In this age of acceleration, where information spreads and technology improves at increasing rates, where the speed of change exceeds our ability to adapt; the financial planning profession faces a paradox. We must know more, communicate better, process instantly, be quicker. Yet, to serve our clients best, we should slow down with them. We can help our clients respond to this change while pursuing their well-being and ideal life. In this session, we discuss accelerations impacting the profession and how to slow down. And why slowing down might make us the liberal arts profession Dick Wagner pointed to long ago.