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.
Be our guest and dive in! In case you have any related resources you would like us to feature on this page, simply write an email to [email protected] and we will consider it.
We've constructed a system that measures progress through a single metric of GDP growth, while ignoring the devastation left in its wake. Our narrow definition of wealth - focused solely on financial capital while neglecting social, cultural, and natural capital - has created a world where we're simultaneously richer than ever and desperately poor in what truly matters.
The doctrine of infinite growth on a finite planet is promising salvation through consumption while driving us toward collective collapse. We fragment our world into commodities. We reduce complex living systems to monocultures. We turn neighbours into competitors and nature into an enemy to be conquered, rather than a sacred partner to be cherished.
Ironically, on every single corner of our Earth Mother, market mechanisms are proposed as solutions to the very destruction they've created. We have forgotten that economy is supposed to stand for our own sense of home, for the larger systems of relationships that keep us (and all life on earth) alive and thriving.
Our economic landscape has been depleted, but opportunities for renewal exist, even within our current disconnected systems. With deliberate effort and the right approaches, our economic relationships and structures can be transformed. 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.
<aside> 🫐 The Abundance Fellowship is an in depth program for individuals looking to regenerate their relationship with money, economy and (a)livelihoods.
</aside>
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
Featured in The Emergence Magazine | Artwork by Studio Airport
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.
</aside>