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Walking Through That Open Door Making Sense of Life’s Transitions

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Walking Through That Open Door. Making Sense of Life’s Transitions. Who Are We?. David Riley Carol Nichols age 32 age 27. What do you hope to gain from this workshop?. Our Goals. Understand that transition is a normal process with recognizable phases - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Walking Through That Open DoorMaking Sense of Life’s Transitions

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Who Are We?

David Riley Carol Nichols age 32 age 27

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What do you hope to gain from this workshop?

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Our Goals

Understand that transition is a normal process with recognizable phases

Recognize how you have dealt with transition in the past

Formulate some ways to cope with transitions in your life and even to allow it to transform you

View transition from a faith perspective, as a way to new life and growth

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Primary Sources

William Bridges Elizabeth Harper Neeld

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What is Transition?

Transition is the process of letting go of the way things used to be and then taking hold of the way they have become. Transition is the way that we respond to, and come to terms with change. Transition is the process of making meaning in the changes that happen to us or that we cause.

William Bridges

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Bridges’ Phases

Letting go of the old

Neutral Zone

Embracing the New Reality

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Why do we resist transition?

It takes longer than changeIt sets up resonance between

present and painful past.Overwhelmed

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Rules for Understanding

Rule #1:In transition you find yourself coming back in new ways to old activities

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Rule #2

Every transition begins with an ending.

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Endings

Sudden unexpected event“drying up” of a situation or relationship that

once felt vitalAn activity that always went well goes badlyA person or organization breaks trustAn unforeseen problem crops up at the worst

possible time.

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Aspects of Endings

DisengagementDisidentificationDisenchantmentDisorientation

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Personal Stories of Transitions

Carol

Dave

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Name a transition that you are currently going through, one that you recently went through, or one that you are planning to undertake.

Where are you in the process at this point?What has changed in you?

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Rule #3

Although it is helpful to understand our style of doing endings, there is a part of us that will resist that understanding.

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Kinds of Changes

Loss of relationshipChanges in Home LifePersonal ChangesWork and Financial Changes

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What is the Purpose of Transition?

Reorientation of the SelfPersonal GrowthAuthenticityCreativitySpirituality

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Renewal and Rebirth: Transformation

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Tough Transitions: Navigating Your Way Through Difficult

Times

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Navigating Tough Transitions

An orientation map:

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Responding

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Navigating Tough Transitions

ReviewingWhat can I know?What should I do?What may I hope?

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Reviewing

Where is/was God?

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Reorganizing

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Three strategies for exploring who I need to be:

1. Look at others. What works?2. Ask, “What would I do differently

from the past?3. For what can I be grateful?

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Renewing

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Creative and Victorious OutcomesAbility to feel joyCapacity for empathyNew Appreciation for people and thingsRenewed relationship with GodFreedom to be more authentic

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Navigating Tough Transitions

Recovering a sense of humorHope as vision, as trust, as

absolute

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At some point you have to realize that some peoplecan stay in your heart, but not in your life.

Unknown Source

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracleAlbert Einstein

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We die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjold