Maternal Gifting

I’ve been experimenting with maternal gift economy, as expressed by Genevieve Vaughan for a few years now. Her conceptualization of how a healthy society orients to material resources is a profound example of nonviolence in action, and has deeply inspired my relationship to how and where resources flow in my own life.

One key learning for me over the past two years is that many of us have a relationship with money that’s based in scarcity, and this blunts our ability to accurately assess our own needs as well as the needs of others when it comes to offering and asking for financial resources. The result of this is that when I don’t insist on receiving a certain amount of money for my support offerings, less money flows to me than I need, even though many of the people who I support have more access to financial resources than I do. I am committed to continuing, and at times this creates stress for me that requires a lot of energetic mobilization and reduces my capacity to do the work I’m here to do in this life.

My work is simultaneously not free, nor does it cost a certain amount. Rather, it is a gift I offer with a request that those I work with offer what they can to me, within a manageable stretch.

When people offer me money outside the context of receiving direct support from me, it really, really helps my life to function more smoothly, allowing me to put more of my energy into sharing my work.

If you’d like to support me to offer more of myself to the world, and you have the ability to offer me money, I gratefully accept your gift.

Venmo: @Janne-Campbell

Paypal: @JanneCampbell

Zell: janne@travelingspectacular.com