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The Legacy Party
A celebration, a creative exploration, and a permission slip to build the gift you give to your loved ones, your community, and yourself.
New here? Start with Legacy Is a Gift, the why behind this idea, then come back to explore your own.
What is it?
The Legacy Party is an experience for you and a small group of people to explore what legacy means to you, hear what you mean to the important people in your life, and leave having started your legacy project.
Think of it as part celebration, part creative exploration, and part permission slip. The experience moves through reflection, storytelling, and creative exercises like values mapping and legacy visualization, with authentic connection, conversation, and shared time throughout.
This is additive to estate planning, not a replacement for it. There are no documents to fill out and no checklists to complete. The Legacy Party is a creative act, an expression of your life, and, yes, it is fun. The clarity you find here is what makes those conversations with estate planners, lawyers, and financial advisors richer. It is the meaning behind the plan.
Your legacy project can be anything that represents you and the impact you want to have. It might look like a public art installation, a book of stories or recipes for your family, a collection of backpacks full of school supplies, or a community garden planted in a neighborhood that needs one. The experience helps you shape your project and take the first step. If you want help seeing it through, we can explore that together.
Who is it for?
Every life leaves a legacy, whether or not we plan for it. Being intentional about yours is how you make sure the gifts you want to give are the ones that get passed on. This is for anyone who wants to live with that kind of intention. It might be right for you if:
You feel an urge to make a change but aren't sure what it is yet.
You’ve lost someone and it has you thinking about your own life.
You've wondered what your legacy could be beyond a donation or a plaque, or assumed it was for someone else. Every life leaves one.
You want to honor someone you love and let them feel it.
Next gathering: a remote Legacy Party this November
This group is for anyone in a transition, whether that's a layoff, walking away from a job, a move, a milestone birthday, or something else that's asking you to pause.
Four Thursdays: November 5, 12, 19, and December 3
4 to 6pm Pacific (7 to 9pm Eastern), over video
A small group of up to six people
Some reflection between sessions, including asking a few people who know you well questions about you
A care package mailed to you before we begin
Optional one-on-ones with me during and after the group
You leave with a legacy project and the first steps toward it
$500, the founding rate for this first remote group
Sign up by October 26 so your care package arrives in time.
Can’t make these dates? Let me know you’re interested, and I’ll notify you when the next group opens.
Three ways to experience it
Most people arrive with one of three hopes in mind: centering someone, journeying alongside others, or gathering their people. Yours might be one of these, a blend, or something we shape together.
1. Center someone you love
Bring your family or close circle around one person and let the experience be about them. This is a chance to truly see and celebrate them, especially when they're at a threshold like a milestone birthday or a season of change (e.g., retiring, leaving a long-held home).
The people who love or admire them gather around, often across generations. Together we ask the questions no one thought to ask, draw out their memories through art, writing, and other creative forms, and ground them in the story of who they are. It is purposeful and fun, and the group leaves feeling more connected through creating something together, a keepsake or the start of a project, meant to be cherished for generations.
This path is shaped entirely around the guest, with sessions and activities tailored to them and their people. Their people can carry as much of the effort as needed, so the guest can be as hands-on or as held as they like.
Thinking of someone in your life? Let’s talk about honoring them
2. Journey alongside others
Join a small cohort, each designing your own legacy in parallel. Through creative and reflective exercises, you will map your past, imagine the legacy you want to leave, and find your starting point, all carried by the energy of the group moving through it together.
This path unfolds over a month in a handful of sessions, and can be remote, so where you live is not a barrier. You leave with your own clarity and, often, fellow travelers who understood the journey and became friends.
The next group starts November 5. See details
3. Gather your circle
Bring your people together, including your closest friends, a book club, a pickleball crew, or family across generations who would find this energizing. Through creative and reflective exercises, each of you looks back on your life and dreams up the legacy you want, working in parallel and holding space for one another along the way.
This path is for deepening bonds and celebrating each other out loud. You invite who is in the room, and the group is kept small enough for everyone to be seen, heard, and held.
Have a group in mind? Let’s talk
Every party can be adapted
Whichever way you choose to experience The Legacy Party, the shape adapts to your people, the collective energy, and the logistics.
In person: A single full day (8 hours), or a few two to four hour sessions, hosted in a home or a warm, intimate rented space.
Remote: A longer arc of four or five sessions (roughly 90 minutes to 2 hours each), spaced to give the group time to truly connect. Where you live is never a barrier.
Hybrid: A blend of the two, one or two virtual sessions to connect and reflect, with a gathered day to create and celebrate.
Group size: Usually 4 to 6 people, small enough for everyone to be seen, heard, and held. When the group gathers around one person, it can be larger. A one-on-one is possible for the right person, as a deliberate choice rather than the default, since so much of this is about being witnessed by others and not by me alone.
What stays constant no matter the format: the pre-experience interviews, the arc from reflection to creation, the care that holds the whole thing, and always something to share together, a meal when we gather in person, or a care package of materials and treats when we are apart.
What happens?
The experience is structured around three lenses: looking back, looking in, and looking forward, with creative exercises, real conversation and connection throughout.
Before we gather, you will interview a few people from your life and collect their memories, stories, and reflections on how you have impacted them. For a party centered on one person, a loved one does the same for them. Their words become a gift brought into the experience, held as closely or shared as openly as feels right.
The exercises are creative and reflective. You might map memories that shaped you, name your values and what you hope and fear for the road ahead, and picture the legacy you want to leave through a guided visualization. Along the way, the group holds space for each other's journey, whether everyone is creating in parallel or gathered around one person's story.
Why does this exist?
Because talking about legacy should not wait until the end of your life. It can be joyful, creative, and something you do with the people who matter most.
Because the people who love you have things to say about you that you have never heard. Why wait?
Because legacy is not only a document or a donation. It is the values you have lived, the people you have shaped, the things you have made possible.
Because being witnessed and witnessing others is a fundamental human need, and when a group is fully present to what matters, they feel an energy and connection that no individual could summon alone, what sociologists call collective effervescence.
The Legacy Party creates the conditions for clarity, connection, and being witnessed, then turns them into something you carry forward and act on.
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Facilitated by Beth Lingard, Death Doula and Product Strategist
Beth Lingard is a death doula and product strategist who has spent more than twenty years helping teams understand people deeply and turn what they learn into things that matter. The Legacy Party applies that same craft, careful listening, reflection, and creative exercises, to the most personal question of all: what do you want your life to mean?
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