Fight, Flight, & Finances:
Workshops & Coaching
Regardless of income level, we all carry money traumas, beliefs, and behaviors — this is a way to become more aware of your own, and how you navigate others’.
This is especially helpful for organizations, business, or individuals who want to support the people they work with, live with, or love, as holistically and responsibly as possible.
What it is:
Compassionate approach to navigating our money fears.
Decreasing shame and increasing discernment around money.
Useful for people of all income levels and financial backgrounds.
Fills the gaps between knowledge and behavior.
Combination of neuroscience, real life experiences from people of all kinds, and research on how scarcity effects us all.
Adaptable to a person or organization’s time and needs.
Rooted in the Trauma of Money Method (TM)
What it is not:
This is not a financial literacy course or financial planning coaching. Although financial literacy & planning are deeply important tools for navigating money, there are often social and emotional components that dictate our behavior more than knowing what we “should” do.
This is not a prescriptive guide to how you should or should not feel about money, as there is no one right way for everyone.
This is not a certification process or financial advice. If you are interested in becoming certified in the Trauma of Money (TM), visit their website (I highly encourage you do!).
Who am I to teach this?
Before I was certified as a Trauma of Money (TM) Facilitator in 2023, I had a long history of working in the spaces of financial justice and systemic change.
My career started with working at a Community Development Corporation on the Pine Ridge Reservation where my grandma was born and raised. Over the course of my career, I’ve worked on everything from housing issues to food sovereignty, organizational healing to Coaching for Healing, Justice, & Liberation (which I am also certified in).
Since launching my own company in 2023, I have primarily focused on supporting individuals with career transition and scarcity mindset, as well as providing coaching & financial training to numerous nonprofit organizations and foundations across the country.
You can read my bio at the bottom of this page. I look forward to working with you!
“Dealing with money is not just about your bottom line — it impacts everything! How we show up as a leader, how we live our values, and how we navigate times of challenge or abundance. This workshop recognizes why that is so important to talk about.”
— Ron Martinez-Looking Elk
International Award Winning Artist
AIO Ambassador
Indigenous Project Advisor
About Cecily Rose Engelhart
BIO
I am a cis gender, able bodied woman of Ihanktonwan Dakota, Oglala Lakota, and European settler descent (including Irish, French, German, and English). I live the rural life on the Ihanktonwan Nation in South Dakota with my family in a 100+ year old house we are slowly (but surely) restoring.
I love helping people who are feeling burnt out, trapped, and drained of enthusiasm to leave jobs that make them miserable, reset their money mindset, and build careers that change both their world and the world at large.
I do this through coaching, workshops, and retreats. Helping clients activate their agency and transform their futures is part of how I see us all get clear on where we need to hold both systems, and ourselves, accountable.
When I'm not nerding out about coaching, financial wellness, or retreat venues, I can be found cooking with my family, dancing in the kitchen, playing games, watching movies, and (when the weather is right) swimming in the Missouri River.
I’m also currently penning my first book and in the early development stages of a Native travel show.