MAKING FRIENDS WITH MONEY WORKSHOPS
Have you been here before?
Making Friends With Money was originally a one-day workshop but Robin got such a substantial amount of requests for a follow-up that it now runs over two days with three weeks in between them.
If you have already done the original one-day workshop and want to attend the second day, Robin suggests you first repeat Day 1 as a refresher and to regain that sense of focus. At no cost! You will also be given homework at the end of the first day and it is important this is fresh in your mind for Day 2.
If you would like to book the two-day workshop (and there is a special price for those who completed the original one-day workshop) click here
To find out more about the workshops, read on…
Who doesn’t have issues with money?
Nearly everybody has financial issues and they are near the top of most people’s list of things that stand in the way of their happiness and personal contentment.
In many cases it’s about safety or reassurance. That you are worried on some level that you won’t have enough. Or that you’ve got sufficient on paper – but somehow it never seems to go far enough…
Even abundance can bring its own headaches. Some of the most frequent reactions to having sufficient money are guilt and shame – and telling yourself that it doesn’t mean anything and trying get rid of the stuff. And then there’s the added responsibility of trying to ‘do the right thing’.
Money advice
Conventional financial advice concentrates on practical management techniques, helping you monitor your income and expenditure or restructure your debts.
While that sort of practical counselling is supportive, unfortunately it doesn’t deal with the underlying issues. And what you have recognised in the past you will almost certainly recognise in the future…
Contentment can be yours
Robin Currie has a different, more holistic, approach.
Robin has spent most of his career working with people and their money issues. He has been working as an independent ethical investment adviser for nearly twenty years and, since 1993, has been running the workshop Making Friends With Money across the UK.
Robin believes that most financial issues stem from the way we feel about money. Which is mostly a combination of fear, shame, greed and guilt. So if you can recognise WHY you make the decisions you do, and what it costs you on an emotional level (as well as on a financial one) you’re on the way to making REAL changes.
And beyond…
So Day One is about finding out who we are and what it our genuine, personal underlying truth.
But once you’ve done this, there’s another question – NOW WHAT? Participants’ appetite for self-discovery and life development has been whetted and they want to take things that bit further. So Day One may have changed the context through which you view your life – but now people want to know how to point it in a new direction…
“The Day Two workshop utilises, in a pragmatic and spiritual way, the changes people have found within themselves,” says Robin. “Day One is about CONTEXT. But Day Two is about FOCUS.”
Natalie Savona goes for a financial make-over at a Making Friends With Money workshop - run by ReConnect columnist Robin Currie
HAVING met Robin Currie several times before turning up to his workshop, I was fully prepared to expect the unexpected. If you have any curiosity or unease about your relationship to money, I’d suggest you put yourself in the same position.
But don’t expect Robin to stand at the front of a room, with charts and lists of how to invest money wisely; or even how to acquire it in the first place; to give hot tips on the next big money-spinner; to impart wisdom on the secrets of riches that are eluding you.
The wisdom Robin will bring out is your own. In encouraging you to make friends with who you really are, with the obstacles you put up to your own success and ease with life, he helps you get to the nub of your own relationship to money. “Money is like a sponge,” he explained. “It will absorb anything you want it to.”
Whether that be your reasons for successful or failed job applications, blossoming or floundering relationships, whatever - money can be seen as a metaphor for other aspects of our lives.
The group of participants spanned an age range of about 50 years, spent their time on vastly differing occupations (a mother, a painter, a scientist, a nutritionist…) and came with individual expectations. Yet, as with many workshops, the group dynamic was crucial - sharing our common human experiences and therefore ultimately shared wants and needs.
Robin skilfully makes everyone feel comfortable, yet challenged, and ultimately inspired by our own ability to have what we want.
So don’t go to Making Friends With Money for hot pension scheme tips (see Robin for an individual consultation for such prosaic matters, like I did), but do go for insights into how to use your money sponge to mop up what you really want in life.
Friends with money online discussion group
Keep in touch with others who've made friends with money.
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Friends with money online discussion group
Keep in touch with others who've made friends with money.
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