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
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.
Agenda
Oct 1st — The Roots of Fear Why Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money
We begin by exploring how:
- fear of exclusion shows up as financial stress
- scarcity responses live in the nervous system
- collective trauma influences earning, saving and giving
- money becomes a proxy for safety and belonging
- map their early survival adaptations around both love and money
- notice grasping, avoidance or control patterns
- begin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress
Oct 2nd — Love, Possession & Power The Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship
This session looks at:
- ownership in love and ownership in the economy
- jealousy, control and financial secrecy
- how partnership becomes an economic unit
- the influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood
- explore communication patterns around money and intimacy
- identify inherited relational and financial agreements
- practice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting
Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure Community as a Container for Healing
We examine why:- healing often fails when kept private
- both love and money tend to isolate us
- trust requires social structures, not just personal insight
- new relational agreements create economic safety
- work in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing
- experiment with shared inquiry around resource and care
- reflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood
Oct 4th — Ethical Livelihood From Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency
We close by exploring:- what “enough” really means
- purpose-aligned earning
- generosity and reciprocity
- livelihood as participation in cultural healing
- clarify values around work and contribution
- reflect on giving, receiving and sustainability
- create a personal practice for aligning love, money and service
Throughout the Course
- short meditation practices
- relational inquiry exercises
- somatic awareness practices
- buddy conversations
- optional journaling prompts
- 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
- 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.
The Clear Sky Team
Karen
Karen McAllister is a contemplative leader, senior meditation teacher, and certified money coach who has spent years working at the intersection of money, relationship, and spiritual practice.
She works with individuals, communities, and spiritual organizations to uncover how early relational conditioning around safety, belonging, and worth shapes patterns of earning, spending, giving, and receiving. Her approach integrates somatic awareness, relational inquiry, and practical financial coaching, supporting people to move from private survival strategies into more conscious, connected, and sustainable ways of relating to money.
As Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky, Karen has been deeply engaged in exploring the ethical flow of resources within intentional community, supporting both individuals and groups to build trust, transparency, and alignment between values and livelihood.
Her work invites a shift from scarcity and isolation toward shared sufficiency, relational repair, and money as a path of awakening.
Duncan
Duncan Cryle brings together over 20 years of meditation practice in the Namgyal lineage with a strong background in systems thinking, organizational leadership, and financial stewardship.
As the financial controller and Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky, Duncan works at the heart of how a living spiritual community organizes its resources, balancing vision, sustainability, and collective wellbeing. His perspective bridges inner development and outer systems, exploring how trust, structure, and financial clarity support resilient and thriving communities.
With two decades of experience in senior organizational roles—including pioneering large-scale workplace mindfulness programs—Duncan brings a grounded, practical lens to how economic systems, relational dynamics, and cultural patterns intersect.
He is especially interested in how transparent structures and shared agreements can transform money from a source of tension into a foundation for trust and collaboration.
The Tamera Team
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.
A Gentle Invitation
Together, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice, relational awareness, and real-world financial stewardship, grounded in lived experience within intentional community.