Vision across generations.
Private memoirs and family expressions to heal, draw together, and translate family members to one another.
Centurion Brands Served:
Duty at Home.
A general who thinks their job is to keep soldiers safe has lost sight of the Army’s purpose. The job of the general, or the patriarch (or matriarch) is to prepare those who follow to engage in worthy battles.
Until that vision is clear, expressed, and embraced in a way that fulfills its inherent promise, dads are just dads. Becoming more is a centurion’s most profound call. We’re here to help you respond.
And if your have a patriarch (or matriarch) whose legacy is something you want to capture and honor to pass to future generations, start there.
Our goal is to help your family flourish in pursuit of a shared vision, and we have a laundry list of ways to serve you.A general who thinks their job is to keep soldiers safe has lost sight of the Army’s purpose. The job of the general, or the patriarch (or matriarch) is to prepare those who follow to engage in worthy battles.
We create private memoirs and other legacy expressions for prominent families. The names and work samples are highly confidential, but the objective is always to help people make better sense of their “first name experiences” within their “last name contexts.”
This work requires a prayerful focus on identity beyond the trappings (and traps) of success.
We Build What Your Family Needs. Here are Some Options.
Memoirs
Our deliverables are verbatim stories without editorial from us. We bring some structure and we help define key metaphors with the person sharing their story (as well as wisdom from interviewing 2,000 executives over the years), but the focus is on capturing exactly the story and blessing the person sharing is ready and willing to offer.
Proverbs
Family proverb collections are living documents. They look like a headline – the proverb – with a few paragraphs unpacking it. We help you define the ideas that shape your family’s perspective and then we employ copywriting skills to create the proverbs. The big ideas endure, but in healthy families, the nuances change over time.
Annual Report
Imagine a shelf full of hard cover books or magazines, produced one per year. Inside, you find the stories of family members, the family business, philanthropic endeavors, finances, adventures, dreams, stories, poems, prayers, and everything that keeps a family story going, and family members fresh in your heart.
Life Plan
For individuals or couples as they start, or restart, their lives. We explore options and help define a compelling vision that translates into a plan. We most commonly do this work with first-born children who need help differentiating themselves from high-performance families. Lots of reading, talking, writing, and prayer exploration together.
Family Primer
Intended for couples during their engagement, the primer is a “welcome to the family” gift that introduces names, inside jokes, traditions, and which grains of salt are most useful for learning to love the family. Ideally, both families engage in the work, and bonds between the family are formed and celebrated at the wedding.
Family Meetings
We focus on two types of family meetings. One is to deliver what’s been created so the items don’t just get slid across the table or fall to normal family dynamics. The second is a working meeting, where sacred work is explained, treated as sacred, and where people are invited to go to deeper places – with help – than their default.
Crafted Touches
You have something important to say, a blessing to offer, or an opportunity to connect in new ways with a family member. We can help you think through and communicate what you have to say, especially when you’re dealing with highly volatile or secret stories. We can also help you make the most of vacations together.
Gifts and Symbols
The hard part about doing verbatim memoirs is sometimes there are things the family desperately needs to hear, but never has. So we started creating various gifts (children’s books, branding irons, custom art, etc) to inject blessings that were lacking. We can start there with your family if you have specific people or ideas in mind.
NOW COMES SUBSTANCE
Are you a fit for Centurion Response? This video offers a quick perspective on our “sweet spot” client, based on what you’ve figured out or where you know you’re headed.
