When I set off down the road

Adapted from: Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes - written by William Bridges, 2004Additions & Resonances from Education/Training/Lived-Experiences/Knowledge of Dr. Bertita Graebner @ Conversations With Bertita

The Three Phases of Transition

The Three Phases of Transition/2

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

Little Gidding, 4th quartet Four Quartets, a poem. 1943

T. S. Eliot

We start at the end:That is where we begin

Dis-Engagement Process

CAN ANNOUNCE AS A SUDDEN BURST

IT’S OVER! or

DAWNING CONSCIOUSNESS

THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ &

SUMPINS’ GOTTA GIVE

Dis-Mantling ProcessI see my-self image - fragmented -

spread upon the surface of my reflecting pool.

Finding inner-schooled dividing-wallsin my-self mirror

Undoing the bits ➣ Editing my-selfA studied falling apart

Trans-Evolution: Undoing-deconstructing my dignity

Dis-Identification Process

KNOWING:

I am no longer thereI am no longer that

I ain’t where I ought to be and I ain’t what I’m goin to be.

But I ain’t what I was.

Signage: seen in Western USA

Dis-Enchantment Process

Even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Love, part 2The Prophet, a prose-poem book/28 parts. 1923

Kahlil Gibran

Snip ➣ Skive ➣ Shear ➣ Shape

Dis-Orientation Process

And if you are lost enough to find yourself

Directive, a poem. 1947 Robert Frost

TIPS:I consistently practice

➣ with a listening/reflecting-companion

➣ self-care techniques of choice

➣ meditation: mental & physical

➣ syncing my inner rhythms with external cycles

➣ kindness at all times — to self, to others

Thank you —For your presence

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