What is money?
People say that money is power, money is freedom, money is security, money is happiness. These are a few of the things that people say money is. But they also say money is … a medium of exchange, energy, information, existence, fortune, misfortune, evil, a burden, a source of jealousy … and much, much more.
Yet if money can be so versatile to be all of these things at the same time, we may ask what is its real fundamental nature? What indeed is money?
Money seems to be …
In Peter Koenig’s Money Seminar people discover that money is an empty medium - paper, metal (coin), bank accounts etc. - on to which a person projects his or her definitions. In the act of projection money becomes “vitalised”. It seems to take on the characteristics of whatever has been consciously or unconsciously projected into it, returning concrete evidence that makes it appear to be everything the person thought it was in the first place! In short therefore, money becomes or at least seems to be in your experience …
… whatever you think and say it is!
If while reflecting for a few moments you start to sense the practical implications of a deeper examination of this not just for your own financial circumstances, choice of life path, career and partnerships, but also for the the way organizations, society and the whole monied economy are structured - then this seminar is almost certainly for you. It offers a forum where people from all walks of life and levels of wealth can research and develop their money relationship. Results that can be expected:
1. Increased self-knowledge, understanding and awareness
2. Ability to handle a wider range of financial situations with competence
3. Fresh ways of approaching such topics as investment, the creation of money, insurance, pensions etc.
4. Helicopter view of life and money past, present and future
What happens in the seminar?
The seminar is conceived as a free flowing series of exchanges over two days between the seminar leader and the participants.
The exchanges are with words and also with money that the participants also bring to the seminar. Led by Peter Koenig or an accredited facilitator the process is designed to throw up insights on individual and collective beliefs and habits with money, and adapts to the specific needs of the participants as they surface. “The Biography Kaleidoscope” and “Hermetic Money Box” exercises developed by Peter Koenig usually form part of this process.
Some of the reasons why people attend the Money Seminar:
* I never have enough money
* Uncertainty where and how to invest
* Conflict on inheritance
* To learn about the nature and creation of money
* Unease with having money
* Inability to spend
* Discomfort with my contradictory, erratic behaviour
* I don't know what to charge
* Difficulty in sending out bills
* How do I bring together doing what I love and making a living?
* To learn … “guilt-free abundance”
* Unable to save
* Money means nothing to me
* To be less “boring” with my money
* To be more stable with mine
* To become more conscious and constructive in the use of it
* To help my clients with their relationship to money
* To learn about developments in the world of mainstream and alternative financing
* Starting my own business - want to start off on the right foot.
General Results
1. Increased self-knowledge and harmonisation of monetary and life goals
2. Ability to handle a wider range of financial situations with competence
3. Fresh ways of approaching such topics as investment, the creation of money, insurance, pensions etc.
4. Helicopter view of life and money past, present and future
Cost:
Unless otherwise specified the seminar fee for each person is computed by means of the following calculation:
€3 X your age + one-third of 1% of your gross annual income +/- 10% at your own discretion.
“Money must become a tool in the only enterprise worth undertaking for any modern man or woman seriously wishing to find the meaning of their lives. We must use money to study ourselves as we are and as we can become”.
Jacob Needleman, professor of philosophy, San Francisco State University
From “Money and the Meaning of Life”, Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Inc., New York, 1991.
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