Family Meeting & Conversation Starter Kit

Family Meeting & Conversation Starter Kit — Ground rules, a fifteen-minute agenda, and 133 questions worth asking.

A family meeting is fifteen minutes at a table with a short agenda and a rule that everybody gets to speak, including the five-year-old. This kit is 25 printable A4 pages: ground rules, a pause word anybody can use, a fifteen-minute agenda, a decisions-and-actions log, a rotating chair and note-taker page, age-by-age notes on including a three-year-old and a fifteen-year-old in the same conversation, a family agreements page, a repair page for after an argument, an honest page about the person who will not take part, and a meeting log. Then 133 conversation starters across 12 sets — everyday and silly, gratitude, memories, hopes, values and fairness, money at family level, screens, chores, school and work, big feelings and repair, grandparents and the wider family, and one set marked hard but necessary. Written for every shape of household, and honest about the fact that not every family conversation is easy and nobody can be made to have one.

What's inside

• PRINTABLE KIT (PDF, A4): 25 pages across 24 sections — print any page as many times as you need it
• 133 conversation starters across 12 sets, every one a distinct question, with at least 11 questions in every set
• Sets for everyday and silly (built for young children), gratitude and appreciation, memories, hopes and plans, values and fairness, and money at family level — conversation, never financial advice
• Sets for screens and rules, chores and fairness, school and work, big feelings and conflict repair, grandparents and the wider family, and a hard-but-necessary set for moving house, illness and changing routines
• 12 ground rules, including one topic at a time, nobody interrupted, everybody speaks, and the right to pass without explaining
• A pausing page with 8 agreements: a word anybody can use to stop the conversation immediately, no reason required, and a commitment to come back to it
• A fifteen-minute meeting agenda to reprint every week, a decisions-and-actions log, and a rotating chair and note-taker page so it never becomes one adult’s meeting
• Age-by-age participation table covering 6 groups, from a three-year-old holding an object while they speak to a teenager with a veto on being discussed in the third person
• A family agreements page with a review date built in — a shared memory, explicitly not a legal document
• A repair page for after an argument, with 5 worked lines you can adapt: owning it, asking, separating the decision from the delivery, and closing
• An honest, non-coercive page for when somebody will not take part, with 7 things to do instead of insisting — because a meeting somebody is forced to attend is a meeting they will make fail
• 5 fill-in log pages in total, including a meeting log so you can see whether this has actually become a habit
• Inclusive by default: single parents, step and blended families, split weeks across two homes, chosen family, adult siblings, and households where two people cannot be in the same room

How it works

The PDF guide walks you through step by step, with ready-to-use wording you can adapt.

Specifications

• Format: PDF guide + read-me
• Works in: Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice
• License: full rights — use, edit, rebrand & resell
• Updates: free for life

Full rights

Sold with full rights: use it personally or with clients, edit anything, and even rebrand and resell it — keep 100% of the income, no attribution required. Customise before reselling (marketplaces reject identical duplicates).

Please note

Family organisation planners for personal use. Example names, dates and entries are illustrations to adapt to your own family. These pages are a place to keep track of things — they are not medical, legal or psychological advice. Anything involving health, medication, care decisions or legal documents belongs with a doctor, pharmacist, lawyer or other qualified professional. Digital download — delivered instantly, so all sales are final; future updates are free.