Month 12 · Lead Leaders
Pass the Flame
Translate transformation into testimony, commission others, and choose the next horizon of formation.
Capacity being formed
Legacy & Commissioning
Turn testimony into responsibility and intentionally pass strength to the next generation.
Evidence of formation
The participant commissions at least one person with real responsibility and completes a reassessment with documented evidence of change.
Language from Mike
“You have the potential to start a new legacy. It begins with you.”
Biblical anchor · ESV
“One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.”
Discovery tool
Legacy Letter + Commissioning
Write a Legacy Letter: what I received, what I refused to repeat, what changed, what I now entrust, and the blessing I speak over those who follow.
Received
Name people, truths, strengths, and mercies you received. Be concrete.
Coach: “What did you receive that you did not manufacture?”
Refused + changed
Name the cycle you refused and the evidence that your response changed.
Coach: “What can be verified in behavior, relationship, rhythm, or fruit?”
Entrust
Name the person, identity, capacity, and real responsibility you are ready to entrust.
Coach: “Are you giving blessing only, or meaningful authority too?”
Commission
Write affirmation, responsibility, guardrails, support, first courageous act, and review date.
Coach: “What will remain unfinished so they can truly own it?”
No-prep facilitator guide
The complete 90-minute run-of-show
Bring the participant’s CT Scan result, this page, a timer, and a way to write. Read the coach language as written when useful; follow the person more closely than the clock when safety or truth requires it.
| Time | Phase | Coach does + says | Participant does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–7 | Arrive | Say: “This conversation is confidential within the limits we agreed. What would make these 90 minutes useful?” Then lead three slow breaths and a brief prayer. | Rate present intensity 0–10; name one desired outcome. |
| 7–15 | Witness | Ask for one piece of evidence since the last session. Reflect effort, choice, support, and result—without inflating it. | Name what changed, what helped, and what remains difficult. |
| 15–25 | Language | Read the Mike Signorelli line and Psalm 145:4. Ask what each exposes or invites in the live situation. | Underline one phrase; explain it in your own words; choose the phrase you need today. |
| 25–45 | Legacy Letter + Commissioning | Guide the four fields in order. Do not interpret ahead of the participant. Start with: “What did you receive that you did not manufacture?” | Write concise answers for all four fields using one current, concrete situation. |
| 45–57 | Locate | Ask the remaining tool prompts, then: “What is the pattern beneath the performance?” Allow silence. | Name the governing story, protection, motive, expectation, or system and the cost it creates. |
| 57–70 | Rehearse | Participant delivers the five-minute commissioning aloud. Coach listens for specific evidence, unearned pressure, vague responsibility, or hidden control, then helps rewrite and repeat. | Practice the new response out loud; receive feedback; repeat until the first step is clear and natural. |
| 70–82 | Prescribe | Choose the smallest sustainable practice. Specify cue, frequency, duration, support, and visible evidence. Explain the research carefully as support—not certainty. | Select the practice, calendar it, and identify the witness or environmental support. |
| 82–90 | Covenant | Ask: “What will you do, by when, who will know, and what proof will exist?” Read the safety boundary before closing in prayer. | State one commitment, one witness, one due date, and one piece of evidence. Rate confidence 0–10; shrink the plan if below 7. |
Why the practice can work
Why structured reflection can help
An early controlled study found that writing about both facts and emotions surrounding a difficult event was linked with short-term discomfort and fewer later health-center visits. SLS keeps reflection bounded, voluntary, and oriented toward present responsibility.
Read the primary source →Pennebaker & Beall (1986), Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(3), 274–281
Thirty-day prescription
Practice until it becomes available under pressure.
This month
Host the commissioning conversation and transfer the agreed responsibility.
Evidence: Date, responsibility, authority, support, and first act.
End of month
Retake the CT Scan and compare baseline with current evidence.
Evidence: Score movement, three verified changes, one unfinished edge, and next formation horizon.
Care + scope boundary
Testimony should honor privacy and truth. Obtain consent before sharing another person’s story, and never promise outcomes that have not been demonstrated.
Monthly evidence review
Measure formation in real life.
Private reflection
What can now be inherited because you chose to change?
Source lineage
Original SLS facilitation design synthesized from Mike Signorelli’s books and leadership frameworks. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, used by permission. All rights reserved.