THE EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF CAPITALISM
Reclaiming Yourself from Never Feeling or Having Enough
Coaching Program
Capitalism creates two feelings in you: never having enough, and never being enough. The first is the hamster wheel of consumption, and the second is the hamster wheel of achievement and performative display. Take this 8 week coaching program to contemplate satisfaction, scarcity, and sufficiency and how they all relate to the two pillars of our economic system: consumerism and “workism.” How can you bring more attention, gratitude, and presence into your life and separate from the feelings of insufficiency that capitalism creates?
Tier A Coaching: $997 ($60/hr or above wage earners)
Tier B Coaching: $697 ($30-$59/hr wage earners)
Tier C Coaching: $497 ($16-$29/hr wage earners)
Tier D Coaching: $297 ($15/hr or below wage earners)
So much of what you think and how you feel in the world is mediated through capitalism. This coaching program helps you examine internalized capitalism. Ideology is what you do without knowing you are doing it, and this program helps you resist the constant need to “achieve” self-worth in our society and the feeling of never having or being enough. This program helps you examine time, attention, satisfaction, scarcity, and sufficiency and how they all relate to the two pillars of our economic system: consumerism and “workism.”
The coaching program will be 8 lessons, 1 per week for 8 weeks. You can do 1-1 with me, or with friends as a community.
This program is designed to be contemplative and self-reflective, a spiritual-financial reassessment of how you are, how you feel, and how you relate in the world. The lessons are short essays by me, about 5-10 minutes of reading, and a prompt to have a conversation with me or a program mate. Whether you do it with me 1-1 or with a partner, the insight will come from drawing out and verbalizing your feelings and understanding of capitalism, belonging, and worthiness and listening to your conversation partner’s. You’ll be contemplating the emotional consequences of our economic system, as experienced by you, and how you want to be alive in the world. Hope you’re interested! Here is a preview of lesson 1.
The coaching program is laid out in 8 weeks:
What is your deepest longing?
Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency
Individualism, Belonging, and Bourgeois Capitalism
The Daily Task: “Achieving” Worthiness
Lagom: The Freedom of Having and Being Enough
Everything Sped Up: Busyness and Experiencing Your Emotions
Primary Satisfactions: Attention, Presence, and Connection
Holding Gratitude and Grief
If you are interested, please send an email to set up an introductory call.
“My mind stretched to new places and can never go back. I gained a new intimacy with life itself.”
“I loved the space and trust that Douglas created to drop into deep and vulnerable conversations about some of life’s big questions around longing, sufficiency, presence, and connection. The fact that most of these conversations were the very first between me and my partner was even more magical. I wish there were more opportunities like this.”
“It’s helped me to recognize some of the insidious messages I’ve absorbed without fully realizing it, messages that run counter to my values but that have affected me nonetheless. It’s helped me to start to REALLY understand what an impossible system we’ve been forced into. And it’s helped me to introduce some really beautiful practices into my life -- a sacred personal weekly ritual and a new way of deciding whether to spend money on something or how to spend my time in a given moment, by asking myself what will add the most TRUE value to my life. Thank you for this.”