BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Clear Sky Meditation Centre - ECPv6.15.19//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Clear Sky Meditation Centre X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Clear Sky Meditation Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20270314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20271107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Edmonton BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20260308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20261101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20270314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20271107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261231T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20220205T181428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T062119Z UID:14666-1695888000-1798736400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Personal Coaching DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/personal-coaching-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Coaching ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-13-at-10.49.12-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T201500 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20260210T170647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T194831Z UID:27745-1775761200-1775765700@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Finding Ground: Meditation For Uncertain Times DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-finding-ground-meditation-for-uncertain-times/2026-04-09/ LOCATION:Mountain View Therapeutics – Cranbrook\, #204 14 A 13 Avenue South\, Cranbrook\, BC\, V1C 2V3\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260423T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260423T110000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20260331T232657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T015651Z UID:28640-1776938400-1776942000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Getting Centered: Connecting To Body Wisdom DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/getting-centered-connecting-to-body-wisdom/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Staying Whole Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sanc-BullMountain-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260508T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20250126T231620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T072749Z UID:23794-1778259600-1778432400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation for Hope and Healing Retreat DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-hope-healing-retreat/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Meditation-for-hope-and-healing-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260619T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260621T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20260211T010736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T212631Z UID:27870-1781888400-1782061200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Coming Home: Meditating in Nature DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/coming-home-meditating-in-nature/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ComingHome_MeditatingInNature.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260830 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20251218T164759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260330T091908Z UID:26796-1782691200-1788047999@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Re-Generation Youth Program: Where Spirituality\, Ecology & Community Meet DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/re-generation-youth-program-where-spirituality-ecology-community-meet/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Re-Generation-Youth-Program.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260710T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260712T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20251220T181131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T020621Z UID:26898-1783702800-1783875600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:As the Spirit Moves (In-Person & Online) DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/as-the-spirit-moves-2026/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/As-the-Spirit-Moves-Weekend-Course.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260726T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260816T110000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20251217T031307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T091801Z UID:26795-1785058200-1786878000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Emotional Intelligence (Online) DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/emotional-intelligence-online-course/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Emotional-Intelligence-Square.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260918T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260920T150000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20251217T031637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T020551Z UID:26792-1789750800-1789916400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:AstroDharma: The Nodes & Your Planetary Purpose (In-Person & Online) DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/astrodharma-nodes-planetary-purpose-online-course/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AstroDharma-Square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261001T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20260407T165111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T203228Z UID:28760-1790852400-1791122400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Healing Love\, Healing Money (Online) DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Healing-Love-Square.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261009T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261025T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20260220T020424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T111545Z UID:27028-1791558000-1792947600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Tantra Practice Retreat DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/tantra-practice-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats and Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/advanced.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261028T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261118T120000 DTSTAMP:20260409T160525 CREATED:20260404T232527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T232533Z UID:28705-1793181600-1795003200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness Fall 2026: Tools for Holistic Living (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New CultureA Four-Day Live Online Course with Karen McAllister\, Duncan Cryle\, Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn October 1-4\, 2026Time: 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Agenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of Fear\nWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how:\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will:\nmap their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nnotice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & Power\nThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \n\nThis session looks at:\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\n\nParticipants will:\nexplore communication patterns around money and intimacy\nidentify inherited relational and financial agreements\npractice truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 3rd — Trust as Infrastructure\nCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why:\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will:\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\n\nOct 4th — Ethical Livelihood\nFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring:\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will:\nclarify values around work and contribution\nreflect on giving\, receiving and sustainability\ncreate a personal practice for aligning love\, money and service\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Throughout the Course\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\n\nThe emphasis is on:\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n \n \n \n \n Intended Outcomes\n\nBy the end of the four weeks\, participants may notice:\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\nThis pilot can naturally lead into:\na longer 8–12 week program\nyour 6-month integration container\nor Tamera’s deeper community processes\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pricing \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Clear Sky Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamera Team \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  Monika AlleweldtBorn 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.\n\nAfter 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.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Gentle Invitation\nTogether\, Karen and Duncan bring a rare integration of inner practice\, relational awareness\, and real-world financial stewardship\, grounded in lived experience within intentional community. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Now URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/integrating-mindfulness-fall-2026-tools-for-holistic-living-in-person-or-online/ CATEGORIES:Integrating Mindfulness,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Integrating-Mindfulness-Feature-Image.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR