Legacy & Story Work: Living Legacy
What you leave is more than things.
Value Mapping
Name what has mattered, and what you want to carry forward.
Our lives are shaped by values we inherit, discover, question, and choose. Value mapping helps you identify the principles, relationships, experiences, traditions, and beliefs that have guided your life—and consider which of them you hope will continue beyond you.
This work can stand on its own or become the foundation for an ethical will, life story, family conversation, or larger legacy project.
Ethical Will
Leave more than instructions. Leave something of yourself.
An ethical will is a personal expression of the values, beliefs, experiences, hopes, and lessons you want to pass forward. Unlike a legal will, it does not distribute property or give legal instructions. It gives the people you love something different: your voice, in your own words.
We help you reflect on what you want to say and shape it into something that feels true to you—whether that becomes a letter, a collection of reflections, a recorded message, or another form entirely.
Legacy Projects
Turn memory, meaning, and story into something that can be carried forward.
Sometimes a legacy is best preserved through something tangible. A legacy project brings together stories, photographs, belongings, traditions, letters, recordings, or other meaningful materials and gives them shape.
Projects may be created for yourself, your family, or in remembrance of someone who has died. They might become a memory book, family archive, collection of letters, recorded history, art exhibition, keepsake project, or something entirely your own.
There is no required format. We begin with what matters and build from there.
Life Story Documentation
Preserve the stories only you can tell.
A life is more than a timeline of dates and events. It is made of people, turning points, ordinary moments, hard-won lessons, family stories, places, traditions, humor, loss, and love.
We help you gather and organize those pieces into a form that can be preserved and shared. That may mean written stories, recorded conversations, photographs and documents with context, a personal history, or a collection created for the people who come after you.
You do not have to tell everything. You decide what belongs in the story.
Tell your story, on your terms.
Preserve what is most important.
*A note about cost
Legacy and story work is generally billed at $250/hour. Support may be brief, ongoing, or shaped around a specific story, project, conversation, archive, ritual, or season of reflection. Larger projects may be structured in phases. You can review more detailed pricing and cost information here.