What would you do with your wealth if you made financial decisions from the mystical heart?
W&M is a web of people of wealth who seek to align the flow of their financial resources with the Holy Spirit in service of Divine Love and Justice. Our work is rooted in ancient Christian traditions, contemplative and prophetic, and modern social movements for justice.
We offer multi-day retreats and one-day workshops during which we share our money stories with courage and compassion and explore the intersections of spiritual wisdom and social justice. We also share what we are learning through writing, speaking, blogging and newsletters.
“One of my mantras from Tilden Edwards is “money is an icon and an energy of God that we are called to circulate with joy.” In our society money has become an idol. To call it an icon means it is a portal for the energy and love of God to move into the world. I am not just holding that as an abstract idea. The ability to say I want to give $50,000 to this hospital has created so much joy in me. And it has created so much joy in the people who are receiving it.”
“The day I left Haiti, I got on a 90-minute flight to Miami. From there I caught a three-hour flight to New York and then drove two hours to my family’s summer home in the Hamptons, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. In one day, in other words, I went from one of the poorest areas of the Western Hemisphere to one of the richest. It was disorienting and disturbing to realize where I stood in the global family. What could I do?”
“Our retreat group was thinking about funding a micro business in Rwanda. I said that someone had to put in the seed money. Helen and I decided that we would be the seed money. That was the beginning. It was so freeing. It was so easy. It had nothing to do with what I gave; it was the gift that I received. The gift was fully coming from the Christ within me. The part of me that said, “you don’t have enough, be careful” felt safe through the incredible love of Christ.”
“I had been an investment banker and started thinking about the meaning of my work and the purpose of all the money that was being processed. I wondered, “What impact does all this money have in people’s lives?” I ended up having a mystical experience while praying on the subway which jarred me into realizing that I needed to answer the love that I was receiving from God in even more meaningful ways than I was.”
May 31, 2023 — June 1, 2023
Online via Zoom, offering two sessions: May 31st at 4-6pm PT // 7-9pm ET & June 1st at 12-2pm PT // 3-5pm
Join the Wisdom & Money staff and board for our Living In Gift practice, a gift-economy approach to fundraising, guided by discernment. We will: offer an update on what is happening at Wisdom & Money, share our financial needs, and invite gifts from all of you. We are at a crucial point in our history, and we want to share the power and opportunity of this moment with our entire community. Our practice is to invite gifts to fund our work twice per year. Fundraising is a powerful opportunity to do our work of engaging with money as a doorway to transformation. For this reason, we will explore what arises in each of us in response to being asked for money.
June 1, 2023
Online via Zoom - RSVP to receive the link - 12-2pm PT // 3-5pm ET
Join the Wisdom & Money staff and board for our Living In Gift practice, a gift-economy approach to fundraising, guided by discernment. We will: offer an update on what is happening at Wisdom & Money, share our financial needs, and invite gifts from all of you.
July 10, 2023
Online via Zoom at 3pm - 4:30pm ET // 12pm - 1:30pm PT
Wisdom & Money hosts monthly online Zoom gatherings for honest conversation. These gatherings are for people of financial wealth and/or people from a culture of wealth who desire to bring awareness to their relationship with money. By cultivating this awareness, we help each other participate in the transformation needed in our personal lives as well as in the world.
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