What if we saw our financial lives as a contemplative practice?
Through 10 cohorts of the Livable Future Investing workshop, we’ve heard many express fear, uncertainty, and frustration when it comes to navigating hard questions at the heart of faith and personal finance:
- What, really, is enough?
- What does a truly integrated life ask of my finances?
- What does a financial ethic compatible with the Gospel look like?
Contemplation—defined by St. Bernard of Clairvaux as “the elevation of the mind resting in God”— is a deep well of our faith tradition, one that helps us cultivate the kind of inner life we need to inhabit and act on these questions.
To honor personal finance as a contemplative journey, we’re curating “Contemplative Personal Finance,” a pilot cohort experience that explores themes of identity, consumption, saving, and investing in light of the Gospel and its vision for the “good life.”
- What if our household economic patterns and discernments are pathways for touching God’s loving, active presence in our midst?
- Given this spiritual reality, how might we relate to money differently?
- What kind of life and community might we cultivate in the process?
Together, we’ll discern what it means to see our financial lives in a contemplative light. By doing so, we’ll invite transformation—of ourselves and our world.
We hope you join us.
To learn more, attend a Q&A with our team on Friday, August 29 at 2pm EST (register here) or Wednesday, September 24 at 1:30pm EST (register here).
A note on the course fee and time commitment: The course fee is $200. We never want cost to be a barrier to participation—we have a sliding scale available. The course is structured by 1) asynchronous lessons, released twice weekly and 2) virtual gatherings every other Friday at 12pm EST. Find a full overview of the course calendar here.
Course Facilitators
Greg Little
Throughout his adult life, Greg has been nurtured in creative, intimate shared life with others through several expressions of community life—including a Catholic Worker hospitality house inspired by St. Francis, Haiti’s Wings of Hope, Friendship House, and most recently the Corner House in Durham. Greg is committed to a life ordered by daily prayer, simplicity, and littleness, and he comes alive in mutual spiritual accompaniment. His financial formation is largely sourced in friendship with the poor, the lives of the saints, and Catholic Social Teaching. Greg works at Reality Ministries, a place proclaiming that we all belong to God and to one another through fostering friendship among people with and without disabilities. He loves love gardening, playing any sport with a ball, and building bonfires with his family.
Douglas Tsoi
Originally Canadian, Douglas grew up in California and was a lawyer, Quaker school teacher, and sustainability professional before retiring at age 42. During the pandemic, he trained as a Franciscan spiritual director. Douglas teaches a personal finance course called Financial Freedom, writes a Substack newsletter called Money and Meaning, and runs a website called The Appreciation Effect. He loves soccer, Asian food, and all dogs.
Kelli Hickey
Kelli serves as Director of Formation for the Francesco Collaborative. She is passionate about addressing questions of poverty, economics, labor, justice, and human development through a lens of Christian social ethics.
She is especially animated Catholic Social Teaching and its expression as a theology and way of life. How can we best translate CST principles into specific times and places, both macro (What does a just economy look like?) and micro (How do we send our emails? How do we go home to our families?). In other words, what difference do our faith and moral commitments make “on the ground”?
Join a Livable Future Investing workshop!
The next intensive workshop will begin in May 2026. Apply here.
Come and see! Our 2-hour mini workshops will be held during the following dates— registration is free of charge:
- Friday, March 27th at 12pm EST (register here)
- Wednesday, May 20th at 12pm EST (register here)
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