Account-ability

Heart-centered workshop

Bringing heart medicine into accounting: intertwining colonial histories, practical skills and spaciousness, and heart-centered circle practices.

This pilot workshop focuses on your experience of the recent tax day and your Q1.

Saturday, May 11, 12:30 to 2:00 pm ET

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Accounting is too often kept in the realm of the expert who is also associated with the "black box" of government structures, the legacies of colonization, and corporate mumbo-jumbo. Too often, systemic harms are perpetuated.

Yet accounting is part of everyone's life.

With tracking and interpretting the inflow and outflow of money comes a wide assortment of emotions and judgments. Avoidance, denial, isolation, and confusion are common.

In this unique online workshop, we bring some heart medicine into this important and too-often ignored space.

The primary guide (who also disdains being called an expert, though she is very experienced) is restorative practitioner/indigenous peacemaker Kristine Hill, who brings her 20+ years of experience with spreadsheets, her accounting background, and working with people from a wide range of backgrounds. The space is also held and supported by Sara Jolena Wolcott, who has gone through her own journey from “full out avoidance” to “capable and curious” in relating to her personal and professional accounts, and who can help us connect the disconnected.

This is a pilot workshop as we design a longer-format offering.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is perfect for:

Individuals
Leaders, staff, and board members of small NGOs
Social enterprises and small businesses
Those who want support in their relationship towards financial inflows and outflows.

This workshop is not designed for professional accountants in large organizations. We are not offering professional accounting advise.

This is a no shame, no blame space.

How much is this heart-centered workshop?

Sliding Scale: $7-$57

What happens after your registration?

After your registration, we will send you the calendar invite that includes the zoom information. Please take a moment to respond to the invite for the workshop.

What can we expect during the workshop?

Engagement with the bigger picture - “your” issues are not, actually, just about you! This includes some colonial histories.
Heart-centered circle talking sharing experiences of the recent tax season; there is no pressure to share what you don’t want to.
A period of time to actually do your own work on something related to accounting (filing receipts, filling out a FASFA document, updating your checking bank statements, opening envelopes that are piling up, etc.)
A chance to talk about some of what is challenging for you in your relationship to year-round accounting responsibilities
Insights, skills, community support, and experiential knowing that you are NOT alone!

After the workshop, what’s next?

We will send you a short survey to help us improve and design the longer offering

You will get early access to our longer, multi-part offering that we are still in the process of developing!

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Meet your guides

Kristine Marie Hill

Kristine Hill is a member of the Beaver Clan, Tuscarora Nation, Haudenosaunee confederacy. For over 20 years, she worked as an auditor for a school district in western New York, as well as being an educator. She also helped many people prepare their taxes. Recently, she founded Collective Wisdoms, wherein she works as an indigenous peacemaker and restorative practitioner with national and international religious, educational, and corporate institutions. She is an active member of the Ahimsa Collective and The Hive. She often participates in national and international gatherings of indigenous peoples, and enjoys sharing stories with children.

Sara Jolena Wolcott

In the long global odyssey that led her to found her own ecotheology company, Sara Jolena Wolcott, had to address her own issues around accounting, including familial and multi-generational relationships to money. This included 12-step programs focused on money and debt and (continually) untangling from some of dominant culture’s stories around money. She has participated in various local and global attempts to create alternative economies. Her MA in Science, Society and Development at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK focused on the financial industry. Recognizing the underlying spiritual dimensions of her big-picture questions led her to become an eco-theologian and minister: she obtained her M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary.