Six Months to Live®

A Peer-Based Program to Take Stock of Your Life

Ever Notice How Authentic a Person Gets After a Heart Attack?

After a heart attack, a person:

• Gets much more clarity on what's truly important -- versus what's just the current crises.
• Radically changes health habits to stay alive.
• Spends more time with loved ones.
• Finds a more meaningful career and job.
• Is much more present and engaged with themselves and others.

Imagine You Had Six Months to Live -- What Would You Do?

Do you really have to wait for a crisis before becoming more authentic in your life? No!

The Six Months to Live(sm) program provides guidelines and tools to address the most important considerations in keeping an authentic and meaningful life. The program includes you in a peer group in which members share support, advice, useful questions and accountabilities to get clear on current priorities, take actions to address each of them -- and learn at the same time.

In the program, members pretend that they've been told that they have just six months to live. Then they use the program's tools and the members of their support group to consider extremely important questions about their lives -- and to take relevant and realistic actions to address their answers to those questions.

What Are the Outcomes from Participating in This Program?

1. Address the most important questions in your life.
2. Gain coaching, advice and materials from peers to address those questions.
3. Workbook with guidelines and tools to address those questions.
4. Close and confidential network of peers to share coaching, materials, learning and accountabilities.
5. Learn state-of-the-art, core peer-coaching process and materials.
6. More preparation for your own death -- and to make more meaningful the deaths of others.
7. Overall - a more authentic and, thus, more meaningful life.

What Are the Topics in the Program?

Meeting #1 -- Program Setup

• Overview of Your Workbook, Journal and Tools for Coaching
• Meeting Your Peer Group Members and Learning the Group Process

Meeting #2 -- Taking Inventory of Your Life

• What Were Your Favorite Memories? Activities?
• What Would You Have Done With More Time?

Meeting #3 -- Thanking Loved Ones

• What Are You Most Thankful For?
• Who Would You Say Good-bye to and How?

Meeting #4 -- Making Amends

• Who Might You Have Wronged?
• How Would You Make Amends to Them?

Meeting #5 -- Writing Your Obituary and Epitaph

• What Do You Want Others to Know About You?
• What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?

Meeting #6 -- You've Been Saved - You'll Live After All!

• What Have You Learned About Yourself, Others, Your World?
• How Will You Remain Authentic into the Future?

What Does the Program Look Like?

• Six facilitated group meetings approximately 3-4 weeks apart
• Each meeting approximately 2.5-3.0 hours long
• 5 members per group
• For now, members are within convenient driving distance to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota
• Location and timing of the meetings are determined by the members
• Members do brief pre-reading and worksheets before each meeting
• Each of the six meetings addresses certain questions (listed above)
• In each meeting, each member is coached to clarify his/her priorities and next actions
• Each member is supported to take actions between meetings
• All members learn from the coaching in meetings and from reflections on their actions

Who's Facilitating This Program?

Meetings will be facilitated by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD. He had the privilege of working with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in the mid '70s when she was teaching others about her findings from her research -- research that later was published in her seminal book On Death and Dying. Carter's PhD studies and research were on existentialism, a school of thought that asserts that if a person does not live an authentic life, then he/she falls into anxiety, boredom and despair.

The research from his dissertation helped to produce a peer coaching group process in which members guide and support each other to act authentically about current problems or exciting goals. In the groups, each member takes actions on current priorities and learns at the same time. The peer coaching process is used by leading-edge companies around the world for prompt and low-cost results in personal, professional and organizational development. Carter has facilitated 100s of groups over the past 15 years. Get more information about our coaching.

What Is the Cost to Participate in the Program?

The program is $295 per person for the entire program, including for the workbook and materials about end-of-life questions and about peer coaching, and for the highly focused 12-15 hours of coaching.

Where Can I Get More Information or Sign Up?

Contact Carter at carter@authenticityconsulting.com or by calling 763-971-8890.