The Generative Prosperity™ Forum
A learning community for couples seeking to build strong relationships, raise capable children, and cultivate a generative family culture in the presence of financial abundance.
Experience working with many wealthy families confirms that financial abundance alone is not always experienced as genuine prosperity contributing to well-being. Prosperity becomes generative when it helps people become more fully themselves, more deeply connected to one another, more capable of meeting life’s challenges, and more able to contribute to the flourishing of others.
For this dream to become reality, stewardship of intergenerational wealth requires far more than technical expertise. It asks couples to cultivate the awareness, relationships, and capabilities needed to build a family culture that honors the past while creating the conditions for future generations to thrive in the unique conditions wealth creates.
The Generative Prosperity Forum is a developmental learning community for couples navigating the intersection of love, money, and power in the presence of significant intergenerational wealth. Together, participants explore the important questions that naturally arise in family life which financial education, governance, and technical planning alone cannot answer.
Questions like:
Beyond preparing our children to manage wealth responsibly, how do we raise them to be grounded and motivated to live meaningful, connected, and purposeful lives in its presence?
How might we know when various kinds of support we can provide is strengthening those we love and when it may unintentionally be limiting their growth?
How do we stay connected as a family around the use of family resources while supporting each member to pursue their individual development as well?
How do we stay aligned as a couple while navigating the complexities and tensions of family, privilege, opportunity, inheritance and power?
How do we talk about money openly without allowing it to become the center of our lives?
Most families devote enormous effort to growing, protecting, and transferring financial assets. Far fewer devote the same attention to developing the people, relationships, and family culture needed to transform those resources into meaningful lives, healthy relationships, and meaningful contribution.
We created the Generative Prosperity Forum because preparing people to live well with wealth is different from preparing them to manage wealth well. We call this work Generative Prosperity as it is the ongoing practice of transforming financial abundance into vitality, meaningful contribution, healthy relationships, and lives that feel worth living.
Why This Forum Exists
Over many years of working with enterprising families, we have observed a simple reality: The deepest challenges associated with intergenerational family wealth are the human, emotional, and relational dynamics that few wealth creators or inheritors are prepared to manage well. They emerge in relationships between spouses, in-laws, siblings, cousins, and between parents and their children as well as beneficiaries and their trustees. They appear in questions of identity, vocation, belonging, responsibility, freedom, power, contribution, and meaning.
While most wealth education focuses on financial literacy, governance, tax strategy, investment management, succession planning, and stewardship structures, families often tell us they need a different kind of help. This deeper human work sits at the heart of the Generative Prosperity Forum.
You May Recognize Some of These Experiences
Many thoughtful couples discover that financial abundance brings elements to their relationships they never anticipated.
We often hear things like:
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Some of the hardest conversations in our marriage are about things most people would assume are blessings.
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We’ve spent years learning to ‘steward our wealth responsibly,’ but much less time talking about what role we actually want it to play in our lives.
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We often struggle to stay aligned because we have very different beliefs about money.
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We often wonder how we can become more ourselves rather than living out the roles and expectations that seemed to grow with our family’s financial success.
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We can solve most practical problems with money. However, these things are not what worry us most.
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I worry that my children will never experience the kind of hunger and drive that shaped me.
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I don’t want my children to spend their lives trying to prove they deserve what they’ve inherited instead of discovering and being who they really are.
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Sometimes I wonder if we’re preparing our children to manage wealth more actively than preparing them to live meaningful lives.
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I want my children to know they matter because of who they are, not because of what they have.
If these experiences resonate, you are not alone. They are common features of intimate partnerships in the presence of wealth and exactly the kind of challenges our Forum is designed to address.
The Core Premise
Everyone grows up in a family culture that powerfully influences the way they see the world. Long before children understand trusts, investments, governance, or stewardship, they are shaped by the relational fi eld around them. They learn from how their parents talk, disagree, repair, make decisions, use money, handle responsibility, and defi ne what makes a life meaningful.
At the same time, building a strong partnership in the presence of significant wealth requires navigating questions most couples were never taught how to address. Love, money, power, parenting, identity, and legacy become deeply intertwined. The Generative Prosperity Forum aims to help couples develop the awareness, practices, and capabilities needed to consciously develop generative cultures in the family units they are building together
Who This Forum Is For
The inaugural cohort of The Generative Prosperity Forum is designed for:
- Couples raising children in the presence of significant wealth and/or preparing children to inherit substantial resources or responsibility
- Parents of adult children seeking to support healthy development as they begin to integrate family wealth
- Couples seeking greater alignment between themselves around money, co-leadership, purpose, and family culture
- Parents who believe that developing human capabilities deserves as much attention as developing financial capabilities
Whether wealth was created, inherited, married into, or destined in the near future, participants in the Forum will be carefully selected to ensure they share a common commitment to help financial abundance become a source of vitality, connection, and contribution rather than a distorting force creating anxiety, entitlement, conflict, or isolation.
What Participants Will Develop
Through participation in the Forum, couples will cultivate greater capacity to:
Align as partners around values, long-term aspirations, and financial decision-making
Build a family culture that strengthens belonging, responsibility, and resilience
Support children in developing purpose, confidence, maturity, and contribution
Have more productive conversations about wealth, privilege, responsibility, and opportunity
Engage conflict more skillfully and repair relationships when trust is strained
Navigate loyalty, boundaries, and individuality more skillfully even within complicated family systems
Clarify the values, stories, and practices they hope to pass forward
Develop a more intentional approach to stewardship across generations
The Forum Learning Experience
The Forum is not simply a curriculum. It is a year-long practice community where couples learn together, experiment in their own families, reflect honestly with peers, and receive guidance as they build a more intentional family culture.
Monthly On-Line Gatherings
- Twelve facilitated two-hour sessions led by Don Opatrny and Ruth Steverlynck. Each gathering integrates teaching, guided reflections, facilitated conversation, practical exercises, and peer-to-peer sharing
Private Coaching
- Each participating couple will also have access to monthly private coaching sessions designed to support the application of Forum themes within the unique circumstances of each family.
Curated Peer Community
- Participants join a confidential community of thoughtful couples who share many of the same questions, opportunities, and challenges.
- Participation is offered only by personal invitation from Ruth and Don following a period of working together or after an application and interview process to assess compatibility.
Private Community Platform
- Participating couples receive access to a secure online community platform that includes discussion spaces, reflection prompts, resources, recordings, and opportunities for continued learning between sessions.
Monthly Topics
Orientation Creating a Generative Family Culture
Module 1 Family Culture: The Hidden Blueprint
Module 2 Parenting in the Presence of Wealth
Module 3 Partnership, Alignment, and Shared Vision
Module 4 Talking About Money, Privilege, and Responsibility
Module 5 Raising Children Who Develop Purpose and Relevance
Module 6 Belonging, Boundaries, and Individuality
Module 7 Conflict, Communication, and Repair
Module 8 Purpose, Contribution, and Stewardship
Module 9 Love, Money and Power
Module 10 The Rising Generation’s Transition to Adulthood
Module 11 Legacy, Values, and Family Narratives
Module 12 Integration: Love, Change, and the Generative Life
Your Facilitators
Don Opatrny and Ruth Steverlynck serve as trusted advisors to some of the world’s top enterprising families, guiding them through the complex human dimensions of intergenerational wealth.
For more than 2 decades they each have specialized in facilitating the high-stakes dialogues that matter most—navigating succession, identity, marriage, parenting, loss, and the search for meaning across generations.
With a shared commitment to building resilient family cultures, Don and Ruth help couples move beyond technical planning to cultivate the emotional and relational capabilities required to thrive. Together, they create a space where families can transform conflict, strengthen their bonds, and align their financial resources with their deepest values.
Investment and
Participation
Your investment supports a year-long developmental journey designed to strengthen the relationships, capabilities, and family culture that allow financial resources to become a source of vitality across generations. Participation in the founding cohort is $18,000 per couple.
The Forum is a 12-month commitment, meeting monthly. It includes participation for two individuals intentionally engaging the work together as spouses, committed intimate partners, or co-parents.
$18,000
Per Couple
- Twelve live Forum gatherings (recorded to support continued learning)
- Monthly private coaching
- Access to learning resources to deepen each module
- Participation in the private community sharing platform
- Priority access to future retreats and advanced offerings
Participation in the inaugural cohort is strictly limited to 10 couples. This deliberate cap is designed to ensure a high-trust, confidential environment where the collective wisdom of the cohort becomes as transformative as the curriculum itself.
What is Generative Prosperity?
Generative Prosperity emerges out of seeing the deeper possibilities of life in the presence of legacy wealth. It is an ongoing practice of meeting the opportunities and challenges of financial abundance in ways that cultivate vitality, meaningful contribution, healthy relationships, and, ultimately, a life that feels worth living.
Living in Generative Prosperity requires the courage and maturity to develop beyond the expectations, identities, and assumptions that legacy wealth can impose. It invites individuals to cultivate their unique gifts and contribute in ways that create genuine value, connection, and meaning in the lives of others.
The Generative Prosperity Forum is an invitation to undertake that work in community with others.
Next Step
To request an application to join the founding cohort or to schedule a preliminary conversation with Don or Ruth, please contact our program coordinator Stephanie Brigandi by sending an email to: stephanie@lovinsgroup.com.
Living in Generative Prosperity requires the courage and maturity to develop beyond the expectations, identities, and assumptions that legacy wealth can impose. It invites individuals to cultivate their unique gifts and contribute in ways that create genuine value, connection, and meaning in the lives of others.
The Generative Prosperity Forum is an invitation to undertake that work in community with others.