Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Sunset over mountains with four speakers for online course event.

Quote about fear in money and relationships with a plant and sunset background.

Date and time

October 27, 2026 13:00 - November 17, 2026 15:00

About the event

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t.

Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both.

Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community.

When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest.

Cost: sliding scale

Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/

Agenda

Oct 27 - Session 1: The Roots of Fear Why Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money

We begin by exploring how:

fear of exclusion shows up as financial stress
scarcity responses live in the nervous system
collective trauma influences earning, saving and giving
money becomes a proxy for safety and belonging

Participants will:

start to map their early survival adaptations around both love and money
learn introductory groundwork to notice grasping, avoidance or control patterns
begin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress

Nov 3: Session #2 — Love, Possession & Power The Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship

This session looks at:

ownership in love and ownership in the economy
jealousy, control and financial secrecy
how partnership becomes an economic unit
the influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood

Participants will:

step into exploring communication patterns around money and intimacy
embark on identifying inherited relational and financial agreements
undertake the practice of truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting

Nov 10: Session #3 — Trust as Infrastructure Community as a Container for Healing

We examine why:

healing often fails when kept private
both love and money tend to isolate us
trust requires social structures, not just personal insight
new relational agreements create economic safety

Participants will:

work in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing
experiment with shared inquiry around resource and care
reflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood

Nov 17: Session #4 — Ethical Livelihood From Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency

We close by exploring:

what “enough” really means
purpose-aligned earning
generosity and reciprocity
livelihood as participation in cultural healing

Participants will:

set out on clarifying values around work and contribution
contemplate giving, receiving and sustainability
sow the seeds for creating a personal practice that aligns love, money and service