Our mission is to help families build relational and financial systems that honor the seventh generation — building sovereignty for children to lead, to build, and to promote generational healing on their own terms.
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ᎾᏂᎥ ᏴᏫ ᏕᏟᏠᏯᏍᏗᏍᎨᏍᏗ. ᏕᏣᏓᏏᎾᏍᏗ ᎢᏤᎮᏍᏗ.
You are the bows from which your children
As living arrows are sent forth
The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite
And He bends you with His might
That His arrows may go swift and far
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness
For even as He loves the arrow that flies
So He loves also the bow that is stable
- Kahlil Gibran
Interaction Focused Family Institute Founder
Nathan Johnston-Chiszar & Chuck Hoskin Jr.,
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Nathan Johnston-Chiszar is the father of three amazing neurodivergent young adults, and founder of the Interaction Focused Family Institute. Legacy-minded families hire him to establish relational and financial systems to strengthen family identity and steward generational wealth within 1 year.
Nathan has decades of international experience working with families, using psychometrically valid assessments to improve caregiver-child interactions. He developed the Child Oriented Measure of Parental Alignment and Sustainable Security (COMPASS™) to aid families in drafting a family constitution and governance framework to establish their own protected family legacy system.
Nathan stands for the unique spiritual and cultural identity of every child, and the heartbeat of the family hero passed down from time immemorial. Proud Citizen of the Cherokee Nation citizen and direct descendant of Nancy Ward (Nanyehi), he holds a Master’s degree in Human Behavior from City University of Seattle, and a Doctorate in Education from California State University, Stanislaus.