Designed Retirement

Live & Play Your Way

Suntima uses a dynamic and progressive Framework for Retirement Transition that allows us to meet you where you are now and move you toward your ultimate retirement destination. This combined education and coaching experience is truly a learning and insight lab.

Not only do we use a full range of tools and assessments, but our methods are delivered to you in an array of online and on-site environments. We particularly enjoy less conventional use of known techniques, old models and theories, and everyday surroundings to explore challenges and opportunities in new ways. Though we do not exclusively operate “in the wild”, we do appreciate and encourage our clients to get out and experience the world and its infinite lessons.

While the following phases of the retirement transition framework build on each other to make a more robust and cohesive whole, they are standalone segments and can be completed as individual parts.

Phase 1 - Retirement Preparation (career path)

This phase includes education and conversations about career paths, personal and professional development that guides and assists employees along their career paths, and practical tips and questions to consider as you begin to imagine how your retirement transition might unfold.

Phase 2 - Retirement Preparation (well-being)

This phase is about your well-being as it relates to retirement, and includes a deep dive into what makes you emotionally satisfied, engaged, brings purpose and meaning to your life, as well as drives your feelings of achievement and connections with others.

Phase 3 - Retirement & Change

This phase includes the stages of change, helps assess where you stand and introduces tools and techniques to manage emotions and behaviors that emerge along your retirement path.

Phase 4 - Change vs Transition

This is a continuation of Phase 3 topics but touches you in very different ways as you begin to personally experience the difference between change and transition. (Change can happen to you, be passively endured, is situational, and possibly managed with a checklist of things to do. Transition is internal to the individual, is often ignited by a situational/external change, demands thoughtful assessment, intentional action, and acceptance of what is.)

Phase 5 - Perspective & Mindset

This phase stretches the boundaries of your self-discovery and takes advantage of the world’s many gifts (e.g., cultures, traditions, landmarks, geography, nature, and more). You’ll incorporate travel and adventure as a tool to focus on personal wellness, adventure, community, and aspects of your life that make you feel whole.

Phase 6 - Live & Play Your Way

This phase returns focus to your readiness and supports your application of insights, interests and needs within the EXPLORE pillars that become the structure for your retirement plan.

Our motto is, “Change your environment, change your perspective; change your perspective, change your life!”

When you are ready, the world will be your teacher and we are happy to be your guide in the process that will help you become aware of your situation, clear about your options, intentional in your preparation, and confident in your decisions. Your journey will involve a variety of curious, playful, and committed accountability partners — a make-up of your choosing — which may be a life partner, other family members, friends, colleagues, or simply a 1:1 collaboration with your coach.