Rooted Reciprocity: Biomimicry as a Pathway Out of Financial Fawning
Climate Coaching, Nature and Trauma of Money Meet!
For the financial fawners, who under-earn and over-give time, energy, and money, discover a biomimicry-based path to mutual thriving.
What if our relationship with money was never meant to be transactional but instead relational?
Join bestselling author of The Trauma of Money Chantel Chapman and biomimicry expert Dr. PennElys Droz for a live, 2-hour Zoom experience exploring biomimicry as a liberated pathway out of Financial Fawning, a trauma response many people experience in their relationship with money, work, and care.
Financial Fawning, a term coined by Chantel Chapman through the Trauma of Money Institute, describes a patterned response where people over-give, over-accommodate, or abandon their own needs in financial or economic relationships in order to feel safe, valued, or secure. While often praised as generosity, this pattern can quietly erode boundaries, agency, and long-term well-being.
In this event, we turn to the living world for guidance.
Through the lens of biomimicry, social-ecological resilience science, network science, and trauma-informed nervous-system healing, we will explore how healthy systems—ecological and human—actually thrive.
Registration Fee is in USD$.
What We’ll Explore
Financial Fawning, Trauma & Living Systems
In healthy ecosystems:
No being gives endlessly without receiving
No element has to “earn” its right to belong
Exchange is relational, adaptive, and non-transactional
Financial fawning:
Is not a character flaw, but a learned neural pathway
Mirrors extractive or imbalanced systems
Often shows up as overgiving, over-accommodating, or self-abandonment in financial and relational contexts
Is commonly linked to trauma, worthiness wounds, and nervous-system survival responses
Together, we’ll explore:
How trauma wires overgiving into the nervous system
How isolation and hyper-transactional relationships create failure to thrive—both ecologically and socially
How boundary-setting supports neuroplasticity and new relational patterns
How practicing healthy reciprocity creates new networks of safety, agency, and trust
Biomimicry & Resilient Systems
Biomimicry is rooted in the understanding that the patterns, forms, and processes of the natural world emerged with purpose. By studying how living systems sustain themselves over time, we can learn principles that support healthy social, cultural, economic, and governance systems.
Additional Details
Event Timezone Reference - Canada
Presenter(s) Bio
Chantel Chapman, Best Selling Author of The Trauma of Money (Compassionate Pathways to Disempowering Financial Trauma and Shame) and Founder of the Trauma of Money Institute. Through the Trauma of Money Method™, we provide compassionate, professional training that explores frameworks for healing both individual and collective trauma—supporting greater financial safety, resilience, and well-being. TRAUMA OF MONEY™
Dr. PennElys Drozm, Biomimicry expert, NDN Collective Director of Fellowship & Prize, is Anishinaabe/Wyandot from the US-Canadian border. Droz directs the planning, execution and evaluation of the NDN Fellowship & Prize. Droz brings two decades experience in the Indigenous environmental and regenerative Nation building movements to re-develop ecologically, culturally and economically thriving and resilient Native Nations. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Technology and a Master’s degree in Environmental Resource Engineering from Humboldt State University and a PhD in Biocultural Engineering Design, American Indian Studies from University of Arizona. Interview Pennelys Droz | Amplifying Voices
Is This Event Being Recorded? - No
Event Language - English
Posted By - Janet Mrenica FCPA, FCPFA, Climate Change Coach, Certified Trauma of Money Professional
Email - taproot.jem.systems@bell.net
