Train Your Money™
Grounded Conversations About Money, Stress, and Financial Well-Being
Research-informed conversations about financial well-being, stress, recovery, and personal growth.
Why Money Conversations Matter
Money conversations are rarely just about money. They often involve stress, relationships, recovery, decision-making, safety, stability, and well-being. Grounded Money Conversations was developed to help individuals, professionals, and organizations engage in more thoughtful and supportive conversations about financial well-being.
Grounded Money Conversations was developed to help individuals, professionals, organizations, and communities engage in more thoughtful, informed, and supportive conversations about financial well-being.
The Grounded Money Conversation Framework
Grounded Money Conversations are organized around Five Focus Areas that encourage reflection, dialogue, learning, and informed decision-making.
Awareness
Exploring financial experiences, patterns, beliefs, concerns, and sources of stress.
Choice & Autonomy
Supporting informed decision-making, personal choice, and respect for individual values and goals.
Access
Identifying resources, information, supports, and opportunities that may influence financial well-being.
Stability
Encouraging practices, resources, and conversations that contribute to long-term financial well-being.
Connection
Encouraging conversations that foster understanding, curiosity, and meaningful engagement around money-related experiences.
What Is Train Your Money™?
Train Your Money™ is a collaborative educational initiative designed to support grounded conversations about money through a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and interdisciplinary approach.
Bullet List:
• Financial wellness
• Behavioral health
• Gambling harm prevention
• Recovery support
• Trauma-informed care
• Financial empowerment
• Professional education & workforce development
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Professional Education & Training
Professional Webinars
Live and recorded educational sessions exploring money, stress, financial well-being, and related topics.
Workforce Development
Building capacity through professional education, mentoring, training, and systems-focused learning opportunities.
Consultation ServicesImplementation support, program development, workforce development, and project consultation.
Continuing Education
Future CEU opportunities for helping professionals, behavioral health providers, and related disciplines.
Professional Supervision
Support for professionals seeking consultation, skill development, and reflective discussion related to money conversations and practice.
Organizational TrainingCustomized training for agencies, organizations, recovery programs, and workplace settings.
Conversation Collections
The Grounded Money Conversations framework is designed to support a growing series of Conversation Collections that can be adapted for different settings and audiences.
Foundations Collection
Supporting grounded conversations about money, stress, and financial well-being.
Clinical Practice Collection
Resources and conversation tools for helping professionals and behavioral health settings.
Supervision Collection
Reflective prompts and learning tools to support professional growth and supervision.
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Recovery Collection
Conversation resources focused on recovery, resilience, and financial well-being.
Workplace Well-Being Collection
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Tools and resources designed for workplace education and employee well-being.
Workplace Well-Being Collection
Family Conversations Collection
Resources to support healthy, respectful, and meaningful money conversations within families.
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Resources & Tools
Building a Growing Collection of Educational Resources
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Educational Resources
Future educational materials, reflection guides, and learning tools designed to support grounded money conversations.
Webinars & Learning
Recorded webinars, presentations, and professional learning opportunities exploring money, stress, and financial well-being.
Resource Connections
Professional resources, community supports, and future QR-code-enabled resource pathways.
A centralized resource portal and QR-code access point will connect future educational materials, webinar recordings, professional resources, and community supports.
Research & Thought Leadership
Grounded Money Conversations draws upon emerging work related to financial stress, gambling-related harm, coercive control, financial exploitation, recovery and resilience, financial well-being, and trauma-informed communication.
Research-Informed Foundation
Grounded Money Conversations is informed by trauma-informed care principles, motivational interviewing, financial well-being research, gambling harm literature, and emerging work related to financial stress, coercive control, and financial exploitation.
Areas of Exploration
Areas of Exploration
• Financial Well-Being
• Financial Stress
• Gambling Harm
• Recovery & Resilience
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Coercive Control
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Financial Exploitation
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Professional Education
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Workforce Development
The project is informed by interdisciplinary perspectives and is intended to encourage thoughtful dialogue, professional learning, and community awareness. As the project continues to grow, additional resources, educational materials, conversation collections, and research-informed tools will be developed to support learning across professional, organizational, recovery, workplace, family, and community settings.
Interested in Learning More?
Whether you are a professional, supervisor, educator, organization, workplace leader, community partner, or family member, we welcome opportunities for collaboration, learning, and conversation.