This blog is all about estate planning, from basic to highly advanced. Over the years, I’ve included in almost every posting planning issues that extend way beyond just designing and drafting estate documents.
Stories and story telling concepts are directly related to well thought out, successful estate plans; stories and story telling extend to non monetary legacy and dynasty relationships between people of different generations. I have long emphasized the power and necessity of story in estate planning.
Just this month, I received my international certification as a Time To Think Facilitator Consultant. What does that mean for me and even for you?
About six years ago, I became fascinated by the Thinking Environment as taught by Nancy Kline, founder, president and CEO of Time to Think, Inc. You’ve seen my reference to her books at the bottom of this blog. I have become a devoted student of the concepts and applications.
One can’t successfully capture the stories of another without understanding how to listen, how not to guide, what questions to ask to gain real insight and how to allow one to tell her own stories without interruption or direction.
So, mastering the ten components of the Thinking Environment and its nine applications provides the pathway to successfully eliciting and hearing stories and then capturing the values of people. That will lead to effective estate plans –ones that work.
This site will tell you much more in a ten minute visit than this blog article can. Please check it out. http://www.timetothink.com/us/
The Nine Applications of the Thinking Environment far exceed just the one on one, and one on two, interview as I’ve described in earlier postings. My studies have taught me the fine art of facilitating meetings, small and large, almost regardless of the individual agendas and personalities of the participants.
How many business or church meetings have we attended where the leader had an agenda with solutions to be dictated regardless of others' thoughts? An hour or more later, after much bickering and mud chucking, angry people leave the meeting swearing they will find a way to never attend another. There are a lot of schools out there teaching how to hold meetings without too much mud being cast at one another; only the Thinking Environment, to my knowledge, teaches how to hold meetings that result in happy, contented people who have spent the hour intentionally and with honor toward one another, yet solving seemingly impossible issues in a much shorter time.
The difference is whether we just get through the meeting alive or whether we get the very best, the very deepest, individual thinking of each person contributing.
The Thinking Environment is not a list of “how-to” or “how not to.” The Thinking Environment is really “a way of being in the world.”
My Certification means that I can now teach to groups and to individuals. It is my choice to do it for monetary compensation or for free and as an outreach to my community.
Everyone I’ve shared this with in a classroom setting or in practical demonstration, has been taken with the wonder and simplicity of it all and how completely successful it is. Contact me to learn more.
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