Around 7 days of guided programme work
6 practical steps
Scheduled support and feedback across a 3-week Founder Member period
Your Life Beyond Work Blueprint™



Which values, strengths, relationships and forms of contribution should remain part of Life Beyond Work?
How are your roles, routines, time, availability and expectations developing as work changes or ends?
Which priorities and possibilities should shape the retirement life you are now beginning to design?
Across six practical steps, we help you turn broad questions about the transition to retirement into a connected, personal foundation for Life Beyond Work.
Examine what you are carrying forward from working life, recognise what is changing and consider what this season currently requires.
Connect your guiding values, personal WHYs, current direction, relationships, routines and contribution — and identify what deserves attention first.
Choose three current priorities, identify practical first actions and bring your thinking together in a Blueprint you can revisit as your retirement develops.
Scroll down to see how each step contributes to your Life Beyond Work Blueprint™

Many of our values remain important when working life changes, although their emphasis and expression may develop.
This step helps you identify the values that deserve a deliberate place in Life Beyond Work and translate them into practical principles for the decisions ahead.
Identify three to five guiding values.
Explore what each value means to you now.
Decide how those values should influence current choices.

Meaning in retirement can come from several places: relationships, experiences, responsibilities, faith, creativity, learning, service and ordinary forms of contribution.
This step helps you identify why particular people, possibilities and commitments matter to you in this season.
Explore what you want to protect, experience or contribute.
Identify the personal WHYs that deserve to guide your choices.
Connect those WHYs with the priorities and commitments competing for your time.

Knowing what you are leaving is only part of the transition. You also need a considered picture of how you presently want ordinary Life Beyond Work to feel, function and develop.
This step helps you explore the balance of relationships, freedom, structure, contribution, enjoyment, restoration and responsibility that presently feels appropriate.
Consider how you want ordinary life and your week to work.
Identify what deserves priority and what should remain open.
Create an initial direction for decisions and exploration.

Working life may have expressed many parts of who you are through responsibility, achievement, belonging, confidence, expertise and contribution.
This step helps you understand what remains central, what may need to be adapted, what can be selectively released and what now has room for new expression.
Recognise what remains true and worth carrying forward.
Explore what may be expressed differently beyond work.
Develop a natural way of describing what matters to you now.

Retirement decisions rarely sit in isolation. Changes in one area can affect several others.
The 10Fs Whole-Life Lens brings the connected retirement landscape into view through:
Family · Fitness · Friendship · Finance · Faith · Freedom · Flexibility · Focus · Fun · Fulfilment
Identify what is working and deserves protection.
Recognise what has changed or may require attention.
Select the first three priorities to explore or act upon.

This final step brings your reflections, guiding values, personal WHYs, current direction, continuity and change, and 10Fs priorities into one connected document.
You will then identify realistic micro-actions, consider what support may be useful and decide what should be reviewed later.
Bring your programme work into one connected view.
Confirm your three current priorities.
Select practical first micro-actions.
Record the support you may need and the questions that remain open.

Two additional resources to help you understand the transition to retirement and get more from the programme.
A Broader Introduction to The Life Side of Retirement.
Retire Rethink™ introduces the thinking that led to The Retirement Transition Framework™
Inside the book, you will:
Explore retirement as a life transition rather than only a leaving date.
Consider the identity, relationship, structure, meaning and lifestyle questions that can emerge beyond work.
Work through reflection and self-coaching questions.
Discover the original six-step planning sequence from which Retirement Identity Reset™ developed.

Use the book before, during or after the programme as a wider reference for your transition to retirement.
Recognise The Patterns That Can Shape Life Beyond Work.
Some of the habits and assumptions developed over decades of working life can continue after work changes or ends.
This practical guide will help you:
Recognise seven common patterns that can influence the transition to retirement.
Consider how changes in identity, structure, relationships and meaning may affect ordinary life.
Identify which patterns deserve greater attention in your own retirement.
Approach your programme work with greater awareness and perspective.




A connected view of your current transition
Your guiding values and WHYs
Your present direction for Life Beyond Work
Your Continuity and Change Statement
Your 10Fs Snapshot
Three priorities to begin with
Practical first actions
Matters you may want to review later.
Ask questions about the programme
Clarify the exercises
Share where additional explanation may be useful
Contribute practical feedback from your experience.

What remained important
What was changing
Which parts of working life were worth carrying forward
What this next season required
Which possibilities deserved priority
What practical steps I could begin taking.
Hear the questions people genuinely ask
See where further explanation would be useful
Understand how participants experience the exercises
Refine the programme around lived experience
Strengthen the final delivery for those who follow.
You are approaching retirement, reducing your working commitments or already navigating the transition to Life Beyond Work.
Your financial preparations are reasonably well developed, and you now want to give the life side of retirement more deliberate attention.
You know what you are retiring from but feel less clear about what you are moving towards.
You have ideas, interests and possibilities, but want a structured way to decide what deserves priority.
You want to consider your values, relationships, routines, contribution and direction as one connected picture.
You are willing to reflect, complete the exercises and make personally meaningful choices.
You want guidance and structure while remaining the author of your own retirement.
You would value a practical, revisable Life Beyond Work Blueprint™
Have spent many years in roles that provided responsibility, structure, achievement, relationships and a recognised place in the world.
Are thoughtful, capable and accustomed to making their own decisions.
Sense that retirement involves more than replacing work with leisure or filling the diary with activities.
Want to understand what should be carried forward from working life and what may now need to change.
Are considering how ordinary life should feel, function and develop once work no longer organises it in the same way.
Want to choose three initial priorities and begin taking practical steps.
Are ready to create a common foundation without expecting every retirement question to be resolved immediately.
You Currently Need Time To Recover
If you have recently left work and need decompression, restoration or time for your energy and perspective to return, Permission to Pause™ may be the more suitable first support.
Recovery is a legitimate part of the transition. There is no requirement to begin active design before you are ready.
You Are Looking For Financial Advice
This programme does not provide advice on pensions, investments, tax, financial products or regulated financial decisions.
It focuses on the connected life-side questions that sit alongside your financial preparation.
You Want Somebody Else To Design Your Retirement
The programme provides a guided sequence, practical questions and Blueprint files.
Your values, priorities, decisions and direction remain personally authored.
You Require Specialist Professional Support
The programme does not provide medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal or other regulated specialist advice.
Where significant health, emotional, relationship or practical concerns are present, appropriate professional support may be needed.
You Expect Every Retirement Question To Be Resolved In Seven Days
Retirement Identity Reset™ creates a strong first foundation.
It brings important areas into view, helps you choose initial priorities and gives you a practical Blueprint to revisit as your transition develops. It does not claim to complete the whole retirement transition.

