now delighted to be able to launch its replacement ReConnect.

Of the other publications to feature his writings over the years, some were mainstream, some so very niche and some no longer around. See how many you know, or remember: Caduceus, Juno, New Money, Pure, Wave, Vitality Matters, Dartmouth Lifestyle, New Vision, Paths of Wisdom, Resource, Financial Services, Barchester Chronicle, Green Guide, the Evening Standard and even Cosmopolitan!

Friends across the Channel
THE good citizens of Paris decided to Make Friends With Money last year.
Robin ran a highly successful workshop there on Rue Notre Dame, De Champs last February and has been invited to go back and do it again.

The French connection came about after someone read one of Robin’s articles in Resource magazine and asked him if he would interested in running a workshop there. To which his response was “Find 12 people who want to do it, and a venue, and I’ll be over”. Which is, incidentally, Robin’s response to anyone who wants a workshop in their area.

So far, these ‘hosted’ workshops have run in: London, St Albans, Brighton, Newcastle, Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Newton Abbot, Jersey, Axminster and Exmouth.

If you’re interested, get in touch – you’ll get a free workshop place, or two, and all the credit for bringing the workshop you your home town.

Guilty as charged
MOST of us have money issues so it’s not surprising that Making Friends With Money attracts all types of people. Some readers might be surprised that the workshop has attracted at least one multi-millionaire.

The women in question had inherited her wealth and devoted her life to charitable works in an attempt to off-set her feelings of guilt – how could she have so much money when she had not worked for it?

After completing the workshop, she told Robin that it was the first time she had “felt safe around money”.

The charity work continued, but for the right reason – and she enjoyed it a good deal more.

Sold on the workshop
PERHAPS the most dramatic response to the Making Friends With Money Workshop came from a couple who, soon after completing it, decided to sell their home and move abroad.

The workshop allowed them to acknowledge that their lifestyle was not what they wanted to do and they gave themselves permission to be true to themselves.

What they really wanted to do, they realised, was work with the poor overseas – and their regular emails to Robin say they’re still the happiest they’ve ever been.

Calculator-free zone
And please don’t bring a calculator. Making Friends With Money isn’t about finances. But as soon as you mention the word ‘money’, lots of people think financial advice, budgeting and calculators.

But Robin is a highly experienced Independent Financial Adviser and a specialist in green, ethically-screened and environmentally-sensitive funds. Which means that, having done the workshop, if you want financial advice, you know where to go

Venues, dates and booking,

IS the answer
It will change the way you think about money.
It will change the way you feel about life.

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