Dancing Through Transitions with Bonnie Hutchinson

with Bonnie Hutchinson
•Discover the gifts
•Ride the waves
•Live your best life
© Bonnie Hutchinson 2015 www.BonnieHutchinson.com 1

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

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

More support for your
transitions
 Private mentoring and coaching
 8-week group programs (maximum
6 people)
 Free down-loadable guided
visualizations
Bonnie@BonnieHutchinson.com
www.BonnieHutchinson.com
© Bonnie Hutchinson 2015 26

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

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