AGE-ING To SAGE-ING™
and FAMILIES MATTER™ SERVICES
training and workshops
Richard Kessler, M.Ed.

Age-ing To Sage-ing™ - An extraordinary, holistic program. Conscious aging workshops for older adults, their families, and professionals working with elders. Based on the book, “From Aging-to-Sageing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older”, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

Families Matter™ services and training. “Facilitated Family Meetings” or “Do-it-yourself” workshops for families facing life-changing decisions including: needs of elderly family members, caregiving and daily tasks, family relationships, housing and transportation; medical and health needs; family businesses; grandparents raising grandkids.

“We can help you create plans for the future”

AUDIOPORTRAIT
Preserving life stories in your own voice...
Thor Anderson, MA, Association of Personal Historians Member

• We organize your stories
• We record in your home
• We craft your CD memoir

We use workbook exercises to gather story ideas from participants and family members, then guide the participants through the taped discussions in their homes. We edit and arrange the stories into logical sequence, adding music and Narration as necessary. The finished CD artwork contains program listings and photographs.

between me and you ™ A Few Things I've Been Meaning To Ask
Sand Dune Publishing Co.
Winston Simmonds, Jr.

The perfect legacy keepsake--a unique and personal journal containing handwritten responses to those questions you've been meaning to ask:
"When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
"What are your favorite memories of your mother? Of your father?"
"What are your memories of the day I was born?"
Give one to Mom or Dad or get one for yourself or as a gift.
Between Me and You MOM
Between Me and You DAD
Between Me and You GRANDMA
Between Me and You HONEY
Between Me and You GIRL

GRANDKIDSANDME® Inc.
and THE GRANDKIDSANDME FOUNDATION "
"Bringing Generations Together®"
Donald E. Schmitz

Grandkidsandme® and The Grandkidsandme Foundation's support the family by creating opportunities that promote relationships between grandparents, parents and grandchildren.

Grandkidsandme offers three exciting programs:

1. Grandkidsandme Grandparent Camps: Grandparent Camps provide an opportunity for grandparents to get together with their grandchildren. Camp activities include craft making, canoeing, hiking, music, dancing or telling stories around the campfire. All Grandkidsandme Camps are held on weekends and are designed to work around busy schedules.

2. Grandkid Days®: Grandkid Days are organized fun adventures specifically designed for grandparents and their grandchildren. These monthly intergenerational activities in and around the Minneapolis/St Paul area provide a planned program and an escape for you and your grandchild.

3. Writing and Speaking: Don is available to speak on a variety of parenting and Grandparenting topics. Don first book entitled, "The New Face of Grandparenting…Why Parents Need Their Parents" will be available in July on our web site. He is also the author of a monthly electronic newsletter called "The Gathering."

HANK MATTIMORE, MA
Instructor, Santa Rosa Community College
Author and Newspaper Columnist

Hank Mattimore, a former Catholic priest and spiritual director, conducts workshops on memoir writing and creating your own spiritual/ethical will. He will also work one on one with people who do not feel confident in doing their own ethical will. Hank sees the rising popularity of ethical will as a manifestation of a growing sense of the spiritual in our country and in the world.

Inlighten Coaching & Consulting
Linda Haller
Licensed Third Age Coach, Center for Third Age Leadership

IRIS WAGNER
Video Biographer, Ethical Will Producer
Member - Association of Personal Historians
Founder and Executive Producer, Memoirs Productions

Memoirs Productions produces video biographies, ethical wills and spiritual-ethical wills on video and DVD as heirlooms for future generations. Productions are broadcast-quality similar to A&E Biography™, incorporating archival photos, memorabilia, video footage, awards and narrated by the individuals themselves. When creating this lasting legacy, our clients (family foundations, families, corporations) find the experience extremely rewarding and resulting production is highly appreciated.

JANIE LYNN TEXTILES… QUILTING YOUR LEGACY
Janie York, Founder

Tell your story in a new way! I’ll print your photos, stories and more onto fabric and create a quilt or wall hanging that is as unique as your story. Here are just a few examples of items that could be incorporated into your quilt:

• Business, personal or organizational mission statements
• Ethical wills
• Family stories
• Creative writings
• Photos
• Historic documents such as birth certificates, diplomas and wedding vows
• Memorabilia such as button collections, eyeglasses and jewelry
• Keepsake clothing from a much loved family member or friend

I will speak and present workshops for organizations and conferences

• Quilting Your Legacy workshops for all ages and abilities
• Women’s Voices - Lecture and Quilt Exhibit
• Artist in Residence for childrens and family camps/conferences
• Lectures and workshops customized to meet your needs

JOELLA WERLIN
Founder, FAMILORE: Family Records & Recollections (1995)

• Personal, Professional and Family Business Histories
• Legacy Planning*
• Last Thoughts and Wishes documents
• Workshops

Member: Association of Personal Historians; Oral History Association; Compassion in Dying, Oregon

*“Legacy Planning” is the spiritual dimension of estate planning, taking steps to ensure, by the end of your life’s journey, that your values and heritage will be preserved for future generation” (Familore definition)
Background: Seventeen years as a TV public affairs manager/ producer, degrees in history and social anthropology, service on civic and cultural boards, and training in oral history methods.

KATHLEEN M. REHL, Ph.D., CFP®
Founding principal of Rehl Financial Advisors: a fee-only financial planning firm "Helping you enjoy a better life, richer in all respects"

Kathleen assists individual clients to participate in a "life-centered" approach to holistic financial planning – including legacy planning that involves more than just passing on your "stuff." She encourages clients and others to create an ethical will along with their traditional legal documents.

An ethical will can be a wonderful gift that family and friends may cherish for many years. It's a great supplement to one's legal will or trust. Kathleen also leads "Preserve Memories and Share the ‘Voice of Your Heart’ through an Ethical Will" workshops sponsored by congregations and various groups.

KENNETH B. WHEELER, J.D. LL.M. Tax
Family Vision –The Enduring Legacy

Vision, defined as "foresight" or "beginning with the end in mind", is important to the accomplishment of one's life goals as well as to the long-term success of a business enterprise. A shared family vision is equally important to the trust and communication among family members needed to preserve family wealth.

Kenneth B. Wheeler, J.D. LL.M. Tax, has over 30 years experience as a tax and estate-planning lawyer. He is a professional speaker and consultant to families on the need for a Family Vision in inter-generational wealth-transfer planning.

LEONARD LANG, Ph.D.
Founder of Beard Avenue

Leonard is a teacher and lifework coach, passionate about showing people how to creatively discover, express, and fully live their life purpose--at all stages of life. He has led lifework programs at colleges and as a keynoter for professional conferences. He has offered his creative Whole-Life Journaling™ courses for hospital nursing staffs, for cancer patients and their families through the Minnesota Oncology/Hematology Foundation, and for the general public for 5 years at The Loft — the nation's largest literary center. Reaching out to people of different faiths, he has led spiritual journaling and memoir writing programs at dozens of religious institutions.

The founder of Beard Avenue, Leonard offers a complete self-coaching program in his book, Guide to Lifework: Working with Integrity and Heart. He also reviewed books for five years on Minnesota Public Radio and was senior editor of Home Words, a book of creative works by people who were homeless.

Coaching and Courses in

• Lifework
• Purpose-driven retirement
• Whole-Life Journaling™
• Spiritual memoir writing
• Finding group purpose

Products

• Guide to Lifework: Working with Integrity and Heart (www.beardavenue.com)
• LifePath Guided Meditations (audio CD)

LIBBY ATWATER
Choose Your Words

Ever since I was a child, I've loved hearing people's stories. Although each tale is unique, all share common themes and experiences.

As a journalist and teacher, I've been privileged to hear the stories of many interesting individuals through the years. Some were famous, but most were ordinary people with extraordinary tales. Each assignment presented a challenge-to tell the story accurately while seeing beyond the obvious and capturing the person's essence.

As a personal historian, I help others tell their tales and preserve them for posterity through personal and family history books, which I write and/or edit; oral histories; ethical wills; corporate legacy statements; and life writing classes.

I am happy to speak to groups and organizations who would like to learn more about preserving legacies and how my services can help them.

LINDA BLACHMAN, MPH, MA

Legacy Planning/Preparing Ethical Wills (LifeLetters). Audiorecording Personal and Professional Histories Life Review for Life Transitions: For Values Clarification, Life Planning and Personal Renewal

For the past decade I have helped individuals of different ages, faiths, and states of health record personal histories, spiritual autobiographies, and ethical wills (LifeLetters) as a healing process for themselves and as precious gifts for children, family, and community. I offer legacy writing workshops, one-on-one guided autobiography, project consultation, and editing services. I am particularly skilled in using the life review process to revise priorities and facilitate the renewal of meaning and purpose.

Background and Training:

Advanced degrees in Counseling and in Public Health. Trained in oral history. Twenty–five years experience in interviewing, writing, and editing. Founder and Director, Mothers' Living Stories Project, helping mothers with cancer record life stories and legacies for their children. Author, Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer (Seal Press, 2006). Member, National Association of Personal Historians, Ethical Wills Facilitators' Network.

Linda J. Lipinski
Creator of A Legacy To Remember®

Linda, who has a B.S. in Business Administration and is a Certified Professional Manager, started her own company in 1999. Her mission is to encourage and assist individuals to recognize the importance of sharing their lives, and to write about what they have learned on their journey. She has discovered that many individuals want to write a "love letter" as a gift from their spirit, but feel uncertain as to what is appropriate. A Legacy To Remember, which has been sold internationally, was created for the purpose of documenting one’s life in a personal way. She strives to promote the belief that the realization of gifts and blessings outside of the material world is what life is about. Linda has conducted workshops, in addition to providing individual assistance, for those who desire to create a written legacy or ethical will.

PAT SAMPLES, MA, MFA
Helping people experience the gift that life is and the gift that they are until their last breath.

Pat helps people explore and enrich their internal legacies through reflection, writing, movement, and dramatic play. She speaks nationally, writes, and teaches on conscious aging, re-scripting one’s personal mythology, and the body as a creative resource, among other topics. She is also a writing coach and editor, especially interested in helping individuals who want to leave a professional legacy in writing. Pat is the author of numerous books, including:

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• Daily Comforts for Caregivers
• Self-Care for Caregivers: A Twelve Step Approach
• Body Odyssey: Lessons from the Bones and Belly

PATSY KUENTZ
Owner, Recollections - A Portrait of a Life
Member, Association of Personal Historians

Using Interviews, family history, and personal photos, we create high quality, hardbound heirloom books for clients and their families to enjoy for generations to come. We assist our clients in incorporating into the books their hopes and dreams for their family as well as the wisdom they've acquired through life experiences.

PAULA A. CALABRESE, Ph.D.
Cardinal Consulting Group
Connecting people, resources and results

The Mission of Cardinal Consulting Group is connecting people and performance; people with their vision and values; their lifework with their life worth by articulating clients' plans, goals, objectives, needs and interests into words and actions that add meaning to their work and create significance in their lives.

STEPHEN M BERRY

Stephen is a teacher, counselor, hospice volunteer, speaker and writer. He works with individuals and families to help strengthen relationships. Stephen encourages and helps people craft their own Ethical Will. The process clarifies and preserves personal values for today and generations to come.

Stephen is available to lead workshops, teach classes, speak before groups and work with individuals.

Everyone’s life has values worth passing on.

SUSAN TURNBULL
YOUR ETHICAL WILL

I am a former journalist and bring my skills of careful questioning, perceptive listening and sensitive writing to the process of creating ethical wills for clients who would prefer to "talk through" their thoughts rather than face the tasks of writing and editing themselves. In a series of taped conversations, clients respond to a tailored set of open ended questions. I then draft a document accurately reflecting content and tone. In addition to providing this individualized service I present workshops and speak to a wide variety of audiences.

THOMAS H. McMILLEN, Esq.

I actively assist and encourage clients to write ethical wills as part of my estate planning practice.

Todd O. Peterson, M.S.
Lasting Legacies
Keeping your values, stories, and wisdom alive for future generations.

Every human life is a rich source of stories, lessons learned, and wisdom that is worth sharing with others. Each of us creates a personal legacy of the life we have lived.

Lasting Legacies is an advisory service which helps you answer:

• What personal legacy are you leaving to future generations of your family and to your community?
• What values are you passing on to your loved ones?
• In your daily life, what matters most to you?
• What family stories do you want to be remembered?
• What do you want your loved ones to know about the life you have lived?

We help you create a legacy of your lifetime in the form of an ethical will or personal legacy letter to pass on to future generations of your family.

Classes and workshops are offered as well as individual guidance by phone and e-mail. Please contact Todd for more information on completing and sharing your own "gift of a lifetime" with your loved ones.

The Wisdom Box...A Legacy of Love

The Wisdom Box is a treasure box filled with love, joy, wisdom, and life lessons to be passed on from one generation to next. It can be used as a communication tool, to learn about and share your family history; to open up communication between generations; and to leave a legacy which reflects your personal values.

The Starter Kit includes a 7.5" by 9.5" by 3" box, with a brass latch for easy closure, a perfect-bound, 110 page journal, four note cards, and an instruction booklet with suggestions on what to include in it. You get to choose how you want to decorate the outside...decoupage, stickers, photos, etc.

For the creator of the box, it's a way of sharing and validating your life, and for the receiver, it's a gift of love.

Video Ethical Will™
"Preserve your Legacy into the Gift of a Lifetime"

What is a Video Ethical Will™?
A Video Ethical Will allows you to deliver both a spoken and visual message. Creating a Video Ethical Will, doesn't require special talent, but rather a generosity of the spirit and a willingness to share.

How do I begin?
You will receive a list of questions to help guide you. Together with the videographer/interviewer* you will prepare an outline to include everything that is important to you.

• share your values, hopes and dreams
• impart your blessings
• express amends and gratitude

What is included?
Depending on the package selected, the final product will include:

• background music
• chapter markers
• photo montage with transitions and titles-up to 120 photos
• labeled DVDs and labeled DVD cases

*Midge Bongard Frailich has a BA in Human Services/Social Gerontology from Metropolitan State University. Midge has over 15 years experience in creating and producing Life-Story legacies and photo montages for special occasions such as, anniversaries, special birthdays and recognition events. She is known for her professionalism, sensitivity and creativity.