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My present energy, time and money is invested in http://summitofsummits.org with an accompanying brief pdf text which I'd ask you to read if you'd like to help with this.
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But if you're here otherwise...
Privileged with early entrepreneurial successes as a young man I started researching the relationship to money in the early 1980s to satisfy my own curiosity. To my surprise I couldn't find anyone in acadaemia or in business who had yet performed comprehensive research on how the relationship to money affects people and organizations — let alone in society and civilization. To explain how money can on the one hand lead toward materialization of goals, success and happiness, yet on the other so frequently appears as the cause of the opposite. This not just with those at the poverty end of the spectrum but also those with considerable wealth and apparent power.
So started a period of "Action Research" with small groups over a 10 year period.
The challenge was to develop a conceptual framework within which any person can themselves elicit, see and understand the particular behaviour patterns they've adopted in relation to money and work, usually from outside influences at a very young age. These are normally invisible to the person themselves, like water to a fish, because each pattern is so 'normal', self-reinforcing and longheld that without giving it this focus of inquiry it gives the person the impression of being set for life.
After a clear diagnosis of each pattern however, on offer is also a simple method to help the person change or expand it if they wish, especially where they find it limiting rather than facilitating their ability to realize their personal or professional goals.
This is 'the moneywork', now represented in several countries by an expanding community of practitioners who offer consulting, coaching, seminars and trainings/master classes.
What you'll find in this site is an 'archive' of items I've selected for relatively quickly deepening your knowledge as an introduction to this topic. What you'll read first below was a "temporary posting" in 2006 and though the financial landscape has been through enormous changes since then the content is virtually unchanged. The reason for this is that my focus has always concerned itself with shedding light on the longer-term dynamics. And these don't change so fast. Whether you’re a financial expert or novice you’re likely to find new stuff here since the content has been researched from first principles.
Peter Koenig, 2024
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You can start by clicking on
Who is 'moneywork' for? This will give you a brief indication of whether the remainder of this website will be interesting for you.
And here a short continuing guide:
The Subliminal Messages about money. Check out to what extent these apply to you and how they set the frame of (y)our everyday economic environment.
Then have a look and a laugh at my list of
Favourite Quotations by famous people, followed by
The short History of Money. Written in 1998, 14 years into my research I leave it unchanged as the history has remained the same and you’ll see the part that’s prophetic is realising itself. Optional is a brief subset of conclusions on the Future of Money, drafted at a workshop in 2001 and again prophetic. And for those interested exclusively in deepening their knowledge on design of monetary systems there are links to my favourite experts on the subject.
All this should be readable in 5 minutes.
However the 'moneywork' relates to more than the surface designs of these money systems. The central focus of it has been to understand the underlying human dynamics that have led to their specific creation, individually and collectively. Because money, unlike something in nature - a tree or your liver - is a human creation. So if we could create it, it must be possible for us to fathom, understand and explain how it affects us. This was the basic premise of my research.
ff you’re interested to explore this deeper here is what’s on offer:
1. “30 Lies about Money”, a short book based on working with hundreds of real, live situations in money fora and seminars. It contains the essentials to help you understand your own particular relation to money and free you to do (even) more of what you want to do be doing than presently. At the same time you’ll understand better why things run the way they run in the organisations you’re associated with, at work, home, in your financial partnerships personal and professional, and in the world as a whole.
2. A series of seminars, presentations and trainings with the same purpose as 30 Lies about Money:
- Money Seminars for Individuals enabling you to research first, and then consciously develop your own particular monetary path, congruent with your life goals.
- A Money Seminars for Couples, as above but focussed on the relationship
- A Money Training for Coaches, Consultants and Therapists, to integrate the methodology developed in the book and money seminars, into their work with clients
- A Money Seminar for Executive Teams, custom-designed, especially for those aspiring to be part of values-oriented enterprises.
Since 2011 these seminars are being offered by a variety of practitioners in a number of languages and countries. For a first selection please see Calendar
Should you have an interest in "Money and Spirituality” I set out a special description of this work so you can see how these are interlinked. Included is “10 Theses”, a controversial perspective on the present state of the world, humanity’s part and the role of money - prepared for a monetary reform conference in 2005. Again this is short and quick to read.
Thank you for your interest.
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