Katie Barron
Katie Barron worked as a financial journalist for Investors Chronicle and The FT in the boom years of the 1990s and then began a career…
Tuesday 9 September - Tuesday 7 October 2025
The live Zoom sessions are at 18:30-20:00 (UK time) every Tuesday.
Do we have buried feelings around money? Are our relationships troubled by it? Do our money behaviours embody our true selves? This course offers a supportive space to explore money through the Quaker values of Simplicity, Equality, and Sustainability.
Supporting each other, we will learn about ourselves in relation to money, alongside perspectives from the tutor and a wide range of texts on what money is and has been in societies past and present. We will find that it has often brought freedom, but within that freedom lie dangers of disconnection and de-personalisation. By the end of the course, we hope to know ourselves better, through examining an aspect of our lives that is not always discussed; and we will each identify for ourselves some changes or choices that we may make, if we wish.
We will meet weekly online for a calendar month and in between times we will experiment with exercises such as counting and walking, drawn partly from Julia Cameron’s exciting book, The Prosperous Heart. Sessions will include small-group and plenary discussion, texts and film-clips, and presentations from the tutor on historical and financial topics.
There will be some material to look at before the first session. We will email you around one week prior to the course with information about accessing the course, including this material, on our online learning platform (Moodle).
On the booking form, there is a chance for you to let us know about any accessibility or communication adjustments that will enable you to participate more fully in the course. Automated Zoom closed captions are available for all live sessions but if you feel you require more accurate closed captioning please email us directly in addition to booking.