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 running “A Contemplative Approach to Personal Finance,” a ten-week cohort rooted in Catholic Social Teaching that explores themes of identity, consumption, saving, and investing in light of the Gospel and its vision for the “good life.”
This fall’s cohort runs September 10 through November 19, 2026.
- 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?
In this living space of mutual accompaniment we will invite you to consider what a financial rule of life might look like for your own household. How might this intentional structure be a pathway towards more deeply aligning your habits and embodied practices with the heart of your faith.
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 or register, visit the registration page, or reach out to Greg at greg@francescocollaborative.org or Cameron at cameron@francescocollaborative.org.
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.
What Participants Say
“This course is such a gift. I feel like we’ve been accompanied with so much wisdom and grace into such difficult and complex territory… inviting us into a deeper integration of our faith into the confusing world of our modern financial lives into a more compassionate and loving way.
And sharing so many possibilities of other ways and ideas forward to live into, that are attractive and beautiful and meaningful!
Brilliant course…and this is just your first go at it. And so thankful for each of my classmates for sharing yourselves along the way in this journey. Thank you all!”
— Bill DeFulvio, Partnership Coordinator at StepUp Durham
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- Thursday, August 27, at 11am ET: Register
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- Thursday, August 27 at 12pm ET: Register
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