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Lädt ... Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changesvon William Bridges
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I believe this is considered a classic in its genre, and after reading it I can understand why. It provided me with some valuable insight and some reasonable ideas on how to use the new information: ideas that I could start to work with right away. The information felt timeless as well. I did feel the book could have been organized better. The major ideas were revisited several times in different places in the book, as if there was nothing more to say, so we'll just say the same thing a bit differently. Overall, a good use of my time. It is a book that will take some time because I have to stop, ponder, and do the exercises. It is also a book that will increase my understanding. MY ENDINGS Going to church because my parents did Friendship with Alan Batty Romance with Linda Thomas Romance with Rhonda Romance with Vicki Paper Route Elementary School Junior High School Senior High School Mission College Being Single First Job: Sperry Univac Defense Systems Division Second Job: National Semiconductor Sexual dysfunction Childlessness Being told what to do at work Being afraid of women Feeling of total competence Transitions is not a book I'd naturally gravitate to but based on my current circumstances and the advice of a friend I spent some time with Bridges. I appreciated his background and application of myths and narratives and the concept of the neutral zone. However, there were some problematic moments, particular around narratives of Indigenous peoples and a universalization of experience that soured the project as a whole. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Recently named one of the 50 most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life. Transitions takes listeners step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any life passage, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. Offering an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap for successfully navigating change and moving into a hopeful future, the process is ever relevant and applicable today. Among the subjects covered: Endings. Every transition begins with one. Too often we misunderstand them, confuse them with finality: "That's it, all over, finished!" Yet how we recognize endings is key to how we can begin anew. The Neutral Zone. The second hurdle of transitions: a seemingly unproductive "time-out" when we feel disconnected from people and things in the past and emotionally unconnected to the present. Yet the neutral zone is really a time of reorientation. How can we make the most of it? The New Beginning. In transitions, we come to beginnings only at the end, when we launch new activities. To make a successful new beginning requires more than simply persevering. It requires an understanding of external signs and inner signals that point the way to the future. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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No coincidence I'm sure, but as I read, I realized that I am processing my own transitions -- as a writer completing a project, as well as a human revisiting some unfinished business from previous transitions. The three phases Williams outlines 1) death 2) the neutral zone and 3) new beginning gave me a framework for what I face and insight into some of the feelings that well up as I do the work of the messy neutral zone.
Along with varied stories of people Williams worked with in his first Transition Seminar, references to mythic stories enlivened the text and made for an interesting as well as instructive read. ( )