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Elizabeth will be leading a special workshop for participants to explore their relationship with money on Friday, Dec. 4th in Oakland, CA from 10am – 4pm. For more details and registration information visit Inner Economics.

“Creating a Healthier Relationship to Money”
Workshops led by Elizabeth Husserl R.

Saturday Nov 7th or Friday Dec 4th
10am-4pm, $95 per person, $75 student
4920 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609

You are in contact with money every day. So maybe it is time to….

• Discover your ongoing conversation with money. This conversation unconsciously determines the way money comes in and out of your life.
• Understand the deeper money archetypes at play. What they are, how to create a new dialogue with them and strategies for change.
• Learn simple practical tools that help you build a healthier and more conscious relationship to money so that it works with you and not against you.

The workshop is both practical and experiential. It is designed to help participants access the deeper blocks they may have with regard to this topic and to provide an integral perspective of how to create a new relationship to money within a new paradigm.

No previous experience needed. All are welcome.

Who should attend? Individuals with an open curiosity and honest desire to shift any anxiety and/or overwhelm around money to a relationship of greater ease, understanding and awareness.

To register or for more information contact Elizabeth at ehusserl (at) innereconomics (dot) com

Happy Monday!

Hope you had a good weekend. This was another Art Show weekend for me. My first time participating in East Bay Open Studios sponsored and organized by a great Bay Area organization called Pro Arts.

This week’s blog post is in the works and not quite finished so I’ll be posting it tomorrow. Coincidentally, the title is “Have Patience.”

See you tomorrow!

p.s. If you live in the area, stop by next weekend. Open Studios continues on Sat & Sun from 11am to 6pm.

I was excited to be featured in the San Francisco Chronicle weekend section. You can see it here.

Happy Monday!

Hope you had a good weekend.

I was busy with the What is Self? Art & Writing Exhibition at Frisbie St. and didn’t have a chance to write a Know Abundance blog post for today.

But there’s one on its way, arriving tomorrow.

The theme? “The Myth of Completion.”

See you soon.

(Shared by Sande from San Francisco, CA)

For those who live in the SF Bay Area: Renowned writer and philanthropy expert Kay Sprinkel Grace will be speaking about abundance at an upcoming AFP-GGC  luncheon on February 27, 2009. Her talk is titled, “There’s Got to Be a Pony in There Somewhere: Finding Abundance in a Time of Change.”

For other activities and events sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals visit the AFP website.

(Shared by Theresa from Atlanta, GA)

If you are interested in connecting and networking with new colleagues in grantmaking check out Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. EPIP has some great resources – like a three-part Member Briefing Series on today’s hottest topic: the economy. Held via conference call, the briefings will focus on the impact of the economy on foundation giving, non-profits, and the next generation of grantmakers.

(Shared by Lanell from Oakland, CA)

Fear has been identified as one of the forces driving the speed and severity of the economic downturn. The W.P. Carey School of Business says the “biggest problem facing the U.S. economy today is fear.” David Carr from the New York Times shows how excessive media focus stokes fear, makes it contagious and spreads it quickly.

So right next to ‘manage finances’ on your to-do list, add ‘manage fear.’

Read this NY Times article by Gregory Berns on how Fear can Impair Decision-Making. Check out the book Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear and Panic by Jeffrey Brantley and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Or, if you are tired of reading, watch some Jon Kabit-Zinn stress reduction videos on YouTube. For fundraising tips, Fundraising Success has an article by Jeff Brooks on how to Face Hard Times Without Fear.

And watch your language. Can you go without saying, “in this economy” or “in these times” for a whole day? What about two days?

Find one thing to be grateful for and focus on it. Talk about it. Spread it.

Breathe.

(Shared by Lanell from Oakland, CA)

There are an abundance of great fundraising blogs. You can access a comprehensive list on Jeff Brook’s Donor Power Blog to see what’s out there in the blogsphere.

For quick updates on current trends, old ideas in new packaging and inspiration to address your latest problems—there are some solid resources here to help you fundraise smarter. Happy surfing!

(Shared by Lanell from Oakland, CA)

There are a few books that have survived my various clean out purges over the years and The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron, is one of them. For at least ten years, this book was near my bedside for early morning or right before sleep reading. This book was my teacher in learning to love and accept myself. The short chapters are filled with loving, straightforward, no-nonsense teaching and The Wisdom of No Escape can be picked up again and again, opened to any page, and read with deeper understanding each time.

Excerpt: “Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.” (p.6)

(Shared by Lanell from Oakland, CA)

I highly recommend this book for managers. Given to me by a friend when I was dealing with personnel issues at work, The Tao of Leadership became a quiet companion in my interactions with co-workers. John Heider has beautifully adapted the Tao Te Ching by 5th century Chinese wisdom teacher Lao Tzu. There are important lessons here about balance, yielding, silence and how things happen.

Excerpt: “Since all creation is a whole, separateness is an illusion. Like it or not, we are team players.” (#39, The Source of Power, p. 77)