Start the Conversation With Your Parents: A Facilitated Zoom Discussion About Estate Plans & End-of-Life Tasks

Starting a conversation with your parents about their estate and end-of-life plans can be challenging, but it's one of the most crucial discussions you can have. Our "Start the Conversation With Your Parents" facilitation service is here to make this process easier.

Through a 45-minute Zoom session, an experienced facilitator will guide the conversation with your parents, ensuring that the most important aspects of estate planning and end-of-life task preparation are covered.

By the end of the session, you’ll have answers to some of the most critical estate planning and end-of-life questions, giving you valuable insights into the current status of your parents' plans. You’ll also receive worksheets to help you stay on the right path moving forward.

While this service won’t create a will, trust, or advance directives, it will provide you with the information you need and help identify areas that require further focus.

And, yes, you can schedule this for yourself.

What You’ll Get:

• Personalized Facilitation: A 45-minute one-on-one Zoom call with a professional facilitator who will guide the conversation with your parents and explain that you are interested in speaking with them about their estate and end-of-life plans.
• Estate Summary Worksheet: A copy of our Estate Summary Worksheet, filled out with the essential non-financial aspects of estate planning.
• Final Resting Place Instructions Worksheet: A copy of our Final Resting Place Instructions Worksheet, outlining detailed instructions for your final resting place.
• Customized Guidance: Insights and suggestions based on your specific family dynamics, ensuring the conversation is productive and respectful.
• Follow-Up Resources: After the session, you'll receive additional resources to continue the conversation and further organize your family's estate planning needs.

Why Choose This Service?

• Break the Ice: Our facilitation makes it easier to start what can often be a tough conversation, breaking the ice with sensitivity and care.
• Structured Approach: We provide a clear, step-by-step framework to guide the discussion, helping you cover the most important topics without feeling overwhelmed. You can join the conversation, or you can set it up for your parents and we'll take it from there. Conversations are recorded at the request of the participants.
• Focus on What Matters: By excluding financial and income details, the conversation stays focused on the values, wishes, and practical details that truly matter to your family.

Who Should Use This Service?

• Adult Children: If you want to start a conversation with your parents but don't know how to approach it, this service is for you.
• Parents: For parents who are ready to share their wishes with their children but want help starting the conversation.

How It Works:

1. Book Your Session: Place your order and we'll send you a form where you can supply some basic talking points for the session and schedule the 45-minute facilitated conversation on Zoom. You can join with your parents, or it can be just your parents. 
2. Facilitated Conversation: During the session, our facilitator will guide the discussion, and complete the first section of Buried in Work's estate summary worksheet and provide a copy of the Final Resting Place Instruction sheet.
3. Post-Session Follow-Up: After the session, you'll receive a summary of the discussion, along with a copy of the Estate Summary Worksheet.