The Legacy Project Experiences
The Legacy Project celebrates families, communities, and individuals. Through myriad activities, you will deepen your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care for, yourself, the Earth and her other inhabitants, and the Mystery that binds us all.
The Legacy Project celebrates families, communities, and individuals. Through myriad activities, you will deepen your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care for, yourself, the Earth and her other inhabitants, and the Mystery that binds us all.
Your stories contain treasures of unimaginable wealth.
Your stories contain treasures of unimaginable wealth.
Through creative activities and storytelling opportunities, we will...
Through creative activities and storytelling opportunities, we will...
Explore individual and collective stories
Explore individual and collective stories
Uncover insights and the gifts they carry
Uncover insights and the gifts they carry
Heal hurts
Heal hurts
Express your stories through words, images, recordings, and actions
Express your stories through words, images, recordings, and actions
Archive them for yourselves, those you love, and the ones you will someday love
Archive them for yourselves, those you love, and the ones you will someday love
Create new memories and stories
Create new memories and stories
The original set of "Not-So-Trivial Matters: The Tom McLaughlin, Sr." edition, created in 1995
We'll begin constructing...
We'll begin constructing...
a library of stories,
a library of stories,
a gallery of creativity,
a gallery of creativity,
an archive of memories
an archive of memories
that can continue growing with you.
that can continue growing with you.
The Legacy Project is...
The Legacy Project is...
an adventure and process of discovery
an adventure and process of discovery
You’ll laugh and wonder and grow. Some memories and the gifts they contain may be challenging to revisit. You can begin composting those difficult memories and lessons to help you grow more beauty and love.
You’ll laugh and wonder and grow. Some memories and the gifts they contain may be challenging to revisit. You can begin composting those difficult memories and lessons to help you grow more beauty and love.
Your focus...
Your focus...
We can approach our time together with a general focus or a specific one. For instance, you may want to explore stories in the realms of:
We can approach our time together with a general focus or a specific one. For instance, you may want to explore stories in the realms of:
- Life philosophy & Wisdom
- Heroes & Inspirational Figures
- Impactful Moments
- Relationships: friendships, romance, other
- Challenges
- Travel & places we love
- Responses to Historical Events
- Spirituality & Faith
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging
- Connection to Places We Live
- What we do for Play & Fun
- Childhood
- Food
- Animal Friends
- Work & Career
- Mission and Vision
- Play
- Service & Volunteering
- Identity
- Education
- Values
- Favorites
- Home life
- Ancestors
- Other categories of inquiry you want to dive into
Whatever focuses you choose, we'll explore them through the metaphor of the 4 seasons cycle:
Whatever focuses you choose, we'll explore them through the metaphor of the 4 seasons cycle:
- Spring: new beginnings and rebirth
- Summer: high energy and growth
- Fall: harvesting the fruits of our life
- Winter: loss and hibernation
- Spring Again: life and love win - spring always follows winter
Video retrospective of a Legacy Project Experience
Unpacking your personal stories in a quest for:
Unpacking your personal stories in a quest for:
- healing
- greater self-awareness
- treasures to serve your communities
There is so much more to who we are than what we currently know.
There is so much more to who we are than what we currently know.
Our perceptions of ourselves are always incomplete, to some degree, and sometimes inaccurate.
Our perceptions of ourselves are always incomplete, to some degree, and sometimes inaccurate.
I wonder: what else is true about me that I have not yet discovered?
I wonder: what else is true about me that I have not yet discovered?
What is true about you that you don't yet know?
What is true about you that you don't yet know?
May your heart be full....
May your heart be full....
