Your Journey into What’s Emerging

When we’re in transition, we usually find ourselves in one of these zones, according to the William Bridges model. In each zone there are different questions to attend to, to help us make our way forward:

1. Endings: Are you sensing a loss of something? What is that?  Is there something you need to leave behind?
2. Neutral:  What can you learn from being on the edge? If you could let go of the pressure to “figure it out”, what might that open or enable for you?
3. New Beginnings:  What’s your sense of what’s emerging?  Who’s the new person who’s trying to emerge?

There’s work for us to do in each zone:

1. Endings: Find the learning in the past, or even the gift of the experience, and find a way to memorialize it, so that you can move on.
2. Neutral zone: Use this time to explore your options, and explore what you want to contribute to the world that’s as yet unrealized.
3. New Beginnings: Figure out “Who’s the new person who’s trying to emerge?”

When I delivered this workshop recently, here were some of the participants’ takeaways:

In New Beginnings there is often excitement and fear.

• It is encouraging and comforting to know there are others who are experiencing similar ambiguities.
• The importance of  feeling validated as part of everyone’s journey.
• The awareness of the need to stay open to multi-dimensional reality and the demands of creative inner work to help establish new roots in this new time of change.

Your turn: What zone are you in? How can you give yourself compassion while you’re engaged in this zone?

My role as coach is to accompany people on their journey. Let me know if you’d like to explore what’s around the corner!