Align Your Wealth with Social Justice

How Much is Really Enough? Workshop Series

 

How much is really enough?

A workshop series to help you overcome scarcity about money and redistribute wealth with ease.

Are you wealthy and while you logically understand you have more than enough, you still have feelings of scarcity about wealth?

Are you committed to wealth redistribution but feel afraid of making the “wrong” choices of how much to give?

Do you feel shame, guilt and/or overwhelm when it comes to making decisions about money?

Are you hot and cold with your feelings about giving - one day you want to give it all away, and the next you want to keep it all?

Do you procrastinate or avoid money-related tasks even though you deeply care about aligning your wealth with your values?

You are not alone in these experiences, and we’re here to support you. In order to make embodied financial choices that you can feel confident and resolved in, financial planning is often not enough - we need the emotional tools and skills to understand the root causes of our feelings of scarcity, overwhelm and shame about money. We might never feel we have enough - despite the wealth we have access to - because of unhealed emotional wounds. Sometimes when we inherit wealth we paradoxically feel even more scarcity and anxiety about money. The path to aligning our wealth with our values requires us to investigate our deepest messages about safety, security and enoughness.  It’s common – and almost inevitable! – to have parts of you that long for a luxurious, comfortable and easy life, while also having strong commitments to a just world where money is equitably distributed. When you can’t commit to a clear decision, it’s a sign that there is deeper healing you need before you can commit to action. 

When you can compassionately get to know the causes of your feelings of scarcity, shame, overwhelm and avoidance, you can move towards a confident, committed redistribution goal much more peacefully.

Join our upcoming 8-part workshop series to:

  • Better understand the underlying reasons why you procrastinate or avoid money and gain tools in being more reliable with moving towards your money goals

  • Release feelings of scarcity that clash with your values and shift toward a stance of abundance.

  • Set a giving goal that you will be able to commit to without changing your mind over and over again

  • Rethink your concept of “enoughness”

  • Move towards a more relaxed and peaceful relationship to money 

  • Move from guilt-driven giving to values-based giving 

  • Learn how to apply the wisdom and practical tools of Internal Family Systems to your relationship with money and gain lifelong practices for managing emotions about money

This workshop series is for anyone who:

  • Identifies as wealthy (of any amount)

  • Is aged 18+

  • Is currently in therapy and/or engaged in healing practices (i.e. is open and committed to engaging in their own personal and healing work). 

  • Believes in social justice and is committed to anti-oppression work - and we welcome people who have been more recently politicized

  • Is committed to giving away some money this year (any amount is fine)

  • Feels emotionally resilient enough to explore the internal world of emotions and witness the emotions of others

In this 8-workshop series, you will:

  • Learn the basic model of Internal Family Systems and how to apply it to your relationship with money

  • Get support in exploring the parts of yourself that are motivated to give, and the parts of yourself that are reluctant or fearful of giving

  • Build community with other wealthy people who share values of social justice and personal growth

  • Gain tools in managing moments of emotional overwhelm

  • Gain tools to become a more reliable and trustworthy donor 

  • Deepen your sense of compassion and understanding towards yourself

  • Better understand the underlying causes of shame, guilt, procrastination, avoidance and ambivalence so that you can have more clarity regarding any and all financial choices

  • Be witnessed in your feelings about money by others in a compassionate environment

 

Dates

Sessions are two hours and meet Fridays

9am CST / 10am EST / 3pm London on Zoom

April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24, May 31, June 7 

Pricing

We practice tiered pricing based on how much wealth you have access to. Paying for the upper tiers allows us to accept participants who don’t yet have access to wealth. These prices include access to a virtual money workbook and guided audio practices. As a part of this series, participants have the option of additional 1:1 coaching support from Iris or Wazi. (Sessions are an additional $250/ session)

  • Access to $100K-$1M: $2000 (or $250/workshop)

  • Access to $1M-$2M: $2500 (or $312/workshop)

  • Access to $2M-$3M: $3000 (or $375/workshop)

  • Access to $3M-$4M: $3500 (or $437/workshop)

  • Access to over $4M: $4000 (or $500/workshop)

Do you have access to less than $100k and can’t afford $2000? Contact us to talk more.

Structure, time and accessibility

We will do a combination of lecture, full group discussion, demo coaching, small groups and pair shares. This workshop series will be interactive and we ask that you join by video, ready to share and participate. We provide a variety of ways of learning in between sessions - readings, worksheets and audio practices. To make the most of this workshop series, we suggest you set aside around 2 hours of time in between sessions to engage the learning materials. And of course, all “homework” is optional. We also know life can be busy, so we will record the lectures and give you access to recordings for one month after the workshop series is over. In our registration form, we will also ask you if you have access needs and do our best to meet them.

 
 

Applications are currently closed. Add your name to the waitlist below to be the first to learn when they open again.

 
 
 

For this series, I will be partnering with Wazi Maret.

 

Here’s more information about Wazi:

Wazi Maret is an artist, coach and gentle warrior who mobilizes ideas and resources through a conceptual, creative, and collaborative approach. Wazi has played many roles in social justice movements over the years including organizer, educator, fundraiser, facilitator and coach to support individuals, communities and organizations working to empower and liberate communities, particularly Black, trans, queer, disabled, poor/working class and currently/formerly incarcerated peoples. Wazi is a certified coach through the Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation Program. As a Black trans creative from Hyattsville, MD--also from a mixed race family with Southern and working class roots—Wazi comes to the work with many unique perspectives and utilizes divergent thinking to process and build ideas into meaningful projects. Some of Wazi's partners in the work have included the Trans Justice Funding Project, the Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project, Funders for LGBT Issues, T.A.K.E. Resource Center, Lyon Martin Health Clinic, the Reproductive Justice Action Collective, Texas Equal Access Fund, the SF LGBT Center, Movement for Black Lives, and many more. To learn more about Wazi's work, visit www.wazimaret.com.

 

Testimonials

“Iris and Wazi are incredible facilitators in this work. They created a safe space to explore the parts of me that are confused, hurt, excited, and eager to give and redistribute wealth. I don't feel so alone in those feelings.” - Anonymous

 

 

“This workshop has given me the courage and rationale to live according my redistribution goals. Checking in with my parts to discover the root of why I feel a certain way feels like a CRUCIAL tool in this confusing, foggy, scary, and intimidating redistribution journey. I can work towards making decisions in confidence and action rather than being stick in a frozen procrastination bubble.”- Mae

 

 

“I have been trying to figure out where my humanity is while possessing extreme wealth. This course helped me to connect into my humanity and see that wealth is not my worth or worthiness. AND I think seeing parts as separate from self can help me move through fear, anxiety around particular giving strategies.” - Kate

 

 

“I am the first in my family to look inward at my relationship with money as relates to my vision for a white antiracist global approach to money. I signed up because I felt stuck, I knew I was my own barrier to the next step, I knew I had run out of tools. This workshop brought catalyzing clarity to the next steps I am committing to take for myself. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to join and participate.” - Anonymous