If the group is having trouble generating their own ideas for next steps, these suggestions can help get things started:

Spark family conversations about what makes relationships healthy, including marriage. At your next extended family gathering, set up a camera and invite couples to answer the filmmaker’s question to her parents and grandparents: Why did you get married? After that, make it a family tradition to show the tape to every child or grandchild on the occasion of their engagement. Consider having every couple who reaches a twentieth anniversary add to the tape.

Get to know your elders - ask them questions about their past experiences, what brings them joy, and how they have come to know themselves? Begin learning about people in your life beyond the role the fill, but as individuals.

Create a writing group for women where they can carve out time and space to write and have an opportunity to share their work.

Create your own kite-flying event to celebrate families. Make your own kites with messages about family or images representing each family. Talk about what each person/family chooses to put on their kite.

Make a family plan for who will care for aging parents or other family members as they become unable to care for themselves. If those in need of care stay at home, make sure that caregivers have scheduled relief.