With Spencer Sherman and Anne Watts
How can we thrive in stressful economic times?
When we identify, understand, and heal our
emotions around money, we can experience true financial ease, joy, and prosperity, regardless of the economic climate. In The Cure for Money Madness: Finding Financial Freedom, we examine our personal money madness—the dysfunctional, unproductive behavior we experience in all areas of our finances. Whether it’s overspending, lying to our spouses, undercharging for our services, panicking and selling at the bottom of the market, these behaviors begin with distorted cultural and family messages about money that we learned in childhood. We identify our “Money Monster”—the habitual, compulsive feeling (usually fear) that is associated with those childhood messages and which fuels the madness today. By probing the roots of money madness and exploring new possibilities for living money madness-free, we transform all aspects of our money lives, including communicating about money, earning, investing, saving, giving, and spending.
Participants will leave the workshop with:
A clear understanding of the powerful forces that have shaped their financial life
A real sense of security and confidence about their future and their ability to reach their most important financial goals
Improved financial relationships with their life partner, parents, children, and colleagues
Tools and strategies to transform their spending, saving, investing, giving, and earning habit.
Ongoing support from fellow participants
“A day well-spent! Spencer and Anne’s workshop is an opportunity to go deeply into our specific money patterns and blocks, name them, and come up with resolutions that help us create a new money life. Be prepared to be surprised by your money beliefs.”
~ Bruce T
October 9 - 11, 2009: Esalen
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With Spencer Sherman and Anne Watts
Designed specifically for couples, this workshop takes on our last cultural taboo—money—and teaches you and your partner how to use money as an intimacy-enhancing tool. You will begin by examining your personal money madness, then work to understand your partner’s. You will explore how your two “madnesses” work in tandem across all aspects of your relationship, from paying bills to physical intimacy.
As a couple, you’ll develop a deeper bond by talking openly about your money stories, goals, habits, hopes, fears and dreams—and you’ll boost your net worth by working as financial partners, free from money madness. Expect to create a new level of connection with physical, experiential, psychological and spiritual exercises that are fun, profound and powerful. Past couples have reported feeling more in love than ever after the workshop, and report still feeling the benefits of the workshop years later.
This workshop is for couples of any and every wealth level and all levels of financial expertise.
No dates scheduled at this time. If you would like to discuss booking this workshop, please send us an email.
Photo Credit: Michael Buchanan
Anne Watts is a profoundly loving facilitator and educator who is committed to creating a world where everyone wins. She honors each individual for the gift she or he is, and believes that love and nurturance are the most important aspects in human healing.
In her workshops and private sessions, Anne creates a safe, non-judgmental environment where clients experience being seen, heard and validated. She has the ability to read between the lines and hone in on the heart of the matter in a way that supports clients in healing their relationship with past and current issues as they grow into the person they have always dreamed of being.
Anne and Spencer are among thirty-five of the most provocative and fresh voices of our generation who contributed to an award-winning anthology titled “The Marriage of Sex and Spirit,” which gives us the keys to transforming our relationships. They share the pages with Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh and others.
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- Spencer is the author of The Cure for Money Madness, a guide to overcoming the distorted childhood perceptions of money which poison relationships, impede intimacy, and interfere with earning and enjoying money. He leads “The Cure for Money Madness” workshops at Omega, Esalen, Kripalu, and other venues nationwide.
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Spencer received his MBA from the Wharton School and is a Certified Financial Planner. He is the co-founder and CEO of Abacus Wealth Partners and is the creator of the Rainbow Portfolio™, a highly diversified, transparent, and passive investment strategy that has consistently beaten the market. www.abacuswealth.com. Since 1998 he has been regularly named to Worth Magazine’s list of their top investment advisors in the U.S. He is frequently featured as a financial expert on television, radio, and in the press. Spencer is a member of the Social Venture Network and the Social Investment Forum.
A few of his areas of expertise are philanthropic and charitable planning; generational planning; cash flow and "second half" planning; creating low-cost,tax-efficient, low volatility investment portfolios (including socially screened portfolios); couples and money, and business consulting.