What people are saying...

The Little Book of Family Treasure is one of those rare and invaluable guides that helps families navigate some of the most consequential decisions in their shared history. With clarity and compassion, it models how to engage in difficult conversations that can transform discouragement into opportunity. Through its step-by-step approach, the book offers both a practical roadmap for preserving family relationships and a visionary framework for passing along values to future generations.

As a clinical social worker and co-creator of the Collaborative Practice model for families in transition, I view this book as essential reading for professionals and families alike. It provides a framework not only for safeguarding financial assets, but also for protecting the emotional bonds that give those assets meaning. The author’s long-standing leadership—beginning with his role as co-chair of the Trusts & Estates Committee at its 2012 inception—grounds this work in experience, ethics, and enduring wisdom.

— Nancy J. Ross, LCSW, BCD

I just finished your book and found it to be an outstanding study in the family system. You have an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience to back up your information. I think there are several areas I will need to read over.  

I feel with the information I found from you in the book, my sons will not be a challenge to you. I look forward to the unfolding of the conflicts in my family.

Thank you for the copy of the book.

— Carol P, Matriarch

Thanks so much for providing us with a copy of your book.  It is wonderful to see a useful guide that stresses money as basically a tool for accomplishing one’s life goals.  Without thinking through what precisely one wants to accomplish with the money (e.g. preserving a business, maintaining activities one wants to see continue, etc.), it is difficult to establish a workable plan to manage the growth of those funds or their transfer to others.  It is understandable that the focus is often on the mechanics and technology needed to pass along monetary resources because it is a complicated process. However, developing specific goals for wealth, particularly when it involves family and others, is perhaps even more difficult.  Your book provides very useful suggestions about steps that can be taken to do this and does so in a very approachable manner.

  — Steve L, MD/Psychiatrist

I’ve begun reading your book, & it is amazing— so full of wisdom, pathos, and smart suggestions—and beautifully written as well! Thanks, as always, for your continued guidance & authentic caring for the whole person as so much more than their financial state.  

— Abby K, Stanford Professor

My copy of The Little Book of Family Treasure has arrived. It's beautifully written, emotional, and very real. I LOVE it. I'm halfway through the book and I kept bookmarking almost every other page, there's so much gold in there! 

— Christy W, Fintech

The rawness of Peter Johnson’s personal journey have informed his extraordinary work as a practitioner but also the ideas in this deeply original book.  Anyone committed to their family thriving long after they have left the temporal world, will find the big ideas in this little book both practical and inspiring.”  

— Tom Deans, PhD