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The Ordination · A Private Two-Day Experience

You've built something significant.
It's asking to mean more.

Two private days with Heidi Cuppari, Wealth & Legacy Architect. You arrive holding something significant — wealth, a company, a life's work. You leave knowing exactly what it's for.

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The Word

Why I call it an Ordination.

Ordination comes from the Latin ordinare: to set in order, to appoint to a purpose. Long before it belonged to any church, it described the act of arranging something around what it is for.

I've spent 25 years designing capital — at Acumen, at UBS, in rooms from the White House to Davos. And I learned the thing the industry still hasn't admitted: you can order a portfolio perfectly and the wealth will still drift, because the person holding it was never asked the only question that matters. What is this actually for?

This is not a religious act. In the old world, ordination was something an institution conferred on you. We are living through the end of that world — it's the subject of my paper — and in this one, no institution is coming to tell you what your wealth means. The ordination is the one you give yourself: the moment you bless your own life and your own money with a purpose, and become their whole owner. My role is to architect that moment, and to witness it.

Advisors order the money. No one ordains the holder. The Ordination is that missing act: two days in which you — not just your holdings — are set in order around your purpose. It is the most upstream move in capital design. Everything that matters — the allocation, the giving, the legacy, the impact — follows from it.

This is how wealth becomes systems change: not when capital moves, but when the person who holds it knows exactly why.

The Experience

One experience.
Three ways to enter.

The arc is the same in every format. Day one looks inward. Day two looks forward and turns clarity into something you can act on. Choose how you want to hold it.

Format I

Online

$5,000

The full arc, held virtually, wherever you are.

What's included
  • Two private days, one-to-one, three hours each day
  • Day one: your money story and what your wealth has been for until now, named
  • Day two: what you want to create, your Declaration, your Money Manifesto, your First Move
  • The Ordination Report, delivered within five days of your final day
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Format II

In Person

By conversation

The same arc, held on the land outside Boulder, with a second guide.

Everything in Online, plus
  • Two consecutive days, three to four hours each day, in person on the land
  • Dr. Claudia Skye Zimmermann as your second guide, for the subconscious, somatic and energy work: deep clearing of the root material that words alone cannot reach
  • Day one goes deeper: the blocks beneath your money story, named and worked
  • Tea and a light snack, then somatic and energetic clearing with Dr. Claudia
  • Closing ceremony on the land: your declaration, spoken and anchored

Much of what holds us around money lives below language. When that moves first, the forward work lands on open ground.

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Format III · Recommended

The Threshold

The Ordination at its deepest · 24 hours on the land · by conversation

The most immersive and transformational way to receive your Ordination. Arrive 1:00pm, depart 1:00pm the next day. A full turn of the day on forty-five acres of off-grid land, with Heidi and Dr. Claudia, woven through rest, nature, fire, and nourishment. You stay in a private room in the solar villa.

Everything in In Person, held as one full turn of the day

Afternoon

  • Arrival and grounding on the land
  • The inward work: your money story and the blocks beneath it
  • Tea and a light snack, then somatic and energetic clearing with Dr. Claudia

Evening

  • Time alone in the grove, with journaling
  • Fire ceremony: what you are retiring, named and released
  • A healthy dinner, prepared for you, and space to process and journal

Morning

  • Breakfast, then the forward work
  • Your Money Manifesto and First Move
  • Declaration ceremony: your sacred intent, spoken before witnesses and grounded in a ceremony of Thanksgiving on the land
  • You step across the threshold, ordained
Forty-five acres of off-grid land in the foothillsThe land
The ceremony room in the solar villaThe solar villa
The grove at duskFire and grove
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What You Leave With

Five things. All of them yours.

Your Ordination

A written declaration, in your own words and refined together in the room, of what your wealth and your work are for. One page. The thing you can read in five years and still recognize as true.

What it enablesA single sentence to test every opportunity against. When something crosses your desk, you'll know within a minute whether it belongs in your life.

The Ordination Report

Delivered within five days of your final day: my written read on you. Your holdings mapped across four transition themes, where you're aligned, where you're exposed, and the two or three observations that matter most. Written to be handed directly to your financial advisor, your attorney, or your family.

What it enablesYour advisors finally working from your design instead of their defaults.

Your Money Manifesto

The fuller statement for the people your wealth touches: what this money believes, what it will and won't do, and what you want it to mean in the hands of the next generation. Built from your own language across both days.

What it enablesThe conversation most families never manage to have — the difference between heirs inheriting assets and heirs inheriting intention.

The First Move

We close day two by choosing one concrete action — and the deliverable is a one-page directive: the move, why this one first, the exact steps, and the date it happens by. Not a plan. A move.

What it enablesMomentum. The Ordination doesn't end as an experience you think about. It ends with something in motion within fourteen days.

Inner Clearing In Person and The Threshold

A transformational healing process for releasing limiting mental-emotional blocks out of your system.

Your Guides

Held by two guides.

Heidi Cuppari

Heidi Cuppari

Wealth & Legacy Architect

Twenty-five years at the intersection of capital, convening, and systems change. Heidi raised early funds for Acumen alongside Jacqueline Novogratz, co-managed a $400M+ ESG and impact portfolio at UBS Wealth Management, produced summits at the White House and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and co-created the Posner Center for International Development.

She holds the full arc of the Ordination: the inward day, the forward day, and the Declaration, Manifesto, and Report that follow. Her work with wealth holders and families begins with the question no advisor asks: what is this actually for?

AcumenUBSWhite HouseDavosBrown UniversityFounder, Dream Tank
Dr. Claudia Skye Zimmermann

Dr. Claudia Skye Zimmermann

Somatic & Energy Work

A Western and Chinese physician, shamanic and energy practitioner, and transformational coach, with more than thirty years in Western and holistic medicine. Her work is shaped as much by her own journey through profound life challenges as by her training.

In the In Person and Threshold formats she guides the subconscious, somatic and energetic clearing and the ceremonies: transforming limiting mental-emotional conditioning and the personal and ancestral wounds that so often sit beneath our relationship with money. Also available for private Inner Alchemy sessions.

Western & Chinese MedicineShamanic & Energy WorkTransformational Coaching30+ Years
Where This Work Lives

Begun online. Held by real ground.

The Ordination begins online — and the work continues in person, at Riverside in Boulder and on 45 acres of land in the Colorado foothills. In-person and Threshold Ordinations are held on the land outside Boulder, a small number each season. They begin with a conversation.

The Land · Lyons, Colorado

45 private acres in the foothills · seven bedrooms · where the immersive Ordination lives

The land — 45 acres in the Colorado foothills
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The retreat house
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Riverside · Downtown Boulder

A 110-year-old landmark on Boulder Creek — the only patio in Boulder built directly over the water

Riverside on Boulder Creek
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The patio over Boulder Creek
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Inside Riverside
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Reserve

Begin your Ordination.

Reserving secures your Ordination; we then find your two days together directly, typically within two to three weeks. If we can't find dates that work, your reservation is refunded in full. I take a small number of these per season because of the depth the work requires.

The Ordination · Online

$5,000
  • Two private days, three hours each, live online
  • Your Ordination — the written declaration
  • The Ordination Report — written for you and your advisors
  • Your Money Manifesto
  • The First Move — in motion within 14 days
  • Add a family member (+$1,800) — offered as an option at checkout: their own private day, plus a shared day where two threads become one direction
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You may also reserve with a $2,500 deposit, with the balance due before your second day. Email me and I'll send the deposit link directly.

In Person and The Threshold begin with a conversation. Book a call →

Questions first? Write me directly at heidi@heidicuppari.com or book a conversation.

The Empress Threshold, a small-group retreat for women, is in development. To hear first, email heidi@heidicuppari.com with "Empress Threshold" in the subject.

Where It Leads

The wealth follows the ordination.

The Ordination is complete on its own. If it points toward next steps, the work can continue in the way that fits: Manifesto in Motion, 90 days of putting your Money Manifesto into practice; Strategy Hours in flexible blocks; Opportunity Review before you commit to a deal or fund; or Strategic Advisory and Transition Offset design for the portfolio itself.

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