✨ Become a Certified Facilitator of

The Story We Leave™

Do you feel called to help others share their stories, celebrate their lives, and find meaning in moments of transition?

TSWL Facilitators never write someone’s story for them.
They guide, listen, and support.
They don’t need to be an author or editor — only a compassionate companion.

THE STORY WE LEAVE™

WHY CERTIFICATION MATTERS

Discover the difference between simply “helping someone write”
and becoming a Certified Legacy Facilitator.

🌿 This Isn’t Writing Support — It’s Emotional Safety

Anyone can hand someone a journal,
but guiding a person through their memories — especially seniors, caregivers, hospice families, or those facing loss — requires training, sensitivity, and structure.

Certified facilitators learn how to:

• create emotional safety and trust

• support memories that bring tears, regret, or grief

• guide seniors and dementia clients with compassion

• avoid unintentional emotional harm

• hold space without judgment, pressure, or correction

• follow trauma-informed, ethics-based boundaries

This is not about grammar or storytelling.
It’s about care, connection, and safe guidance.

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🌙 Why Training Makes All the Difference

Without training, a helper may unintentionally…

• trigger painful memories

• overwhelm a senior or hospice client

• mishandle a story involving trauma

• rush emotional moments

• correct or interrupt the storyteller

• freeze when the person becomes emotional

• say the wrong thing at a vulnerable time

• skip important steps that protect the storyteller

A journal alone cannot protect someone emotionally.

 

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✨ Why Prompts & Guidance Matter

Most people freeze when staring at a blank page.
Guided prompts make remembering easy, gentle, and natural —
especially when supported by someone trained to listen, witness, and guide.

Prompts + Trained Support = A story safely told.

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💜 A Certified Legacy Facilitator Offers What a Journal Alone Cannot

• emotional safety

• guided memory recall

• compassionate witnessing

• structured session flow

• legacy ethics

• trauma-aware support

• meaningful completion

TSWL™ Certification Includes:

• Full training course + facilitator handbook

• Licensed use of TSWL™ journals and materials

• Session guides, scripts, and client forms

• Business launch support + certification listing

• Certification

• PLUS, OVER ONE HUNDRED Free files & GROWING, including the journal for printing

 

This work is sacred.
It deserves training.
It deserves skill.
It deserves certification.

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THE STORY WE LEAVE™

Legacy Facilitator Certification

To support the vital work of hospice teams, The Story We Leave™ offers one free Facilitator Certification to each hospice organization.

This allows one staff member, volunteer coordinator, or bereavement counselor to become a certified Legacy Story Facilitator — bringing comfort, connection, and storytelling to patients and families when it matters most.

Our mission is to make legacy storytelling accessible to every hospice program, one story at a time.

Hospice directors or volunteer coordinators can request their complimentary certification by contacting us directly:
📩info@thestoryweleave.com

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🧭 Why Become a Certified Legacy Facilitator?

Because stories matter—and you can be the one to help someone tell theirs.

This certification empowers you to:

• Lead meaningful workshops, family circles, or private sessions

• Offer memory-keeping products and guided journals as part of your services

• Support grieving families, hospice patients, or individuals wanting to reflect while living

• Add an emotionally rich, purposeful dimension to your work

Where Can You Facilitate? 

Anywhere people are gathered to remember, reflect, or prepare:

Senior centers, grief groups, or end-of-life celebrations

Retreats, spiritual circles, or wellness events

Schools, therapy offices, hospitals, or right in someone’s living room

Online, in-person, or hybrid settings

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 Who Is This For?

Perfect for:

Coaches and counselors

Hospice and palliative care professionals

Therapists, death doulas, and chaplains

Educators, retreat leaders, and life coaches

Anyone with a heart for helping others feel seen, heard, and remembered

Because every story deserves You’ll receive a full access to the digital toolkit (over 100 downloads & growing)

including session prompts, scripts, tips,

journal pages including discounted prices on published journals,

marketing materials, client templates and

an expanding series of 30+ add-on topics, complete with 40 prompts each.

Certificate of Completion 

 Plus, ongoing updates when available.

Start today and help others tell the story they want to leave behind.

 

It's a Legacy Movement That Matters!