Dancing Through Transitions with Bonnie Hutchinson

with Bonnie Hutchinson

•Discover the gifts

•Ride the waves

•Live your best life

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In this presentation…

“Change” versus “transition” – why it matters

Clues that you are in transition

4 phases of transition – different impacts, different opportunities

A Transitions System for living your best life

3 (of 7) Tips - thrive during transitions

3 Gifts for you


Your patterns of transition


Birth Today

Bonnie’s patterns of transition (so far!)


Start here

Start here

CHANGE – what happens Internal or external Environmental, organizational, personal Inevitable, perpetual, eternal; it happens

TRANSITION – what it means Internal process, though it may have

external expressions Your experience of change; impact of change You are changed (sense of self, values…)


Change vs. transition

Transition is in “the space between”

Transitions begin with endings

Transitions happen here


Endings Beginnings

“Neutral Zone”

You might know what’s ending but don’t know what’s next

“The VOID”

What triggers transitions?

The outside world – events, economy, climate, other people…

“It is time” – developmental leap


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Clues that you’re in a transition (It’s empowering to know you’re not sick or crazy!)

Physical, emotional, mental, spiritual clues Feeling stuck; nameless restlessness

What used to work doesn’t; more effort to accomplish less

What didn’t used to matter does; or what used to matter doesn’t

“It’s not fun any more”

Trouble at the border


Four phases of transition


GROW RELEASE

CONSERVE

REORGANIZE

Based on

Gunderson and Holling:

Panarchy

Grow phase Birthing, testing

Developing

Time of expanding, seizing opportunity

Maturing

Resilience is high but beginning to decrease


Conserve phase

Maturity

Time of stability

Time of most (apparent) certainty

Increased rigidity

Resilience is low re adapting


Release phase

Considering

Time of creative destruction, collapse and uncertainty

Letting go

Grieving

Resilience re adapting is low but increasing


Reorganize phase Glimmers of new life, new

directions

Exploring, creating

Time of experiment, innovation, restructuring

May prune some possibilities

Time of greatest uncertainty

High resilience re adapting


4 phases (seasons) of transition


GROW

REORGANIZE CONSERVE

RELEASE

Settle into learning/refining;

new habits and systems

Consider what really serves me

Let go, grieve

Reflect on action

Not the same zing; work harder for

same output

Starting lots of things

Overwhelm

Feel clumsy, inept; not automatic with responses

Based on Gunderson and Holling: Panarchy

A transition system – live your best life

Grassdance

Connect with your deep desires

Focus and get ready to leap

Build support

Befriend barriers

Just do it! Implement

Celebrate


You at your finest Visualization:

remember a time when…

How do you experience you at your finest?


7 tips to thrive during any stage of transition

Find or create your “island of stability”





• Go past your edges at least once a day



Go past your edges at least once a day


• Learn more about patterns of transition




Learn more about patterns of change


• Cultivate inner security (“you at your finest”)





Cultivate inner security (tap into “you at your finest”)


• Turn your back on problems and walk toward your vision





Cultivate inner security (tap into “you at your finest”)

Turn your back on problems and walk toward your vision


• Practice allowing





Cultivate inner security ( “you at your finest”)

Turn your back on problems and walk toward your vision

Practice allowing


• Be kind to yourself

Transitions can be messy in the

middle – but wow!


Cocoon

(Imaginal

cells)

Egg

Caterpillar

Adult butterfly

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More support for your transitions

Private mentoring and coaching

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And in conclusion…


Macrina Wiederkehr, quoted in

A Grateful Heart edited by MJ Ryan

O God,

help me

to believe

the truth about myself

no matter

how beautiful it is

Dancing Through Transitions with Bonnie Hutchinson

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