Last updated: May 10th, 2025.
If you are here, we hope to have one intention in common: to cultivate a more liberating relationship with money and economy, rooted in reciprocity and abundance. This library of resources is curated by members of the Abundance Fellowship and our extended collective. It is open for anyone looking to proactively challenge the extractive, competitive and scarcity-driven practices dominating the mainstream economic system.
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Our economic systems have created both incredible innovations and deep structural challenges. We have amazing technology alongside growing inequality, global connections alongside environmental breakdown, and financial growth alongside widespread disconnection from community. Most of us recognise that measuring progress only through GDP growth misses what actually matters for a good life - strong communities, healthy families, stable businesses, a thriving environment.
We've inherited ways of creating wealth that prioritise one form of capital - financial - while treating social, cultural, and natural capital as secondary or invisible. Many knowledge systems around the world understand wealth differently: as reciprocal relationships, as stewardship across generations, as the health of the whole community including the land. Yet our dominant economic models fragment these interconnected forms of value, creating artificial separations between financial success and social impact, short-term gains and long-term stability, individual achievement and collective wellbeing. This fragmentation shows up in the tensions we all navigate - business leaders seeking ways to measure success beyond profit, families working harder but feeling less secure, communities watching traditional ways of wealth-building disappear as resources flow elsewhere.
Economy is supposed to stand for our own sense of home and wellbeing, and for the larger systems of relationships that keep us (and all life on earth) alive and thriving. When economic systems consistently damage the environment, fracture communities, and leave people anxious about the future, it signals that these systems aren't serving their fundamental purpose.
Just as certain pioneering plants can prepare degraded soil for new growth, humans can intentionally rebuild healthier economic relationships and systems, starting with our own understanding and practices around money, value and wealth. This isn't about discarding what works - it's about expanding our approach to match the full complexity of what we need as human beings, in relationship with each other and the living world.
<aside> 🫐 The Abundance Fellowship is an in depth program for individuals looking to regenerate their relationship with money, economy and (a)livelihoods.
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What is economics for anyway?
“... It turns out that answer depends a lot on who you ask. On their website, the American Economic Association says, “It’s the study of scarcity, the study of how people use resources and respond to incentives.” (...) With scarcity as the main principle, the mindset that follows is based on commodification of goods and services.
[Dr. Valerie Luzadis, professor of the US Society for Ecological Economics], prefers the definition that “economics is how we organise ourselves to sustain life and enhance its quality. It’s a way of considering how we provide for ourselves.”
The words “ecology” and “economy” come from the same root, the Greek oikos, meaning “home” or “household”: i.e., the systems of relationship, the goods and services that keep us alive. The system of market economies that we’re given as a default is hardly the only model out there. Anthropologists have observed and shared multiple cultural frameworks coloured by very different worldviews on “how we provide for ourselves,” including gift economies.”
Source: The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Unfortunately, internalised scarcity leads to a sense of separation, where individuals are expected to cope and respond alone to issues which are deeply collective. By opening our journey to people from a diversity of cultures and backgrounds, we foster a sense of interconnectedness and solidarity among our fellows. And most importantly, we offer an opportunity to practically experiment with more radical forms of wellbeing.
Every year, we welcome up to 20 fellows and facilitate a holistic journey, rooted in our relational field. Through an online, 3 months journey, fellows from around the world who feel ready to revisit their assumptions about money and economics work together, experiment with conscious economic practices, share decisions, money and power, and co-evolve a systemic understanding around their stories with money. You can read more about our approach in this article we shared with our friends at ChangemakerXchange.
Besides this annual, cohort based journey, we are also opening our work to a larger audience through the Abundance Masterclasses and this resources corner right here. 🤓
<aside> 🫐 The first two editions of the Abundance Fellowship have build the soil for a broader Abundance Collective to emerge. This is a space for Abundance Fellows to deepen their practice, strengthen their relational field and evolve new experiments with money and economy, rooted in our cultures and unique dreams for the future generations.
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