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Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture

Name: Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture
Start: 2026-10-01
End: 2026-10-04
Rating: 4.97

4.9731 reviews

Fort Steele, BC, Canada

Up to 25 in group

11 - 14

Retreat Highlights

As a global human being, get an overview of our history with money;
Understand what spirituality means in the workplace and in your relationships;
Explore what integrating the spiritual and material would look like for you;
Name your particular patterns around money, at work, in your personal finances or in partnership;
Understand what a healthy relationship to money looks like;
Create an action plan to change self-sabotaging patterns;
Learn how to be a role model of financial maturity for others;
Feel more open, empowered, and confident in your relationship with money.

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Karen

Duncan

Monika

Benjamin

Karen McAllister

Karen has worked with over 150 clients, helping them untangle their money issues and to become more effective in their work because of it. To do this, Karen has studied financial issues extensively from both the practical, behavioural, and the emotional perspectives. This is all great, yet her real magic and super power comes from studying with her Spiritual teachers, Doug and Catherine Sensei for over 20 years. Her teachers specialize in helping their students transcend their issues around money, sex and power. And she is a beautiful example of the fruits of their bodhisattva vows. Karen has studied Economics in her degree and has been certified by Deborah Price of the The Money Coaching Institute as a Certified Money Coach, a Couples Money Coach, and a Business Archetype Coach. She has studied with Lynne Twist from the Soul of Money Institute for two years on Mastering your Money and Transforming your Life, including studies in Lynne’s Fundraising from the Heart program. Further, Karen has made use of that training through her own role as founding member at Clear Sky, which runs on a quadruple bottom line. Karen has been Chair of the Board since 2014 and leader of Fund Development. Her passion for this arises out of her deep desire to awaken an make the world a better place, and her realization that there are so many amazing spiritual explorers, transformational change agents who want to make a difference yet don’t have the funds they need to truly fulfill their missions – despite the millions of dollars floating around in the economy. Karen wants you to show up as an integrated and whole human being, who can direct and attract financial resources in meaningful ways – steering away from greed and fear towards love, generosity, collaboration and reciprocity.

Duncan Cryle

I'm the former Clear Sky Chair, a certified Mindfulness teacher, Dharma teacher, and a member of senior management at a dynamic award winning international software firm. Through 30 years of study with my root teachers Qapel and Sensei, 15 years of teaching meditation and mindfulness, and an active career working all over the world, I’ve learnt a lot about an integrated spiritual path. With a Ph.D. in philosophy in my pocket, I was gung ho to join a monastery until I met my root teachers Qapel (Doug Duncan) and Sensei (Catherine Pawasarat) in Japan in 2001, who turned my views upside down and encouraged me to grow and contribute at the busy end of life! A founding member of Clear Sky in 2004, I’m amazed at the power that working together in compassionate service has for enriching and widening spiritual growth. Combined with a dynamic relationship and a challenging career, I have fun with a wide-ranging and holistic approach to spiritual growth.

Monika Alleweldt

Born 1954 in Giessen, Germany, M.Sc. (Agriculture), works for many years for and with the “Plan of Healing Biotopes”. Since 2001 she mainly lives in Tamera, Portugal. Until 2024 she was one of the owners of the publishing house Meiga.Since her early youth she aspired a carrier in helping people in need all over the world. As a young student, she travels to Guatemala as part of her studies. The trip becomes a turning point in her life. She realizes that help alone does not change anything. Symptoms can be alleviated, but the cause of the suffering are not eliminated. So what is the right approach? A serious illness forces her to return home early and leads her to an existential decision. She completes her studies but then leaves her professional career and sets out to find an answer that gives hope. She examines many paths, contacts different people and initiatives. Finally she finds convincing answers in the work of Dieter Duhm. A cooperation begins that continues to this day. In 2021 she finishes her first book titled „Global Liberation from Fear and Violence“ (in German). Today, she is joining with other women to bring forth a second book, provisionally titled Women’s Solidarity: The End of Collective Repression. The End of Patriarchy — a work that envisions a new feminine consciousness, and a deep reverence for, and love of, the masculine.

Benjamin von Mendelssohn

Born into a once-wealthy, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany, the issues of reconciliation, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years. After a radical but frustrating period of political engagement in his youth, Benjamin started to explore holistic approaches to bringing about change. To this end he co-founded the Peace University at Potsdam and later researched into many social experiments and intentional communities. Although he trained as a healer, dancer and choreographer Benjamin retained a focus on new models for living and a passion for complex synergies and systems theory. Creating syntheses of seemingly opposing forces is important to him – politics and spirituality; vision work and concrete manifestation; Eros and religion; free sexuality and deep, committed partnership; nature and technology and most critically inner and outer peace work. Benjamin has been living and researching in Tamera since 1998 where he now serves as a next-generation leader. He has been co-leading The Global Love School since its inauguration in 2012 and was director the Grace Foundation for Humanising Money for 15 years.

Details of this retreat

Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture
A Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister, Duncan Cryle, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn

October 1-4, 2026
Time: 11am – 2 pm MST; 1 - 4 pm EST; 6 - 8 pm WEST/BST; 7 - 9 pm CET

This course explores a simple but rarely examined question:

What if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational?

And what if the way we’ve learned to love is shaping the way we earn, spend, give and receive?

Over four weeks, we explore how fear around belonging, intimacy, security, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour and how healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change.
Throughout the Course

short meditation practices
relational inquiry exercises
somatic awareness practices
buddy conversations
optional journaling prompts

The emphasis is on:

slow integration
shared learning
relational repair
and honest dialogue

Intended Outcomes
By the end of the four weeks, participants may notice:

less isolation around money or relationship struggles
increased capacity for truthful communication
clearer alignment between values and livelihood
greater ease in giving and receiving
a shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency

This pilot can naturally lead into:

a longer 8–12 week program
your 6-month integration container
or Tamera’s deeper community processes

Pricing

CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.
CAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.
CAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income, in transition, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.

Schedule

- Each session will include a mindset shift and actionable steps to start being with money in a new way as a spiritual explorer.
- You will start creating a financial well being plan for you first.
- Financial literacy, financial consciousness Financial creativity and the spiritual life.
- A money coaching circle will continue after this course to allow you to follow through on your financial well-being plan.

Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

What's Included

We’ll meet weekly for the 6 weeks for intensive training on Saturday's at 10am MST over zoom. You will discover your mindset and actions around money that will make you thrive and go way beyond survival.

What's Not Included

Dāna for the teachers. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”, and is the traditional way in which Buddhist teachings are offered. With dāna, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. You may have come across this in the form of “pay from the heart”. It’s our joy to offer this course, and we trust you’ll match our time, energy, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. You will be sent a link to offer “dana” to the teachers after registration.
Transport
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Customer Reviews

4.97 out of 5.0 average rating

Christopher • Sep 11, 2023

5.0

Retreat Highlights

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Karen McAllister

Duncan Cryle

Monika Alleweldt

Benjamin von Mendelssohn

Details of this retreat

Schedule

What's Included

What's Not Included

Customer Reviews

Christopher • Sep 11, 2023

Experts at Holding Space

Jes • Sep 11, 2023

Amazing experience

Thomas • Jun 24, 2022

Come to your senses experience

Anonymous • Jun 22, 2022

Coming to your senses

Colin • May 31, 2022

Beyond words!

Select your options

Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.

Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.

Supported Access For those with limited income, in transition, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.

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