The Link Between Trauma and Money Workshop
The Link Between Trauma and Money a 1-hour workshop with Tupaarnaq Kopeck
Overview
This workshop explores the deep connection between trauma and our relationship with money. Many of
us carry shame, stress, or avoidance around finances, and often don’t realize these feelings are rooted
in trauma. In this 1-hour session, we take a compassionate and practical look at how to move forward
with more awareness and self-trust.
What we’ll cover
→ Financial Shame
What it is, how common it is, and why so many of us stay quiet about it. I’ll also share my own story.
→ Financial Trauma
We’ll look at the traditional definition, and why we need to go deeper.
→ Trauma of Money Model
An introduction to a trauma-informed framework that helps us understand how personal and societal
trauma shape our relationship with money.
→ Healing and Regulation
How trauma impacts our nervous system, and ways to begin shifting patterns to feel safer with money.
→ Q&A and Reflections
A chance to ask questions or share what resonates.
What people are saying:
Tupaarnaq delivered her work with kindness, thoughtfulness, and vulnerability, sharing her own
personal experiences that participants could relate to and feel encouraged to share their own thoughts
and feelings around money through an Indigenous lens.
— Kelly Terbasket, Program Director, IndigenEYEZ
Date: September 22nd, 2025
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Location: The Zoom link will be shared with everyone who registers
Facilitator:
Tupaarnaq Kopeck is an Inuk from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), now living in Treaty 6 & 8 territory
(Spruce Grove, Alberta). A former banker and certified in the Trauma of Money method, she combines
financial education with a trauma-informed approach.