Managing Life’s Transitions

 Workshop:  Managing Life's Transitions - Personal - Relationships - Societal - Education - Work - Military

• Overview:

Participants will understand what transitions are, how they impact a person's life,  how to identify transition-related challenges, they may be dealing with, and where to go for help in dealing with their own transitions.

• Learning Outcomes:

Participants will:

• Define the three phases of transition  

• Identify the different types of transitions

• Recognize how transitions affect people

• Identify what transition issues they are facing

• Identify resources to help them deal with the transition issues they are facing

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-Instructor

• Downloads:

• PowerPoint File

  1. General

     • ​PowerPoint File

     • Handout

• Related Handouts: 

• Culture, Education, and Unspoken Expectations

• Discerning Seasons

• Paradigm Shifts

• Hidden Rules

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  The Journey

• Happenstance

• Timeline

• Setting Effective Goals

• Opportunity vs. Security

• Success

• Delayed Response

  Striving but Not Arriving

• Related Links:

  • Change Cycle​

  • Stages of Change Model

  • Life Transitions Articles

  • Career One-stop - Service Locator (Where to find help looking for a job)

  • Grief.com

  • Anticipatory Grief

  • APA on Grief: Coping with the loss of your loved one

  • Nevitt Sanford's Theory "Challenge and Support"

• Related Books:

  • Transitions

  • On Death and Dying (stages of grief)

  • On Grief and Grieving: Find the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

  • Luck is No Accident (2nd. Ed.): Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career

  • The 4 Seasons of Marriage: Secrets to a Lasting Marriage

• Related Videos:

  • Technology is Replacing Jobs (Slope of the Curve)

  • Change Cycle​

  • TED Talk - Susan Cain: The Power Of Introverts (Isolation breeds creativity and new ideas)

  • Did You Know? (Shift Happens)

  • Joni Eareckson Tada (True Story - Does adapt well to transition)

  • Reminiscing on the 'good old days' - "Grandpa" by The Judds

  • Video: Neuroscience of Learning   Links to an external site. (Why transitions affect productivity)

    • (Note: We do not endorse this product/service. Video is included for its excellent visual teaching strategy for 'neural pathways')

• Related Movies:

• Castaway

• Me Before You (Does not adapt well to his transition)

  1. "The Sixth Sense (illustration of a paradigm shift)