Lifting Our Hearts Around Money

In our Quaker community, money- how much we have and how we use it- can feel like a taboo subject and one sharply separate from our spiritual lives. But is it really separate?

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.

This course is for anyone who wants to explore how to create more congruence between their Quaker faith and how they use money in their daily lives.

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).