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My family doesn't seem ready. Will this work?
Do we have to tell our children how much we have?
What makes family gatherings work?
What happens at a family gathering?
Does my entire family have to be there?
How much does it cost?
Other question not listed here....
Do we have to tell our children how much we have?
What makes family gatherings work?
What happens at a family gathering?
Does my entire family have to be there?
How much does it cost?
Other question not listed here....
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No. We have found that, in most families, there is work to be done before revealing this kind of information. Clarifying family values, opening communication, and developing accountabilities all need to be in place before this kind of disclosure is truly useful.
While it is ideal to have your entire family present, sometimes that is not possible. We find that if a child misses the first family gathering, they rarely miss a second. Too much important work is done in these gatherings and the children quickly come to recognize their importance.
We don’t do family meetings with agendas that we march through. We create constructive family experiences that we call family gatherings. These experiences have highly interactive programming designed to build skill sets that are also focused on clear and defined objectives. We help families change, in real time, by engaging in conversations that matter.
The short answer is “Way too much.” While we cannot give an exact price, we facilitate family gathering on a fixed fee basis. The fee is primarily dependent on how much preparation needs to be done and the length of the meeting itself. We use a rate of $250 per hour in developing our quotes for our direct work with the family and then factor in such things as travel time and the cost of assessments. Typically family gatherings come in at between $9,000 and $15,000
No two family gatherings are the same. We start with key objectives of the family leader and then design a family experience that will unlock the potential to reach that objective. Often these gatherings will use the objective as a way to explore such things as family values, communication styles, issues of trust and so on. In the process, families learn skills and gain tools that help them not only discuss the issue at hand, but equip them to address the issues that will arise later. Well designed family gatherings bring families together and equip them to unlock current and future possibilities for themselves.
Our first principle is that the family gathering has to be constructive. We design family meetings for where your family is at. Through careful assessment done in interviews and inventories we come to understand the particular dynamics of your family and design a constructive family gathering that will work for them. We use such things as exercises, education, games, and especially conversational facilitation that will take your family from wherever it is “at” into the next level. If we don’t believe that we can create this kind of a constructive gathering for your family, we will tell you directly.
