The self-development programme about money that changes everything
CU*money will run from July 25th until October 12th 2020.
(Registration is open until July 15th 2020)
Self-esteem, relationships, intimacy, purpose, individual and collective prosperity; everything is influenced by our relationship with money.
Globally, the shortcomings of our current economic and social systems are becoming increasingly apparent. If we seek to re-invent our operating systems and build a better future that simultaneously considers planet and people and that aims to create prosperity for all, we need to first uncover the beliefs and behaviours that keep us chained to an unsustainable way of life.
A central and rarely addressed element of this exploration is our relationship with money.
Have you ever…
… been worried about how to pay your rent?
… been worried about how to secure your assets for an uncertain future?
… felt like you don’t deserve the money you have or will inherit?
Why should you participate in CU*money?
Becoming money conscious is the key to change in every area of (your) life.
Ask yourself:
- Do you experience recurring conflicts about money in personal and professional relationships?
- Is your self-worth linked to the remuneration received from others?
- Do you suffer from a constant sense of lack or do you fear for your existence?
- Do you feel disempowered and ineffective?
- Are you stuck doing something you don’t want to do?
- Are you restless or anxious with regard to asset management?
These are some of the ways in which an unconscious relationship with money leads to unintended consequences.
CU*money explores this taboo and often conflict-laden topic with honesty and humour. Learning to magically ‘make’ more money is a possible, but not an inevitable consequence of CU*money. CU*money is a process of deep consciousness work. The aim of this process is to give you greater freedom in dealing with money and to enable you to act with ease and responsibility.
Only when you understand the psychological value you attach to money will you be able to handle money freely and unencumbered.
You might already be on a personal development path and aware that money is a cultural construct. But even when this is understood, money continues to determine much of your private and professional everyday life as well as your personal relationships.
Here’s what you will experience in the CU*money programme
CU*money is a blended learning programme that guides you to learn and talk about money and become conscious of and competent in your relationship with money.
Using money as a mirror, you will
- uncover your fears and reactive patterns,
- discover compassion for the parts of your personality you tried to hide or suppress,
- assume ownership for your needs and wants and
- connect with others in open, vulnerable and solution-oriented dialogue.
We will dig deep into what keeps you individually and us collectively trapped in old paradigms and build the competencies needed to envision and co-create a prosperous future. By strengthening your ability to deploy candour and kindness when dealing with yourself and others, you will unleash your full potential for the benefit of all.
And these are the benefits you will reap from participating in CU*money
- Gain a better understanding of the psychology of money
- Uncover your beliefs and their roots in your family history
- Face the money reality that you have (unconsciously) created
- Dissolve the influence of old patterns on your handling of money
- Strengthen your personal ability to deal with financial situations in an agile and relaxed way
- Let go of shame, guilt and conflicts connected to money
- Name your potential and the value of your work without undervaluing yourself or feeling shame
- Set new (financial) goals and formulate concrete measures
- Increase your freedom of action when talking about money, negotiating fees, or investing money;
- Design a vision of a prosperous life in which you do what you want
- Increase your capacity to create impact in the world
Have you ever…
… been jealous of what someone else earns or owns?
… hidden from your spouse or partner exactly how much you earn or own?
… been ashamed of having or not having money?
Who CU*money is for
CU*money is a personal and deep journey, suited for those ready to play a bigger game in the world:
- Founders and CEOs who want to create a conscious business
- Investors who want to create meaningful impact
- Activists who want to increase their influence and reach
- Coaches who want to support their clients in the most powerful way
- Visionaries who want to co-create a sustainable and prosperous future for people and planet
- Anyone who is ready to change their money story once and for all
The philosophy behind CU*money
CU*money is based on more than 30 years of research by Peter Koenig (peterkoenigsystem®) and it is the only online programme utilising his original writings. (Find out more about Peter further down when you get to know your CU*money coaches)
At the core of CU*money lies the observation that our relationship to money is an expression of our relationship to ourselves. Money work is deeply spiritual work that connects us to our essence. Everything that we want to be and everything that we don’t want to be is mirrored in our current money reality and some of the least obvious parts of ourselves are revealed in our relationship with money.
To name these unconscious parts accurately and to integrate them back into our identity makes us more whole and frees us to do what we want in life. This newfound freedom will show itself in our relationship with money, with our work, with our clients and in our definition of prosperity. The insights resulting from moneywork are often astonishing, sometimes funny and always of great emotional depth.
Have you ever…
… earned as much as you wanted, only to find that it wasn’t enough after all?
… been part of a project that was great until money was an issue?
… longed to do something else but didn’t because of financial concerns?
The structure and content of CU*money
CU*money consists of five modules, delivered over 11 weeks.
The five CU*money modules
Module 1 ‚About Money‘ in which we will explore the truth of money, 3 types of projections on money and what your relationship with money says about your identity.
Module 2 ‚Understanding Your Money Story‘ will guide you to explore your personal and your family’s history with money.
Module 3 ‚Reclaiming Projections‘ will take you through a deep process of uncovering and reclaiming parts of your identity that you have projected onto money.
Module 4 – ‚Your Current Money Reality‘ will ask you to look closely at the money reality you have created so far and thus lay the foundation for the future.
Module 5 ‚Your Future With Money‘ introduces the ‚normal and the natural regime‘ when it comes to money and prosperity and will guide you to write your new money story.
Each module consists of:
- Audios that introduce the core ideas
- Self-reflection exercises that allow you apply the ideas to your life
- An hour long conversation within your coaching triad
- A 75 minute group-coaching call with Peter and Nadja
In Module 3, we will additionally offer two group-coaching calls (‘Embodiment 1’ and ‘Embodiment 2’) with Rivka to explore the relationship of money in the body and help you to embody your insights.
Your time investment
Your total time investment is approximately 20 min per work day.
CU*money is a blended learning programme that combines self-directed online learning with social learning in small groups as well as the participating cohort.
Self-directed online learning
The content of CU*money is delivered via our Conscious U online platform where all participants of the programme meet in cohorts and which
- encourages micro-learning by dissecting content into small tasks
- enables you to engage with content in the form of audios and exercises guiding self-reflection and dialogue
- allows you to access the programme at any time from any device and study when it is most convenient for you
- increases accountability, positive competition and communication through gamification.
Social learning
Through dialogue and experimentation with other participants you
- generate insights,
- shift mindsets and
- trigger new behaviours.
You’ll create meaningful networks with other participants through:
- Bi-weekly conversations in your coaching triad
- Bi-weekly group video conferences with our qualified money coaches
The schedule for CU*money 2020
The CU*money programme kicks off with Module 1 on Saturday, the 25th of July 2020. Each module runs for two weeks, with the exception of Module 3 ‘Projections’ which will run for three weeks to accommodate two additional videoconferences with Rivka around money and the body.
Each module closes with a video conference:
Video conference module 1: Monday, 10th of August from 17:00-18:15 CET
Video conference module 2: Monday, 24th of August from 17:00-18:15 CET
BONUS – Video conference Embodiment 1 with Rivka, Monday, 31st of August from 17:00-18:15 CET
BONUS – Video conference Embodiment 2 with Rivka, Saturday, 5th of September from 17:00-18:15 CET
Video conference module 3: Monday, 14th of September from 17:00-18:15 CET
Video conference module 4: Monday, 28th of September from 17:00-18:15 CET
Video conference module 5: Monday, 12th of October from 17:00-18:15 CET
Transforming your relationship with money means transforming your relationship with yourself in a more fundamental way than you ever thought possible.
Meet your CU*money coaches
Peter Koenig has been developing tools and systems to accelerate consciousness and human development for leaders for 40 years.
He is an expert in Seminal Thinking, Behavioural Finance, and Organisational Architecture, and at the heart of his expertise is a series of deep insights on our relationship to money, the realisation of life purpose, organisation and succession. In the 1980s, Peter was a strategic consultant and coach who was among those to pioneer the first-generation vision, purpose, alignment, Open Space and organisation transformation processes.
His ‘moneywork’ emerged out of the realisation that the relation to money needs to be integrated into these processes in order for desired results to be achieved. Peter maintains that it is possible for organisations to transform, for values-based initiatives to take root, for spiritual movements to be really spiritual, for politics to be ethical, for contemporary global challenges to be competently handled – but only if leaders are willing to examine their relation to money head-on.
His moneywork examines the current structures, subliminal messages, misconceptions and our own internal relationship and conditioning around money and leads to increased self-knowledge and harmonisation of monetary and life goals, an ability to handle a wider range of financial situations with competence, fresh ways of approaching such topics as investment, the creation of money, insurance, pensions and an overarching view of money past, present and future.
Nadjeschda Taranczewski is a psychologist and has been working as a freelance coach, speaker and author since 2001.
She is certified by the International Coaching Federation as a Master Certified Coach and McKinsey & Company licensed her as facilitator of transformation for organisational culture change processes. Her first book Conscious You: Become the Hero of Your Own Story was published in 2018. As a self-professed training junkie, she immersed herself in diverse modalities (e.g.: Systemic Approaches and Constellations, Voice Dialogue, Appreciative Inquiry, Spiral Dynamics, peterkoenigsystem®, Nonviolent Communication, Three Principles, the Options Process, The Work, EFT, EMDR, Open Space Beta, and many others).
Her own moneywork with Peter Koenig enabled her to operate in the premium coaching segment and today she specialises in coaching founders and CEOs to re-invent how they lead themselves, their team and their organisation. Through her online coaching company Conscious U she support organisations to transform themselves into Conscious Tribes; thriving collectives in which everyone invests in inner work, considers the big picture, nourishes deep relationships and cultivates conscious rituals.
Nadjeschda loves to design and deliver scalable blended-learning programmes such as CU*money (based on Peter Koenigs moneywork), or, their flagship programme, CU*i.
And our guest coach, Rivka Halbershtadt is a transformational somatic coach who, over the past fifteen years, has worked with hundreds of people in various companies and countries.
She started her career with training in different therapeutic and somatic disciplines, but early on developed her own methodology of bringing our attention back to the full range of possibilities in our life. Rivka’s approach focuses on empowering people to learn how to create change for themselves by focusing on what they want. The results are more energy, creativity, authenticity and meaning; opening a new, vibrant connection to life itself- often accompanied by a deep sense of appreciation for one’s body and life’s potential.
For Rivka, money is meant to be an expression of what we want in life and should not be an expression of what limits us.
In collaborating with Peter and Nadjeschda, Rivka seeks to support participants of CU*money to create a new attention to money – both on the level of the body and the mind – and to empower them to implement their learning in life, right from the start.
She believes that once we know how to stop what limits us, we will be able to live the life we want to live.
The CU*money programme fee
Since the CU*money self-development programme is focused on creating more consciousness around money, we ask you to set your own fee, which will range between the full fee of Euro 750, – plus VAT and a reduced fee as low as Euro 250, – plus VAT. (Or a fee higher than Euro 750,- plus VAT, if you would like to sponsor another participant.)
You will decide your fee based on your current financial circumstances and any other relevant life circumstances. Determining your fee is already an important part of your money process.
CU*money will run from July 25th until October 12th 2020.
(Registration is open until July 15th 2020)